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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

ASAN jobs failed with OOM. Let's reduce RAM usage!

What was done?

This PR touches 2 scopes: running functional tests scope and production nodes.

  • run test nodes with -par=2 -parbls=2 -rpcthreads=2 by default (-30Mb per node, -300 Mbs for some functional tests)
  • run test nodes with -maxsigcachesize=1 by default (-30Mb per node, -300 Mb for some functional tests)
  • warm quorum public key shares on the BLS worker pool (minus one thread for each node, for functional tests and for production nodes)
  • open the masternode connection thread on demand (minus one thread for wallet-less non-masternodes).

How Has This Been Tested?

Run locally while watching memory consumption.

Also, ASAN job succeed for this PR https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/34058535842/job/101627442179?pr=7659, but failed for develop: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/34049601389/job/101534812733 with OOM

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Comment thread src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp
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// The job may reference this manager: ~LLMQContext stops the worker pool before destroying it.
blsWorker.PushJob([this, pQuorum = std::move(pQuorum)]() {

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P1 Badge Keep cache warming from starving BLS verification

When a watcher loads many verification vectors, each quorum adds a long-running warming job to the same FIFO CBLSWorker pool used by AsyncVerifySig; scans can populate up to 64 quorums, so signature, ChainLock, and InstantSend verification submitted afterward cannot run until all earlier warmers finish. The former dedicated thread kept warming off the latency-sensitive verification pool; retain a single outstanding warming task or otherwise prioritize verification work.

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connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch ||
g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport();

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P2 Badge Check whether the wallet is enabled before starting mncon

In a normal wallet-enabled build, WalletInit::HasWalletSupport() is hard-coded to return true even when the node was launched with -disablewallet. Consequently every such non-masternode, non-watcher—including most walletless functional-test nodes—still creates threadOpenMasternodeConnections, so this part of the memory/thread reduction never takes effect; include the runtime -disablewallet state in this condition.

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Quorum cache warming now runs through the BLS worker pool instead of a dedicated queue and thread. An atomic interruption flag stops warming during shutdown. Masternode connection startup is configurable, and wallet support enables it. Bind failures now stop bind initialization. Functional test nodes receive fixed thread counts and a limited signature-cache size.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e4f45

Valid IPv6-only nodes may fail to start, and nodes using wildcard binds may fail to expose their onion service. These configuration regressions should be fixed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LLMQContext
  participant CQuorumManager
  participant CBLSWorker
  participant QuorumCache
  CQuorumManager->>CBLSWorker: Submit quorum warming job
  CBLSWorker->>CQuorumManager: Execute warming job
  CQuorumManager->>QuorumCache: Warm quorum cache
  LLMQContext->>CQuorumManager: InterruptWarming()
  CQuorumManager-->>CBLSWorker: Stop at interruption check
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In `@src/init.cpp`:
- Line 2567: Update the wallet-support condition in the masternode connection
initialization to also require that runtime wallet functionality is enabled,
honoring the existing -disablewallet setting before enabling
m_masternode_connections. Preserve the current compiled-support check via
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Comment thread src/init.cpp Outdated
connOptions.m_active_masternode = node.active_ctx != nullptr;
// wallets may mix with CoinJoin, which connects to the mixing masternode
connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch ||
g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport();

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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  src test

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Gate m_masternode_connections on runtime wallet availability.

HasWalletSupport() indicates compiled wallet support. Repository code checks -disablewallet separately for runtime behavior. A wallet-enabled build with -disablewallet=1 therefore still enables mncon, although a wallet-less build does not. Add the runtime wallet-disabled check before enabling wallet-driven CoinJoin connections.

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In `@src/init.cpp` at line 2567, Update the wallet-support condition in the
masternode connection initialization to also require that runtime wallet
functionality is enabled, honoring the existing -disablewallet setting before
enabling m_masternode_connections. Preserve the current compiled-support check
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Final validation — GLM Flash + Sol

The resource reductions are well scoped, but the unconditional -parbls default breaks functional tests that launch supported pre-v23 binaries. The production changes also leave the masternode connection thread enabled for runtime-disabled wallets and allow bulk cache warming to delay latency-sensitive BLS work.

Source: reviewer 1: glm-5.3-flash (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: glm-5.3-flash (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: gpt-5.6-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-5.6-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-5.6-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

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In `test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py`:
- [BLOCKING] test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py:115-121: Gate -parbls for pre-v23 test binaries
  `TestNode` applies this argument to explicitly versioned previous-release binaries as well as the current binary. Tests such as `wallet_backwards_compatibility.py` launch v21.1.1 and older releases, but `-parbls` was not registered until v23; those older `ArgsManager` implementations reject unknown command-line options as invalid parameters, so the nodes fail before startup. Keep the defaults supported by older releases unconditional and append `-parbls=2` only for v23 or newer binaries.

In `src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp:505-521: Bound background warming on the shared BLS pool
  Each quorum now contributes one job that computes every valid member's public-key share on the same 1–4-thread FIFO `CBLSWorker` pool used for signature verification, quorum-vector construction, aggregation, and DKG contribution verification. A fresh `ScanQuorums()` can enqueue up to `keepOldConnections` warmers—64 for `LLMQ_60_75`—so work submitted afterward remains behind the bulk warming queue, including callers waiting synchronously on BLS futures. The former dedicated thread isolated this background work. Preserve the thread reduction while limiting warming to one outstanding quorum at a time or otherwise prioritizing operational BLS jobs.

In `src/init.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/init.cpp:2566-2567: Use runtime wallet availability to gate mncon
  `HasWalletSupport()` only reports whether wallet support was compiled and always returns true in a wallet-enabled build. It remains true when `-disablewallet` makes `WalletInit::Construct()` return without creating a wallet loader, so non-masternode, non-watcher nodes with runtime-disabled wallets—including most functional-test nodes—still start `threadOpenMasternodeConnections`. At this point `node.wallet_loader` is non-null exactly when wallet functionality was constructed and can require CoinJoin masternode connections.

Comment on lines +115 to 121
"-par=2",
"-parbls=2",
"-rpcthreads=2",
# The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup
# whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each.
"-maxsigcachesize=1",
]

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🔴 Blocking: Gate -parbls for pre-v23 test binaries

TestNode applies this argument to explicitly versioned previous-release binaries as well as the current binary. Tests such as wallet_backwards_compatibility.py launch v21.1.1 and older releases, but -parbls was not registered until v23; those older ArgsManager implementations reject unknown command-line options as invalid parameters, so the nodes fail before startup. Keep the defaults supported by older releases unconditional and append -parbls=2 only for v23 or newer binaries.

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"-par=2",
"-parbls=2",
"-rpcthreads=2",
# The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup
# whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each.
"-maxsigcachesize=1",
]
"-par=2",
"-rpcthreads=2",
# The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup
# whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each.
"-maxsigcachesize=1",
]
if self.version_is_at_least(23000000):
self.args.append("-parbls=2")

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Comment thread src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp
Comment on lines +505 to +521
blsWorker.PushJob([this, pQuorum = std::move(pQuorum)]() {
cxxtimer::Timer t(true);
LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::%s -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s start\n", __func__,
LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s start\n",
std23::to_underlying(pQuorum->params.type), pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->nHeight,
pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->GetBlockHash().ToString());

// when then later some other thread tries to get keys, it will be much faster
for (const auto i : util::irange(pQuorum->members.size())) {
if (m_cache_interrupt) {
break;
if (m_warming_interrupted) {
return;
}
if (pQuorum->qc->validMembers[i]) {
pQuorum->GetPubKeyShare(i);
}
}

LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::%s -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s done. time=%d\n", __func__,
LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s done. time=%d\n",
std23::to_underlying(pQuorum->params.type), pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->nHeight,
pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->GetBlockHash().ToString(), t.count());
}
}

void CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming(CQuorumCPtr pQuorum) const
{
if (pQuorum->HasVerificationVector()) {
LOCK(m_cache_cs);
m_cache_queue.push_back(std::move(pQuorum));
}
});

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🟡 Suggestion: Bound background warming on the shared BLS pool

Each quorum now contributes one job that computes every valid member's public-key share on the same 1–4-thread FIFO CBLSWorker pool used for signature verification, quorum-vector construction, aggregation, and DKG contribution verification. A fresh ScanQuorums() can enqueue up to keepOldConnections warmers—64 for LLMQ_60_75—so work submitted afterward remains behind the bulk warming queue, including callers waiting synchronously on BLS futures. The former dedicated thread isolated this background work. Preserve the thread reduction while limiting warming to one outstanding quorum at a time or otherwise prioritizing operational BLS jobs.

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The validation logic is unchanged compare to develop, only its own thread is gone.
A warming job exists only for quorums this node holds a verification vector for: a masternode has those for the few quorums it is a member of, and only -watchquorums (a debug option) gets one per quorum.
Each job occupies one pool thread for one quorum, so anything pushed after it waits for a thread to free up, not for the whole batch. The pool has no priorities, and emulating the old thread with a single-flight queue would bring back the queue, the mutex and the interrupt this commit removes.

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Still applies (re-reviewed at e4f459d9): Your vector-availability argument narrows the affected workload, and I have corrected the earlier claim about production signature verification using AsyncVerifySig. The non-blocking scheduling concern remains for synchronous quorum/DKG operations: FIFO workers consume earlier queued warmers before later required work, including when a masternode has fetched additional vectors through -llmq-qvvec-sync.

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Comment on lines +2566 to +2567
connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch ||
g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport();

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🟡 Suggestion: Use runtime wallet availability to gate mncon

HasWalletSupport() only reports whether wallet support was compiled and always returns true in a wallet-enabled build. It remains true when -disablewallet makes WalletInit::Construct() return without creating a wallet loader, so non-masternode, non-watcher nodes with runtime-disabled wallets—including most functional-test nodes—still start threadOpenMasternodeConnections. At this point node.wallet_loader is non-null exactly when wallet functionality was constructed and can require CoinJoin masternode connections.

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connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch ||
g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport();
connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch ||
node.wallet_loader != nullptr;

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Resolved (re-reviewed at e4f459d9): Confirmed your replacement: the startup condition now checks node.wallet_loader != nullptr, and WalletInit::Construct() leaves that pointer null when -disablewallet is set. Masternodes and quorum watchers still enable the connection thread independently.

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With the default optinos dashd spawn 38 check-queue workers on 24-core machine and very thread carries about 0.86 MB of thread-local storage (the BLS library keeps its context per thread).
Running functional tests with -j30 and knowing that some tests spawn more than 10 dashd at once, it gives 30 * 38 * 10 = 11Gb overhead for running functional tests.

Running functional tests in limited amount of memory even with -j4 (such as CI with github with 16Gb RAM in total) is benefitial as well, especially for tsan / asan sanitizer which have bunch of extra checks for every allocated byte so performance of these jobs should be improved as weel.

Two threads are enough to keep the check queues and the RPC server genuinely concurrent, so races and lock-order issues stay reachable; anything above that only costs memory. Tests that need a specific count (-par=1 for exact reject reasons, -rpcthreads=1 in interface_rpc) still pass their own value, which comes later on the command line and wins.

Measured with the memory profiler, peak PSS per test, same durations:
feature_protx_version 1212 -> 868 MB, feature_llmq_chainlocks 822 -> 588 MB,
feature_llmq_signing 744 -> 540 MB.
CuckooCache::setup_bytes resizes and zero-fills the signature and script execution cache tables at startup, so every test node carries 32 MiB of resident memory for two caches that stay practically empty on regtest: a standalone dashd drops from 116 MB to 85 MB PSS with the cache set to 1 MiB and still stores 16384 entries per cache.
Measured with the memory profiler on top of the two-thread defaults, peak PSS per test (duration of the test is unchanged):

feature_protx_version 868 -> 552 MB
feature_llmq_chainlocks 588 -> 363 MB
feature_llmq_signing 540 -> 355 MB
CQuorumManager ran a dedicated thread that polled a queue every 100 ms only to precompute the public key shares of freshly built quorums.
That is BLS work with no ordering or latency requirement of its own, so push each quorum as a job to the CBLSWorker pool instead.
One thread less per node (0.9 MB of thread-local storage each while the BLS library keeps its context per thread),
no idle polling, and the queue, its mutex and the interrupt go away with it.

A job only holds a shared_ptr to its quorum, so it needs nothing from the manager and Stop() of the pool drains it on shutdown.
Masternodes, quorum watchers and wallet mixing with CoinJoin creates masternode connections.

Every node started the "mncon" thread though it should be spawn only when needed.
Plain nodes with wallets disabled no longer carry the thread and its 0.9 MB of thread-local storage.
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2630-2631: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve a concrete target for wildcard binds.

When -bind=0.0.0.0 or -bind=[::] is used, this code passes the unspecified address to StartTorControl(). TorController::auth_cb() then emits it as the ADD_ONION target, which must identify a concrete IP:Port listener. Keep DefaultOnionServiceTarget() for wildcard binds, or select a concrete local address.

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In `@src/init.cpp` around lines 2630 - 2631, Update the onion_service_target
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addresses such as 0.0.0.0 and [::] retain a concrete listener target instead of
being passed through as unspecified addresses. Preserve
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Allow startup when either wildcard bind succeeds

When options.bind_on_any is true, InitBinds() attempts both wildcard addresses. -onlynet=ipv6 does not change this path because it limits outbound connections only. If the IPv6 bind succeeds and the IPv4 bind fails, the unconditional return false aborts startup. Preserve the previous behavior: fail only when both wildcard binds fail.

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     if (options.bind_on_any) {
+        bool fBound = false;
         // Don't consider errors to bind on IPv6 "::" fatal because the host OS
         // may not have IPv6 support and the user did not explicitly ask us to
         // bind on that.
         const CService ipv6_any{in6_addr(IN6秋ADDR_ANY_INIT), GetListenPort()}; // ::
-        Bind(ipv6_any, BF_NONE, NetPermissionFlags::None);
+        fBound |= Bind(ipv6_any, BF_NONE, NetPermissionFlags::None);

         struct in_addr inaddr_any;
         inaddr_any.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
         const CService ipv4_any{inaddr_any, GetListenPort()}; // 0.0.0.0
-        if (!Bind(ipv4_any, BF_REPORT_ERROR, NetPermissionFlags::None)) {
+        fBound |= Bind(ipv4_any, fBound ? BF_NONE : BF_REPORT_ERROR, NetPermissionFlags::None);
+        if (!fBound) {
             return false;
         }
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In `@src/net.cpp` around lines 3984 - 3985, Update InitBinds() so the wildcard
bind path with options.bind_on_any succeeds when either the IPv6 or IPv4 Bind
call succeeds, returning failure only after both attempts fail. Preserve the
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In `@src/init.cpp`:
- Around line 2630-2631: Update the onion_service_target selection near
DefaultOnionServiceTarget and StartTorControl so wildcard bind addresses such as
0.0.0.0 and [::] retain a concrete listener target instead of being passed
through as unspecified addresses. Preserve DefaultOnionServiceTarget() for
wildcard binds, while continuing to use the configured vBinds.front() for
concrete binds.

In `@src/net.cpp`:
- Around line 3984-3985: Update InitBinds() so the wildcard bind path with
options.bind_on_any succeeds when either the IPv6 or IPv4 Bind call succeeds,
returning failure only after both attempts fail. Preserve the existing bind
attempts and error-reporting behavior while removing the unconditional failure
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Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)

Verified both Phase-2 findings against head e4f459d. Full-quorum warming introduces head-of-line blocking on the shared BLS pool, including a synchronous recovery path that stalls P2P message processing; the warming commit also misstates its lifetime dependency and shutdown behavior. Verification was source-based; the reviewer's benchmark timings and test results were not independently reproduced.

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-verifier, role: final-verifier)

Review provenance

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6-astra (effort low) — Production changes to quorum public-key-share warming and on-demand masternode networking alter concurrency and thread lifecycles in cryptographic and networking paths, where regressions could disrupt quorum signing, connectivity, or shutdown.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: not run (skipped for throughput: 51 PRs queued, above the 10 limit)
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6-astra — final-verifier; agent astra-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6-astra — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6-astra — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer

🔴 1 blocking | 🟡 1 suggestion(s)

1 additional finding(s) omitted (not in diff).

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In `src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp:510-515: Let required BLS work run between bounded warming batches
  This loop occupies one BLS worker until every valid member's public-key share has been computed. DEFAULT_WORKER_COUNT is one on a two-logical-CPU host, and the pool uses a FIFO queue with no priority or interleaving within a job. NetQuorum::ProcessContribQDATA() calls AggregateSecretKeys() synchronously at net_quorum.cpp:345; that function submits aggregation to this same pool and waits on its future. Consequently, warming another quorum blocks recovery and the P2P message-processing thread even when the recovering quorum already has its verification vector. This affects ordinary masternodes, not just -watchquorums, and a 400-member quorum with a 340-coefficient verification vector entails substantial share-computation work before the worker becomes available. Additional queued warmers extend the delay. The former dedicated warming thread did not impose this queue dependency. Split warming into small resumable batches and bound outstanding warming work so required aggregation and DKG jobs can interleave, with a single-worker regression test.

In `<commit:756fc4fbc7>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:756fc4fbc7>:1: Update the cache-warming commit's lifetime explanation
  Commit 756fc4fbc7ba800464ef1a492cdeb48b4b5b44e3 says a warming job "only holds a shared_ptr to its quorum," "needs nothing from the manager," and that stopping the pool "drains it." The lambda actually captures this and reads the manager's m_warming_interrupted. Its lifetime is protected by ~LLMQContext(), which interrupts warming and stops the worker pool before member destruction. CBLSWorker::Stop() explicitly clears queued work before waiting for running jobs. Reword the commit body to describe these dependencies and distinguish discarded queued jobs from running jobs that are awaited. The implementation already accounts for the lifetime dependency; this is a commit-message correction.

Comment thread src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp
Comment on lines 510 to 515
for (const auto i : util::irange(pQuorum->members.size())) {
if (m_cache_interrupt) {
break;
if (m_warming_interrupted) {
return;
}
if (pQuorum->qc->validMembers[i]) {
pQuorum->GetPubKeyShare(i);

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🔴 Blocking: Let required BLS work run between bounded warming batches

This loop occupies one BLS worker until every valid member's public-key share has been computed. DEFAULT_WORKER_COUNT is one on a two-logical-CPU host, and the pool uses a FIFO queue with no priority or interleaving within a job. NetQuorum::ProcessContribQDATA() calls AggregateSecretKeys() synchronously at net_quorum.cpp:345; that function submits aggregation to this same pool and waits on its future. Consequently, warming another quorum blocks recovery and the P2P message-processing thread even when the recovering quorum already has its verification vector. This affects ordinary masternodes, not just -watchquorums, and a 400-member quorum with a 340-coefficient verification vector entails substantial share-computation work before the worker becomes available. Additional queued warmers extend the delay. The former dedicated warming thread did not impose this queue dependency. Split warming into small resumable batches and bound outstanding warming work so required aggregation and DKG jobs can interleave, with a single-worker regression test.

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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at e4f459d9): I am withdrawing this duplicate blocking item and retaining the shared-pool scheduling concern once, as a non-blocking suggestion. Revalidation confirms added FIFO contention, but does not establish a correctness or protocol-deadline failure warranting a blocker.

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Re-review after discussion — commit e4f459d

Standing review was CHANGES_REQUESTED; this re-review is COMMENT: no blocking findings remain.

Withdrawn blocking finding(s):

  • Let required BLS work run between bounded warming batches

Verified the supplied Phase-2 findings against e4f459d. The shared-pool scheduling concern remains a non-blocking suggestion, and the cache-warming commit message contradicts the implemented lifetime and cancellation behavior. The duplicate blocking finding is withdrawn because the source establishes added contention, not a demonstrated correctness or protocol-deadline failure; this verification used source and history inspection without rerunning tests.

Same commit as the standing review; the inline threads above carry the per-finding outcome. This follow-up exists only to correct the verdict.

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-verifier, role: final-verifier)

Review provenance

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6-astra (effort low) — Moving quorum public-key-share warming onto the BLS worker pool and starting masternode networking on demand changes concurrency and lifecycle behavior in signature and networking paths, where regressions could disrupt quorum operations or node connectivity.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: not run (skipped for throughput: 38 PRs queued, above the 10 limit)
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6-astra — final-verifier; agent astra-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6-astra — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6-astra — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer

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