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Wladimir J. van der Laan c2c4dbaebd Merge #19988: Overhaul transaction request logic
fd9a0060f0 Report and verify expirations (Pieter Wuille)
86f50ed10f Delete limitedmap as it is unused now (Pieter Wuille)
cc16fff3e4 Make txid delay penalty also apply to fetches of orphan's parents (Pieter Wuille)
173a1d2d3f Expedite removal of tx requests that are no longer needed (Pieter Wuille)
de11b0a4ef Reduce MAX_PEER_TX_ANNOUNCEMENTS for non-PF_RELAY peers (Pieter Wuille)
242d16477d Change transaction request logic to use txrequest (Pieter Wuille)
5b03121d60 Add txrequest fuzz tests (Pieter Wuille)
3c7fe0e5a0 Add txrequest unit tests (Pieter Wuille)
da3b8fde03 Add txrequest module (Pieter Wuille)

Pull request description:

  This replaces the transaction request logic with an encapsulated class that maintains all the state surrounding it. By keeping it stand alone, it can be easily tested (using included unit tests and fuzz tests).

  The major changes are:

  * Announcements from outbound (and whitelisted) peers are now always preferred over those from inbound peers. This used to be the case for the first request (by delaying the first request from inbound peers), and a bias afters. The 2s delay for requests from inbound peers still exists, but after that, if viable outbound peers remain for any given transaction, they will always be tried first.
  * No more hard cap of 100 in flight transactions per peer, as there is less need for it (memory usage is linear in the number of announcements, but independent from the number in flight, and CPU usage isn't affected by it). Furthermore, if only one peer announces a transaction, and it has over 100 in flight already, we still want to request it from them. The cap is replaced with a rule that announcements from such overloaded peers get an additional 2s delay (possibly combined with the existing 2s delays for inbound connections, and for txid peers when wtxid peers are available).
  * The limit of 100000 tracked announcements is reduced to 5000; this was excessive. This can be bypassed using the PF_RELAY permission (to accommodate locally dumping a batch of many transactions).

  This replaces #19184, rebased on #18044 and with many small changes.

ACKs for top commit:
  ariard:
    Code Review ACK fd9a006. I've reviewed the new TxRequestTracker, its integration in net_processing, unit/functional/fuzzing test coverage. I looked more for soundness of new specification rather than functional consistency with old transaction request logic.
  MarcoFalke:
    Approach ACK fd9a0060f0 🏹
  naumenkogs:
    Code Review ACK fd9a006. I've reviewed everything, mostly to see how this stuff works at the lower level (less documentation-wise, more implementation-wise), and to try breaking it with unexpected sequences of events.
  jnewbery:
    utACK fd9a0060f0
  jonatack:
    WIP light ACK fd9a0060f0 have read the code, verified that each commit is hygienic, e.g. debug build clean and tests green, and have been running a node on and off with this branch and grepping the net debug log. Am still unpacking the discussion hidden by GitHub by fetching it via the API and connecting the dots, storing notes and suggestions in a local branch; at this point none are blockers.
  ryanofsky:
    Light code review ACK fd9a0060f0, looking at txrequest implementation, unit test implementation, and net_processing integration, just trying to understand how it works and looking for anything potentially confusing in the implementation. Didn't look at functional tests or catch up on review discussion. Just a sanity check review focused on:

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin