accounts, consensus, core, eth: make chain maker consensus agnostic (#15497)

* accounts, consensus, core, eth: make chain maker consensus agnostic

* consensus, core: move CalcDifficulty to Engine interface

* consensus: add docs for calcDifficulty function

* consensus, core: minor comment fixups
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gary rong
2017-12-22 20:37:50 +08:00
committed by Péter Szilágyi
parent 9dbb8ef4aa
commit 5f8888e116
23 changed files with 145 additions and 99 deletions

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@ -510,7 +510,6 @@ func (c *Clique) Prepare(chain consensus.ChainReader, header *types.Header) erro
header.Nonce = types.BlockNonce{}
number := header.Number.Uint64()
// Assemble the voting snapshot to check which votes make sense
snap, err := c.snapshot(chain, number-1, header.ParentHash, nil)
if err != nil {
@ -538,10 +537,8 @@ func (c *Clique) Prepare(chain consensus.ChainReader, header *types.Header) erro
c.lock.RUnlock()
}
// Set the correct difficulty
header.Difficulty = diffNoTurn
if snap.inturn(header.Number.Uint64(), c.signer) {
header.Difficulty = diffInTurn
}
header.Difficulty = CalcDifficulty(snap, c.signer)
// Ensure the extra data has all it's components
if len(header.Extra) < extraVanity {
header.Extra = append(header.Extra, bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x00}, extraVanity-len(header.Extra))...)
@ -655,6 +652,27 @@ func (c *Clique) Seal(chain consensus.ChainReader, block *types.Block, stop <-ch
return block.WithSeal(header), nil
}
// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns the difficulty
// that a new block should have based on the previous blocks in the chain and the
// current signer.
func (c *Clique) CalcDifficulty(chain consensus.ChainReader, time uint64, parent *types.Header) *big.Int {
snap, err := c.snapshot(chain, parent.Number.Uint64(), parent.Hash(), nil)
if err != nil {
return nil
}
return CalcDifficulty(snap, c.signer)
}
// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns the difficulty
// that a new block should have based on the previous blocks in the chain and the
// current signer.
func CalcDifficulty(snap *Snapshot, signer common.Address) *big.Int {
if snap.inturn(snap.Number+1, signer) {
return new(big.Int).Set(diffInTurn)
}
return new(big.Int).Set(diffNoTurn)
}
// APIs implements consensus.Engine, returning the user facing RPC API to allow
// controlling the signer voting.
func (c *Clique) APIs(chain consensus.ChainReader) []rpc.API {