Revert "internal/ethapi, les: use slices package for sorting (#27492)"

This reverts commit 051b1a1fd9.

internal/ethapi/api_test.go

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package ethapi
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"crypto/ecdsa"
 	"encoding/json"
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"hash"
 	"math/big"
 	"reflect"
+	"sort"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -46,7 +48,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/sha3"
-	"golang.org/x/exp/slices"
 )
 
 func TestTransaction_RoundTripRpcJSON(t *testing.T) {
@@ -648,13 +649,19 @@ type Account struct {
 	addr common.Address
 }
 
-func newAccounts(n int) (accounts []Account) {
+type Accounts []Account
+
+func (a Accounts) Len() int           { return len(a) }
+func (a Accounts) Swap(i, j int)      { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
+func (a Accounts) Less(i, j int) bool { return bytes.Compare(a[i].addr.Bytes(), a[j].addr.Bytes()) < 0 }
+
+func newAccounts(n int) (accounts Accounts) {
 	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
 		key, _ := crypto.GenerateKey()
 		addr := crypto.PubkeyToAddress(key.PublicKey)
 		accounts = append(accounts, Account{key: key, addr: addr})
 	}
-	slices.SortFunc(accounts, func(a, b Account) bool { return a.addr.Less(b.addr) })
+	sort.Sort(accounts)
 	return accounts
 }
 

les/servingqueue.go

@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@
 package les
 
 import (
+	"sort"
 	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/mclock"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/prque"
-	"golang.org/x/exp/slices"
 )
 
 // servingQueue allows running tasks in a limited number of threads and puts the
@@ -180,19 +180,35 @@ func (sq *servingQueue) threadController() {
 	}
 }
 
-// peerTasks lists the tasks received from a given peer when selecting peers to freeze
-type peerTasks struct {
-	peer     *clientPeer
-	list     []*servingTask
-	sumTime  uint64
-	priority float64
+type (
+	// peerTasks lists the tasks received from a given peer when selecting peers to freeze
+	peerTasks struct {
+		peer     *clientPeer
+		list     []*servingTask
+		sumTime  uint64
+		priority float64
+	}
+	// peerList is a sortable list of peerTasks
+	peerList []*peerTasks
+)
+
+func (l peerList) Len() int {
+	return len(l)
+}
+
+func (l peerList) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	return l[i].priority < l[j].priority
+}
+
+func (l peerList) Swap(i, j int) {
+	l[i], l[j] = l[j], l[i]
 }
 
 // freezePeers selects the peers with the worst priority queued tasks and freezes
 // them until burstTime goes under burstDropLimit or all peers are frozen
 func (sq *servingQueue) freezePeers() {
 	peerMap := make(map[*clientPeer]*peerTasks)
-	var peerList []*peerTasks
+	var peerList peerList
 	if sq.best != nil {
 		sq.queue.Push(sq.best, sq.best.priority)
 	}
@@ -215,9 +231,7 @@ func (sq *servingQueue) freezePeers() {
 		tasks.list = append(tasks.list, task)
 		tasks.sumTime += task.expTime
 	}
-	slices.SortFunc(peerList, func(a, b *peerTasks) bool {
-		return a.priority < b.priority
-	})
+	sort.Sort(peerList)
 	drop := true
 	for _, tasks := range peerList {
 		if drop {

les/utils/limiter.go

@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
+	"sort"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/p2p/enode"
-	"golang.org/x/exp/slices"
 )
 
 const maxSelectionWeight = 1000000000 // maximum selection weight of each individual node/address group
@@ -340,9 +340,24 @@ func (l *Limiter) Stop() {
 	l.cond.Signal()
 }
 
-type dropListItem struct {
-	nq       *nodeQueue
-	priority float64
+type (
+	dropList     []dropListItem
+	dropListItem struct {
+		nq       *nodeQueue
+		priority float64
+	}
+)
+
+func (l dropList) Len() int {
+	return len(l)
+}
+
+func (l dropList) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	return l[i].priority < l[j].priority
+}
+
+func (l dropList) Swap(i, j int) {
+	l[i], l[j] = l[j], l[i]
 }
 
 // dropRequests selects the nodes with the highest queued request cost to selection
@@ -351,7 +366,7 @@ type dropListItem struct {
 func (l *Limiter) dropRequests() {
 	var (
 		sumValue float64
-		list     []dropListItem
+		list     dropList
 	)
 	for _, nq := range l.nodes {
 		sumValue += nq.value
@@ -369,9 +384,7 @@ func (l *Limiter) dropRequests() {
 			priority: w / float64(nq.sumCost),
 		})
 	}
-	slices.SortFunc(list, func(a, b dropListItem) bool {
-		return a.priority < b.priority
-	})
+	sort.Sort(list)
 	for _, item := range list {
 		for _, request := range item.nq.queue {
 			close(request.process)