* Add quick hexary trie inspector, called `dismantle()`
why:
+ Full hexary trie perusal is slow if running down leaf nodes
+ For known range of leaf nodes, work out the UInt126-complement of
partial sub-trie paths (for existing nodes). The result should cover
no (or only a few) sub-tries with leaf nodes.
* Extract common healing methods => `sub_tries_helper.nim`
details:
Also apply quick hexary trie inspection tool `dismantle()`
Replace `inspectAccountsTrie()` wrapper by `hexaryInspectTrie()`
* Re-arrange task dispatching in main peer worker
* Refactor accounts and storage slots downloaders
* Rename `HexaryDbError` => `HexaryError`
The `BlockHeader` structure in `nim-eth` was updated with support for
EIP-4895 (withdrawals). To enable the `nim-eth` bump, the ingress of
`BlockHeader` structures has been hardened to reject headers that have
the new `withdrawalsRoot` field until proper withdrawals support exists.
https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/pull/562
* Stop negotiating pivot if peer repeatedly replies w/usesless answers
why:
There is some fringe condition where a peer replies with legit but
useless empty headers repetely. This goes on until somebody stops.
We stop now.
* Rename `missingNodes` => `sickSubTries`
why:
These (probably missing) nodes represent in reality fully or partially
missing sub-tries. The top nodes may even exist, e.g. as a shallow
sub-trie.
also:
Keep track of account healing on/of by bool variable `accountsHealing`
controlled in `pivot_helper.execSnapSyncAction()`
* Add `nimbus` option argument `snapCtx` for starting snap recovery (if any)
also:
+ Trigger the recovery (or similar) process from inside the global peer
worker initialisation `worker.setup()` and not by the `snap.start()`
function.
+ Have `runPool()` returned a `bool` code to indicate early stop to
scheduler.
* Can import partial snap sync checkpoint at start
details:
+ Modified what is stored with the checkpoint in `snapdb_pivot.nim`
+ Will be loaded within `runDaemon()` if activated
* Forgot to import total coverage range
why:
Only the top (or latest) pivot needs coverage but the total coverage
is the list of all ranges for all pivots -- simply forgotten.
* Change Light client proxy naming to verified proxy naming in code
* Rename the lc_proxy files to the verified proxy naming
* Update to the verified proxy name in the docs
* Piecemeal trie inspection
details:
Trie inspection will stop after maximum number of nodes visited.
The inspection can be resumed using the returned state from the
last session.
why:
This feature allows for task switch between `piecemeal` sessions.
* Extract pivot helper code from `worker.nim` => `pivot_helper.nim`
* Accounts import will now return dangling paths from `proof` nodes
why:
With proper bookkeeping, this can be used to start healing without
analysing the the probably full trie.
* Update `unprocessed` account range handling
why:
More generally, the API of a pairs of unprocessed intervals favours
the first set and not before that is exhausted the second set comes
into play.
This was unfortunately implemented which caused the ranges to be
unnecessarily fractioned. Now the number of range interval typically
remains in the lower single digit numbers.
* Save sync state after end of downloading some accounts
details:
restore/resume to be implemented later
* Add `stop()` methods to shutdown to shutdown procedure
why:
Nasty behaviour when hitting Ctrl-C, otherwise
* Add background service to sync scheduler
why:
The background service will be used for sync data import and recovery
after restart.
It is controlled by the sync scheduler for an easy turn/on off API.
also:
Simplified snap ticker time calc.
* Fix typo
why:
Single mode here means there is only such (single mode) instance
activated but multi mode instances for other peers are allowed.
Erroneously, multi mode instances were held back waiting while some
single mode instance was running which reduced the number of parallel
download peers.
* Update log ticker, using time interval rather than ticker count
why:
Counting and logging ticker occurrences is inherently imprecise. So
time intervals are used.
* Use separate storage tables for snap sync data
* Left boundary proof update
why:
Was not properly implemented, yet.
* Capture pivot in peer worker (aka buddy) tasks
why:
The pivot environment is linked to the `buddy` descriptor. While
there is a task switch, the pivot may change. So it is passed on as
function argument `env` rather than retrieved from the buddy at
the start of a sub-function.
* Split queues `fetchStorage` into `fetchStorageFull` and `fetchStoragePart`
* Remove obsolete account range returned from `GetAccountRange` message
why:
Handler returned the wrong right value of the range. This range was
for convenience, only.
* Prioritise storage slots if the queue becomes large
why:
Currently, accounts processing is prioritised up until all accounts
are downloaded. The new prioritisation has two thresholds for
+ start processing storage slots with a new worker
+ stop account processing and switch to storage processing
also:
Provide api for `SnapTodoRanges` pair of range sets in `worker_desc.nim`
* Generalise left boundary proof for accounts or storage slots.
why:
Detailed explanation how this works is documented with
`snapdb_accounts.importAccounts()`.
Instead of enforcing a left boundary proof (which is still the default),
the importer functions return a list of `holes` (aka node paths) found in
the argument ranges of leaf nodes. This in turn is used by the book
keeping software for data download.
* Forgot to pass on variable in function wrapper
also:
+ Start healing not before 99% accounts covered (previously 95%)
+ Logging updated/prettified
* Add headers with proof content type and use it for verification
- Add BlockHeaderWithProof content type & content
- Use BlockHeaderWithProof content to verify if chain data is
part of the canonical chain
- Adjust parser & seeder code to be able to seed these headers
with proof
- Adjust eth_data_exporter to be able to export custom header
ranges for which to build proofs (mostly for testing)
There is currently quite some ugliness & clean-up needed for which
a big part is due tos upporting both BlockHeader and
BlockHeaderWithProof on the network.
* Change accumulator proof to array / SSZ vector type
- Change accumulator proof to SSZ vector instead of SSZ list.
- Add and use general buildProof and buildHeaderWithProof func.
* Make the BlockHeaderWithProof an SSZ Union with None option
* Update portal-spec-tests to master commit
* Added basic async capabilities for vm2.
This is a whole new Git branch, not the same one as last time
(https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1/pull/1250) - there wasn't
much worth salvaging. Main differences:
I didn't do the "each opcode has to specify an async handler" junk
that I put in last time. Instead, in oph_memory.nim you can see
sloadOp calling asyncChainTo and passing in an async operation.
That async operation is then run by the execCallOrCreate (or
asyncExecCallOrCreate) code in interpreter_dispatch.nim.
In the test code, the (previously existing) macro called "assembler"
now allows you to add a section called "initialStorage", specifying
fake data to be used by the EVM computation run by that test. (In
the long run we'll obviously want to write tests that for-real use
the JSON-RPC API to asynchronously fetch data; for now, this was
just an expedient way to write a basic unit test that exercises the
async-EVM code pathway.)
There's also a new macro called "concurrentAssemblers" that allows
you to write a test that runs multiple assemblers concurrently (and
then waits for them all to finish). There's one example test using
this, in test_op_memory_lazy.nim, though you can't actually see it
doing so unless you uncomment some echo statements in
async_operations.nim (in which case you can see the two concurrently
running EVM computations each printing out what they're doing, and
you'll see that they interleave).
A question: is it possible to make EVMC work asynchronously? (For
now, this code compiles and "make test" passes even if ENABLE_EVMC
is turned on, but it doesn't actually work asynchronously, it just
falls back on doing the usual synchronous EVMC thing. See
FIXME-asyncAndEvmc.)
* Moved the AsyncOperationFactory to the BaseVMState object.
* Made the AsyncOperationFactory into a table of fn pointers.
Also ditched the plain-data Vm2AsyncOperation type; it wasn't
really serving much purpose. Instead, the pendingAsyncOperation
field directly contains the Future.
* Removed the hasStorage idea.
It's not the right solution to the "how do we know whether we
still need to fetch the storage value or not?" problem. I
haven't implemented the right solution yet, but at least
we're better off not putting in a wrong one.
* Added/modified/removed some comments.
(Based on feedback on the PR.)
* Removed the waitFor from execCallOrCreate.
There was some back-and-forth in the PR regarding whether nested
waitFor calls are acceptable:
https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1/pull/1260#discussion_r998587449
The eventual decision was to just change the waitFor to a doAssert
(since we probably won't want this extra functionality when running
synchronously anyway) to make sure that the Future is already
finished.
* Update docu and logging
* Extracted and updated constants from `worker_desc` into separate file
* Update and re-calibrate communication error handling
* Allow simplified pivot negotiation
why:
This feature allows to turn off pivot negotiation so that peers agree
on a a pivot header.
For snap sync with fast changing pivots this only throttles the sync
process. The finally downloaded DB snapshot is typically a merged
version of different pivot states augmented by a healing process.
* Re-model worker queues for accounts download & healing
why:
Currently there is only one data fetch per download or healing task.
This task is then repeated by the scheduler after a short time. In
many cases, this short time seems enough for some peers to decide to
terminate connection.
* Update main task batch `runMulti()`
details:
The function `runMulti()` is activated in quasi-parallel mode by the
scheduler. This function calls the download, healing and fast-sync
functions.
While in debug mode, after each set of jobs run by this function the
database is analysed (by the `snapdb_check` module) and the result
printed.
* Update logging
* Fix node hash associated with partial path for missing nodes
why:
Healing uses the partial paths for fetching nodes from the network. The
node hash (or key) is used to verify the node data retrieved.
The trie inspector function returned the parent hash instead of the node hash
with the partial path when a missing node was detected. So all nodes
for healing were rejected.
* Must not modify sequence while looping over it
* Re-arrange fetching storage slots in batch module
why;
Previously, fetching partial slot ranges first has a chance of
terminating the worker peer 9due to network error) while there were
many inheritable storage slots on the queue.
Now, inheritance is checked first, then full slot ranges and finally
partial ranges.
* Update logging
* Bundled node information for healing into single object `NodeSpecs`
why:
Previously, partial paths and node keys were kept in separate variables.
This approach was error prone due to copying/reassembling function
argument objects.
As all partial paths, keys, and node data types are more or less handled
as `Blob`s over the network (using Eth/6x, or Snap/1) it makes sense to
hold these `Blob`s as named field in a single object (even if not all
fields are active for the current purpose.)
* For good housekeeping, using `NodeKey` type only for account keys
why:
previously, a mixture of `NodeKey` and `Hash256` was used. Now, only
state or storage root keys use the `Hash256` type.
* Always accept latest pivot (and not a slightly older one)
why;
For testing it was tried to use a slightly older pivot state root than
available. Some anecdotal tests seemed to suggest an advantage so that
more peers are willing to serve on that older pivot. But this could not
be confirmed in subsequent tests (still anecdotal, though.)
As a side note, the distance of the latest pivot to its predecessor is
at least 128 (or whatever the constant `minPivotBlockDistance` is
assigned to.)
* Reshuffle name components for some file and function names
why:
Clarifies purpose:
"storages" becomes: "storage slots"
"store" becomes: "range fetch"
* Stash away currently unused modules in sub-folder named "notused"
jangko
KonradStaniec
Jordan Hrycaj
Etan Kissling
Kim De Mey
Adam Spitz