* Spawn QUIC server to receive forwarded txs
* Update validator port range
* forward votes using UDP
* no forwarding from unstaked nodes
* forwarding stats in banking stage
* fix test builds
* fix lifetime of forward sender
Bytes past Packet.meta.size are not valid to read from.
The commit makes the buffer field private and instead provides two
methods:
* Packet::data() which returns an immutable reference to the underlying
buffer up to Packet.meta.size. The rest of the buffer is not valid to
read from.
* Packet::buffer_mut() which returns a mutable reference to the entirety
of the underlying buffer to write into. The caller is responsible to
update Packet.meta.size after writing to the buffer.
Upcoming changes to PacketBatch to support variable sized packets will
modify the internals of PacketBatch. So, this change removes usage of
the internal packet struct and instead uses accessors (which are
currently just wrappers of Vector functions but will change down the
road).
* Increase connection timeouts
* Bump quic connection cache to 1024
* Use constant for quic connection timeout and add warm cache service
* Fixes to QUIC warmup service
* fix check failure
* fixes after rebase
* fix timeout test
Co-authored-by: Pankaj Garg <pankaj@solana.com>
* Add quic-client module to send transactions via quic, abstracted behind the TpuConnection trait (along with a legacy UDP implementation of TpuConnection) and change thin-client to use TpuConnection