Merge pull request #9875 from ziggie1984/fix-peer-connection-2

discovery: make sure we do not block the read queue

discovery/gossiper.go

@@ -860,8 +860,6 @@ func (d *AuthenticatedGossiper) stop() {
 func (d *AuthenticatedGossiper) ProcessRemoteAnnouncement(ctx context.Context,
 	msg lnwire.Message, peer lnpeer.Peer) chan error {
 
-	log.Debugf("Processing remote msg %T from peer=%x", msg, peer.PubKey())
-
 	errChan := make(chan error, 1)
 
 	// For messages in the known set of channel series queries, we'll

discovery/syncer.go

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ const (
 	requestBatchSize = 500
 
 	// syncerBufferSize is the size of the syncer's buffers.
-	syncerBufferSize = 5
+	syncerBufferSize = 50
 )
 
 var (

docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.19.1.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 # Bug Fixes
 
-* [Fix a serialisation bug](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9856) 
+- [Fix a serialisation bug](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9856) 
   that would occur when an attempt was made to write a backup file for a channel 
   peer that has advertised an address that we do not yet know how to parse. 
 
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
 
 ## Functional Enhancements
 
+- [Increase](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9875) gossip sync
+  buffer to take the pressure of the read handler.
+
 ## RPC Additions
 
 ## lncli Additions

peer/brontide.go

@@ -1995,9 +1995,32 @@ func newDiscMsgStream(p *Brontide) *msgStream {
 		// so that a parent context can be passed in here.
 		ctx := context.TODO()
 
-		// TODO(yy): `ProcessRemoteAnnouncement` returns an error chan
+		p.log.Debugf("Processing remote msg %T", msg)
-		// and we need to process it.
+
-		p.cfg.AuthGossiper.ProcessRemoteAnnouncement(ctx, msg, p)
+		errChan := p.cfg.AuthGossiper.ProcessRemoteAnnouncement(
+			ctx, msg, p,
+		)
+
+		// Start a goroutine to process the error channel for logging
+		// purposes.
+		//
+		// TODO(ziggie): Maybe use the error to potentially punish the
+		// peer depending on the error ?
+		go func() {
+			select {
+			case <-p.cg.Done():
+				return
+
+			case err := <-errChan:
+				if err != nil {
+					p.log.Warnf("Error processing remote "+
+						"msg %T: %v", msg,
+						err)
+				}
+			}
+
+			p.log.Debugf("Processed remote msg %T", msg)
+		}()
 	}
 
 	return newMsgStream(