nimbus-eth1/tools/evmstate
Jacek Sieka 3d58393b4c
Offload signature checking to taskpools (#2927)
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>
2024-12-13 11:53:41 +07:00
..
testdata Fix CodeBytes: invalidPositions out of bound crash (#2523) 2024-07-25 19:23:53 +07:00
config.nim evmstate: make batched execution possible (#2875) 2024-11-27 13:15:05 +07:00
config.nims evmstate tool: disable chronicles output (#2924) 2024-12-11 12:05:49 +07:00
evmstate.nim Offload signature checking to taskpools (#2927) 2024-12-13 11:53:41 +07:00
evmstate_test.nim Fix styles and reduce compiler warnings (#2086) 2024-03-20 14:35:38 +07:00
helpers.nim Add missing pieces of EIP-7702 (#2877) 2024-11-27 08:59:42 +01:00
readme.md update tools build instruction 2023-08-01 09:25:18 +07:00

readme.md

EVM state test tool

The evmstate tool to execute state test.

Build instructions

There are few options to build evmstate tool like any other nimbus tools.

  1. Use your system Nim compiler(v1.6.12) and git to install dependencies.
    $> git submodule update --init --recursive
    $> ./env.sh (run once to generate nimbus-build-system.paths)
    $> nim c -d:release tools/evmstate/evmstate
    $> nim c -r -d:release tools/evmstate/evmstate_test
    
  2. Use nimbus shipped Nim compiler and dependencies.
    $> make update deps
    $> ./env.sh nim c -d:release tools/evmstate/evmstate
    $> ./env.sh nim c -r -d:release tools/evmstate/evmstate_test
    
  3. Use nimbus makefile.
    $> make update
    $> make evmstate
    $> make evmstate_test
    

Command line params

Available command line params

Usage:

evmstate [OPTIONS]... <inputFile>

 <inputFile>         json file contains state test data.

The following options are available:

 --dump              dumps the state after the run [=false].
 --json              output trace logs in machine readable format (json) [=false].
 --debug             output full trace logs [=false].
 --nomemory          disable memory output [=true].
 --nostack           disable stack output [=false].
 --nostorage         disable storage output [=false].
 --noreturndata      enable return data output [=true].
 --fork              choose which fork to be tested.
 --index             if index is unset, all subtest in the fork will be tested [=none(int)].
 --pretty            pretty print the trace result [=false].
 --verbosity         sets the verbosity level [=0].
                        0 = silent, 1 = error, 2 = warn, 3 = info, 4 = debug, 5 = detail.