[FAB-3525] Fix config block retrieval

Upon startup peer was scanning all blocks for each
channel's config block. This was extremely
inefficient for large chains.
This change navigates directly to the config block
based on the last block's metadata which has a pointer
to the last config block.

Change-Id: Ia570f4d64df135e99a24a4206006bb969c7e4476
Signed-off-by: David Enyeart <enyeart@us.ibm.com>

Author: denyeart

core/peer/peer.go

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package peer
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"math"
 	"net"
 	"sync"
 
@@ -145,41 +144,32 @@ func InitChain(cid string) {
 }
 
 func getCurrConfigBlockFromLedger(ledger ledger.PeerLedger) (*common.Block, error) {
-	// Config blocks contain only 1 transaction, so we look for 1-tx
-	// blocks and check the transaction type
-	var envelope *common.Envelope
-	var tx *common.Payload
-	var block *common.Block
-	var err error
-	var currBlockNumber uint64 = math.MaxUint64
-	for currBlockNumber >= 0 {
-		if block, err = ledger.GetBlockByNumber(currBlockNumber); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		if block.Data != nil && len(block.Data.Data) == 1 {
-			if envelope, err = utils.ExtractEnvelope(block, 0); err != nil {
-				peerLogger.Warning("Failed to get Envelope from Block %d.", block.Header.Number)
-				currBlockNumber = block.Header.Number - 1
-				continue
-			}
-			if tx, err = utils.ExtractPayload(envelope); err != nil {
-				peerLogger.Warning("Failed to get Payload from Block %d.", block.Header.Number)
-				currBlockNumber = block.Header.Number - 1
-				continue
-			}
-			chdr, err := utils.UnmarshalChannelHeader(tx.Header.ChannelHeader)
-			if err != nil {
-				peerLogger.Warning("Failed to get ChannelHeader from Block %d, error %s.", block.Header.Number, err)
-				currBlockNumber = block.Header.Number - 1
-				continue
-			}
-			if chdr.Type == int32(common.HeaderType_CONFIG) {
-				return block, nil
-			}
-		}
-		currBlockNumber = block.Header.Number - 1
+	peerLogger.Debugf("Getting config block")
+
+	// get last block.  Last block number is Height-1
+	blockchainInfo, err := ledger.GetBlockchainInfo()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to find config block.")
+	lastBlock, err := ledger.GetBlockByNumber(blockchainInfo.Height - 1)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// get most recent config block location from last block metadata
+	configBlockIndex, err := utils.GetLastConfigIndexFromBlock(lastBlock)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// get most recent config block
+	configBlock, err := ledger.GetBlockByNumber(configBlockIndex)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	peerLogger.Debugf("Got config block[%d]", configBlockIndex)
+	return configBlock, nil
 }
 
 // createChain creates a new chain object and insert it into the chains

core/peer/peer_test.go

@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ func TestCreateChainFromBlock(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get correct ledger")
 	}
 
-	// Config block from ledger
+	// Get config block from ledger
 	block, err = getCurrConfigBlockFromLedger(ledger)
+	assert.NoError(t, err, "Failed to get config block from ledger")
+	assert.NotNil(t, block, "Config block should not be nil")
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(0), block.Header.Number, "config block should have been block 0")
 
 	// Bad ledger
 	ledger = GetLedger("BogusChain")