W. J. van der Laan 21998bc028
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22284: p2p, refactor: performance improvements to ProtectEvictionCandidatesByRatio()
b1d905c225e87a4a289c0cd3593c6c21cea3fba7 p2p: earlier continuation when no remaining eviction candidates (Vasil Dimov)
c9e8d8f9b168dec2bc7b845da38449e96708cf8e p2p: process more candidates per protection iteration (Jon Atack)
02e411ec456af80d1da76085a814c68bb3aca6de p2p: iterate eviction protection only on networks having candidates (Jon Atack)
5adb06457403f8c1d874e9c6748ecbb78ef8fa2b bench: add peer eviction protection benchmarks (Jon Atack)
566357f8f7471f74729297868917aa32f6d3c390 refactor: move GetRandomNodeEvictionCandidates() to test utilities (Jon Atack)

Pull request description:

  This follow-up to #21261 improves `ProtectEvictionCandidatesByRatio()` for better performance.

  Benchmarks are added; the performance improvement is between 2x and 5x for the benchmarked cases (CPU 2.50GHz, Turbo off, performance mode, Debian Clang 11 non-debug build).

  ```
  $ ./src/bench/bench_bitcoin -filter="EvictionProtection*.*"
  ```

  The refactored code is well-covered by existing unit tests and also a fuzzer.

  - `$ ./src/test/test_bitcoin -t net_peer_eviction_tests`
  - `$ FUZZ=node_eviction ./src/test/fuzz/fuzz ../qa-assets/fuzz_seed_corpus/node_eviction`

ACKs for top commit:
  klementtan:
    Tested and code review ACK b1d905c2.
  vasild:
    ACK b1d905c225e87a4a289c0cd3593c6c21cea3fba7
  jarolrod:
    ACK b1d905c225e87a4a289c0cd3593c6c21cea3fba7

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin