When running the import, currently blocks are loaded in batches into a
`seq` then passed to the importer as such.
In reality, blocks are still processed one by one, so the batching does
not offer any performance advantage. It does however require that the
client wastes memory, up to several GB, on the block sequence while
they're waiting to be processed.
This PR introduces a persister that accepts these potentially large
blocks one by one and at the same time removes a number of redundant /
unnecessary copies, assignments and resets that were slowing down the
import process in general.
The current getCanonicalHead of core db should not be confused with ForkedChain.latestHeader.
Therefore we need to use getCanonicalHead to restricted case only, e.g. initializing ForkedChain.
In block processing, depending on the complexity of a transaction and
hotness of caches etc, signature checking can actually make up the
majority of time needed to process a transaction (60% observed in some
randomly sampled block ranges).
Fortunately, this is a task that trivially can be offloaded to a task
pool similar to how nimbus-eth2 does it.
This PR introduces taskpools in the most simple way possible, by
performing signature checking concurrently with other TX processing,
assigning a taskpool task per TX effectively.
With this little trick, we're in gigagas land 🎉 on my laptop!
```
INF 2024-12-10 21:05:35.170+01:00 Imported blocks
blockNumber=3874817 b... mgps=1222.707 ...
```
Tests don't use the taskpool for now because it needs manual cleanup and
we don't have a good mechanism in place. Future PR:s should address this
by creating a common shutdown sequence that also closes and cleans up
other resources like the DB.
Co-authored-by: andri lim <jangko128@gmail.com>
* switch to Nim v2.0.12
* fix LruCache capitalization for styleCheck
* KzgProof/KzgCommitment for styleCheck
* TxEip4844 for styleCheck
* styleCheck issues in nimbus/beacon/payload_conv.nim
* ENode for styleCheck
* isOk for styleCheck
* some more styleCheck fixes
* more styleCheck fixes
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Co-authored-by: jangko <jangko128@gmail.com>
* partial commit
* fixes
* remove converters too
* revert changes on nimbus_verified_proxy
* revert changes in converter
* revert changes(re-xport) in rpc_types
* update copyright year
* replace types in other binaries
* chain config bug
* fix rebase conflict imcomplete buffer
* fix more rebase buffers
* remove ditto types and converters
* fix the tests
* update copyright year
This is a minimal set of changes to make things work with the new types
in nim-eth - this is the minimal PR that merely resolves
incompatibilities while the full change set would include more cleanup
and migration.
* ForkedChainRef.forkchoice: Skip newBase calculation and skip chain finalization if finalizedHash is zero
* Fix ForkedChainRef.forkChoice: do nothing if headHash is the same with cursorHash
* Fix stupid bug in engine API FCU when calling ForkedChainRef.forkChoice
* Wire RPC server API to nimbus RPC manager
* Add test case
* Use default(Hash256) in ForkedChainRef
* init style for Hash256
https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/pull/733 updates `Hash256` to
become an array instead of an object - unfortunately, nim does not allow
constructing arrays with `name()`, so this PR changes it to `default`
which works with both.
* lint
* Wiring ForkedChainRef to other components
- Disable majority of hive simulators
- Only enable pyspec_sim for the moment
- The pyspec_sim is using a smaller RPC service wired to ForkedChainRef
- The RPC service will gradually grow
* Addressing PR review
* Fix test_beacon/setup_env
* Enable consensus_sim (#2441)
* Enable consensus_sim
* Remove isFile check
* Enable Engine API jwt auth tests and exchange cap tests
* Enable engine api in build_sim.sh
* Wire ForkedChainRef to Engine API newPayload
* Wire Engine API getBodies to ForkedChainRef
* Wire Engine API api_forkchoice to ForkedChainRef
* Wire more RPC methods to ForkedChainRef
* Implement eth_syncing
* Implement eth_call and eth_getlogs
* TxPool: simplify smartHead
* Fix smartHead usage
* Fix txpool headDiff
* Remove hasBlockHeader and use headerExists
* Addressing review
The reverse slot hash mechanism causes quite a bit of database traffic
but is broadly not useful except for iterating the storage of an
account, something that a validator never does (it's used by the
tracers).
This flag adds one more thing that is not stored in the database, to be
explored more comprehensively when designing full, validator and archive
modes with different pruning options in the future.
`ldb` says this is 60gb of data (!):
```
ldb --db=. --ignore_unknown_options --column_family=KvtGen approxsize
--hex --from=0x05
--to=0x05ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
66488353954
```
* Rename `newKvt()` -> `ctx.getKvt()`
why:
Clean up legacy shortcut. Also, the `KVT` returned is not instantiated
but refers to the shared `KVT` that resides in a context which is a
generalisation of an in-memory database fork. The function `ctx`
retrieves the default context.
* Rename `newTransaction()` -> `ctx.newTransaction()`
why:
Clean up legacy shortcut. The transaction is applied to a context as a
generalisation of an in-memory database fork. The function `ctx`
retrieves the default context.
* Rename `getColumn(CtGeneric)` -> `getGeneric()`
why:
No more a list of well known sub-tries needed, a single one is enough.
In fact, `getColumn()` did only support a single sub-tree by now.
* Reduce TODO list
* Use simpler schema when writing transactions, receipts, and withdrawals
Using MPT not only slow but also take up more spaces than needed.
Aristo will remove older tries and only keep the last block tries.
Using simpler schema will avoid those problems.
* Rename getTransaction to getTransactionByIndex
* Bump nim-eth, nim-web3, nimbus-eth2
- Replace std.Option with results.Opt
- Fields name changes
* More fixes
* Fix Portal stream async raises and portal testnet Opt usage
* Bump eth + nimbus-eth2 + more fixes related to eth_types changes
* Fix in utp test app and nimbus-eth2 bump
* Fix test_blockchain_json rebase conflict
* Fix EVMC block_timestamp conversion plus commentary
---------
Co-authored-by: kdeme <kim.demey@gmail.com>
`initTable` is obsolete since nim 0.19 and can introduce significant
memory overhead while providing no benefit (since the table will be
grown to the default initial size on first use anyway).
In particular, aristo layers will not necessarily use all tables they
initialize, for exampe when many empty accounts are being created.
This PR consolidates the split header-body sequences into a single EthBlock
sequence and cleans up the fallout from that which significantly reduces
block processing overhead during import thanks to less garbage collection
and fewer copies of things all around.
Notably, since the number of headers must always match the number of bodies,
we also get rid of a pointless degree of freedom that in the future could
introduce unnecessary bugs.
* only read header and body from era file
* avoid several unnecessary copies along the block processing way
* simplify signatures, cleaning up unused arguemnts and returns
* use `stew/assign2` in a few strategic places where the generated
nim assignent is slow and add a few `move` to work around poor
analysis in nim 1.6 (will need to be revisited for 2.0)
```
stats-20240607_2223-a814aa0b.csv vs stats-20240608_0714-21c1d0a9.csv
bps_x bps_y tps_x tps_y bpsd tpsd timed
block_number
(498305, 713245] 1,540.52 1,809.73 2,361.58 2775.340189 17.63% 17.63% -14.92%
(713245, 928185] 730.36 865.26 1,715.90 2028.973852 18.01% 18.01% -15.21%
(928185, 1143126] 663.03 789.10 2,529.26 3032.490771 19.79% 19.79% -16.28%
(1143126, 1358066] 393.46 508.05 2,152.50 2777.578119 29.13% 29.13% -22.50%
(1358066, 1573007] 370.88 440.72 2,351.31 2791.896052 18.81% 18.81% -15.80%
(1573007, 1787947] 283.65 335.11 2,068.93 2441.373402 17.60% 17.60% -14.91%
(1787947, 2002888] 287.29 342.11 2,078.39 2474.179448 18.99% 18.99% -15.91%
(2002888, 2217828] 293.38 343.16 2,208.83 2584.77457 17.16% 17.16% -14.61%
(2217828, 2432769] 140.09 167.86 1,081.87 1296.336926 18.82% 18.82% -15.80%
blocks: 1934464, baseline: 3h13m1s, contender: 2h43m47s
bpsd (mean): 19.55%
tpsd (mean): 19.55%
Time (total): -29m13s, -15.14%
```
* CoreDb: Remove crufty second/off-site KVT
why:
Was used to allow late `Clique` to store directly to disk
* CoreDb: Remove prune flag related functionality
why:
Is completely legacy stuff
* CoreDb: Remove dependence on legacy API (tests unsupported yet)
why:
Does not fully support Aristo
* Re-factoring `state_db` using new API
details:
Only minimum changes needed to compile `nimbus`
* Update tests and aux modules
* Turn off legacy API and remove `distinct_tries`
comment:
The legacy API has now cruft status, will be removed soon
* Fix copyright years
* Update rpc for verified proxy
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
`persist` is a hotspot when processing blocks because it is run at least
once per transaction and loops over the entire account cache every time.
Here, we introduce an extra `dirty` map that keeps track of all accounts
that need checking during `persist` which fixes the immediate
inefficiency, though probably this could benefit from a more thorough
review - we also get rid of the unused clearCache flag - we start with
a fresh cache on every fresh vmState.
* avoid unnecessary code hash comparisons
* avoid unnecessary copies when iterating
* use EMPTY_CODE_HASH throughout for code hash comparison
Jacek Sieka
andri lim
Advaita Saha
tersec
Chirag Parmar
Jordan Hrycaj