core, trie: intermediate mempool between trie and database (#15857)

This commit reduces database I/O by not writing every state trie to disk.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/core/block_validator.go b/core/block_validator.go
index 143728bb8..98958809b 100644
--- a/core/block_validator.go
+++ b/core/block_validator.go
@@ -50,11 +50,14 @@ func NewBlockValidator(config *params.ChainConfig, blockchain *BlockChain, engin
 // validated at this point.
 func (v *BlockValidator) ValidateBody(block *types.Block) error {
 	// Check whether the block's known, and if not, that it's linkable
-	if v.bc.HasBlockAndState(block.Hash()) {
+	if v.bc.HasBlockAndState(block.Hash(), block.NumberU64()) {
 		return ErrKnownBlock
 	}
-	if !v.bc.HasBlockAndState(block.ParentHash()) {
-		return consensus.ErrUnknownAncestor
+	if !v.bc.HasBlockAndState(block.ParentHash(), block.NumberU64()-1) {
+		if !v.bc.HasBlock(block.ParentHash(), block.NumberU64()-1) {
+			return consensus.ErrUnknownAncestor
+		}
+		return consensus.ErrPrunedAncestor
 	}
 	// Header validity is known at this point, check the uncles and transactions
 	header := block.Header()