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What changed

  • Batch consecutive replicated transactions behind block, superblock, reset, and reconnect fences, with verification assigned through a zero-capacity handoff.
  • Add Engine-owned batch verification that produces opaque verified transactions for scheduling without repeated signature checks.
  • Move TCP connection, reconnection, and snapshot work into Ingest while Control retains ordered barrier and cursor coordination.

Closes #77

Impact

Replication catch-up can batch Ed25519 verification across up to 128 transactions and typically 128 KiB while preserving sanitization, authority checks, transaction order, control fences, and terminal invalid-batch behavior. Normal submissions and PR #76's trusted local replay path are unchanged.

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The critical invariant is the rendezvous stream: Ingest is the only producer, flushes before control entries, and blocks after local verification; Control completely verifies or schedules each message before receiving the next. Reconnect cursor selection remains behind a Control-held Engine barrier until Ingest reports Connected.

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The engine adds authority-bound batch verification for replicated transactions and a trusted accessor for verified data. The replicator now uses bounded ingest batches, separate ingest and control execution, ordered handoff, reconnect coordination, explicit reset handling, and block-hash mismatch errors. Snapshot staging reuses the engine superblock manager. An integration test verifies ordering across a 129-transaction catch-up block and the following live block.

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The replication lifecycle changes leave a shutdown-path risk: joining can wait without first cancelling ingestion, while an ingestion panic may be reported as a normal shutdown. This can delay termination and hide failures, so the PR needs explicit owner acceptance or a fix before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: batching signature verification for replication.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains batched replication verification, trust boundaries, ordering, reconnect behavior, and performance impact.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #77 by batching verification, preserving authority checks, ordering, fences, reconnect behavior, and opaque verified transactions.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #77, including supporting reconnect, snapshot, handshake, and stream-coordination behavior required for replication.
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (5)
replicator/src/client.rs (2)

261-266: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the unreachable Transaction arm explicit.

Ingest::run routes every OwnedBlockstoreEntry::Transaction into the batch, so process never receives one. The current arm discards it silently. If a later change sends a transaction entry through the control path, the follower drops a ledger entry without any signal, and the transaction counts diverge. Return an internal error or add a debug_assert! instead of ignoring the value.

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In `@replicator/src/client.rs` around lines 261 - 266, Update the
OwnedBlockstoreEntry::Transaction arm in process to make this unreachable case
explicit instead of silently discarding the entry, using an internal error
return or debug assertion while preserving normal Reset handling and successful
completion for valid inputs.

321-335: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Give flush a return type that distinguishes a closed channel from an invalid batch.

flush returns bool, and Ingest::run maps false to return Ok(()). Three different outcomes collapse into that one value:

  • Control dropped the receiver, which is a graceful stop.
  • The local verification failed, which is a terminal admission failure.
  • The handoff of the Verified message failed.

For an invalid batch, ingest therefore reports success, and only consume surfaces the error through the Verified(Err(..)) message. The terminal outcome then depends on the control loop still processing that message. A small enum or a Result<bool> makes the terminal case explicit at the ingest exit point.

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In `@replicator/src/client.rs` around lines 321 - 335, Update Client::flush to
return a result type that distinguishes successful flushing, closed-channel
shutdown, invalid-batch verification, and failed verified-message handoff.
Adjust Ingest::run to handle each outcome explicitly, preserving graceful
termination for a dropped receiver while propagating verification and handoff
failures as terminal errors instead of mapping them to success.

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engine/src/transaction.rs (2)

108-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Report an authority mismatch with a distinct error.

validate_authority returns EngineError::SignatureVerification, whose message is "transaction signature verification failed". An authority mismatch is an admission failure, not a signature failure. The current message misdirects operators who read the terminal replication error. Consider a dedicated variant such as EngineError::UnauthorizedAuthority.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@engine/src/transaction.rs` around lines 108 - 112, Update validate_authority
so the Magicblock static-account authority mismatch returns a dedicated
EngineError variant such as UnauthorizedAuthority instead of
SignatureVerification, and define or reuse that variant with an appropriate
admission-failure message.

45-51: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a per-transaction retry when the batch verification fails.

Signature::batch_verify returns one boolean for the whole batch. The caller in replicator/src/client.rs treats EngineError::SignatureVerification as terminal, so one bad signature stops the follower with no indication of which transaction failed. A fallback loop over sigverify on the failure path costs nothing on the success path and names the offending transaction in the log.

♻️ Proposed diagnostic fallback
         if !Signature::batch_verify(signatures.into_iter()) {
+            // Identify the offending transaction before failing the batch.
+            for transaction in &verified {
+                if let Err(error) = sigverify(&transaction.0) {
+                    let signature = transaction.0.signatures()[0];
+                    error!(%signature, "replicated transaction failed verification");
+                    return Err(error);
+                }
+            }
             return Err(EngineError::SignatureVerification);
         }
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In `@engine/src/transaction.rs` around lines 45 - 51, In the transaction
verification flow, retain the existing batch verification fast path, but when
Signature::batch_verify fails, retry each verified transaction individually with
sigverify, identify the transaction whose signature fails, and log that
transaction before returning EngineError::SignatureVerification.
replicator/tests/integration.rs (1)

266-330: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the invalid-batch path.

This test covers the ordering and fence behavior of a batch split. Two new behaviors stay uncovered:

  • A batch that contains an invalid signature must stop the follower. TransactionVerifier::verify rejects the whole batch, and consume treats that as terminal. No test asserts this terminal outcome.
  • The ingest-side fallback in Ingest::flush runs only when control is busy at the moment of try_send. This test cannot force that timing, so the fallback path may never execute in CI.

A test that streams one tampered transaction payload and asserts the follower terminates with EngineError::SignatureVerification covers the first case cheaply.

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In `@replicator/tests/integration.rs` around lines 266 - 330, Add a focused
integration test for the invalid-batch path near
batches_transactions_without_crossing_block_boundaries: stream one tampered
transaction payload to the follower, then assert replication terminates with
EngineError::SignatureVerification. Do not alter the existing ordering and
block-fence assertions; the test should specifically exercise
TransactionVerifier::verify rejection and consume’s terminal outcome.
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Inline comments:
In `@replicator/README.md`:
- Around line 57-58: Update the README statement about control advancing the
engine to distinguish scheduling transactions and advancing the block pacer from
ingest-side engine work. State that Ingest::stage_snapshot may write the
snapshot archive and bootstrap durable superblock state during the control-held
handshake, and that Ingest::flush performs verification, while preserving the
stream-ordering claim.

In `@replicator/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 296-302: The replication stream must not reconnect for idle read
timeouts: in the ReadError::Io branch, detect TimedOut and WouldBlock errors and
continue waiting on the existing stream without calling flush or open. Preserve
the current reconnect behavior for other I/O failures.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@engine/src/transaction.rs`:
- Around line 108-112: Update validate_authority so the Magicblock
static-account authority mismatch returns a dedicated EngineError variant such
as UnauthorizedAuthority instead of SignatureVerification, and define or reuse
that variant with an appropriate admission-failure message.
- Around line 45-51: In the transaction verification flow, retain the existing
batch verification fast path, but when Signature::batch_verify fails, retry each
verified transaction individually with sigverify, identify the transaction whose
signature fails, and log that transaction before returning
EngineError::SignatureVerification.

In `@replicator/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 261-266: Update the OwnedBlockstoreEntry::Transaction arm in
process to make this unreachable case explicit instead of silently discarding
the entry, using an internal error return or debug assertion while preserving
normal Reset handling and successful completion for valid inputs.
- Around line 321-335: Update Client::flush to return a result type that
distinguishes successful flushing, closed-channel shutdown, invalid-batch
verification, and failed verified-message handoff. Adjust Ingest::run to handle
each outcome explicitly, preserving graceful termination for a dropped receiver
while propagating verification and handoff failures as terminal errors instead
of mapping them to success.

In `@replicator/tests/integration.rs`:
- Around line 266-330: Add a focused integration test for the invalid-batch path
near batches_transactions_without_crossing_block_boundaries: stream one tampered
transaction payload to the follower, then assert replication terminates with
EngineError::SignatureVerification. Do not alter the existing ordering and
block-fence assertions; the test should specifically exercise
TransactionVerifier::verify rejection and consume’s terminal outcome.
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Actionable comments posted: 2

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replicator/src/client.rs (1)

255-265: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Report the diverging block hashes on the mismatch path.

ReplayError::BlockhashMismatch carries only the slot. The superblock arm logs expected and observed and records metrics::client_state_mismatch(). A block-hash divergence is now terminal, so keep the same diagnostics for it.

♻️ Suggested change
                 if block != observed {
+                    error!(?block, ?observed, "replicated block hash mismatch detected");
                     let error = ReplayError::BlockhashMismatch(block.slot);
                     Err(EngineError::from(error))?;
                 }
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In `@replicator/src/client.rs` around lines 255 - 265, Update the
OwnedBlockstoreEntry::Block mismatch path to log both expected and observed
block hashes and record metrics::client_state_mismatch(), matching the
superblock arm’s diagnostics before returning the terminal
ReplayError::BlockhashMismatch.
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In `@replicator/README.md`:
- Line 53: Update the follower shutdown description in the README to state that
Control joins Ingest, while the replication-client thread is dropped by
ReplicationClient::spawn and ends through shutdown management; do not claim that
the client thread is joined.

In `@replicator/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 185-191: Update the join path around consume and ingest.join:
cancel the child ingest token immediately after consume returns and before
joining, so reconnect backoff exits promptly; convert an Err from ingest.join
into a failure result instead of leaving result successful, using the shutdown
error variant consistent with the existing policy (with StreamClosed as the
nearest available option).

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@replicator/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 255-265: Update the OwnedBlockstoreEntry::Block mismatch path to
log both expected and observed block hashes and record
metrics::client_state_mismatch(), matching the superblock arm’s diagnostics
before returning the terminal ReplayError::BlockhashMismatch.
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