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[avalanche] Create a structure to accumulate avalanche votes
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Authored by deadalnix on Nov 11 2018, 01:08.

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rSTAGING280fa002fa7d: [avalanche] Create a structure to accumulate avalanche votes
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This is slightly different from what is described in the avalanche paper as it uses a rolling quorum instead of rounds, which means we need to use significantly higher confidence parameter, as it increases much faster.

The vote is considered inconclusive if more than one respondant disagrees with the quorum of 8.

Confidence required for finalization is 128.

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deadalnix created this revision.Nov 11 2018, 01:08

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src/avalanche_impl.h
14 ↗	(On Diff #5736)	Doesn't this imply that you need 64 yes votes in a row to finalize? This seems quite high. When I had read the avalanche paper I was under the impression you sample ~8 random peers, count the votes, increase or decrease the confidence. Repeat this sampling X number of times. This VoteRecord seems to be implemented to support polling a single random peer over X number of ms and eventually solidifying the vote after 64 positive quorums of 15 votes in a row. However, the quorums are taken as the most recent vote, and the 14 preceding?
14 ↗	(On Diff #5736)	Should there be a comment about what the byzantine threshold is for this finalization score given how the VoteRecord is hardcoded?
22 ↗	(On Diff #5736)	Do these need to be atomic variables?
70 ↗	(On Diff #5736)	Should this be? confidence = ((confidence & 0xfffe) << 1) \| 2;
src/test/avalanche_tests.cpp
49 ↗	(On Diff #5736)	Normally, after this point we would stop polling though? Right?