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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-15 14:14:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-15 16:25:40 +0100 |
| commit | 927a1d7d088e52aa079682e1d4f514222c0a2069 (patch) | |
| tree | ce8e41927b116fa73ba428708ac8e0d50fd06ae7 /doc/developer-notes.md | |
| parent | aca77a4d58c689dde7cda30cf4eaf5bd3323668e (diff) | |
| parent | 89f03120a02690cff8399d77c979169355bf9cae (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-927a1d7d088e52aa079682e1d4f514222c0a2069.tar.xz | |
Merge #10286: Call wallet notify callbacks in scheduler thread (without cs_main)
89f0312 Remove redundant pwallet nullptr check (Matt Corallo)
c4784b5 Add a dev notes document describing the new wallet RPC blocking (Matt Corallo)
3ea8b75 Give ZMQ consistent order with UpdatedBlockTip on scheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
cb06edf Fix wallet RPC race by waiting for callbacks in sendrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
e545ded Also call other wallet notify callbacks in scheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
17220d6 Use callbacks to cache whether wallet transactions are in mempool (Matt Corallo)
5d67a78 Add calls to CWallet::BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain() in RPCs (Matt Corallo)
5ee3172 Add CWallet::BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain() (Matt Corallo)
0b2f42d Add CallFunctionInQueue to wait on validation interface queue drain (Matt Corallo)
2b4b345 Add ability to assert a lock is not held in DEBUG_LOCKORDER (Matt Corallo)
0343676 Call TransactionRemovedFromMempool in the CScheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
a7d3936 Add a CValidationInterface::TransactionRemovedFromMempool (Matt Corallo)
Pull request description:
Based on #10179, this effectively reverts #9583, regaining most of the original speedups of #7946.
This concludes the work of #9725, #10178, and #10179.
See individual commit messages for more information.
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diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md index 1904400c55..35797da7ae 100644 --- a/doc/developer-notes.md +++ b/doc/developer-notes.md @@ -675,3 +675,16 @@ A few guidelines for introducing and reviewing new RPC interfaces: - *Rationale*: If a RPC response is not a JSON object then it is harder to avoid API breakage if new data in the response is needed. + +- Wallet RPCs call BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain to maintain consistency with + `getblockchaininfo`'s state immediately prior to the call's execution. Wallet + RPCs whose behavior does *not* depend on the current chainstate may omit this + call. + + - *Rationale*: In previous versions of Bitcoin Core, the wallet was always + in-sync with the chainstate (by virtue of them all being updated in the + same cs_main lock). In order to maintain the behavior that wallet RPCs + return results as of at least the highest best-known block an RPC + client may be aware of prior to entering a wallet RPC call, we must block + until the wallet is caught up to the chainstate as of the RPC call's entry. + This also makes the API much easier for RPC clients to reason about. |