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aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
# Copyright (c) 2023-2025 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.
## Aristo DB -- a Patricia Trie with labeled edges
## ===============================================
##
## These data structures allow to overlay the *Patricia Trie* with *Merkel
## Trie* hashes. See the `README.md` in the `aristo` folder for documentation.
##
## Some semantic explanations;
##
## * HashKey, NodeRef etc. refer to the standard/legacy `Merkle Patricia Tree`
## * VertexID, VertexRef, etc. refer to the `Aristo Trie`
##
{.push raises: [].}
import
std/[hashes, sets, tables],
eth/common/hashes,
results,
./aristo_constants,
./aristo_desc/[desc_error, desc_identifiers, desc_nibbles, desc_structural],
./aristo_desc/desc_backend,
minilru
# Not auto-exporting backend
export
tables, aristo_constants, desc_error, desc_identifiers, desc_nibbles,
desc_structural, minilru, hashes, PutHdlRef
type
AristoTxRef* = ref object
## Transaction descriptor
##
## Delta layers are stacked implying a tables hierarchy. Table entries on
## a higher level take precedence over lower layer table entries. So an
## existing key-value table entry of a layer on top supersedes same key
## entries on all lower layers. A missing entry on a higher layer indicates
## that the key-value pair might be fond on some lower layer.
##
## A zero value (`nil`, empty hash etc.) is considered am missing key-value
## pair. Tables on the `LayerDelta` may have stray zero key-value pairs for
## missing entries due to repeated transactions while adding and deleting
## entries. There is no need to purge redundant zero entries.
##
## As for `kMap[]` entries, there might be a zero value entriy relating
## (i.e. indexed by the same vertex ID) to an `sMap[]` non-zero value entry
## (of the same layer or a lower layer whatever comes first.) This entry
## is kept as a reminder that the hash value of the `kMap[]` entry needs
## to be re-compiled.
##
## The reasoning behind the above scenario is that every vertex held on the
## `sTab[]` tables must correspond to a hash entry held on the `kMap[]`
## tables. So a corresponding zero value or missing entry produces an
## inconsistent state that must be resolved.
db*: AristoDbRef ## Database descriptor
parent*: AristoTxRef ## Previous transaction
sTab*: Table[RootedVertexID,VertexRef] ## Structural vertex table
kMap*: Table[RootedVertexID,HashKey] ## Merkle hash key mapping
vTop*: VertexID ## Last used vertex ID
accLeaves*: Table[Hash32, VertexRef] ## Account path -> VertexRef
stoLeaves*: Table[Hash32, VertexRef] ## Storage path -> VertexRef
blockNumber*: Opt[uint64] ## Block number set when checkpointing the frame
AristoDbRef* = ref object
## Backend interface.
getVtxFn*: GetVtxFn ## Read vertex record
getKeyFn*: GetKeyFn ## Read Merkle hash/key
getTuvFn*: GetTuvFn ## Read top used vertex ID
getLstFn*: GetLstFn ## Read saved state
putBegFn*: PutBegFn ## Start bulk store session
putVtxFn*: PutVtxFn ## Bulk store vertex records
putTuvFn*: PutTuvFn ## Store top used vertex ID
putLstFn*: PutLstFn ## Store saved state
putEndFn*: PutEndFn ## Commit bulk store session
closeFn*: CloseFn ## Generic destructor
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
txRef*: AristoTxRef ## Bottom-most in-memory frame
accLeaves*: LruCache[Hash32, VertexRef]
## Account path to payload cache - accounts are frequently accessed by
## account path when contracts interact with them - this cache ensures
## that we don't have to re-traverse the storage trie for every such
## interaction
## TODO a better solution would probably be to cache this in a type
## exposed to the high-level API
stoLeaves*: LruCache[Hash32, VertexRef]
## Mixed account/storage path to payload cache - same as above but caches
## the full lookup of storage slots
# Debugging data below, might go away in future
xMap*: Table[HashKey,RootedVertexID] ## For pretty printing/debugging
Leg* = object
## For constructing a `VertexPath`
wp*: VidVtxPair ## Vertex ID and data ref
nibble*: int8 ## Next vertex selector for `Branch` (if any)
Hike* = object
## Trie traversal path
root*: VertexID ## Handy for some fringe cases
legs*: ArrayBuf[NibblesBuf.high + 1, Leg] ## Chain of vertices and IDs
tail*: NibblesBuf ## Portion of non completed path
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public helpers
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
template mixUp*(accPath, stoPath: Hash32): Hash32 =
# Insecure but fast way of mixing the values of two hashes, for the purpose
# of quick lookups - this is certainly not a good idea for general Hash32
# values but account paths are generated from accounts which would be hard
# to create pre-images for, for the purpose of collisions with a particular
# storage slot
var v {.noinit.}: Hash32
for i in 0..<v.data.len:
# `+` wraps leaving all bits used
v.data[i] = accPath.data[i] + stoPath.data[i]
v
func getOrVoid*[W](tab: Table[W,VertexRef]; w: W): VertexRef =
tab.getOrDefault(w, VertexRef(nil))
Aristo db update for short nodes key edge cases (#1887) * Aristo: Provide key-value list signature calculator detail: Simple wrappers around `Aristo` core functionality * Update new API for `CoreDb` details: + Renamed new API functions `contains()` => `hasKey()` or `hasPath()` which disables the `in` operator on non-boolean `contains()` functions + The functions `get()` and `fetch()` always return a not-found error if there is no item, available. The new functions `getOrEmpty()` and `mergeOrEmpty()` return an an empty `Blob` if there is no such key found. * Rewrite `core_apps.nim` using new API from `CoreDb` * Use `Aristo` functionality for calculating Merkle signatures details: For debugging, the `VerifyAristoForMerkleRootCalc` can be set so that `Aristo` results will be verified against the legacy versions. * Provide general interface for Merkle signing key-value tables details: Export `Aristo` wrappers * Activate `CoreDb` tests why: Now, API seems to be stable enough for general tests. * Update `toHex()` usage why: Byteutils' `toHex()` is superior to `toSeq.mapIt(it.toHex(2)).join` * Split `aristo_transcode` => `aristo_serialise` + `aristo_blobify` why: + Different modules for different purposes + `aristo_serialise`: RLP encoding/decoding + `aristo_blobify`: Aristo database encoding/decoding * Compacted representation of small nodes' links instead of Keccak hashes why: Ethereum MPTs use Keccak hashes as node links if the size of an RLP encoded node is at least 32 bytes. Otherwise, the RLP encoded node value is used as a pseudo node link (rather than a hash.) Such a node is nor stored on key-value database. Rather the RLP encoded node value is stored instead of a lode link in a parent node instead. Only for the root hash, the top level node is always referred to by the hash. This feature needed an abstraction of the `HashKey` object which is now either a hash or a blob of length at most 31 bytes. This leaves two ways of representing an empty/void `HashKey` type, either as an empty blob of zero length, or the hash of an empty blob. * Update `CoreDb` interface (mainly reducing logger noise) * Fix copyright years (to make `Lint` happy)
2023-11-08 12:18:32 +00:00
func getOrVoid*[W](tab: Table[W,NodeRef]; w: W): NodeRef =
tab.getOrDefault(w, NodeRef(nil))
func getOrVoid*[W](tab: Table[W,HashKey]; w: W): HashKey =
tab.getOrDefault(w, VOID_HASH_KEY)
func getOrVoid*[W](tab: Table[W,RootedVertexID]; w: W): RootedVertexID =
tab.getOrDefault(w, default(RootedVertexID))
func getOrVoid*[W](tab: Table[W,HashSet[RootedVertexID]]; w: W): HashSet[RootedVertexID] =
tab.getOrDefault(w, default(HashSet[RootedVertexID]))
Aristo db update for short nodes key edge cases (#1887) * Aristo: Provide key-value list signature calculator detail: Simple wrappers around `Aristo` core functionality * Update new API for `CoreDb` details: + Renamed new API functions `contains()` => `hasKey()` or `hasPath()` which disables the `in` operator on non-boolean `contains()` functions + The functions `get()` and `fetch()` always return a not-found error if there is no item, available. The new functions `getOrEmpty()` and `mergeOrEmpty()` return an an empty `Blob` if there is no such key found. * Rewrite `core_apps.nim` using new API from `CoreDb` * Use `Aristo` functionality for calculating Merkle signatures details: For debugging, the `VerifyAristoForMerkleRootCalc` can be set so that `Aristo` results will be verified against the legacy versions. * Provide general interface for Merkle signing key-value tables details: Export `Aristo` wrappers * Activate `CoreDb` tests why: Now, API seems to be stable enough for general tests. * Update `toHex()` usage why: Byteutils' `toHex()` is superior to `toSeq.mapIt(it.toHex(2)).join` * Split `aristo_transcode` => `aristo_serialise` + `aristo_blobify` why: + Different modules for different purposes + `aristo_serialise`: RLP encoding/decoding + `aristo_blobify`: Aristo database encoding/decoding * Compacted representation of small nodes' links instead of Keccak hashes why: Ethereum MPTs use Keccak hashes as node links if the size of an RLP encoded node is at least 32 bytes. Otherwise, the RLP encoded node value is used as a pseudo node link (rather than a hash.) Such a node is nor stored on key-value database. Rather the RLP encoded node value is stored instead of a lode link in a parent node instead. Only for the root hash, the top level node is always referred to by the hash. This feature needed an abstraction of the `HashKey` object which is now either a hash or a blob of length at most 31 bytes. This leaves two ways of representing an empty/void `HashKey` type, either as an empty blob of zero length, or the hash of an empty blob. * Update `CoreDb` interface (mainly reducing logger noise) * Fix copyright years (to make `Lint` happy)
2023-11-08 12:18:32 +00:00
# --------
func isValid*(vtx: VertexRef): bool =
vtx != VertexRef(nil)
func isValid*(nd: NodeRef): bool =
nd != NodeRef(nil)
func isValid*(pid: PathID): bool =
pid != VOID_PATH_ID
func isValid*(tx: AristoTxRef): bool =
tx != AristoTxRef(nil)
func isValid*(root: Hash32): bool =
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
root != emptyRoot
Aristo db update for short nodes key edge cases (#1887) * Aristo: Provide key-value list signature calculator detail: Simple wrappers around `Aristo` core functionality * Update new API for `CoreDb` details: + Renamed new API functions `contains()` => `hasKey()` or `hasPath()` which disables the `in` operator on non-boolean `contains()` functions + The functions `get()` and `fetch()` always return a not-found error if there is no item, available. The new functions `getOrEmpty()` and `mergeOrEmpty()` return an an empty `Blob` if there is no such key found. * Rewrite `core_apps.nim` using new API from `CoreDb` * Use `Aristo` functionality for calculating Merkle signatures details: For debugging, the `VerifyAristoForMerkleRootCalc` can be set so that `Aristo` results will be verified against the legacy versions. * Provide general interface for Merkle signing key-value tables details: Export `Aristo` wrappers * Activate `CoreDb` tests why: Now, API seems to be stable enough for general tests. * Update `toHex()` usage why: Byteutils' `toHex()` is superior to `toSeq.mapIt(it.toHex(2)).join` * Split `aristo_transcode` => `aristo_serialise` + `aristo_blobify` why: + Different modules for different purposes + `aristo_serialise`: RLP encoding/decoding + `aristo_blobify`: Aristo database encoding/decoding * Compacted representation of small nodes' links instead of Keccak hashes why: Ethereum MPTs use Keccak hashes as node links if the size of an RLP encoded node is at least 32 bytes. Otherwise, the RLP encoded node value is used as a pseudo node link (rather than a hash.) Such a node is nor stored on key-value database. Rather the RLP encoded node value is stored instead of a lode link in a parent node instead. Only for the root hash, the top level node is always referred to by the hash. This feature needed an abstraction of the `HashKey` object which is now either a hash or a blob of length at most 31 bytes. This leaves two ways of representing an empty/void `HashKey` type, either as an empty blob of zero length, or the hash of an empty blob. * Update `CoreDb` interface (mainly reducing logger noise) * Fix copyright years (to make `Lint` happy)
2023-11-08 12:18:32 +00:00
func isValid*(key: HashKey): bool =
assert key.len != 32 or key.to(Hash32).isValid
0 < key.len
func isValid*(vid: VertexID): bool =
vid != VertexID(0)
func isValid*(rvid: RootedVertexID): bool =
rvid.vid.isValid and rvid.root.isValid
func isValid*(sqv: HashSet[RootedVertexID]): bool =
sqv.len > 0
Aristo db update for short nodes key edge cases (#1887) * Aristo: Provide key-value list signature calculator detail: Simple wrappers around `Aristo` core functionality * Update new API for `CoreDb` details: + Renamed new API functions `contains()` => `hasKey()` or `hasPath()` which disables the `in` operator on non-boolean `contains()` functions + The functions `get()` and `fetch()` always return a not-found error if there is no item, available. The new functions `getOrEmpty()` and `mergeOrEmpty()` return an an empty `Blob` if there is no such key found. * Rewrite `core_apps.nim` using new API from `CoreDb` * Use `Aristo` functionality for calculating Merkle signatures details: For debugging, the `VerifyAristoForMerkleRootCalc` can be set so that `Aristo` results will be verified against the legacy versions. * Provide general interface for Merkle signing key-value tables details: Export `Aristo` wrappers * Activate `CoreDb` tests why: Now, API seems to be stable enough for general tests. * Update `toHex()` usage why: Byteutils' `toHex()` is superior to `toSeq.mapIt(it.toHex(2)).join` * Split `aristo_transcode` => `aristo_serialise` + `aristo_blobify` why: + Different modules for different purposes + `aristo_serialise`: RLP encoding/decoding + `aristo_blobify`: Aristo database encoding/decoding * Compacted representation of small nodes' links instead of Keccak hashes why: Ethereum MPTs use Keccak hashes as node links if the size of an RLP encoded node is at least 32 bytes. Otherwise, the RLP encoded node value is used as a pseudo node link (rather than a hash.) Such a node is nor stored on key-value database. Rather the RLP encoded node value is stored instead of a lode link in a parent node instead. Only for the root hash, the top level node is always referred to by the hash. This feature needed an abstraction of the `HashKey` object which is now either a hash or a blob of length at most 31 bytes. This leaves two ways of representing an empty/void `HashKey` type, either as an empty blob of zero length, or the hash of an empty blob. * Update `CoreDb` interface (mainly reducing logger noise) * Fix copyright years (to make `Lint` happy)
2023-11-08 12:18:32 +00:00
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public functions, miscellaneous
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Hash set helper
func hash*(db: AristoDbRef): Hash =
## Table/KeyedQueue/HashSet mixin
cast[pointer](db).hash
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public helpers
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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iterator stack*(tx: AristoTxRef): AristoTxRef =
# Stack going from base to tx
var frames: seq[AristoTxRef]
var tx = tx
while tx != nil:
frames.add tx
tx = tx.parent
while frames.len > 0:
yield frames.pop()
iterator rstack*(tx: AristoTxRef): (AristoTxRef, int) =
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# Stack in reverse order, ie going from tx to base
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
var tx = tx
var i = 0
while tx != nil:
let level = if tx.parent == nil: -1 else: i
yield (tx, level)
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
tx = tx.parent
i += 1
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
proc deltaAtLevel*(db: AristoTxRef, level: int): AristoTxRef =
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
if level == -2:
nil
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
elif level == -1:
db.db.txRef
else:
aristo: fork support via layers/txframes (#2960) * aristo: fork support via layers/txframes This change reorganises how the database is accessed: instead holding a "current frame" in the database object, a dag of frames is created based on the "base frame" held in `AristoDbRef` and all database access happens through this frame, which can be thought of as a consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database based on a particular fork of the chain. In the code, "frame", "transaction" and "layer" is used to denote more or less the same thing: a dag of stacked changes backed by the on-disk database. Although this is not a requirement, in practice each frame holds the change set of a single block - as such, the frame and its ancestors leading up to the on-disk state represents the state of the database after that block has been applied. "committing" means merging the changes to its parent frame so that the difference between them is lost and only the cumulative changes remain - this facility enables frames to be combined arbitrarily wherever they are in the dag. In particular, it becomes possible to consolidate a set of changes near the base of the dag and commit those to disk without having to re-do the in-memory frames built on top of them - this is useful for "flattening" a set of changes during a base update and sending those to storage without having to perform a block replay on top. Looking at abstractions, a side effect of this change is that the KVT and Aristo are brought closer together by considering them to be part of the "same" atomic transaction set - the way the code gets organised, applying a block and saving it to the kvt happens in the same "logical" frame - therefore, discarding the frame discards both the aristo and kvt changes at the same time - likewise, they are persisted to disk together - this makes reasoning about the database somewhat easier but has the downside of increased memory usage, something that perhaps will need addressing in the future. Because the code reasons more strictly about frames and the state of the persisted database, it also makes it more visible where ForkedChain should be used and where it is still missing - in particular, frames represent a single branch of history while forkedchain manages multiple parallel forks - user-facing services such as the RPC should use the latter, ie until it has been finalized, a getBlock request should consider all forks and not just the blocks in the canonical head branch. Another advantage of this approach is that `AristoDbRef` conceptually becomes more simple - removing its tracking of the "current" transaction stack simplifies reasoning about what can go wrong since this state now has to be passed around in the form of `AristoTxRef` - as such, many of the tests and facilities in the code that were dealing with "stack inconsistency" are now structurally prevented from happening. The test suite will need significant refactoring after this change. Once this change has been merged, there are several follow-ups to do: * there's no mechanism for keeping frames up to date as they get committed or rolled back - TODO * naming is confused - many names for the same thing for legacy reason * forkedchain support is still missing in lots of code * clean up redundant logic based on previous designs - in particular the debug and introspection code no longer makes sense * the way change sets are stored will probably need revisiting - because it's a stack of changes where each frame must be interrogated to find an on-disk value, with a base distance of 128 we'll at minimum have to perform 128 frame lookups for *every* database interaction - regardless, the "dag-like" nature will stay * dispose and commit are poorly defined and perhaps redundant - in theory, one could simply let the GC collect abandoned frames etc, though it's likely an explicit mechanism will remain useful, so they stay for now More about the changes: * `AristoDbRef` gains a `txRef` field (todo: rename) that "more or less" corresponds to the old `balancer` field * `AristoDbRef.stack` is gone - instead, there's a chain of `AristoTxRef` objects that hold their respective "layer" which has the actual changes * No more reasoning about "top" and "stack" - instead, each `AristoTxRef` can be a "head" that "more or less" corresponds to the old single-history `top` notion and its stack * `level` still represents "distance to base" - it's computed from the parent chain instead of being stored * one has to be careful not to use frames where forkedchain was intended - layers are only for a single branch of history! * fix layer vtop after rollback * engine fix * Fix test_txpool * Fix test_rpc * Fix copyright year * fix simulator * Fix copyright year * Fix copyright year * Fix tracer * Fix infinite recursion bug * Remove aristo and kvt empty files * Fic copyright year * Fix fc chain_kvt * ForkedChain refactoring * Fix merge master conflict * Fix copyright year * Reparent txFrame * Fix test * Fix txFrame reparent again * Cleanup and fix test * UpdateBase bugfix and fix test * Fixe newPayload bug discovered by hive * Fix engine api fcu * Clean up call template, chain_kvt, andn txguid * Fix copyright year * work around base block loading issue * Add test * Fix updateHead bug * Fix updateBase bug * Change func commitBase to proc commitBase * Touch up and fix debug mode crash --------- Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
2025-02-06 08:04:50 +01:00
var
frame = db
level = level
while level > 0:
frame = frame.parent
level -= 1
frame
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