Anton Kaliaev 5fa540bdc9
mempool: add a safety check, write tests for mempoolIDs (#3487)
* mempool: add a safety check, write tests for mempoolIDs

and document 65536 limit in the mempool reactor spec

follow-up to https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/2778

* rename the test

* fixes after Ismail's review
2019-03-27 16:45:34 +01:00

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# Mempool Reactor
## Channels
See [this issue](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/1503)
Mempool maintains a cache of the last 10000 transactions to prevent
replaying old transactions (plus transactions coming from other
validators, who are continually exchanging transactions). Read [Replay
Protection](../../../../app-development.md#replay-protection)
for details.
Sending incorrectly encoded data or data exceeding `maxMsgSize` will result
in stopping the peer.
The mempool will not send a tx back to any peer which it received it from.
The reactor assigns an `uint16` number for each peer and maintains a map from
p2p.ID to `uint16`. Each mempool transaction carries a list of all the senders
(`[]uint16`). The list is updated every time mempool receives a transaction it
is already seen. `uint16` assumes that a node will never have over 65535 active
peers (0 is reserved for unknown source - e.g. RPC).