core: concurrent background transaction sender ecrecover

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/blockchain.go b/core/blockchain.go
index 3eee75df7..bf1bbe6cb 100644
--- a/core/blockchain.go
+++ b/core/blockchain.go
@@ -1005,6 +1005,10 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, error) {
 // only reason this method exists as a separate one is to make locking cleaner
 // with deferred statements.
 func (bc *BlockChain) insertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, []interface{}, []*types.Log, error) {
+	// Sanity check that we have something meaningful to import
+	if len(chain) == 0 {
+		return 0, nil, nil, nil
+	}
 	// Do a sanity check that the provided chain is actually ordered and linked
 	for i := 1; i < len(chain); i++ {
 		if chain[i].NumberU64() != chain[i-1].NumberU64()+1 || chain[i].ParentHash() != chain[i-1].Hash() {
@@ -1043,6 +1047,9 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) insertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, []interface{}, []*ty
 	abort, results := bc.engine.VerifyHeaders(bc, headers, seals)
 	defer close(abort)
 
+	// Start a parallel signature recovery (signer will fluke on fork transition, minimal perf loss)
+	senderCacher.recoverFromBlocks(types.MakeSigner(bc.chainConfig, chain[0].Number()), chain)
+
 	// Iterate over the blocks and insert when the verifier permits
 	for i, block := range chain {
 		// If the chain is terminating, stop processing blocks