[release/1.4.6] core, core/state, trie: enterprise hand-tuned multi-level caching

(cherry picked from commit 748d1c171d)

core/blockchain.go

@@ -819,6 +819,7 @@ func (self *BlockChain) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, error) {
 		tstart        = time.Now()
 
 		nonceChecked = make([]bool, len(chain))
+		statedb      *state.StateDB
 	)
 
 	// Start the parallel nonce verifier.
@@ -885,7 +886,11 @@ func (self *BlockChain) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, error) {
 
 		// Create a new statedb using the parent block and report an
 		// error if it fails.
-		statedb, err := state.New(self.GetBlock(block.ParentHash()).Root(), self.chainDb)
+		if statedb == nil {
+			statedb, err = state.New(self.GetBlock(block.ParentHash()).Root(), self.chainDb)
+		} else {
+			err = statedb.Reset(chain[i-1].Root())
+		}
 		if err != nil {
 			reportBlock(block, err)
 			return i, err

core/state/statedb.go

@@ -68,6 +68,28 @@ func New(root common.Hash, db ethdb.Database) (*StateDB, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// Reset clears out all emphemeral state objects from the state db, but keeps
+// the underlying state trie to avoid reloading data for the next operations.
+func (self *StateDB) Reset(root common.Hash) error {
+	var (
+		err error
+		tr  = self.trie
+	)
+	if self.trie.Hash() != root {
+		if tr, err = trie.NewSecure(root, self.db); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	*self = StateDB{
+		db:           self.db,
+		trie:         tr,
+		stateObjects: make(map[string]*StateObject),
+		refund:       new(big.Int),
+		logs:         make(map[common.Hash]vm.Logs),
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (self *StateDB) StartRecord(thash, bhash common.Hash, ti int) {
 	self.thash = thash
 	self.bhash = bhash