* les: detailed relative cost metrics

* les: filter txpool relative request statistic

* les: initialize price factors

* les: increased connected bias to lower churn rate

* les: fixed clientPool.setLimits

* core: do not use mutex in GetAncestor

* les: bump factor db version again

* les: add metrics

* les, light: minor fixes

* all: implement simple checkpoint syncing

cmd, les, node: remove callback mechanism

cmd, node: remove callback definition

les: simplify the registrar

les: expose checkpoint rpc services in the light client

les, light: don't store untrusted receipt

cmd, contracts, les: discard stale checkpoint

cmd, contracts/registrar: loose restriction of registeration

cmd, contracts: add replay-protection

all: off-chain multi-signature contract

params: deploy checkpoint contract for rinkeby

cmd/registrar: add raw signing mode for registrar

cmd/registrar, contracts/registrar, les: fixed messages

* cmd/registrar, contracts/registrar: fix lints

* accounts/abi/bind, les: address comments

* cmd, contracts, les, light, params: minor checkpoint sync cleanups

* cmd, eth, les, light: move checkpoint config to config file

* cmd, eth, les, params: address comments

* eth, les, params: address comments

* cmd: polish up the checkpoint admin CLI

* cmd, contracts, params: deploy new version contract

* cmd/checkpoint-admin: add another flag for clef mode signing

* cmd, contracts, les: rename and regen checkpoint oracle with abigen

* all: freezer style syncing

core, eth, les, light: clean up freezer relative APIs

core, eth, les, trie, ethdb, light: clean a bit

core, eth, les, light: add unit tests

core, light: rewrite setHead function

core, eth: fix downloader unit tests

core: add receipt chain insertion test

core: use constant instead of hardcoding table name

core: fix rollback

core: fix setHead

core/rawdb: remove canonical block first and then iterate side chain

core/rawdb, ethdb: add hasAncient interface

eth/downloader: calculate ancient limit via cht first

core, eth, ethdb: lots of fixes

* eth/downloader: print ancient disable log only for fast sync

* all: simplify timestamps to uint64

* tests: update definitions

* clef, faucet, mobile: leftover uint64 fixups

* ethash: fix tests

* graphql: update schema for timestamp

* ethash: remove unused variable

This change

- implements concurrent LES request serving even for a single peer.
- replaces the request cost estimation method with a cost table based on
  benchmarks which gives much more consistent results. Until now the
  allowed number of light peers was just a guess which probably contributed
  a lot to the fluctuating quality of available service. Everything related
  to request cost is implemented in a single object, the 'cost tracker'. It
  uses a fixed cost table with a global 'correction factor'. Benchmark code
  is included and can be run at any time to adapt costs to low-level
  implementation changes.
- reimplements flowcontrol.ClientManager in a cleaner and more efficient
  way, with added capabilities: There is now control over bandwidth, which
  allows using the flow control parameters for client prioritization.
  Target utilization over 100 percent is now supported to model concurrent
  request processing. Total serving bandwidth is reduced during block
  processing to prevent database contention.
- implements an RPC API for the LES servers allowing server operators to
  assign priority bandwidth to certain clients and change prioritized
  status even while the client is connected. The new API is meant for
  cases where server operators charge for LES using an off-protocol mechanism.
- adds a unit test for the new client manager.
- adds an end-to-end test using the network simulator that tests bandwidth
  control functions through the new API.

This change unbreaks the build and removes racy access to
disableCheckFreq. Even though the field is set while holding
the lock, it was read outside of the protected section.

For more information about this light client mode, read
https://hackmd.io/s/HJy7jjZpm

This PR enables the indexers to work in light client mode by
downloading a part of these tries (the Merkle proofs of the last
values of the last known section) in order to be able to add new
values and recalculate subsequent hashes. It also adds CHT data to
NodeInfo.

* core: make current*Block atomic, and accessor functions mutex-free

* core: fix review concerns

* core: fix error in atomic assignment

* core/light: implement atomic getter/setter for headerchain

* les, light: fix CHT trie retrievals

* les, light: minor polishes, test remote CHT retrievals

* les, light: deterministic nodeset rlp, bloombits test skeleton

* les: add an event emission to the les bloombits test

* les: drop dead tester code

This commit reduces database I/O by not writing every state trie to disk.

* core, light: fix chain indexer bug

* light: add new CHT

This PR implements the new LES protocol version extensions:

* new and more efficient Merkle proofs reply format (when replying to
  a multiple Merkle proofs request, we just send a single set of trie
  nodes containing all necessary nodes)
* BBT (BloomBitsTrie) works similarly to the existing CHT and contains
  the bloombits search data to speed up log searches
* GetTxStatusMsg returns the inclusion position or the
  pending/queued/unknown state of a transaction referenced by hash
* an optional signature of new block data (number/hash/td) can be
  included in AnnounceMsg to provide an option for "very light
  clients" (mobile/embedded devices) to skip expensive Ethash check
  and accept multiple signatures of somewhat trusted servers (still a
  lot better than trusting a single server completely and retrieving
  everything through RPC). The new client mode is not implemented in
  this PR, just the protocol extension.

* ethdb: add Putter interface and Has method

* ethdb: improve docs and add IdealBatchSize

* ethdb: remove memory batch lock

Batches are not safe for concurrent use.

* core: use ethdb.Putter for Write* functions

This covers the easy cases.

* core/state: simplify StateSync

* trie: optimize local node check

* ethdb: add ValueSize to Batch

* core: optimize HasHeader check

This avoids one random database read get the block number. For many uses
of HasHeader, the expectation is that it's actually there. Using Has
avoids a load + decode of the value.

* core: write fast sync block data in batches

Collect writes into batches up to the ideal size instead of issuing many
small, concurrent writes.

* eth/downloader: commit larger state batches

Collect nodes into a batch up to the ideal size instead of committing
whenever a node is received.

* core: optimize HasBlock check

This avoids a random database read to get the number.

* core: use numberCache in HasHeader

numberCache has higher capacity, increasing the odds of finding the
header without a database lookup.

* core: write imported block data using a batch

Restore batch writes of state and add blocks, tx entries, receipts to
the same batch. The change also simplifies the miner.

This commit also removes posting of logs when a forked block is imported.

* core: fix DB write error handling

* ethdb: use RLock for Has

* core: fix HasBlock comment

With this commit, core/state's access to the underlying key/value database is
mediated through an interface. Database errors are tracked in StateDB and
returned by CommitTo or the new Error method.

Motivation for this change: We can remove the light client's duplicated copy of
core/state. The light client now supports node iteration, so tracing and storage
enumeration can work with the light client (not implemented in this commit).

* consensus, core, ethstats: use engine specific block beneficiary

* core, eth, les, miner: use explicit beneficiary during mining

This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.

This commit solves several issues concerning the genesis block:

* Genesis/ChainConfig loading was handled by cmd/geth code. This left
  library users in the cold. They could specify a JSON-encoded
  string and overwrite the config, but didn't get any of the additional
  checks performed by geth.
* Decoding and writing of genesis JSON was conflated in
  WriteGenesisBlock. This made it a lot harder to embed the genesis
  block into the forthcoming config file loader. This commit changes
  things so there is a single Genesis type that represents genesis
  blocks. All uses of Write*Genesis* are changed to use the new type
  instead.
* If the chain config supplied by the user was incompatible with the
  current chain (i.e. the chain had already advanced beyond a scheduled
  fork), it got overwritten. This is not an issue in practice because
  previous forks have always had the highest total difficulty. It might
  matter in the future though. The new code reverts the local chain to
  the point of the fork when upgrading configuration.

The change to genesis block data removes compression library
dependencies from package core.