path: root/core/state/snapshot/iterator_fast.go

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package snapshot

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"sort"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
)

// weightedIterator is a iterator with an assigned weight. It is used to prioritise
// which account or storage slot is the correct one if multiple iterators find the
// same one (modified in multiple consecutive blocks).
type weightedIterator struct {
	it       Iterator
	priority int
}

// weightedIterators is a set of iterators implementing the sort.Interface.
type weightedIterators []*weightedIterator

// Len implements sort.Interface, returning the number of active iterators.
func (its weightedIterators) Len() int { return len(its) }

// Less implements sort.Interface, returning which of two iterators in the stack
// is before the other.
func (its weightedIterators) Less(i, j int) bool {
	// Order the iterators primarily by the account hashes
	hashI := its[i].it.Hash()
	hashJ := its[j].it.Hash()

	switch bytes.Compare(hashI[:], hashJ[:]) {
	case -1:
		return true
	case 1:
		return false
	}
	// Same account/storage-slot in multiple layers, split by priority
	return its[i].priority < its[j].priority
}

// Swap implements sort.Interface, swapping two entries in the iterator stack.
func (its weightedIterators) Swap(i, j int) {
	its[i], its[j] = its[j], its[i]
}

// fastIterator is a more optimized multi-layer iterator which maintains a
// direct mapping of all iterators leading down to the bottom layer.
type fastIterator struct {
	tree *Tree       // Snapshot tree to reinitialize stale sub-iterators with
	root common.Hash // Root hash to reinitialize stale sub-iterators through

	curAccount []byte
	curSlot    []byte

	iterators weightedIterators
	initiated bool
	account   bool
	fail      error
}

// newFastIterator creates a new hierarhical account or storage iterator with one
// element per diff layer. The returned combo iterator can be used to walk over
// the entire snapshot diff stack simultaneously.
func newFastIterator(tree *Tree, root common.Hash, account common.Hash, seek common.Hash, accountIterator bool) (*fastIterator, error) {
	snap := tree.Snapshot(root)
	if snap == nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown snapshot: %x", root)
	}
	fi := &fastIterator{
		tree:    tree,
		root:    root,
		account: accountIterator,
	}
	current := snap.(snapshot)
	for depth := 0; current != nil; depth++ {
		if accountIterator {
			fi.iterators = append(fi.iterators, &weightedIterator{
				it:       current.AccountIterator(seek),
				priority: depth,
			})
		} else {
			// If the whole storage is destructed in this layer, don't
			// bother deeper layer anymore. But we should still keep
			// the iterator for this layer, since the iterator can contain
			// some valid slots which belongs to the re-created account.
			it, destructed := current.StorageIterator(account, seek)
			fi.iterators = append(fi.iterators, &weightedIterator{
				it:       it,
				priority: depth,
			})
			if destructed {
				break
			}
		}
		current = current.Parent()
	}
	fi.init()
	return fi, nil
}

// init walks over all the iterators and resolves any clashes between them, after
// which it prepares the stack for step-by-step iteration.
func (fi *fastIterator) init() {
	// Track which account hashes are iterators positioned on
	var positioned = make(map[common.Hash]int)

	// Position all iterators and track how many remain live
	for i := 0; i < len(fi.iterators); i++ {
		// Retrieve the first element and if it clashes with a previous iterator,
		// advance either the current one or the old one. Repeat until nothing is
		// clashing any more.
		it := fi.iterators[i]
		for {
			// If the iterator is exhausted, drop it off the end
			if !it.it.Next() {
				it.it.Release()
				last := len(fi.iterators) - 1

				fi.iterators[i] = fi.iterators[last]
				fi.iterators[last] = nil
				fi.iterators = fi.iterators[:last]

				i--
				break
			}
			// The iterator is still alive, check for collisions with previous ones
			hash := it.it.Hash()
			if other, exist := positioned[hash]; !exist {
				positioned[hash] = i
				break
			} else {
				// Iterators collide, one needs to be progressed, use priority to
				// determine which.
				//
				// This whole else-block can be avoided, if we instead
				// do an initial priority-sort of the iterators. If we do that,
				// then we'll only wind up here if a lower-priority (preferred) iterator
				// has the same value, and then we will always just continue.
				// However, it costs an extra sort, so it's probably not better
				if fi.iterators[other].priority < it.priority {
					// The 'it' should be progressed
					continue
				} else {
					// The 'other' should be progressed, swap them
					it = fi.iterators[other]
					fi.iterators[other], fi.iterators[i] = fi.iterators[i], fi.iterators[other]
					continue
				}
			}
		}
	}
	// Re-sort the entire list
	sort.Sort(fi.iterators)
	fi.initiated = false
}

// Next steps the iterator forward one element, returning false if exhausted.
func (fi *fastIterator) Next() bool {
	if len(fi.iterators) == 0 {
		return false
	}
	if !fi.initiated {
		// Don't forward first time -- we had to 'Next' once in order to
		// do the sorting already
		fi.initiated = true
		if fi.account {
			fi.curAccount = fi.iterators[0].it.(AccountIterator).Account()
		} else {
			fi.curSlot = fi.iterators[0].it.(StorageIterator).Slot()
		}
		if innerErr := fi.iterators[0].it.Error(); innerErr != nil {
			fi.fail = innerErr
			return false
		}
		if fi.curAccount != nil || fi.curSlot != nil {
			return true
		}
		// Implicit else: we've hit a nil-account or nil-slot, and need to
		// fall through to the loop below to land on something non-nil
	}
	// If an account or a slot is deleted in one of the layers, the key will
	// still be there, but the actual value will be nil. However, the iterator
	// should not export nil-values (but instead simply omit the key), so we
	// need to loop here until we either
	//  - get a non-nil value,
	//  - hit an error,
	//  - or exhaust the iterator
	for {
		if !fi.next(0) {
			return false // exhausted
		}
		if fi.account {
			fi.curAccount = fi.iterators[0].it.(AccountIterator).Account()
		} else {
			fi.curSlot = fi.iterators[0].it.(StorageIterator).Slot()
		}
		if innerErr := fi.iterators[0].it.Error(); innerErr != nil {
			fi.fail = innerErr
			return false // error
		}
		if fi.curAccount != nil || fi.curSlot != nil {
			break // non-nil value found
		}
	}
	return true
}

// next handles the next operation internally and should be invoked when we know
// that two elements in the list may have the same value.
//
// For example, if the iterated hashes become [2,3,5,5,8,9,10], then we should
// invoke next(3), which will call Next on elem 3 (the second '5') and will
// cascade along the list, applying the same operation if needed.
func (fi *fastIterator) next(idx int) bool {
	// If this particular iterator got exhausted, remove it and return true (the
	// next one is surely not exhausted yet, otherwise it would have been removed
	// already).
	if it := fi.iterators[idx].it; !it.Next() {
		it.Release()

		fi.iterators = append(fi.iterators[:idx], fi.iterators[idx+1:]...)
		return len(fi.iterators) > 0
	}
	// If there's no one left to cascade into, return
	if idx == len(fi.iterators)-1 {
		return true
	}
	// We next-ed the iterator at 'idx', now we may have to re-sort that element
	var (
		cur, next         = fi.iterators[idx], fi.iterators[idx+1]
		curHash, nextHash = cur.it.Hash(), next.it.Hash()
	)
	if diff := bytes.Compare(curHash[:], nextHash[:]); diff < 0 {
		// It is still in correct place
		return true
	} else if diff == 0 && cur.priority < next.priority {
		// So still in correct place, but we need to iterate on the next
		fi.next(idx + 1)
		return true
	}
	// At this point, the iterator is in the wrong location, but the remaining
	// list is sorted. Find out where to move the item.
	clash := -1
	index := sort.Search(len(fi.iterators), func(n int) bool {
		// The iterator always advances forward, so anything before the old slot
		// is known to be behind us, so just skip them altogether. This actually
		// is an important clause since the sort order got invalidated.
		if n < idx {
			return false
		}
		if n == len(fi.iterators)-1 {
			// Can always place an elem last
			return true
		}
		nextHash := fi.iterators[n+1].it.Hash()
		if diff := bytes.Compare(curHash[:], nextHash[:]); diff < 0 {
			return true
		} else if diff > 0 {
			return