* cmd, consensus, eth, les: implement light fetcher

* les: address comment

* les: address comment

* les: address comments

* les: check td after delivery

* les: add linearExpiredValue for error counter

* les: fix import

* les: fix dead lock

* les: order announces by td

* les: encapsulate invalid counter

* les: address comment

* les: add more checks during the delivery

* les: fix log

* eth, les: fix lint

* eth/fetcher: address comment

* cmd, core, eth, light, trie: dump clean cache periodically

* eth: update config

* trie: minor fix

* core, trie: address comments

* eth: remove useless

* trie: print clean cache dump start too

Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>

deps: update uint256 to v1.1.1

core: fix queued transaction eviction

core: address comment

Solves issue#20582. Non-executable transactions should not be evicted on each tick if there are no promote transactions or if a pending/reset empties the pending list. Tests and logging expanded to handle these cases in the future.

core/tx_pool: use a ts for each tx in the queue, but only update the heartbeat on promotion or pending replaced

queuedTs proper naming

* eth/downloader: refactor downloader + queue

downloader, fetcher: throttle-metrics, fetcher filter improvements, standalone resultcache

downloader: more accurate deliverytime calculation, less mem overhead in state requests

downloader/queue: increase underlying buffer of results, new throttle mechanism

eth/downloader: updates to tests

eth/downloader: fix up some review concerns

eth/downloader/queue: minor fixes

eth/downloader: minor fixes after review call

eth/downloader: testcases for queue.go

eth/downloader: minor change, don't set progress unless progress...

eth/downloader: fix flaw which prevented useless peers from being dropped

eth/downloader: try to fix tests

eth/downloader: verify non-deliveries against advertised remote head

eth/downloader: fix flaw with checking closed-status causing hang

eth/downloader: hashing avoidance

eth/downloader: review concerns + simplify resultcache and queue

eth/downloader: add back some locks, address review concerns

downloader/queue: fix remaining lock flaw

* eth/downloader: nitpick fixes

* eth/downloader: remove the *2*3/4 throttling threshold dance

* eth/downloader: print correct throttle threshold in stats

Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>

This fixes the iOS framework build by naming the second parameter of the
Signer interface method. The name is important because it becomes part
of the objc method signature.

Fixes #21340

* geth,utils: implement configurable developer account options

Prior to this change --dev (developer) mode
generated one account with an empty password,
irrespective of existing --password and --miner.etherbase
options.

This change makes --dev mode compatible with these
existing flags.

--dev mode may now be used in conjunction with
--password and --miner.etherbase flags to configure
the developer faucet using an existing keystore or
in creating a new account.

Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>

* main: remove key/pass flags from usage developer section

These flags are included already in other sections,
and it is not desired to duplicate them.

They were originally included in this section
along with added support for these flags in the
developer mode.

Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>

cmd/utils: reuse existing genesis in persistent dev mode

Fixes #21175

Co-authored-by: sammy007 <sammy007@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Schmideg <adamschmideg@users.noreply.github.com>

core/vm: use pointers to operations vs. copy by value

* internal, accounts: fix funding check when estimate gas

* accounts, internal: address comments

ethstats: fix reconnection issue, implement primus pings

* Set gasLimit in --dev mode to be 9m.

* core: Set gasLimit to 11.5 milion and add 1 wei allocation for BLAKE2b

* core/vm/runtime/tests: add more benchmarks

* core/vm: initial work on improving alloc count for calls to precompiles

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6     117ms ±75%      43ms ± 1%  -63.09%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   79.6ms ± 4%    70.5ms ± 1%  -11.42%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    24.4MB ± 0%     4.9MB ± 0%  -79.94%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 0%    13.2kB ± 0%     ~     (p=0.357 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6      382k ± 0%      153k ± 0%  -59.99%  (p=0.000 n=5+4)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* core/vm: don't allocate big.int for touch

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    43.3ms ± 1%    42.4ms ± 7%     ~     (p=0.151 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   70.5ms ± 1%    76.7ms ± 1%   +8.67%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    4.90MB ± 0%    2.46MB ± 0%  -49.83%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 0%    13.2kB ± 1%     ~     (p=0.571 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6      153k ± 0%       76k ± 0%  -49.98%  (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* core/vm: reduce allocs in staticcall

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    42.4ms ± 7%    37.5ms ± 6%  -11.68%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   76.7ms ± 1%    69.1ms ± 1%   -9.82%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    2.46MB ± 0%    0.02MB ± 0%  -99.35%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 1%    13.2kB ± 0%     ~     (p=0.143 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6     76.4k ± 0%      0.1k ± 0%     ~     (p=0.079 n=4+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* trie: better use of hasher keccakState

* core/state/statedb: reduce allocations in getDeletedStateObject

* core/vm: reduce allocations in all call derivates

* core/vm: reduce allocations in call variants

- Make returnstack `uint32`
- Use a `sync.Pool` of `stack`s

* core/vm: fix tests

* core/vm: goimports

* core/vm: tracer fix + staticcall gas fix

* core/vm: add back snapshot to staticcall

* core/vm: review concerns + make returnstack pooled + enable returndata in traces

* core/vm: fix some test tracer method signatures

* core/vm: run gencodec, minor comment polish

Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>

* core: added local tx pool test case

* core, crypto: various allocation savings regarding tx handling

* core/txlist, txpool: save a reheap operation, avoid some bigint allocs

Co-authored-by: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>

This fixes a corner case in discv5. The issue cannot happen in discv4
because it performs IP checks on all incoming node information.

* modify code owners

* add marius

This change introduces garbage collection for the light client. Historical
chain data is deleted periodically. If you want to disable the GC, use
the --light.nopruning flag.