kaspaminer: User tickers and regulate each block individually (#1580)

* User tickers and regulate each block individually

* Add comments, logs and rename variables

* Fix review comments
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Elichai Turkel 2021-03-08 10:51:35 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -44,34 +44,32 @@ func mineLoop(client *minerClient, numberOfBlocks uint64, targetBlocksPerSecond
spawn("blocksLoop", func() {
const windowSize = 10
var expectedDurationForWindow time.Duration
var windowExpectedEndTime time.Time
hasBlockRateTarget := targetBlocksPerSecond != 0
var windowTicker, blockTicker *time.Ticker
// We use tickers to limit the block rate:
// 1. windowTicker -> makes sure that the last windowSize blocks take at least windowSize*targetBlocksPerSecond.
// 2. blockTicker -> makes sure that each block takes at least targetBlocksPerSecond/windowSize.
// that way we both allow for fluctuation in block rate but also make sure they're not too big (by an order of magnitude)
if hasBlockRateTarget {
expectedDurationForWindow = time.Duration(float64(windowSize)/targetBlocksPerSecond) * time.Second
windowExpectedEndTime = time.Now().Add(expectedDurationForWindow)
windowRate := time.Duration(float64(time.Second) / (targetBlocksPerSecond / windowSize))
blockRate := time.Duration(float64(time.Second) / (targetBlocksPerSecond * windowSize))
log.Infof("Minimum average time per %d blocks: %s, smaller minimum time per block: %s", windowSize, windowRate, blockRate)
windowTicker = time.NewTicker(windowRate)
blockTicker = time.NewTicker(blockRate)
defer windowTicker.Stop()
defer blockTicker.Stop()
}
blockInWindowIndex := 0
sleepTime := 0 * time.Second
for {
windowStart := time.Now()
for blockIndex := 1; ; blockIndex++ {
foundBlockChan <- mineNextBlock(mineWhenNotSynced)
if hasBlockRateTarget {
blockInWindowIndex++
if blockInWindowIndex == windowSize-1 {
deviation := windowExpectedEndTime.Sub(time.Now())
if deviation > 0 {
sleepTime = deviation / windowSize
log.Infof("Finished to mine %d blocks %s earlier than expected. Setting the miner "+
"to sleep %s between blocks to compensate",
windowSize, deviation, sleepTime)
}
blockInWindowIndex = 0
windowExpectedEndTime = time.Now().Add(expectedDurationForWindow)
<-blockTicker.C
if (blockIndex % windowSize) == 0 {
tickerStart := time.Now()
<-windowTicker.C
log.Infof("Finished mining %d blocks in: %s. slept for: %s", windowSize, time.Since(windowStart), time.Since(tickerStart))
windowStart = time.Now()
}
time.Sleep(sleepTime)
}
}
})