nimbus-eth1/nimbus/sync
Jordan Hrycaj 0d2a72d2a9
Flare sync (#2627)
* Cosmetics, small fixes, add stashed headers verifier

* Remove direct `Era1` support

why:
  Era1 is indirectly supported by using the import tool before syncing.

* Clarify database persistent save function.

why:
  Function relied on the last saved state block number which was wrong.
  It now relies on the tx-level. If it is 0, then data are saved directly.
  Otherwise the task that owns the tx will do it.

* Extracted configuration constants into separate file

* Enable single peer mode for debugging

* Fix peer losing issue in multi-mode

details:
  Running concurrent download peers was previously programmed as running
  a batch downloading and storing ~8k headers and then leaving the `async`
  function to be restarted by a scheduler.

  This was unfortunate because of occasionally occurring long waiting
  times for restart.

  While the time gap until restarting were typically observed a few
  millisecs, there were always a few outliers which well exceed several
  seconds. This seemed to let remote peers run into timeouts.

* Prefix function names `unprocXxx()` and `stagedYyy()` by `headers`

why:
  There will be other `unproc` and `staged` modules.

* Remove cruft, update logging

* Fix accounting issue

details:
  When staging after fetching headers from the network, there was an off
  by 1 error occurring when the result was by one smaller than requested.
  Also, a whole range was mis-accounted when a peer was terminating
  connection immediately after responding.

* Fix slow/error header accounting when fetching

why:
  Originally set for detecting slow headers in a row, the counter
  was wrongly extended to general errors.

* Ban peers for a while that respond with too few headers continuously

why:
  Some peers only returned one header at a time. If these peers sit on a
  farm, they might collectively slow down the download process.

* Update RPC beacon header updater

why:
  Old function hook has slightly changed its meaning since it was used
  for snap sync. Also, the old hook is used by other functions already.

* Limit number of peers or set to single peer mode

details:
  Merge several concepts, single peer mode being one of it.

* Some code clean up, fixings for removing of compiler warnings

* De-noise header fetch related sources

why:
  Header download looks relatively stable, so general debugging is not
  needed, anymore. This is the equivalent of removing the scaffold from
  the part of the building where work has completed.

* More clean up and code prettification for headers stuff

* Implement body fetch and block import

details:
  Available headers are used stage blocks by combining existing headers
  with newly fetched blocks. Then these blocks are imported/executed via
  `persistBlocks()`.

* Logger cosmetics and cleanup

* Remove staged block queue debugging

details:
  Feature still available, just not executed anymore

* Docu, logging update

* Update/simplify `runDaemon()`

* Re-calibrate block body requests and soft config for import blocks batch

why:
* For fetching, larger fetch requests are mostly truncated anyway on
  MainNet.
* For executing, smaller batch sizes reduce the memory needed for the
  price of longer execution times.

* Update metrics counters

* Docu update

* Some fixes, formatting updates, etc.

* Update `borrowed` type: uint -. uint64

also:
  Always convert to `uint64` rather than `uint` where appropriate
2024-09-27 15:07:42 +00:00
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beacon init style for Hash256 (#2661) 2024-09-26 13:24:36 +02:00
flare Flare sync (#2627) 2024-09-27 15:07:42 +00:00
handlers Wiring ForkedChainRef to other components (#2423) 2024-09-04 09:54:54 +00:00
protocol Coredb and sync maintenance update (#2583) 2024-08-30 11:18:36 +00:00
beacon.nim Wiring ForkedChainRef to other components (#2423) 2024-09-04 09:54:54 +00:00
flare.nim Flare sync (#2627) 2024-09-27 15:07:42 +00:00
handlers.nim Culling legacy DB and accounts cache (#2197) 2024-05-20 10:17:51 +00:00
peers.nim Slightly change the static peer manager lookup behaviour (#1484) 2023-03-06 09:22:07 +00:00
protocol.nim Remove eth/66 and eth/67 wire protocol (#2238) 2024-05-29 09:20:25 +02:00
sync_desc.nim Wiring ForkedChainRef to other components (#2423) 2024-09-04 09:54:54 +00:00
sync_sched.nim Wiring ForkedChainRef to other components (#2423) 2024-09-04 09:54:54 +00:00
types.nim init style for Hash256 (#2661) 2024-09-26 13:24:36 +02:00