core, consensus: pluggable consensus engines (#3817)

This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.
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Péter Szilágyi
2017-04-05 01:16:29 +03:00
committed by Felix Lange
parent e50a5b7771
commit 09777952ee
61 changed files with 1681 additions and 1426 deletions

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@ -303,7 +303,15 @@ func startNode(ctx *cli.Context, stack *node.Node) {
if err := stack.Service(&ethereum); err != nil {
utils.Fatalf("ethereum service not running: %v", err)
}
if err := ethereum.StartMining(ctx.GlobalInt(utils.MinerThreadsFlag.Name)); err != nil {
if threads := ctx.GlobalInt(utils.MinerThreadsFlag.Name); threads > 0 {
type threaded interface {
SetThreads(threads int)
}
if th, ok := ethereum.Engine().(threaded); ok {
th.SetThreads(threads)
}
}
if err := ethereum.StartMining(); err != nil {
utils.Fatalf("Failed to start mining: %v", err)
}
}