update

src/accountant_skel.rs

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use std::io::Write;
 use std::net::{SocketAddr, UdpSocket};
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
-use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, RwLock};
 use std::thread::{spawn, JoinHandle};
 use std::time::Duration;
 use streamer;
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ impl<W: Write + Send + 'static> AccountantSkel<W> {
 
         let skel = obj.clone();
         let t_server = spawn(move || loop {
-            let e = AccountantSkel::process(
+            let e = Self::process(
                 &skel,
                 &verified_receiver,
                 &blob_sender,
@@ -294,9 +294,22 @@ impl<W: Write + Send + 'static> AccountantSkel<W> {
         Ok(vec![t_receiver, t_responder, t_server, t_verifier])
     }
 
-    /// Create a UDP microservice that forwards messages the given AccountantSkel.
-    /// This service receives messages from a leader in the network
-    /// Set `exit` to shutdown its threads.
+    /// This service receives messages from a leader in the network and processes the transactions
+    /// on the accountant state.
+    /// # Arguments
+    /// * `obj` - The accoutnant state.
+    /// * `rsubs` - The subscribers.
+    /// * `exit` - The exit signal.
+    /// # Remarks
+    /// The pipeline is constructed as follows
+    /// 1. receive blobs from the network, these are out of order
+    /// 2. verify blobs, PoH, signatures
+    /// 3. reconstruct consequitive window
+    ///     a. order the blobs
+    ///     b. use erasure coding to reconstruct missing blobs
+    ///     c. ask the network for missing blobs
+    /// 4. process the transaction state machine
+    /// 5. respond with the hash of the state back to the leader
     pub fn replicate(
         obj: &Arc<Mutex<AccountantSkel<W>>>,
         rsubs: Subscribers,
@@ -323,26 +336,26 @@ impl<W: Write + Send + 'static> AccountantSkel<W> {
             blob_recycler.clone(),
             retransmit_receiver,
         );
-
-
-        let t_window =
-            streamer::window(exit.clone(), blob_recycler.clone(), blob_receiver, window_sender, retransmit_sender);
+        //TODO
+        //the packets comming out of blob_receiver need to be sent to the GPU and verified
+        //then sent to the window, which does the erasure coding reconstruction
+        let t_window = streamer::window(
+            exit.clone(),
+            blob_recycler.clone(),
+            blob_receiver,
+            window_sender,
+            retransmit_sender,
+        );
 
         let skel = obj.clone();
         let t_server = spawn(move || loop {
-            let e = AccountantSkel::replicate(
-                &skel,
-                &verified_receiver,
-                &blob_sender,
-                &blob_recycler,
-            );
+            let e = Self::replicate_state(&skel, &window_receiver, &blob_sender, &blob_recycler);
             if e.is_err() && exit.load(Ordering::Relaxed) {
                 break;
             }
         });
-        Ok(vec![t_receiver, t_responder, t_server, t_verifier])
+        Ok(vec![t_blob_receiver, t_retransmit, t_window, t_server])
     }
-
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]