nimbus-eth1/nimbus/db/aristo/aristo_tx.nim
Jacek Sieka f034af422a
Pre-allocate vids for branches (#2882)
Each branch node may have up to 16 sub-items - currently, these are
given VertexID based when they are first needed leading to a
mostly-random order of vertexid for each subitem.

Here, we pre-allocate all 16 vertex ids such that when a branch subitem
is filled, it already has a vertexid waiting for it. This brings several
important benefits:

* subitems are sorted and "close" in their id sequencing - this means
that when rocksdb stores them, they are likely to end up in the same
data block thus improving read efficiency
* because the ids are consequtive, we can store just the starting id and
a bitmap representing which subitems are in use - this reduces disk
space usage for branches allowing more of them fit into a single disk
read, further improving disk read and caching performance - disk usage
at block 18M is down from 84 to 78gb!
* the in-memory footprint of VertexRef reduced allowing more instances
to fit into caches and less memory to be used overall.

Because of the increased locality of reference, it turns out that we no
longer need to iterate over the entire database to efficiently generate
the hash key database because the normal computation is now faster -
this significantly benefits "live" chain processing as well where each
dirtied key must be accompanied by a read of all branch subitems next to
it - most of the performance benefit in this branch comes from this
locality-of-reference improvement.

On a sample resync, there's already ~20% improvement with later blocks
seeing increasing benefit (because the trie is deeper in later blocks
leading to more benefit from branch read perf improvements)

```
blocks: 18729664, baseline: 190h43m49s, contender: 153h59m0s
Time (total): -36h44m48s, -19.27%
```

Note: clients need to be resynced as the PR changes the on-disk format

R.I.P. little bloom filter - your life in the repo was short but
valuable
2024-12-04 11:42:04 +01:00

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# nimbus-eth1
# Copyright (c) 2023-2024 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 -- Transaction interface
## ==================================
##
{.push raises: [].}
import
results,
./aristo_tx/[tx_fork, tx_frame, tx_stow],
"."/[aristo_desc, aristo_get]
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public functions, getters
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
func txTop*(db: AristoDbRef): Result[AristoTxRef,AristoError] =
## Getter, returns top level transaction if there is any.
db.txFrameTop()
func isTop*(tx: AristoTxRef): bool =
## Getter, returns `true` if the argument `tx` referes to the current top
## level transaction.
tx.txFrameIsTop()
func txLevel*(tx: AristoTxRef): int =
## Getter, positive nesting level of transaction argument `tx`
tx.txFrameLevel()
func level*(db: AristoDbRef): int =
## Getter, non-negative nesting level (i.e. number of pending transactions)
db.txFrameLevel()
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public functions
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
func to*(tx: AristoTxRef; T: type[AristoDbRef]): T =
## Getter, retrieves the parent database descriptor from argument `tx`
tx.db
proc forkTx*(
db: AristoDbRef;
backLevel: int; # Backward location of transaction
): Result[AristoDbRef,AristoError] =
## Fork a new descriptor obtained from parts of the argument database
## as described by arguments `db` and `backLevel`.
##
## If the argument `backLevel` is non-negative, the forked descriptor will
## provide the database view where the first `backLevel` transaction layers
## are stripped and the remaing layers are squashed into a single transaction.
##
## If `backLevel` is `-1`, a database descriptor with empty transaction
## layers will be provided where the `balancer` between database and
## transaction layers are kept in place.
##
## If `backLevel` is `-2`, a database descriptor with empty transaction
## layers will be provided without a `balancer`.
##
## The returned database descriptor will always have transaction level one.
## If there were no transactions that could be squashed, an empty
## transaction is added.
##
## Use `aristo_desc.forget()` to clean up this descriptor.
##
# Fork top layer (with or without pending transaction)?
if backLevel == 0:
return db.txForkTop()
# Fork bottom layer (=> 0 < db.stack.len)
if backLevel == db.stack.len:
return db.txForkBase()
# Inspect transaction stack
if 0 < backLevel:
var tx = db.txRef
if tx.isNil or db.stack.len < backLevel:
return err(TxLevelTooDeep)
# Fetch tx of level `backLevel` (seed to skip some items)
for _ in 0 ..< backLevel:
tx = tx.parent
if tx.isNil:
return err(TxStackGarbled)
return tx.txFork()
# Plain fork, include `balancer`
if backLevel == -1:
let xb = ? db.fork(noFilter=false)
discard xb.txFrameBegin()
return ok(xb)
# Plain fork, unfiltered backend
if backLevel == -2:
let xb = ? db.fork(noFilter=true)
discard xb.txFrameBegin()
return ok(xb)
err(TxLevelUseless)
proc findTx*(
db: AristoDbRef;
rvid: RootedVertexID; # Pivot vertex (typically `VertexID(1)`)
key: HashKey; # Hash key of pivot vertex
): Result[int,AristoError] =
## Find the transaction where the vertex with ID `vid` exists and has the
## Merkle hash key `key`. If there is no transaction available, search in
## the filter and then in the backend.
##
## If the above procedure succeeds, an integer indicating the transaction
## level integer is returned:
##
## * `0` -- top level, current layer
## * `1`, `2`, ... -- some transaction level further down the stack
## * `-1` -- the filter between transaction stack and database backend
## * `-2` -- the databse backend
##
## A successful return code might be used for the `forkTx()` call for
## creating a forked descriptor that provides the pair `(vid,key)`.
##
if not rvid.isValid or
not key.isValid:
return err(TxArgsUseless)
if db.txRef.isNil:
# Try `(vid,key)` on top layer
let topKey = db.top.kMap.getOrVoid rvid
if topKey == key:
return ok(0)
else:
# Find `(vid,key)` on transaction layers
for (n,tx,layer,error) in db.txRef.txFrameWalk:
if error != AristoError(0):
return err(error)
if layer.kMap.getOrVoid(rvid) == key:
return ok(n)
# Try bottom layer
let botKey = db.stack[0].kMap.getOrVoid rvid
if botKey == key:
return ok(db.stack.len)
# Try `(vid,key)` on balancer
if not db.balancer.isNil:
let roKey = db.balancer.kMap.getOrVoid rvid
if roKey == key:
return ok(-1)
# Try `(vid,key)` on unfiltered backend
block:
let beKey = db.getKeyUbe(rvid, {}).valueOr: (VOID_HASH_KEY, nil)
if beKey[0] == key:
return ok(-2)
err(TxNotFound)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public functions: Transaction frame
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
proc txBegin*(db: AristoDbRef): Result[AristoTxRef,AristoError] =
## Starts a new transaction.
##
## Example:
## ::
## proc doSomething(db: AristoDbRef) =
## let tx = db.begin
## defer: tx.rollback()
## ... continue using db ...
## tx.commit()
##
db.txFrameBegin()
proc rollback*(
tx: AristoTxRef; # Top transaction on database
): Result[void,AristoError] =
## Given a *top level* handle, this function discards all database operations
## performed for this transactio. The previous transaction is returned if
## there was any.
##
tx.txFrameRollback()
proc commit*(
tx: AristoTxRef; # Top transaction on database
): Result[void,AristoError] =
## Given a *top level* handle, this function accepts all database operations
## performed through this handle and merges it to the previous layer. The
## previous transaction is returned if there was any.
##
tx.txFrameCommit()
proc collapse*(
tx: AristoTxRef; # Top transaction on database
commit: bool; # Commit if `true`, otherwise roll back
): Result[void,AristoError] =
## Iterated application of `commit()` or `rollback()` performing the
## something similar to
## ::
## while true:
## discard tx.commit() # ditto for rollback()
## if db.txTop.isErr: break
## tx = db.txTop.value
##
tx.txFrameCollapse commit
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public functions: save to database
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
proc persist*(
db: AristoDbRef; # Database
nxtSid = 0u64; # Next state ID (aka block number)
): Result[void,AristoError] =
## Persistently store data onto backend database. If the system is running
## without a database backend, the function returns immediately with an
## error. The same happens if there is a pending transaction.
##
## The function merges all staged data from the top layer cache onto the
## backend stage area. After that, the top layer cache is cleared.
##
## Finally, the staged data are merged into the physical backend database
## and the staged data area is cleared. Wile performing this last step,
## the recovery journal is updated (if available.)
##
## If the argument `nxtSid` is passed non-zero, it will be the ID for the
## next recovery journal record. If non-zero, this ID must be greater than
## all previous IDs (e.g. block number when stowing after block execution.)
##
db.txStow(nxtSid, persistent=true)
proc stow*(
db: AristoDbRef; # Database
): Result[void,AristoError] =
## This function is similar to `persist()` stopping short of performing the
## final step storing on the persistent database. It fails if there is a
## pending transaction.
##
## The function merges all staged data from the top layer cache onto the
## backend stage area and leaves it there. This function can be seen as
## a sort of a bottom level transaction `commit()`.
##
db.txStow(nxtSid=0u64, persistent=false)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# End
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------