Fixed stemout blocking and performance issues

requirements.in

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ urllib3==1.26.7
 requests==2.28.1
 PyNaCl==1.5.0
 gevent==21.12.0
-Flask==2.1.2
+Flask==2.1.3
 PySocks==1.7.1
 stem==1.8.0
 deadsimplekv==0.3.2

requirements.txt

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ deadsimplekv==0.3.2
     # via -r requirements.in
 filenuke==0.0.0
     # via -r requirements.in
-flask==2.1.2
+flask==2.1.3
     # via -r requirements.in
 gevent==21.12.0
     # via -r requirements.in

src/gossip/client/dandelionstem/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from queue import Empty
+from collections import deque
+from queue import Empty, Queue
 from time import sleep
 from secrets import choice
 import traceback
@@ -123,6 +124,10 @@ async def stem_out(d_phase: 'DandelionPhase'):
                     # if we have at least 1 peer,
                     # do dandelion anyway in non strict mode
                     # Allow poorly connected networks to communicate faster
+                    for block in gossip_block_queues[1].queue:
+                        gossip_block_queues[0].put_nowait(block)
+                    else:
+                        gossip_block_queues[1].queue = deque()
                     break
             sleep(1)
         else:

src/gossip/client/dandelionstem/stemstream.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from asyncio import sleep
+from threading import Thread
 from queue import Empty
+
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import logger
@@ -20,8 +22,8 @@ async def do_stem_stream(
     remaining_time = d_phase.remaining_time()
     my_phase_id = d_phase.phase_id
 
-    with peer_socket:
-        while remaining_time > 5 and my_phase_id == d_phase.phase_id:
+    
+    while remaining_time > 1 and my_phase_id == d_phase.phase_id:
         # Primary client component that communicate's with gossip.server.acceptstem
         remaining_time = d_phase.remaining_time()
         while remaining_time:
@@ -29,13 +31,19 @@ async def do_stem_stream(
                 # queues can't block because we're in async
                 bl = block_queue.get(block=False)
             except Empty:
+                remaining_time = d_phase.remaining_time()
                 await sleep(1)
             else:
                 break
         logger.info("Sending block over dandelion++", terminal=True)
 
         block_size = str(len(bl.raw)).zfill(BLOCK_SIZE_LEN)
-
+        def _send_it():
+            with peer_socket:
+                try:
+                    peer_socket.sendall(bl.id.zfill(BLOCK_ID_SIZE).encode('utf-8'))
+                except AttributeError:
                     peer_socket.sendall(bl.id.zfill(BLOCK_ID_SIZE))
                 peer_socket.sendall(block_size.encode('utf-8'))
                 peer_socket.sendall(bl.raw)
+        Thread(target=_send_it, daemon=True, name="stemout block").start()

src/gossip/client/streamblocks/streamfrom.py

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ def stream_from_peers():
     def _stream_from_peer(peer: 'Peer'):
         try:
             sock = peer.get_socket(CONNECT_TIMEOUT)
+        except ConnectionRefusedError:
+            need_socket_lock.release()
+            return
         except Exception:
             logger.warn(traceback.format_exc(), terminal=True)
             need_socket_lock.release()

src/gossip/server/acceptstem.py

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ async def accept_stem_blocks(
     for _ in range(MAX_STEM_BLOCKS_PER_STREAM):
         read_routine = reader.readexactly(BLOCK_ID_SIZE)
         logger.debug(f"Reading block id in stem server", terminal=True)
-        block_id = (
-            await wait_for(read_routine, base_wait_timeout)).decode('utf-8')
+        block_id = await wait_for(read_routine, base_wait_timeout)
+        block_id = block_id.decode('utf-8')
         if not block_id:
             break
 

src/httpapi/addblock/__init__.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def block_serialized():
     req_data = request.data
     block_id = req_data[:BLOCK_ID_SIZE]
     block_data = req_data[BLOCK_ID_SIZE:]
-    blockdb.add_block_to_db(Block(block_id, block_data, auto_verify=False))
-    #blockqueues.gossip_block_queues[stream_to_use].put(
-    #Block(block_id, block_data, auto_verify=False), block=False)
+    #blockdb.add_block_to_db(Block(block_id, block_data, auto_verify=False))
+    blockqueues.gossip_block_queues[stream_to_use].put(
+    Block(block_id, block_data, auto_verify=False), block=False)
     return "ok"