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eth/downloader: remove header rollback mechanism #28147

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This pull request removes the rollback mechanism in downloader.

Originally, this mechanism is tailored for Proof-of-Work consensus engine, which does PoW verification randomly. Therefore, whenever sync process exits abnormally, a part of tip headers will be removed for safety consideration.

In terms of Proof-of-Stake(also for Proof-of-Authority), each header is verified one by one, there is no reason to rewind the written headers which are certainly valid.

And another big reason for removing this additional mechanism is: inside of Rollback, the genesis state may be committed. It results in a weird scenario that persistent state is both modified by the Rollback function and also the state syncer. The concurrent state write will result in a corrupted state eventually, should be avoided in the first place.

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Deployed on both 7/8, let's see what happpens

@karalabe karalabe added this to the 1.13.2 milestone Sep 26, 2023
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SGTM

@fjl fjl changed the title eth/downloader: remove rollback mechanism in downloader eth/downloader: remove header rollback mechanism Sep 26, 2023
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fjl commented Sep 26, 2023

Need to delete the tests as well.

@karalabe karalabe merged commit b85c183 into ethereum:master Sep 26, 2023
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* eth/downloader: remove rollback mechanism in downloader

* eth/downloader: remove the tests
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* eth/downloader: remove rollback mechanism in downloader

* eth/downloader: remove the tests
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* eth/downloader: remove rollback mechanism in downloader

* eth/downloader: remove the tests
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* eth/downloader: remove rollback mechanism in downloader

* eth/downloader: remove the tests
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