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Ed Hennis 4a084ce34c Improve transaction relay logic (#4985)
Combines four related changes:
1. "Decrease `shouldRelay` limit to 30s." Pretty self-explanatory. Currently, the limit is 5 minutes, by which point the `HashRouter` entry could have expired, making this transaction look brand new (and thus causing it to be relayed back to peers which have sent it to us recently).
2.  "Give a transaction more chances to be retried." Will put a transaction into `LedgerMaster`'s held transactions if the transaction gets a `ter`, `tel`, or `tef` result. Old behavior was just `ter`.
     * Additionally, to prevent a transaction from being repeatedly held indefinitely, it must meet some extra conditions. (Documented in a comment in the code.)
3. "Pop all transactions with sequential sequences, or tickets." When a transaction is processed successfully, currently, one held transaction for the same account (if any) will be popped out of the held transactions list, and queued up for the next transaction batch. This change pops all transactions for the account, but only if they have sequential sequences (for non-ticket transactions) or use a ticket. This issue was identified from interactions with @mtrippled's #4504, which was merged, but unfortunately reverted later by #4852. When the batches were spaced out, it could potentially take a very long time for a large number of held transactions for an account to get processed through. However, whether batched or not, this change will help get held transactions cleared out, particularly if a missing earlier transaction is what held them up.
4. "Process held transactions through existing NetworkOPs batching." In the current processing, at the end of each consensus round, all held transactions are directly applied to the open ledger, then the held list is reset. This bypasses all of the logic in `NetworkOPs::apply` which, among other things, broadcasts successful transactions to peers. This means that the transaction may not get broadcast to peers for a really long time (5 minutes in the current implementation, or 30 seconds with this first commit). If the node is a bottleneck (either due to network configuration, or because the transaction was submitted locally), the transaction may not be seen by any other nodes or validators before it expires or causes other problems.
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