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Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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# Nimbus
# Copyright (c) 2018 Status Research & Development GmbH
# Licensed under either of
# * Apache License, version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
# * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
# at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except
# according to those terms.
import
../../chain_config,
../../db/db_chain,
../../genesis,
../../utils,
../../utils/pow,
../../chain_config,
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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../clique,
../validate,
chronicles,
eth/common/chaindb,
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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eth/[common, trie/db],
stew/endians2,
stint
type
ChainFork* = enum
## `ChainFork` has extra forks not in the EVM fork list. These are the
## unique `DAOFork`, and Glacier forks `MuirGlacier` and `ArrowGlacier`.
## At the Glacier forks, only block difficulty calculation changed.
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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Frontier,
Homestead,
DAOFork,
Tangerine,
Spurious,
Byzantium,
Constantinople,
Petersburg,
Istanbul,
MuirGlacier,
Berlin,
London,
ArrowGlacier,
MergeFork
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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Chain* = ref object of AbstractChainDB
db: BaseChainDB
forkIds: array[ChainFork, ForkID]
Redesign of BaseVMState descriptor (#923) * Redesign of BaseVMState descriptor why: BaseVMState provides an environment for executing transactions. The current descriptor also provides data that cannot generally be known within the execution environment, e.g. the total gasUsed which is available not before after all transactions have finished. Also, the BaseVMState constructor has been replaced by a constructor that does not need pre-initialised input of the account database. also: Previous constructor and some fields are provided with a deprecated annotation (producing a lot of noise.) * Replace legacy directives in production sources * Replace legacy directives in unit test sources * fix CI (missing premix update) * Remove legacy directives * chase CI problem * rebased * Re-introduce 'AccountsCache' constructor optimisation for 'BaseVmState' re-initialisation why: Constructing a new 'AccountsCache' descriptor can be avoided sometimes when the current state root is properly positioned already. Such a feature existed already as the update function 'initStateDB()' for the 'BaseChanDB' where the accounts cache was linked into this desctiptor. The function 'initStateDB()' was removed and re-implemented into the 'BaseVmState' constructor without optimisation. The old version was of restricted use as a wrong accounts cache state would unconditionally throw an exception rather than conceptually ask for a remedy. The optimised 'BaseVmState' re-initialisation has been implemented for the 'persistBlocks()' function. also: moved some test helpers to 'test/replay' folder * Remove unused & undocumented fields from Chain descriptor why: Reduces attack surface in general & improves reading the code.
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blockZeroHash: KeccakHash ##\
## Overload cache for `genesisHash()` method
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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blockZeroStateRoot: KeccakHash
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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extraValidation: bool ##\
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
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## Trigger extra validation, currently within `persistBlocks()`
## function only.
verifyFrom: BlockNumber ##\
## First block to when `extraValidation` will be applied (only
## effective if `extraValidation` is true.)
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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pow: PowRef ##\
## Wrapper around `hashimotoLight()` and lookup cache
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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poa: Clique ##\
## For non-PoA networks (when `db.config.poaEngine` is `false`),
## this descriptor is ignored.
{.push raises: [Defect].}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Helpers
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
func toNextFork(n: BlockNumber): uint64 =
if n == high(BlockNumber):
result = 0'u64
else:
result = n.truncate(uint64)
func toNextFork(n: Option[BlockNumber]): uint64 =
if n.isSome:
n.get.truncate(uint64)
else:
0'u64
proc isBlockAfterTtd*(c: Chain, header: BlockHeader): bool
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
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let
ttd = c.db.ttd
ptd = c.db.getScore(header.parentHash)
td = ptd + header.difficulty
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# c.db.totalDifficulty is parent.totalDifficulty
# TerminalBlock is defined as header.totalDifficulty >= TTD
# and parent.totalDifficulty < TTD
# So blockAfterTTD must be both header.totalDifficulty >= TTD
# and parent.totalDifficulty >= TTD
ptd >= ttd and td >= ttd
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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func getNextFork(c: ChainConfig, fork: ChainFork): uint64 =
let next: array[ChainFork, uint64] = [
0'u64,
toNextFork(c.homesteadBlock),
toNextFork(c.daoForkBlock),
toNextFork(c.eip150Block),
toNextFork(c.eip158Block),
toNextFork(c.byzantiumBlock),
toNextFork(c.constantinopleBlock),
toNextFork(c.petersburgBlock),
toNextFork(c.istanbulBlock),
toNextFork(c.muirGlacierBlock),
toNextFork(c.berlinBlock),
toNextFork(c.londonBlock),
toNextFork(c.arrowGlacierBlock),
toNextFork(c.mergeForkBlock)
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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]
if fork == high(ChainFork):
result = 0
return
result = next[fork]
for x in fork..high(ChainFork):
if result != next[x]:
result = next[x]
break
func calculateForkId(c: ChainConfig, fork: ChainFork,
prevCRC: uint32, prevFork: uint64): ForkID =
result.nextFork = c.getNextFork(fork)
if result.nextFork != prevFork:
result.crc = crc32(prevCRC, toBytesBE(prevFork))
else:
result.crc = prevCRC
func calculateForkIds(c: ChainConfig,
genesisCRC: uint32): array[ChainFork, ForkID] =
var prevCRC = genesisCRC
var prevFork = c.getNextFork(Frontier)
for fork in ChainFork:
result[fork] = calculateForkId(c, fork, prevCRC, prevFork)
prevFork = result[fork].nextFork
prevCRC = result[fork].crc
proc setForkId(c: Chain)
{. raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
let blockZero = c.db.toGenesisHeader
c.blockZeroHash = blockZero.blockHash
c.blockZeroStateRoot = blockZero.stateRoot
let genesisCRC = crc32(0, c.blockZeroHash.data)
c.forkIds = calculateForkIds(c.db.config, genesisCRC)
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
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# Private constructor helper
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
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proc initChain(c: Chain; db: BaseChainDB; poa: Clique; extraValidation: bool)
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Constructor for the `Chain` descriptor object. For most applications,
## the `poa` argument is transparent and should be initilaised on the fly
## which is available below.
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
c.db = db
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
if not db.config.daoForkSupport:
db.config.daoForkBlock = db.config.homesteadBlock
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
c.extraValidation = extraValidation
c.setForkId()
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
# Initalise the PoA state regardless of whether it is needed on the current
# network. For non-PoA networks (when `db.config.poaEngine` is `false`),
# this descriptor is ignored.
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
c.poa = db.newClique
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
# Always initialise the PoW epoch cache even though it migh no be used
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
# unless `extraValidation` is set `true`.
c.pow = PowRef.new
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public constructors
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
proc newChain*(db: BaseChainDB; poa: Clique; extraValidation: bool): Chain
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
## Constructor for the `Chain` descriptor object. For most applications,
## the `poa` argument is transparent and should be initilaised on the fly
## which is available below. The argument `extraValidation` enables extra
## block chain validation if set `true`.
new result
result.initChain(db, poa, extraValidation)
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
proc newChain*(db: BaseChainDB, extraValidation: bool): Chain
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Constructor for the `Chain` descriptor object with default initialisation
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
## for the PoA handling. The argument `extraValidation` enables extra block
## chain validation if set `true`.
new result
result.initChain(db, db.newClique, extraValidation)
proc newChain*(db: BaseChainDB): Chain
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
## Constructor for the `Chain` descriptor object. All sub-object descriptors
## are initialised with defaults. So is extra block chain validation
## * `enabled` for PoA networks (such as Goerli)
## * `disabled` for nopn-PaA networks
new result
result.initChain(db, db.newClique, db.config.poaEngine)
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
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# Public `AbstractChainDB` getter overload methods
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
method genesisHash*(c: Chain): KeccakHash {.gcsafe.} =
## Getter: `AbstractChainDB` overload method
c.blockZeroHash
method genesisStateRoot*(c: Chain): KeccakHash {.gcsafe, base.} =
## Getter: `AbstractChainDB` overloadable base method
c.blockZeroStateRoot
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
method getBestBlockHeader*(c: Chain): BlockHeader
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
## Getter: `AbstractChainDB` overload method
c.db.getCanonicalHead()
method getTrieDB*(c: Chain): TrieDatabaseRef {.gcsafe.} =
## Getter: `AbstractChainDB` overload method
c.db.db
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# Public `Chain` getters
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
proc clique*(c: Chain): var Clique =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Getter
c.poa
proc pow*(c: Chain): PowRef =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Getter
c.pow
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
proc db*(c: Chain): BaseChainDB =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Getter
c.db
proc extraValidation*(c: Chain): bool =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Getter
c.extraValidation
proc forkIds*(c: Chain): array[ChainFork,ForkID] =
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
## Getter
c.forkIds
proc verifyFrom*(c: Chain): BlockNumber =
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
## Getter
c.verifyFrom
proc currentBlock*(c: Chain): BlockHeader
{.gcsafe, raises: [Defect,CatchableError].} =
## currentBlock retrieves the current head block of the canonical chain.
## Ideally the block should be retrieved from the blockchain's internal cache.
## but now it's enough to retrieve it from database
c.db.getCanonicalHead()
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
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# Public `Chain` setters
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proc `extraValidation=`*(c: Chain; extraValidation: bool) =
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
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## Setter. If set `true`, the assignment value `extraValidation` enables
## extra block chain validation.
c.extraValidation = extraValidation
proc `verifyFrom=`*(c: Chain; verifyFrom: BlockNumber) =
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
2021-07-30 14:06:51 +00:00
## Setter. The assignment value `verifyFrom` defines the first block where
## validation should start if the `Clique` field `extraValidation` was set
## `true`.
c.verifyFrom = verifyFrom
proc `verifyFrom=`*(c: Chain; verifyFrom: uint64) =
## Variant of `verifyFrom=`
Fearture/poa clique tuning (#765) * Provide API details: API is bundled via clique.nim. * Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains why: This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the PoA block chain. todo: Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary. * Fix snapshot state block number why: Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong. * Optional start where block verification begins why: Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be (correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain. todo: On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases disproportionally -- needs to be understand * For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry) why: Forgot to change back after troubleshooting * Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding why: Make compilation work * Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules why: Prefer lib module * Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim details: .. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim is inactive) * Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor details: Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation * Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor details: This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for the fakeDiff flag and its implementation. * Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point why: For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header in the absence of other synchronisation points. Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the current branch. details: The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time. * Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support) why: At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not due to PoA processing. details: It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock() where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater for many of these blocks. Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks before and 13 such after this range up to #504192. * fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing) * Fixing canonical reference tests why: Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked: 1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete 2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24 details: Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new test was added to lock the new behaviour. * Remove cruft why: Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead. * Update API comment * ditto
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c.verifyFrom = verifyFrom.u256
Feature/implement poa processing (#748) * re-shuffled Clique functions why: Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a sub-directory. * run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks() why: Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario. details: Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases. * fix exception annotations for executor module why: needed for exception tracking details: main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError) * split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations why: make space for implementing PoA stuff * provide over-loadable Clique PRNG why: There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences. The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused. * implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks() details: * PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently, there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails. * The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should be tests with to-be-rejected blocks. * TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers * fix statement cast in pool.nim * added table features to LRU cache why: Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation. For performance, Clique needs more table like features. details: First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging. * re-factored LRU snapshot caching why: Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the last on-disk checkpoint. details; The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint database. also: some clean up todo: The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers. So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA processing. * fix some snapshot cache fringe cases why: Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
2021-07-14 15:13:27 +00:00
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