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Add an option to deserialize monitors in parallel in async load

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Authored by Matt Corallo

85/100 · Strong
Add an option to deserialize monitors in parallel in async load

`MonitorUpdatingPersister::read_all_channel_monitors_with_updates`
was made to do the IO operations in parallel in a previous commit,
however in practice this doesn't provide material parallelism for
large routing nodes. Because deserializing `ChannelMonitor`s is the
bulk of the work (when IO operations are sufficiently fast), we end
up blocked in single-threaded work nearly the entire time.

Here, we add an alternative option - a new
`read_all_channel_monitors_with_updates_parallel` method which uses
the `FutureSpawner` to cause the deserialization operations to
proceed in parallel.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new optional method that lets a Lightning node read its saved channel monitors in parallel, including the CPU-heavy step of turning stored data back into usable objects. It is a performance improvement, not a security fix. The existing single-threaded method remains available and unchanged in behavior.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal performance/feature enhancement. Reviewers may optionally verify that the new parallel method preserves the same error handling and cancellation semantics as the existing method.

Security signals we found

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Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 10/10
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