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gui: Optimize locks to improve responsiveness #2137

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These changes skip periodic update intervals with conditional locking and optimize how the GUI determines the "mined" type of a coinstake transaction (#1390). The GetGeneratedType() function was called from presentation routines on the Qt side that did not expect synchronization with the core wallet state. The PR reorganizes the look-ups to avoid the cs_main locks if a node is busy with another operation. This avoids GUI sluggishness for recurring updates of the overview and transaction history pages from core state and prevents the long-running polls reload on the voting page from bricking the GUI thread. More optimizations for poll performance will come with caching in a later PR.

This change skips update intervals when the GUI cannot obtain a lock
for "cs_main". It avoids stalling the GUI thread when a long-running
operation holds the mutex for:

 - The overview page refresh
 - The researcher context refresh
This optimizes how the GUI determines the "mined" type of a coinstake
transaction. It reorganizes the lookups to avoid the cs_main locks if
the node is busy with another operation. This prevents GUI stalls for
routine updates of the overview and history pages from core state. It
prevents the long-running polls load on the voting page from bricking
the GUI thread.
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utACK. Good changes here.

@jamescowens jamescowens merged commit 5a99e4c into gridcoin-community:development May 19, 2021
@cyrossignol cyrossignol deleted the gui-locks branch May 19, 2021 03:26
jamescowens added a commit to jamescowens/Gridcoin-Research that referenced this pull request Aug 1, 2021
Added
 - util, rpc. gui: Changes for snapshotdownload and add feature sync from zero gridcoin-community#2093 (@iFoggz)
 - gui: Implement GUI version of consolidateunspent (coin control part) gridcoin-community#2111 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Implement consolidateunspent wizard gridcoin-community#2125 (@jamescowens)
 - qt: Add antialiasing to traffic graph widget gridcoin-community#2150 (@barton2526)
 - util: Port of ArgsManager and a significant subset of src/util gridcoin-community#2146 (@jamescowens)
 - doc: add issue templates for bug reports and feature requests gridcoin-community#2147 (@Pythonix)
 - gui, rpc: Implement dynamic stakesplitting control, settings changes via rpc, and dynamic changes to sidestaking via rpc gridcoin-community#2164 (@jamescowens)
 - rpc: Implement getblocksbatch gridcoin-community#2205 (@jamescowens)
 - voting, rpc, gui: Implement demand loading of historical poll by poll id and AVW calculation gridcoin-community#2210 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Show GUI error dialog if command line parsing fails gridcoin-community#2218 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Implement close confirmation. gridcoin-community#2216 (@denravonska)
 - build: Use -fstack-reuse=none gridcoin-community#2232 (@barton2526)

Changed
 - doc: Update build doc gridcoin-community#2078 (@iFoggz)
 - gui: Normalize button and input control appearance gridcoin-community#2096 (@cyrossignol)
 - consensus: Implement GetMinimumRequiredConnectionsForStaking gridcoin-community#2097 (@jamescowens)
 - refactor: move CTransaction to primitives gridcoin-community#2006 (@div72)
 - consensus, refactor, test: Merkle gridcoin-community#2094 (@div72)
 - gui: Update diagnostics gridcoin-community#2095 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Refresh UI styles and sidebar/statusbar design gridcoin-community#2102 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Set standard base Qt style on Windows and macOS gridcoin-community#2114 (@cyrossignol)
 - build, refactor: bump to C++17 gridcoin-community#2113 (@div72)
 - util, rpc, gui: Implement GetMaxInputsForConsolidationTxn() gridcoin-community#2119 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Refresh overview page design gridcoin-community#2117 (@cyrossignol)
 - depends: change boost mirror gridcoin-community#2122 (@div72)
 - refactor: small cleanup gridcoin-community#2123 (@div72)
 - build: Update depends Qt recipe to version 5.12.10 gridcoin-community#2129 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: Bump Codespell to 2.0.0 gridcoin-community#2135 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Refresh "send coins" page design gridcoin-community#2126 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Optimize locks to improve responsiveness gridcoin-community#2137 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Refresh "receive payment" page design gridcoin-community#2138 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Add empty placeholder to recent transactions list gridcoin-community#2140 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Refresh transaction history page design gridcoin-community#2143 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Refresh address book page design gridcoin-community#2145 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Update http to https where possible gridcoin-community#2148 (@barton2526)
 - depends: Update dependencies gridcoin-community#2153 (@barton2526)
 - depends: Bump python to 3.6 gridcoin-community#2159 (@barton2526)
 - test: Update cppcheck linter to c++17 gridcoin-community#2157 (@barton2526)
 - test: Drop Travis specific workarounds, Mention commit id in error, Fix typos, Update spellcheck ignore words gridcoin-community#2158 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Overhaul the voting UI gridcoin-community#2151 (@cyrossignol)
 - wallet: simplify nTimeSmart calculation gridcoin-community#2144 (@div72)
 - gui: Refresh checkbox and radio button styles gridcoin-community#2170 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: Bump libevent to 2.1.11 gridcoin-community#2172 (@barton2526)
 - build: Update native_mac_alias, Remove big sur patch file in qt recipe gridcoin-community#2173 (@barton2526)
 - docs: Misc Grammar gridcoin-community#2176 (@barton2526)
 - build: miniupnpc 2.2.2 gridcoin-community#2179 (@barton2526)
 - rpc: Refresh rainbymagnitude gridcoin-community#2163 (@jamescowens)
 - util: optimize HexStr gridcoin-community#2185 (@div72)
 - refactor: misc style changes gridcoin-community#2177 (@div72)
 - rpc: consolidatemsunspent changes. gridcoin-community#2136 (@iFoggz)
 - refactor: Replace "GlobalStatus" state management gridcoin-community#2183 (@cyrossignol)
 - rpc, util: Remove use of ArgsManager::NETWORK_ONLY for now gridcoin-community#2190 (@jamescowens)
 - doc: Replace hidden service with onion service, Capitalize "Tor" gridcoin-community#2193 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Update Qt Linguist localization files gridcoin-community#2192 (@cyrossignol)
 - script: Shell script cleanups gridcoin-community#2195 (@barton2526)
 - build: set minimum required Boost to 1.58.0 gridcoin-community#2194 (@barton2526)
 - build, util: Prevent execution for Windows versions less than Windows 7 gridcoin-community#2203 (@jamescowens)
 - build: Tweak NSIS Windows installer gridcoin-community#2204 (@jamescowens)
 - build: Add bison in depends gridcoin-community#2206 (@iFoggz)
 - build: macOS toolchain bump gridcoin-community#2207 (@div72)
 - doc: Update build-unix.md gridcoin-community#2212 (@springfielddatarecovery)
 - build: Bump minimum python version to 3.6, Remove python2 references gridcoin-community#2219 (@barton2526)
 - depends: Change openSSL source path to Github gridcoin-community#2237 (@barton2526)
 - doc: Fix typo in bug report template gridcoin-community#2243 (@jamescowens)
 - ci: fold depends output gridcoin-community#2244 (@div72)

Removed
 - wallet: remove dead hardcoded addnodes gridcoin-community#2116 (@sweede-se)
 - rpc: Remove readconfig gridcoin-community#2248 (@jamescowens)
 - rpc: Remove obsolete comparesnapshotaccrual RPC function gridcoin-community#2100 (@jamescowens)
 - rpc: Remove memorypool RPC Command gridcoin-community#2214 (@RoboticMind)
 - rpc: Remove deprecated RPC commands gridcoin-community#2101 (@jamescowens)
 - Remove CCT from README, add Discord gridcoin-community#2134 (@barton2526)
 - refactor: Remove obsolete pubsub method definitions gridcoin-community#2191 (@barton2526)
 - refactor: Remove msMiningErrorsIncluded & msMiningErrorsExcluded gridcoin-community#2215 (@RoboticMind)
 - qt: Remove obsolete topLevelWidget(), Remove obsolete QRegExpValidator gridcoin-community#2198 (@barton2526)
 - net: Drop support of the insecure miniUPnPc versions gridcoin-community#2178 (@barton2526)
 - log: remove deprecated db log category gridcoin-community#2201 (@barton2526)
 - doc: Remove CCT from README and release process docs gridcoin-community#2175 (@barton2526)
 - build: Remove travis references gridcoin-community#2156 (@barton2526)

Fixed
 - gui: Fix macOS and designer font sizes gridcoin-community#2098 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Have the TrafficGraphWidget respect the selected stylesheet. gridcoin-community#2107 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix macOS display inconsistencies gridcoin-community#2106 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix RPC console auto-complete background color gridcoin-community#2108 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Avoid reloading redundant stylesheets gridcoin-community#2109 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix "no active beacon" status gridcoin-community#2110 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix dark theme link text color visibility gridcoin-community#2115 (@cyrossignol)
 - scraper, util, qt: Fix several deprecations and warnings gridcoin-community#2131 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix duplicate time in GUIUtil::dateTimeStr() gridcoin-community#2139 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix debug console traffic graph legend colors gridcoin-community#2142 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix nomenclature gridcoin-community#2104 (@jamescowens)
 - doc: Fix Typos gridcoin-community#2149 (@barton2526)
 - doc: Fix "master" branch build status badge in readme gridcoin-community#2167 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix Inter font rendering on Windows with FreeType gridcoin-community#2169 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix assert on non-existent data directory and GUI datadir chooser corner case issues gridcoin-community#2174 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix display artifact in poll loading indicator gridcoin-community#2180 (@cyrossignol)
 - rpc, logging: Minor fixes for sidestake logging gridcoin-community#2187 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix fractional scaling for dialog sizes gridcoin-community#2189 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Random fixes gridcoin-community#2197 (@barton2526)
 - doc: getbalance should say GRC not "btc" gridcoin-community#2199 (@barton2526)
 - net: Add missing verification of IPv6 address in CNetAddr::GetIn6Addr¦ gridcoin-community#2200 (@barton2526)
 - doc: remove duplicate line from .gitignore gridcoin-community#2202 (@Pythonix)
 - util: Tweak exception handling in MilliTimer class to eliminate compiler warnings gridcoin-community#2233 (@jamescowens)
 - depends: patch missing include in qt gridcoin-community#2234 (@div72)
 - wallet, rpc: Check each input for IsMine() in GetAddressGroupings gridcoin-community#2242 (@jamescowens)
 - util, qt: Fix snapshot download gridcoin-community#2246 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix Column Widths in RPC Console. Elide long strings in their center. Indent user agent. gridcoin-community#2241 (@barton2526)
 - qt: Fix crash during download snapshot on macOS gridcoin-community#2250 (@jamescowens)
 - qt: Don't allow to open the debug window during splashscreen & verification state gridcoin-community#2245 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Fix address book selected model record when editing gridcoin-community#2253 (@cyrossignol)
 - researcher: Check wallet status before beacon renewal gridcoin-community#2254 (@cyrossignol)
 - qt: Prevent pasting (no label) as label in consolidation transaction gridcoin-community#2255 (@jamescowens)
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