// Copyright (c) The Bitcoin Core developers // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. #ifndef BITCOIN_CLUSTER_LINEARIZE_H #define BITCOIN_CLUSTER_LINEARIZE_H #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include namespace cluster_linearize { /** Data type to represent transaction indices in clusters. */ using ClusterIndex = uint32_t; /** Data structure that holds a transaction graph's preprocessed data (fee, size, ancestors, * descendants). */ template class DepGraph { /** Information about a single transaction. */ struct Entry { /** Fee and size of transaction itself. */ FeeFrac feerate; /** All ancestors of the transaction (including itself). */ SetType ancestors; /** All descendants of the transaction (including itself). */ SetType descendants; /** Equality operator (primarily for for testing purposes). */ friend bool operator==(const Entry&, const Entry&) noexcept = default; /** Construct an empty entry. */ Entry() noexcept = default; /** Construct an entry with a given feerate, ancestor set, descendant set. */ Entry(const FeeFrac& f, const SetType& a, const SetType& d) noexcept : feerate(f), ancestors(a), descendants(d) {} }; /** Data for each transaction. */ std::vector entries; /** Which positions are used. */ SetType m_used; public: /** Equality operator (primarily for testing purposes). */ friend bool operator==(const DepGraph& a, const DepGraph& b) noexcept { if (a.m_used != b.m_used) return false; // Only compare the used positions within the entries vector. for (auto idx : a.m_used) { if (a.entries[idx] != b.entries[idx]) return false; } return true; } // Default constructors. DepGraph() noexcept = default; DepGraph(const DepGraph&) noexcept = default; DepGraph(DepGraph&&) noexcept = default; DepGraph& operator=(const DepGraph&) noexcept = default; DepGraph& operator=(DepGraph&&) noexcept = default; /** Construct a DepGraph object given another DepGraph and a mapping from old to new. * * @param depgraph The original DepGraph that is being remapped. * * @param mapping A Span such that mapping[i] gives the position in the new DepGraph * for position i in the old depgraph. Its size must be equal to * depgraph.PositionRange(). The value of mapping[i] is ignored if * position i is a hole in depgraph (i.e., if !depgraph.Positions()[i]). * * @param pos_range The PositionRange() for the new DepGraph. It must equal the largest * value in mapping for any used position in depgraph plus 1, or 0 if * depgraph.TxCount() == 0. * * Complexity: O(N^2) where N=depgraph.TxCount(). */ DepGraph(const DepGraph& depgraph, Span mapping, ClusterIndex pos_range) noexcept : entries(pos_range) { Assume(mapping.size() == depgraph.PositionRange()); Assume((pos_range == 0) == (depgraph.TxCount() == 0)); for (ClusterIndex i : depgraph.Positions()) { auto new_idx = mapping[i]; Assume(new_idx < pos_range); // Add transaction. entries[new_idx].ancestors = SetType::Singleton(new_idx); entries[new_idx].descendants = SetType::Singleton(new_idx); m_used.Set(new_idx); // Fill in fee and size. entries[new_idx].feerate = depgraph.entries[i].feerate; } for (ClusterIndex i : depgraph.Positions()) { // Fill in dependencies by mapping direct parents. SetType parents; for (auto j : depgraph.GetReducedParents(i)) parents.Set(mapping[j]); AddDependencies(parents, mapping[i]); } // Verify that the provided pos_range was correct (no unused positions at the end). Assume(m_used.None() ? (pos_range == 0) : (pos_range == m_used.Last() + 1)); } /** Get the set of transactions positions in use. Complexity: O(1). */ const SetType& Positions() const noexcept { return m_used; } /** Get the range of positions in this DepGraph. All entries in Positions() are in [0, PositionRange() - 1]. */ ClusterIndex PositionRange() const noexcept { return entries.size(); } /** Get the number of transactions in the graph. Complexity: O(1). */ auto TxCount() const noexcept { return m_used.Count(); } /** Get the feerate of a given transaction i. Complexity: O(1). */ const FeeFrac& FeeRate(ClusterIndex i) const noexcept { return entries[i].feerate; } /** Get the mutable feerate of a given transaction i. Complexity: O(1). */ FeeFrac& FeeRate(ClusterIndex i) noexcept { return entries[i].feerate; } /** Get the ancestors of a given transaction i. Complexity: O(1). */ const SetType& Ancestors(ClusterIndex i) const noexcept { return entries[i].ancestors; } /** Get the descendants of a given transaction i. Complexity: O(1). */ const SetType& Descendants(ClusterIndex i) const noexcept { return entries[i].descendants; } /** Add a new unconnected transaction to this transaction graph (in the first available * position), and return its ClusterIndex. * * Complexity: O(1) (amortized, due to resizing of backing vector). */ ClusterIndex AddTransaction(const FeeFrac& feefrac) noexcept { static constexpr auto ALL_POSITIONS = SetType::Fill(SetType::Size()); auto available = ALL_POSITIONS - m_used; Assume(available.Any()); ClusterIndex new_idx = available.First(); if (new_idx == entries.size()) { entries.emplace_back(feefrac, SetType::Singleton(new_idx), SetType::Singleton(new_idx)); } else { entries[new_idx] = Entry(feefrac, SetType::Singleton(new_idx), SetType::Singleton(new_idx)); } m_used.Set(new_idx); return new_idx; } /** Remove the specified positions from this DepGraph. * * The specified positions will no longer be part of Positions(), and dependencies with them are * removed. Note that due to DepGraph only tracking ancestors/descendants (and not direct * dependencies), if a parent is removed while a grandparent remains, the grandparent will * remain an ancestor. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=TxCount(). */ void RemoveTransactions(const SetType& del) noexcept { m_used -= del; // Remove now-unused trailing entries. while (!entries.empty() && !m_used[entries.size() - 1]) { entries.pop_back(); } // Remove the deleted transactions from ancestors/descendants of other transactions. Note // that the deleted positions will retain old feerate and dependency information. This does // not matter as they will be overwritten by AddTransaction if they get used again. for (auto& entry : entries) { entry.ancestors &= m_used; entry.descendants &= m_used; } } /** Modify this transaction graph, adding multiple parents to a specified child. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=TxCount(). */ void AddDependencies(const SetType& parents, ClusterIndex child) noexcept { Assume(m_used[child]); Assume(parents.IsSubsetOf(m_used)); // Compute the ancestors of parents that are not already ancestors of child. SetType par_anc; for (auto par : parents - Ancestors(child)) { par_anc |= Ancestors(par); } par_anc -= Ancestors(child); // Bail out if there are no such ancestors. if (par_anc.None()) return; // To each such ancestor, add as descendants the descendants of the child. const auto& chl_des = entries[child].descendants; for (auto anc_of_par : par_anc) { entries[anc_of_par].descendants |= chl_des; } // To each descendant of the child, add those ancestors. for (auto dec_of_chl : Descendants(child)) { entries[dec_of_chl].ancestors |= par_anc; } } /** Compute the (reduced) set of parents of node i in this graph. * * This returns the minimal subset of the parents of i whose ancestors together equal all of * i's ancestors (unless i is part of a cycle of dependencies). Note that DepGraph does not * store the set of parents; this information is inferred from the ancestor sets. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=Ancestors(i).Count() (which is bounded by TxCount()). */ SetType GetReducedParents(ClusterIndex i) const noexcept { SetType parents = Ancestors(i); parents.Reset(i); for (auto parent : parents) { if (parents[parent]) { parents -= Ancestors(parent); parents.Set(parent); } } return parents; } /** Compute the (reduced) set of children of node i in this graph. * * This returns the minimal subset of the children of i whose descendants together equal all of * i's descendants (unless i is part of a cycle of dependencies). Note that DepGraph does not * store the set of children; this information is inferred from the descendant sets. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=Descendants(i).Count() (which is bounded by TxCount()). */ SetType GetReducedChildren(ClusterIndex i) const noexcept { SetType children = Descendants(i); children.Reset(i); for (auto child : children) { if (children[child]) { children -= Descendants(child); children.Set(child); } } return children; } /** Compute the aggregate feerate of a set of nodes in this graph. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=elems.Count(). **/ FeeFrac FeeRate(const SetType& elems) const noexcept { FeeFrac ret; for (auto pos : elems) ret += entries[pos].feerate; return ret; } /** Find some connected component within the subset "todo" of this graph. * * Specifically, this finds the connected component which contains the first transaction of * todo (if any). * * Two transactions are considered connected if they are both in `todo`, and one is an ancestor * of the other in the entire graph (so not just within `todo`), or transitively there is a * path of transactions connecting them. This does mean that if `todo` contains a transaction * and a grandparent, but misses the parent, they will still be part of the same component. * * Complexity: O(ret.Count()). */ SetType FindConnectedComponent(const SetType& todo) const noexcept { if (todo.None()) return todo; auto to_add = SetType::Singleton(todo.First()); SetType ret; do { SetType old = ret; for (auto add : to_add) { ret |= Descendants(add); ret |= Ancestors(add); } ret &= todo; to_add = ret - old; } while (to_add.Any()); return ret; } /** Determine if a subset is connected. * * Complexity: O(subset.Count()). */ bool IsConnected(const SetType& subset) const noexcept { return FindConnectedComponent(subset) == subset; } /** Determine if this entire graph is connected. * * Complexity: O(TxCount()). */ bool IsConnected() const noexcept { return IsConnected(m_used); } /** Append the entries of select to list in a topologically valid order. * * Complexity: O(select.Count() * log(select.Count())). */ void AppendTopo(std::vector& list, const SetType& select) const noexcept { ClusterIndex old_len = list.size(); for (auto i : select) list.push_back(i); std::sort(list.begin() + old_len, list.end(), [&](ClusterIndex a, ClusterIndex b) noexcept { const auto a_anc_count = entries[a].ancestors.Count(); const auto b_anc_count = entries[b].ancestors.Count(); if (a_anc_count != b_anc_count) return a_anc_count < b_anc_count; return a < b; }); } }; /** A set of transactions together with their aggregate feerate. */ template struct SetInfo { /** The transactions in the set. */ SetType transactions; /** Their combined fee and size. */ FeeFrac feerate; /** Construct a SetInfo for the empty set. */ SetInfo() noexcept = default; /** Construct a SetInfo for a specified set and feerate. */ SetInfo(const SetType& txn, const FeeFrac& fr) noexcept : transactions(txn), feerate(fr) {} /** Construct a SetInfo for a given transaction in a depgraph. */ explicit SetInfo(const DepGraph& depgraph, ClusterIndex pos) noexcept : transactions(SetType::Singleton(pos)), feerate(depgraph.FeeRate(pos)) {} /** Construct a SetInfo for a set of transactions in a depgraph. */ explicit SetInfo(const DepGraph& depgraph, const SetType& txn) noexcept : transactions(txn), feerate(depgraph.FeeRate(txn)) {} /** Add a transaction to this SetInfo (which must not yet be in it). */ void Set(const DepGraph& depgraph, ClusterIndex pos) noexcept { Assume(!transactions[pos]); transactions.Set(pos); feerate += depgraph.FeeRate(pos); } /** Add the transactions of other to this SetInfo (no overlap allowed). */ SetInfo& operator|=(const SetInfo& other) noexcept { Assume(!transactions.Overlaps(other.transactions)); transactions |= other.transactions; feerate += other.feerate; return *this; } /** Construct a new SetInfo equal to this, with more transactions added (which may overlap * with the existing transactions in the SetInfo). */ [[nodiscard]] SetInfo Add(const DepGraph& depgraph, const SetType& txn) const noexcept { return {transactions | txn, feerate + depgraph.FeeRate(txn - transactions)}; } /** Swap two SetInfo objects. */ friend void swap(SetInfo& a, SetInfo& b) noexcept { swap(a.transactions, b.transactions); swap(a.feerate, b.feerate); } /** Permit equality testing. */ friend bool operator==(const SetInfo&, const SetInfo&) noexcept = default; }; /** Compute the feerates of the chunks of linearization. */ template std::vector ChunkLinearization(const DepGraph& depgraph, Span linearization) noexcept { std::vector ret; for (ClusterIndex i : linearization) { /** The new chunk to be added, initially a singleton. */ auto new_chunk = depgraph.FeeRate(i); // As long as the new chunk has a higher feerate than the last chunk so far, absorb it. while (!ret.empty() && new_chunk >> ret.back()) { new_chunk += ret.back(); ret.pop_back(); } // Actually move that new chunk into the chunking. ret.push_back(std::move(new_chunk)); } return ret; } /** Data structure encapsulating the chunking of a linearization, permitting removal of subsets. */ template class LinearizationChunking { /** The depgraph this linearization is for. */ const DepGraph& m_depgraph; /** The linearization we started from, possibly with removed prefix stripped. */ Span m_linearization; /** Chunk sets and their feerates, of what remains of the linearization. */ std::vector> m_chunks; /** How large a prefix of m_chunks corresponds to removed transactions. */ ClusterIndex m_chunks_skip{0}; /** Which transactions remain in the linearization. */ SetType m_todo; /** Fill the m_chunks variable, and remove the done prefix of m_linearization. */ void BuildChunks() noexcept { // Caller must clear m_chunks. Assume(m_chunks.empty()); // Chop off the initial part of m_linearization that is already done. while (!m_linearization.empty() && !m_todo[m_linearization.front()]) { m_linearization = m_linearization.subspan(1); } // Iterate over the remaining entries in m_linearization. This is effectively the same // algorithm as ChunkLinearization, but supports skipping parts of the linearization and // keeps track of the sets themselves instead of just their feerates. for (auto idx : m_linearization) { if (!m_todo[idx]) continue; // Start with an initial chunk containing just element idx. SetInfo add(m_depgraph, idx); // Absorb existing final chunks into add while they have lower feerate. while (!m_chunks.empty() && add.feerate >> m_chunks.back().feerate) { add |= m_chunks.back(); m_chunks.pop_back(); } // Remember new chunk. m_chunks.push_back(std::move(add)); } } public: /** Initialize a LinearizationSubset object for a given length of linearization. */ explicit LinearizationChunking(const DepGraph& depgraph LIFETIMEBOUND, Span lin LIFETIMEBOUND) noexcept : m_depgraph(depgraph), m_linearization(lin) { // Mark everything in lin as todo still. for (auto i : m_linearization) m_todo.Set(i); // Compute the initial chunking. m_chunks.reserve(depgraph.TxCount()); BuildChunks(); } /** Determine how many chunks remain in the linearization. */ ClusterIndex NumChunksLeft() const noexcept { return m_chunks.size() - m_chunks_skip; } /** Access a chunk. Chunk 0 is the highest-feerate prefix of what remains. */ const SetInfo& GetChunk(ClusterIndex n) const noexcept { Assume(n + m_chunks_skip < m_chunks.size()); return m_chunks[n + m_chunks_skip]; } /** Remove some subset of transactions from the linearization. */ void MarkDone(SetType subset) noexcept { Assume(subset.Any()); Assume(subset.IsSubsetOf(m_todo)); m_todo -= subset; if (GetChunk(0).transactions == subset) { // If the newly done transactions exactly match the first chunk of the remainder of // the linearization, we do not need to rechunk; just remember to skip one // additional chunk. ++m_chunks_skip; // With subset marked done, some prefix of m_linearization will be done now. How long // that prefix is depends on how many done elements were interspersed with subset, // but at least as many transactions as there are in subset. m_linearization = m_linearization.subspan(subset.Count()); } else { // Otherwise rechunk what remains of m_linearization. m_chunks.clear(); m_chunks_skip = 0; BuildChunks(); } } /** Find the shortest intersection between subset and the prefixes of remaining chunks * of the linearization that has a feerate not below subset's. * * This is a crucial operation in guaranteeing improvements to linearizations. If subset has * a feerate not below GetChunk(0)'s, then moving IntersectPrefixes(subset) to the front of * (what remains of) the linearization is guaranteed not to make it worse at any point. * * See https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/introduction-to-cluster-linearization/1032 for background. */ SetInfo IntersectPrefixes(const SetInfo& subset) const noexcept { Assume(subset.transactions.IsSubsetOf(m_todo)); SetInfo accumulator; // Iterate over all chunks of the remaining linearization. for (ClusterIndex i = 0; i < NumChunksLeft(); ++i) { // Find what (if any) intersection the chunk has with subset. const SetType to_add = GetChunk(i).transactions & subset.transactions; if (to_add.Any()) { // If adding that to accumulator makes us hit all of subset, we are done as no // shorter intersection with higher/equal feerate exists. accumulator.transactions |= to_add; if (accumulator.transactions == subset.transactions) break; // Otherwise update the accumulator feerate. accumulator.feerate += m_depgraph.FeeRate(to_add); // If that does result in something better, or something with the same feerate but // smaller, return that. Even if a longer, higher-feerate intersection exists, it // does not hurt to return the shorter one (the remainder of the longer intersection // will generally be found in the next call to Intersect, but even if not, it is not // required for the improvement guarantee this function makes). if (!(accumulator.feerate << subset.feerate)) return accumulator; } } return subset; } }; /** Class encapsulating the state needed to find the best remaining ancestor set. * * It is initialized for an entire DepGraph, and parts of the graph can be dropped by calling * MarkDone. * * As long as any part of the graph remains, FindCandidateSet() can be called which will return a * SetInfo with the highest-feerate ancestor set that remains (an ancestor set is a single * transaction together with all its remaining ancestors). */ template class AncestorCandidateFinder { /** Internal dependency graph. */ const DepGraph& m_depgraph; /** Which transaction are left to include. */ SetType m_todo; /** Precomputed ancestor-set feerates (only kept up-to-date for indices in m_todo). */ std::vector m_ancestor_set_feerates; public: /** Construct an AncestorCandidateFinder for a given cluster. * * Complexity: O(N^2) where N=depgraph.TxCount(). */ AncestorCandidateFinder(const DepGraph& depgraph LIFETIMEBOUND) noexcept : m_depgraph(depgraph), m_todo{depgraph.Positions()}, m_ancestor_set_feerates(depgraph.PositionRange()) { // Precompute ancestor-set feerates. for (ClusterIndex i : m_depgraph.Positions()) { /** The remaining ancestors for transaction i. */ SetType anc_to_add = m_depgraph.Ancestors(i); FeeFrac anc_feerate; // Reuse accumulated feerate from first ancestor, if usable. Assume(anc_to_add.Any()); ClusterIndex first = anc_to_add.First(); if (first < i) { anc_feerate = m_ancestor_set_feerates[first]; Assume(!anc_feerate.IsEmpty()); anc_to_add -= m_depgraph.Ancestors(first); } // Add in other ancestors (which necessarily include i itself). Assume(anc_to_add[i]); anc_feerate += m_depgraph.FeeRate(anc_to_add); // Store the result. m_ancestor_set_feerates[i] = anc_feerate; } } /** Remove a set of transactions from the set of to-be-linearized ones. * * The same transaction may not be MarkDone()'d twice. * * Complexity: O(N*M) where N=depgraph.TxCount(), M=select.Count(). */ void MarkDone(SetType select) noexcept { Assume(select.Any()); Assume(select.IsSubsetOf(m_todo)); m_todo -= select; for (auto i : select) { auto feerate = m_depgraph.FeeRate(i); for (auto j : m_depgraph.Descendants(i) & m_todo) { m_ancestor_set_feerates[j] -= feerate; } } } /** Check whether any unlinearized transactions remain. */ bool AllDone() const noexcept { return m_todo.None(); } /** Count the number of remaining unlinearized transactions. */ ClusterIndex NumRemaining() const noexcept { return m_todo.Count(); } /** Find the best (highest-feerate, smallest among those in case of a tie) ancestor set * among the remaining transactions. Requires !AllDone(). * * Complexity: O(N) where N=depgraph.TxCount(); */ SetInfo FindCandidateSet() const noexcept { Assume(!AllDone()); std::optional best; for (auto i : m_todo) { if (best.has_value()) { Assume(!m_ancestor_set_feerates[i].IsEmpty()); if (!(m_ancestor_set_feerates[i] > m_ancestor_set_feerates[*best])) continue; } best = i; } Assume(best.has_value()); return {m_depgraph.Ancestors(*best) & m_todo, m_ancestor_set_feerates[*best]}; } }; /** Class encapsulating the state needed to perform search for good candidate sets. * * It is initialized for an entire DepGraph, and parts of the graph can be dropped by calling * MarkDone(). * * As long as any part of the graph remains, FindCandidateSet() can be called to perform a search * over the set of topologically-valid subsets of that remainder, with a limit on how many * combinations are tried. */ template class SearchCandidateFinder { /** Internal RNG. */ InsecureRandomContext m_rng; /** m_sorted_to_original[i] is the original position that sorted transaction position i had. */ std::vector m_sorted_to_original; /** m_original_to_sorted[i] is the sorted position original transaction position i has. */ std::vector m_original_to_sorted; /** Internal dependency graph for the cluster (with transactions in decreasing individual * feerate order). */ DepGraph m_sorted_depgraph; /** Which transactions are left to do (indices in m_sorted_depgraph's order). */ SetType m_todo; /** Given a set of transactions with sorted indices, get their original indices. */ SetType SortedToOriginal(const SetType& arg) const noexcept { SetType ret; for (auto pos : arg) ret.Set(m_sorted_to_original[pos]); return ret; } /** Given a set of transactions with original indices, get their sorted indices. */ SetType OriginalToSorted(const SetType& arg) const noexcept { SetType ret; for (auto pos : arg) ret.Set(m_original_to_sorted[pos]); return ret; } public: /** Construct a candidate finder for a graph. * * @param[in] depgraph Dependency graph for the to-be-linearized cluster. * @param[in] rng_seed A random seed to control the search order. * * Complexity: O(N^2) where N=depgraph.Count(). */ SearchCandidateFinder(const DepGraph& depgraph, uint64_t rng_seed) noexcept : m_rng(rng_seed), m_sorted_to_original(depgraph.TxCount()), m_original_to_sorted(depgraph.PositionRange()) { // Determine reordering mapping, by sorting by decreasing feerate. Unusued positions are // not included, as they will never be looked up anyway. ClusterIndex sorted_pos{0}; for (auto i : depgraph.Positions()) { m_sorted_to_original[sorted_pos++] = i; } std::sort(m_sorted_to_original.begin(), m_sorted_to_original.end(), [&](auto a, auto b) { auto feerate_cmp = depgraph.FeeRate(a) <=> depgraph.FeeRate(b); if (feerate_cmp == 0) return a < b; return feerate_cmp > 0; }); // Compute reverse mapping. for (ClusterIndex i = 0; i < m_sorted_to_original.size(); ++i) { m_original_to_sorted[m_sorted_to_original[i]] = i; } // Compute reordered dependency graph. m_sorted_depgraph = DepGraph(depgraph, m_original_to_sorted, m_sorted_to_original.size()); m_todo = m_sorted_depgraph.Positions(); } /** Check whether any unlinearized transactions remain. */ bool AllDone() const noexcept { return m_todo.None(); } /** Find a high-feerate topologically-valid subset of what remains of the cluster. * Requires !AllDone(). * * @param[in] max_iterations The maximum number of optimization steps that will be performed. * @param[in] best A set/feerate pair with an already-known good candidate. This may * be empty. * @return A pair of: * - The best (highest feerate, smallest size as tiebreaker) * topologically valid subset (and its feerate) that was * encountered during search. It will be at least as good as the * best passed in (if not empty). * - The number of optimization steps that were performed. This will * be <= max_iterations. If strictly < max_iterations, the * returned subset is optimal. * * Complexity: possibly O(N * min(max_iterations, sqrt(2^N))) where N=depgraph.TxCount(). */ std::pair, uint64_t> FindCandidateSet(uint64_t max_iterations, SetInfo best) noexcept { Assume(!AllDone()); // Convert the provided best to internal sorted indices. best.transactions = OriginalToSorted(best.transactions); /** Type for work queue items. */ struct WorkItem { /** Set of transactions definitely included (and its feerate). This must be a subset * of m_todo, and be topologically valid (includes all in-m_todo ancestors of * itself). */ SetInfo inc; /** Set of undecided transactions. This must be a subset of m_todo, and have no overlap * with inc. The set (inc | und) must be topologically valid. */ SetType und; /** (Only when inc is not empty) The best feerate of any superset of inc that is also a * subset of (inc | und), without requiring it to be topologically valid. It forms a * conservative upper bound on how good a set this work item can give rise to. * Transactions whose feerate is below best's are ignored when determining this value, * which means it may technically be an underestimate, but if so, this work item * cannot result in something that beats best anyway. */ FeeFrac pot_feerate; /** Construct a new work item. */ WorkItem(SetInfo&& i, SetType&& u, FeeFrac&& p_f) noexcept : inc(std::move(i)), und(std::move(u)), pot_feerate(std::move(p_f)) { Assume(pot_feerate.IsEmpty() == inc.feerate.IsEmpty()); } /** Swap two WorkItems. */ void Swap(WorkItem& other) noexcept { swap(inc, other.inc); swap(und, other.und); swap(pot_feerate, other.pot_feerate); } }; /** The queue of work items. */ VecDeque queue; queue.reserve(std::max(256, 2 * m_todo.Count())); // Create initial entries per connected component of m_todo. While clusters themselves are // generally connected, this is not necessarily true after some parts have already been // removed from m_todo. Without this, effort can be wasted on searching "inc" sets that // span multiple components. auto to_cover = m_todo; do { auto component = m_sorted_depgraph.FindConnectedComponent(to_cover); to_cover -= component; // If best is not provided, set it to the first component, so that during the work // processing loop below, and during the add_fn/split_fn calls, we do not need to deal // with the best=empty case. if (best.feerate.IsEmpty()) best = SetInfo(m_sorted_depgraph, component); queue.emplace_back(/*inc=*/SetInfo{}, /*und=*/std::move(component), /*pot_feerate=*/FeeFrac{}); } while (to_cover.Any()); /** Local copy of the iteration limit. */ uint64_t iterations_left = max_iterations; /** The set of transactions in m_todo which have feerate > best's. */ SetType imp = m_todo; while (imp.Any()) { ClusterIndex check = imp.Last(); if (m_sorted_depgraph.FeeRate(check) >> best.feerate) break; imp.Reset(check); } /** Internal function to add an item to the queue of elements to explore if there are any * transactions left to split on, possibly improving it before doing so, and to update * best/imp. * * - inc: the "inc" value for the new work item (must be topological). * - und: the "und" value for the new work item ((inc | und) must be topological). */ auto add_fn = [&](SetInfo inc, SetType und) noexcept { /** SetInfo object with the set whose feerate will become the new work item's * pot_feerate. It starts off equal to inc. */ auto pot = inc; if (!inc.feerate.IsEmpty()) { // Add entries to pot. We iterate over all undecided transactions whose feerate is // higher than best. While undecided transactions of lower feerate may improve pot, // the resulting pot feerate cannot possibly exceed best's (and this item will be // skipped in split_fn anyway). for (auto pos : imp & und) { // Determine if adding transaction pos to pot (ignoring topology) would improve // it. If not, we're done updating pot. This relies on the fact that // m_sorted_depgraph, and thus the transactions iterated over, are in decreasing // individual feerate order. if (!(m_sorted_depgraph.FeeRate(pos) >> pot.feerate)) break; pot.Set(m_sorted_depgraph, pos); } // The "jump ahead" optimization: whenever pot has a topologically-valid subset, // that subset can be added to inc. Any subset of (pot - inc) has the property that // its feerate exceeds that of any set compatible with this work item (superset of // inc, subset of (inc | und)). Thus, if T is a topological subset of pot, and B is // the best topologically-valid set compatible with this work item, and (T - B) is // non-empty, then (T | B) is better than B and also topological. This is in // contradiction with the assumption that B is best. Thus, (T - B) must be empty, // or T must be a subset of B. // // See https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/how-to-linearize-your-cluster/303 section 2.4. const auto init_inc = inc.transactions; for (auto pos : pot.transactions - inc.transactions) { // If the transaction's ancestors are a subset of pot, we can add it together // with its ancestors to inc. Just update the transactions here; the feerate // update happens below. auto anc_todo = m_sorted_depgraph.Ancestors(pos) & m_todo; if (anc_todo.IsSubsetOf(pot.transactions)) inc.transactions |= anc_todo; } // Finally update und and inc's feerate to account for the added transactions. und -= inc.transactions; inc.feerate += m_sorted_depgraph.FeeRate(inc.transactions - init_inc); // If inc's feerate is better than best's, remember it as our new best. if (inc.feerate > best.feerate) { best = inc; // See if we can remove any entries from imp now. while (imp.Any()) { ClusterIndex check = imp.Last(); if (m_sorted_depgraph.FeeRate(check) >> best.feerate) break; imp.Reset(check); } } // If no potential transactions exist beyond the already included ones, no // improvement is possible anymore. if (pot.feerate.size == inc.feerate.size) return; // At this point und must be non-empty. If it were empty then pot would equal inc. Assume(und.Any()); } else { Assume(inc.transactions.None()); // If inc is empty, we just make sure there are undecided transactions left to // split on. if (und.None()) return; } // Actually construct a new work item on the queue. Due to the switch to DFS when queue // space runs out (see below), we know that no reallocation of the queue should ever // occur. Assume(queue.size() < queue.capacity()); queue.emplace_back(/*inc=*/std::move(inc), /*und=*/std::move(und), /*pot_feerate=*/std::move(pot.feerate)); }; /** Internal process function. It takes an existing work item, and splits it in two: one * with a particular transaction (and its ancestors) included, and one with that * transaction (and its descendants) excluded. */ auto split_fn = [&](WorkItem&& elem) noexcept { // Any queue element must have undecided transactions left, otherwise there is nothing // to explore anymore. Assume(elem.und.Any()); // The included and undecided set are all subsets of m_todo. Assume(elem.inc.transactions.IsSubsetOf(m_todo) && elem.und.IsSubsetOf(m_todo)); // Included transactions cannot be undecided. Assume(!elem.inc.transactions.Overlaps(elem.und)); // If pot is empty, then so is inc. Assume(elem.inc.feerate.IsEmpty() == elem.pot_feerate.IsEmpty()); const ClusterIndex first = elem.und.First(); if (!elem.inc.feerate.IsEmpty()) { // If no undecided transactions remain with feerate higher than best, this entry // cannot be improved beyond best. if (!elem.und.Overlaps(imp)) return; // We can ignore any queue item whose potential feerate isn't better than the best // seen so far. if (elem.pot_feerate <= best.feerate) return; } else { // In case inc is empty use a simpler alternative check. if (m_sorted_depgraph.FeeRate(first) <= best.feerate) return; } // Decide which transaction to split on. Splitting is how new work items are added, and // how progress is made. One split transaction is chosen among the queue item's // undecided ones, and: // - A work item is (potentially) added with that transaction plus its remaining // descendants excluded (removed from the und set). // - A work item is (potentially) added with that transaction plus its remaining // ancestors included (added to the inc set). // // To decide what to split on, consider the undecided ancestors of the highest // individual feerate undecided transaction. Pick the one which reduces the search space // most. Let I(t) be the size of the undecided set after including t, and E(t) the size // of the undecided set after excluding t. Then choose the split transaction t such // that 2^I(t) + 2^E(t) is minimal, tie-breaking by highest individual feerate for t. ClusterIndex split = 0; const auto select = elem.und & m_sorted_depgraph.Ancestors(first); Assume(select.Any()); std::optional> split_counts; for (auto t : select) { // Call max = max(I(t), E(t)) and min = min(I(t), E(t)). Let counts = {max,min}. // Sorting by the tuple counts is equivalent to sorting by 2^I(t) + 2^E(t). This // expression is equal to 2^max + 2^min = 2^max * (1 + 1/2^(max - min)). The second // factor (1 + 1/2^(max - min)) there is in (1,2]. Thus increasing max will always // increase it, even when min decreases. Because of this, we can first sort by max. std::pair counts{ (elem.und - m_sorted_depgraph.Ancestors(t)).Count(), (elem.und - m_sorted_depgraph.Descendants(t)).Count()}; if (counts.first < counts.second) std::swap(counts.first, counts.second); // Remember the t with the lowest counts. if (!split_counts.has_value() || counts < *split_counts) { split = t; split_counts = counts; } } // Since there was at least one transaction in select, we must always find one. Assume(split_counts.has_value()); // Add a work item corresponding to exclusion of the split transaction. const auto& desc = m_sorted_depgraph.Descendants(split); add_fn(/*inc=*/elem.inc, /*und=*/elem.und - desc); // Add a work item corresponding to inclusion of the split transaction. const auto anc = m_sorted_depgraph.Ancestors(split) & m_todo; add_fn(/*inc=*/elem.inc.Add(m_sorted_depgraph, anc), /*und=*/elem.und - anc); // Account for the performed split. --iterations_left; }; // Work processing loop. // // New work items are always added at the back of the queue, but items to process use a // hybrid approach where they can be taken from the front or the back. // // Depth-first search (DFS) corresponds to always taking from the back of the queue. This // is very memory-efficient (linear in the number of transactions). Breadth-first search // (BFS) corresponds to always taking from the front, which potentially uses more memory // (up to exponential in the transaction count), but seems to work better in practice. // // The approach here combines the two: use BFS (plus random swapping) until the queue grows // too large, at which point we temporarily switch to DFS until the size shrinks again. while (!queue.empty()) { // Randomly swap the first two items to randomize the search order. if (queue.size() > 1 && m_rng.randbool()) { queue[0].Swap(queue[1]); } // Processing the first queue item, and then using DFS for everything it gives rise to, // may increase the queue size by the number of undecided elements in there, minus 1 // for the first queue item being removed. Thus, only when that pushes the queue over // its capacity can we not process from the front (BFS), and should we use DFS. while (queue.size() - 1 + queue.front().und.Count() > queue.capacity()) { if (!iterations_left) break; auto elem = queue.back(); queue.pop_back(); split_fn(std::move(elem)); } // Process one entry from the front of the queue (BFS exploration) if (!iterations_left) break; auto elem = queue.front(); queue.pop_front(); split_fn(std::move(elem)); } // Return the found best set (converted to the original transaction indices), and the // number of iterations performed. best.transactions = SortedToOriginal(best.transactions); return {std::move(best), max_iterations - iterations_left}; } /** Remove a subset of transactions from the cluster being linearized. * * Complexity: O(N) where N=done.Count(). */ void MarkDone(const SetType& done) noexcept { const auto done_sorted = OriginalToSorted(done); Assume(done_sorted.Any()); Assume(done_sorted.IsSubsetOf(m_todo)); m_todo -= done_sorted; } }; /** Find or improve a linearization for a cluster. * * @param[in] depgraph Dependency graph of the cluster to be linearized. * @param[in] max_iterations Upper bound on the number of optimization steps that will be done. * @param[in] rng_seed A random number seed to control search order. This prevents peers * from predicting exactly which clusters would be hard for us to * linearize. * @param[in] old_linearization An existing linearization for the cluster (which must be * topologically valid), or empty. * @return A pair of: * - The resulting linearization. It is guaranteed to be at least as * good (in the feerate diagram sense) as old_linearization. * - A boolean indicating whether the result is guaranteed to be * optimal. * * Complexity: possibly O(N * min(max_iterations + N, sqrt(2^N))) where N=depgraph.TxCount(). */ template std::pair, bool> Linearize(const DepGraph& depgraph, uint64_t max_iterations, uint64_t rng_seed, Span old_linearization = {}) noexcept { Assume(old_linearization.empty() || old_linearization.size() == depgraph.TxCount()); if (depgraph.TxCount() == 0) return {{}, true}; uint64_t iterations_left = max_iterations; std::vector linearization; AncestorCandidateFinder anc_finder(depgraph); std::optional> src_finder; linearization.reserve(depgraph.TxCount()); bool optimal = true; // Treat the initialization of SearchCandidateFinder as taking N^2/64 (rounded up) iterations // (largely due to the cost of constructing the internal sorted-by-feerate DepGraph inside // SearchCandidateFinder), a rough approximation based on benchmark. If we don't have that // many, don't start it. uint64_t start_iterations = (uint64_t{depgraph.TxCount()} * depgraph.TxCount() + 63) / 64; if (iterations_left > start_iterations) { iterations_left -= start_iterations; src_finder.emplace(depgraph, rng_seed); } /** Chunking of what remains of the old linearization. */ LinearizationChunking old_chunking(depgraph, old_linearization); while (true) { // Find the highest-feerate prefix of the remainder of old_linearization. SetInfo best_prefix; if (old_chunking.NumChunksLeft()) best_prefix = old_chunking.GetChunk(0); // Then initialize best to be either the best remaining ancestor set, or the first chunk. auto best = anc_finder.FindCandidateSet(); if (!best_prefix.feerate.IsEmpty() && best_prefix.feerate >= best.feerate) best = best_prefix; uint64_t iterations_done_now = 0; uint64_t max_iterations_now = 0; if (src_finder) { // Treat the invocation of SearchCandidateFinder::FindCandidateSet() as costing N/4 // up-front (rounded up) iterations (largely due to the cost of connected-component // splitting), a rough approximation based on benchmarks. uint64_t base_iterations = (anc_finder.NumRemaining() + 3) / 4; if (iterations_left > base_iterations) { // Invoke bounded search to update best, with up to half of our remaining // iterations as limit. iterations_left -= base_iterations; max_iterations_now = (iterations_left + 1) / 2; std::tie(best, iterations_done_now) = src_finder->FindCandidateSet(max_iterations_now, best); iterations_left -= iterations_done_now; } } if (iterations_done_now == max_iterations_now) { optimal = false; // If the search result is not (guaranteed to be) optimal, run intersections to make // sure we don't pick something that makes us unable to reach further diagram points // of the old linearization. if (old_chunking.NumChunksLeft() > 0) { best = old_chunking.IntersectPrefixes(best); } } // Add to output in topological order. depgraph.AppendTopo(linearization, best.transactions); // Update state to reflect best is no longer to be linearized. anc_finder.MarkDone(best.transactions); if (anc_finder.AllDone()) break; if (src_finder) src_finder->MarkDone(best.transactions); if (old_chunking.NumChunksLeft() > 0) { old_chunking.MarkDone(best.transactions); } } return {std::move(linearization), optimal}; } /** Improve a given linearization. * * @param[in] depgraph Dependency graph of the cluster being linearized. * @param[in,out] linearization On input, an existing linearization for depgraph. On output, a * potentially better linearization for the same graph. * * Postlinearization guarantees: * - The resulting chunks are connected. * - If the input has a tree shape (either all transactions have at most one child, or all * transactions have at most one parent), the result is optimal. * - Given a linearization L1 and a leaf transaction T in it. Let L2 be L1 with T moved to the end, * optionally with its fee increased. Let L3 be the postlinearization of L2. L3 will be at least * as good as L1. This means that replacing transactions with same-size higher-fee transactions * will not worsen linearizations through a "drop conflicts, append new transactions, * postlinearize" process. */ template void PostLinearize(const DepGraph& depgraph, Span linearization) { // This algorithm performs a number of passes (currently 2); the even ones operate from back to // front, the odd ones from front to back. Each results in an equal-or-better linearization // than the one started from. // - One pass in either direction guarantees that the resulting chunks are connected. // - Each direction corresponds to one shape of tree being linearized optimally (forward passes // guarantee this for graphs where each transaction has at most one child; backward passes // guarantee this for graphs where each transaction has at most one parent). // - Starting with a backward pass guarantees the moved-tree property. // // During an odd (forward) pass, the high-level operation is: // - Start with an empty list of groups L=[]. // - For every transaction i in the old linearization, from front to back: // - Append a new group C=[i], containing just i, to the back of L. // - While L has at least one group before C, and the group immediately before C has feerate // lower than C: // - If C depends on P: // - Merge P into C, making C the concatenation of P+C, continuing with the combined C. // - Otherwise: // - Swap P with C, continuing with the now-moved C. // - The output linearization is the concatenation of the groups in L. // // During even (backward) passes, i iterates from the back to the front of the existing // linearization, and new groups are prepended instead of appended to the list L. To enable // more code reuse, both passes append groups, but during even passes the meanings of // parent/child, and of high/low feerate are reversed, and the final concatenation is reversed // on output. // // In the implementation below, the groups are represented by singly-linked lists (pointing // from the back to the front), which are themselves organized in a singly-linked circular // list (each group pointing to its predecessor, with a special sentinel group at the front // that points back to the last group). // // Information about transaction t is stored in entries[t + 1], while the sentinel is in // entries[0]. /** Index of the sentinel in the entries array below. */ static constexpr ClusterIndex SENTINEL{0}; /** Indicator that a group has no previous transaction. */ static constexpr ClusterIndex NO_PREV_TX{0}; /** Data structure per transaction entry. */ struct TxEntry { /** The index of the previous transaction in this group; NO_PREV_TX if this is the first * entry of a group. */ ClusterIndex prev_tx; // The fields below are only used for transactions that are the last one in a group // (referred to as tail transactions below). /** Index of the first transaction in this group, possibly itself. */ ClusterIndex first_tx; /** Index of the last transaction in the previous group. The first group (the sentinel) * points back to the last group here, making it a singly-linked circular list. */ ClusterIndex prev_group; /** All transactions in the group. Empty for the sentinel. */ SetType group; /** All dependencies of the group (descendants in even passes; ancestors in odd ones). */ SetType deps; /** The combined fee/size of transactions in the group. Fee is negated in even passes. */ FeeFrac feerate; }; // As an example, consider the state corresponding to the linearization [1,0,3,2], with // groups [1,0,3] and [2], in an odd pass. The linked lists would be: // // +-----+ // 0<-P-- | 0 S | ---\ Legend: // +-----+ | // ^ | - digit in box: entries index // /--------------F---------+ G | (note: one more than tx value) // v \ | | - S: sentinel group // +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | (empty feerate) // 0<-P-- | 2 | <--P-- | 1 | <--P-- | 4 T | | - T: tail transaction, contains // +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | fields beyond prev_tv. // ^ | - P: prev_tx reference // G G - F: first_tx reference // | | - G: prev_group reference // +-----+ | // 0<-P-- | 3 T | <--/ // +-----+ // ^ | // \-F-/ // // During an even pass, the diagram above would correspond to linearization [2,3,0,1], with // groups [2] and [3,0,1]. std::vector entries(depgraph.PositionRange() + 1); // Perform two passes over the linearization. for (int pass = 0; pass < 2; ++pass) { int rev = !(pass & 1); // Construct a sentinel group, identifying the start of the list. entries[SENTINEL].prev_group = SENTINEL; Assume(entries[SENTINEL].feerate.IsEmpty()); // Iterate over all elements in the existing linearization. for (ClusterIndex i = 0; i < linearization.size(); ++i) { // Even passes are from back to front; odd passes from front to back. ClusterIndex idx = linearization[rev ? linearization.size() - 1 - i : i]; // Construct a new group containing just idx. In even passes, the meaning of // parent/child and high/low feerate are swapped. ClusterIndex cur_group = idx + 1; entries[cur_group].group = SetType::Singleton(idx); entries[cur_group].deps = rev ? depgraph.Descendants(idx): depgraph.Ancestors(idx); entries[cur_group].feerate = depgraph.FeeRate(idx); if (rev) entries[cur_group].feerate.fee = -entries[cur_group].feerate.fee; entries[cur_group].prev_tx = NO_PREV_TX; // No previous transaction in group. entries[cur_group].first_tx = cur_group; // Transaction itself is first of group. // Insert the new group at the back of the groups linked list. entries[cur_group].prev_group = entries[SENTINEL].prev_group; entries[SENTINEL].prev_group = cur_group; // Start merge/swap cycle. ClusterIndex next_group = SENTINEL; // We inserted at the end, so next group is sentinel. ClusterIndex prev_group = entries[cur_group].prev_group; // Continue as long as the current group has higher feerate than the previous one. while (entries[cur_group].feerate >> entries[prev_group].feerate) { // prev_group/cur_group/next_group refer to (the last transactions of) 3 // consecutive entries in groups list. Assume(cur_group == entries[next_group].prev_group); Assume(prev_group == entries[cur_group].prev_group); // The sentinel has empty feerate, which is neither higher or lower than other // feerates. Thus, the while loop we are in here guarantees that cur_group and // prev_group are not the sentinel. Assume(cur_group != SENTINEL); Assume(prev_group != SENTINEL); if (entries[cur_group].deps.Overlaps(entries[prev_group].group)) { // There is a dependency between cur_group and prev_group; merge prev_group // into cur_group. The group/deps/feerate fields of prev_group remain unchanged // but become unused. entries[cur_group].group |= entries[prev_group].group; entries[cur_group].deps |= entries[prev_group].deps; entries[cur_group].feerate += entries[prev_group].feerate; // Make the first of the current group point to the tail of the previous group. entries[entries[cur_group].first_tx].prev_tx = prev_group; // The first of the previous group becomes the first of the newly-merged group. entries[cur_group].first_tx = entries[prev_group].first_tx; // The previous group becomes whatever group was before the former one. prev_group = entries[prev_group].prev_group; entries[cur_group].prev_group = prev_group; } else { // There is no dependency between cur_group and prev_group; swap them. ClusterIndex preprev_group = entries[prev_group].prev_group; // If PP, P, C, N were the old preprev, prev, cur, next groups, then the new // layout becomes [PP, C, P, N]. Update prev_groups to reflect that order. entries[next_group].prev_group = prev_group; entries[prev_group].prev_group = cur_group; entries[cur_group].prev_group = preprev_group; // The current group remains the same, but the groups before/after it have // changed. next_group = prev_group; prev_group = preprev_group; } } } // Convert the entries back to linearization (overwriting the existing one). ClusterIndex cur_group = entries[0].prev_group; ClusterIndex done = 0; while (cur_group != SENTINEL) { ClusterIndex cur_tx = cur_group; // Traverse the transactions of cur_group (from back to front), and write them in the // same order during odd passes, and reversed (front to back) in even passes. if (rev) { do { *(linearization.begin() + (done++)) = cur_tx - 1; cur_tx = entries[cur_tx].prev_tx; } while (cur_tx != NO_PREV_TX); } else { do { *(linearization.end() - (++done)) = cur_tx - 1; cur_tx = entries[cur_tx].prev_tx; } while (cur_tx != NO_PREV_TX); } cur_group = entries[cur_group].prev_group; } Assume(done == linearization.size()); } } /** Merge two linearizations for the same cluster into one that is as good as both. * * Complexity: O(N^2) where N=depgraph.TxCount(); O(N) if both inputs are identical. */ template std::vector MergeLinearizations(const DepGraph& depgraph, Span lin1, Span lin2) { Assume(lin1.size() == depgraph.TxCount()); Assume(lin2.size() == depgraph.TxCount()); /** Chunkings of what remains of both input linearizations. */ LinearizationChunking chunking1(depgraph, lin1), chunking2(depgraph, lin2); /** Output linearization. */ std::vector ret; if (depgraph.TxCount() == 0) return ret; ret.reserve(depgraph.TxCount()); while (true) { // As long as we are not done, both linearizations must have chunks left. Assume(chunking1.NumChunksLeft() > 0); Assume(chunking2.NumChunksLeft() > 0); // Find the set to output by taking the best remaining chunk, and then intersecting it with // prefixes of remaining chunks of the other linearization. SetInfo best; const auto& lin1_firstchunk = chunking1.GetChunk(0); const auto& lin2_firstchunk = chunking2.GetChunk(0); if (lin2_firstchunk.feerate >> lin1_firstchunk.feerate) { best = chunking1.IntersectPrefixes(lin2_firstchunk); } else { best = chunking2.IntersectPrefixes(lin1_firstchunk); } // Append the result to the output and mark it as done. depgraph.AppendTopo(ret, best.transactions); chunking1.MarkDone(best.transactions); if (chunking1.NumChunksLeft() == 0) break; chunking2.MarkDone(best.transactions); } Assume(ret.size() == depgraph.TxCount()); return ret; } } // namespace cluster_linearize #endif // BITCOIN_CLUSTER_LINEARIZE_H