// Copyright 2018 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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package protocols
import (
"time"
"github.com/dexon-foundation/dexon/metrics"
)
// define some metrics
var (
// All metrics are cumulative
// total amount of units credited
mBalanceCredit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.balance.credit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// total amount of units debited
mBalanceDebit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.balance.debit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// total amount of bytes credited
mBytesCredit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.bytes.credit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// total amount of bytes debited
mBytesDebit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.bytes.debit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// total amount of credited messages
mMsgCredit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.msg.credit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// total amount of debited messages
mMsgDebit = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.msg.debit", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// how many times local node had to drop remote peers
mPeerDrops = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.peerdrops", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
// how many times local node overdrafted and dropped
mSelfDrops = metrics.NewRegisteredCounterForced("account.selfdrops", metrics.AccountingRegistry)
)
// Prices defines how prices are being passed on to the accounting instance
type Prices interface {
// Return the Price for a message
Price(interface{}) *Price
}
type Payer bool
const (
Sender = Payer(true)
Receiver = Payer(false)
)
// Price represents the costs of a message
type Price struct {
Value uint64
PerByte bool // True if the price is per byte or for unit
Payer Payer
}
// For gives back the price for a message
// A protocol provides the message price in absolute value
// This method then returns the correct signed amount,
// depending on who pays, which is identified by the `payer` argument:
// `Send` will pass a `Sender` payer, `Receive` will pass the `Receiver` argument.
// Thus: If Sending and sender pays, amount positive, otherwise negative
// If Receiving, and receiver pays, amount positive, otherwise negative
func (p *Price) For(payer Payer, size uint32) int64 {
price := p.Value
if p.PerByte {
price *= uint64(size)
}
if p.Payer == payer {
return 0 - int64(price)
}
return int64(price)
}
// Balance is the actual accounting instance
// Balance defines the operations needed for accounting
// Implementations internally maintain the balance for every peer
type Balance interface {
// Adds amount to the local balance with remote node `peer`;
// positive amount = credit local node
// negative amount = debit local node
Add(amount int64, peer *Peer) error
}
// Accounting implements the Hook interface
// It interfaces to the balances through the Balance interface,
// while interfacing with protocols and its prices through the Prices interface
type Accounting struct {
Balance // interface to accounting logic
Prices // interface to prices logic
}
func NewAccounting(balance Balance, po Prices) *Accounting {
ah := &Accounting{
Prices: po,
Balance: balance,
}
return ah
}
// SetupAccountingMetrics uses a separate registry for p2p accounting metrics;
// this registry should be independent of any other metrics as it persists at different endpoints.
// It also starts the persisting go-routine which
// at the passed interval writes the metrics to a LevelDB
func SetupAccountingMetrics(reportInterval time.Duration, path string) *AccountingMetrics {
// create the DB and start persisting
return NewAccountingMetrics(metrics.AccountingRegistry, reportInterval, path)
}
// Send takes a peer, a size and a msg and
// - calculates the cost for the local node sending a msg of size to peer using the Prices interface
// - credits/debits local node using balance interface
func (ah *Accounting) Send(peer *Peer, size uint32, msg interface{}) error {
// get the price for a message (through the protocol spec)
price := ah.Price(msg)
// this message doesn't need accounting
if price == nil {
return nil
}
// evaluate the price for sending messages
costToLocalNode := price.For(Sender, size)
// do the accounting
err := ah.Add(costToLocalNode, peer)
// record metrics: just increase counters for user-facing metrics
ah.doMetrics(costToLocalNode, size, err)
return err
}
// Receive takes a peer, a size and a msg and
// - calculates the cost for the local node receiving a msg of size from peer using the Prices interface
// - credits/debits local node using balance interface
func (ah *Accounting) Receive(peer *Peer, size uint32, msg interface{}) error {
// get the price for a message (through the protocol spec)
price := ah.Price(msg)
// this message doesn't need accounting
if price == nil {
return nil
}
// evaluate the price for receiving messages
costToLocalNode := price.For(Receiver, size)
// do the accounting
err := ah.Add(costToLocalNode, peer)
// record metrics: just increase counters for user-facing metrics
ah.doMetrics(costToLocalNode, size, err)
return err
}
// record some metrics
// this is not an error handling. `err` is returned by both `Send` and `Receive`
// `err` will only be non-nil if a limit has been violated (overdraft), in which case the peer has been dropped.
// if the limit has been violated and `err` is thus not nil:
// * if the price is positive, local node has been credited; thus `err` implicitly signals the REMOTE has been dropped
// * if the price is negative, local node has been debited, thus `err` implicitly signals LOCAL node "overdraft"
func (ah *Accounting) doMetrics(price int64, size uint32, err error) {
if price > 0 {
mBalanceCredit.Inc(price)
mBytesCredit.Inc(int64(size))
mMsgCredit.Inc(1)
if err != nil {
// increase the number of times a remote node has been dropped due to "overdraft"
mPeerDrops.Inc(1)
}
} else {
mBalanceDebit.Inc(price)
mBytesDebit.Inc(int64(size))
mMsgDebit.Inc(1)
if err != nil {
// increase the number of times the local node has done an "overdraft" in respect to other nodes
mSelfDrops.Inc(1)
}
}
}
