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# beacon_chain
# Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Status Research & Development GmbH
# Licensed and distributed under either of
# * MIT license (license terms in the root directory or at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
# * Apache v2 license (license terms in the root directory or at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
# at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
{.push raises: [].}
import
chronicles,
stew/[assign2, results],
../spec/[
beaconstate, forks, signatures, signatures_batch,
state_transition, state_transition_epoch],
"."/[block_dag, blockchain_dag, blockchain_dag_light_client]
from ../spec/datatypes/capella import asSigVerified, asTrusted, shortLog
from ../spec/datatypes/eip4844 import asSigVerified, asTrusted, shortLog
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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export results, signatures_batch, block_dag, blockchain_dag
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# Clearance
# ---------------------------------------------
#
# This module is in charge of making the
# "quarantined" network blocks
# pass the firewall and be stored in the chain DAG
logScope:
topics = "clearance"
proc addResolvedHeadBlock(
dag: ChainDAGRef,
state: var ForkedHashedBeaconState,
trustedBlock: ForkyTrustedSignedBeaconBlock,
blockVerified: bool,
parent: BlockRef, cache: var StateCache,
onBlockAdded: OnForkyBlockAdded,
stateDataDur, sigVerifyDur, stateVerifyDur: Duration
): BlockRef =
doAssert state.matches_block_slot(
trustedBlock.root, trustedBlock.message.slot),
"Given state must have the new block applied"
let
blockRoot = trustedBlock.root
blockRef = BlockRef.init(blockRoot, trustedBlock.message)
startTick = Moment.now()
link(parent, blockRef)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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dag.forkBlocks.incl(KeyedBlockRef.init(blockRef))
# Resolved blocks should be stored in database
dag.putBlock(trustedBlock)
let putBlockTick = Moment.now()
var foundHead: bool
for head in dag.heads.mitems():
if head.isAncestorOf(blockRef):
head = blockRef
foundHead = true
break
if not foundHead:
dag.heads.add(blockRef)
# Regardless of the chain we're on, the deposits come in the same order so
# as soon as we import a block, we'll also update the shared public key
# cache
dag.updateValidatorKeys(getStateField(state, validators).asSeq())
# Getting epochRef with the state will potentially create a new EpochRef
let
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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epochRef = dag.getEpochRef(state, cache)
epochRefTick = Moment.now()
debug "Block resolved",
blockRoot = shortLog(blockRoot),
blck = shortLog(trustedBlock.message),
blockVerified,
heads = dag.heads.len(),
stateDataDur, sigVerifyDur, stateVerifyDur,
putBlockDur = putBlockTick - startTick,
epochRefDur = epochRefTick - putBlockTick
# Update light client data
dag.processNewBlockForLightClient(state, trustedBlock, parent.bid)
# Pre-heat the shuffling cache with the shuffling caused by this block - this
# is useful for attestation duty lookahead, REST API queries and attestation
# validation of untaken forks (in case of instability / multiple heads)
if dag.findShufflingRef(blockRef.bid, blockRef.slot.epoch + 1).isNone:
dag.putShufflingRef(
ShufflingRef.init(state, cache, blockRef.slot.epoch + 1))
if not blockVerified:
dag.optimisticRoots.incl blockRoot
# Notify others of the new block before processing the quarantine, such that
# notifications for parents happens before those of the children
if onBlockAdded != nil:
var unrealized: FinalityCheckpoints
if enableTestFeatures in dag.updateFlags:
unrealized = withState(state):
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static: doAssert high(BeaconStateFork) == BeaconStateFork.EIP4844
when stateFork >= BeaconStateFork.Altair:
forkyState.data.compute_unrealized_finality()
else:
forkyState.data.compute_unrealized_finality(cache)
onBlockAdded(blockRef, trustedBlock, epochRef, unrealized)
if not(isNil(dag.onBlockAdded)):
dag.onBlockAdded(ForkedTrustedSignedBeaconBlock.init(trustedBlock))
blockRef
proc checkStateTransition(
dag: ChainDAGRef, signedBlock: ForkySigVerifiedSignedBeaconBlock,
cache: var StateCache): Result[void, VerifierError] =
## Ensure block can be applied on a state
func restore(v: var ForkedHashedBeaconState) =
assign(dag.clearanceState, dag.headState)
let res = state_transition_block(
dag.cfg, dag.clearanceState, signedBlock,
cache, dag.updateFlags, restore)
if res.isErr():
info "Invalid block",
blockRoot = shortLog(signedBlock.root),
blck = shortLog(signedBlock.message),
error = res.error()
err(VerifierError.Invalid)
else:
ok()
proc advanceClearanceState*(dag: ChainDAGRef) =
# When the chain is synced, the most likely block to be produced is the block
# right after head - we can exploit this assumption and advance the state
# to that slot before the block arrives, thus allowing us to do the expensive
# epoch transition ahead of time.
# Notably, we use the clearance state here because that's where the block will
# first be seen - later, this state will be copied to the head state!
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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let advanced = withState(dag.clearanceState):
forkyState.data.slot > forkyState.data.latest_block_header.slot
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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if not advanced:
let next = getStateField(dag.clearanceState, slot) + 1
let startTick = Moment.now()
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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var
cache = StateCache()
info = ForkedEpochInfo()
dag.advanceSlots(dag.clearanceState, next, true, cache, info)
debug "Prepared clearance state for next block",
next, updateStateDur = Moment.now() - startTick
proc addHeadBlock*(
dag: ChainDAGRef, verifier: var BatchVerifier,
signedBlock: ForkySignedBeaconBlock,
blockVerified: bool,
onBlockAdded: OnForkyBlockAdded
): Result[BlockRef, VerifierError] =
## Try adding a block to the chain, verifying first that it passes the state
## transition function and contains correct cryptographic signature.
##
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## Cryptographic checks can be skipped by adding skipBlsValidation to
## dag.updateFlags
logScope:
blockRoot = shortLog(signedBlock.root)
blck = shortLog(signedBlock.message)
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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signature = shortLog(signedBlock.signature)
template blck(): untyped = signedBlock.message # shortcuts without copy
template blockRoot(): untyped = signedBlock.root
# If the block we get is older than what we finalized already, we drop it.
# One way this can happen is that we start request a block and finalization
# happens in the meantime - the block we requested will then be stale
# by the time it gets here.
if blck.slot <= dag.finalizedHead.slot:
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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let existing = dag.getBlockIdAtSlot(blck.slot)
# The exact slot match ensures we reject blocks that were orphaned in
# the finalized chain
if existing.isSome:
if existing.get().bid.slot == blck.slot and
existing.get().bid.root == blockRoot:
debug "Duplicate block"
return err(VerifierError.Duplicate)
# Block is older than finalized, but different from the block in our
# canonical history: it must be from an unviable branch
debug "Block from unviable fork",
existing = shortLog(existing.get()),
finalizedHead = shortLog(dag.finalizedHead),
tail = shortLog(dag.tail)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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return err(VerifierError.UnviableFork)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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# Check non-finalized blocks as well
if dag.containsForkBlock(blockRoot):
return err(VerifierError.Duplicate)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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let parent = dag.getBlockRef(blck.parent_root).valueOr:
# There are two cases where the parent won't be found: we don't have it or
# it has been finalized already, and as a result the branch the new block
# is on is no longer a viable fork candidate - we can't tell which is which
# at this stage, but we can check if we've seen the parent block previously
# and thus prevent requests for it to be downloaded again.
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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let parentId = dag.getBlockId(blck.parent_root)
if parentId.isSome() and parentId.get.slot < dag.finalizedHead.slot:
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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debug "Block unviable due to pre-finalized-checkpoint parent",
parentId = parentId.get()
return err(VerifierError.UnviableFork)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
2022-01-21 11:33:16 +00:00
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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debug "Block parent unknown or finalized already", parentId
return err(VerifierError.MissingParent)
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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if parent.slot >= blck.slot:
# A block whose parent is newer than the block itself is clearly invalid -
# discard it immediately
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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debug "Block older than parent",
parent = shortLog(parent)
return err(VerifierError.Invalid)
# The block is resolved, now it's time to validate it to ensure that the
# blocks we add to the database are clean for the given state
let startTick = Moment.now()
# The clearance state works as the canonical
# "let's make things permanent" point and saves things to the database -
# storing things is slow, so we don't want to do so before there's a
# reasonable chance that the information will become more permanently useful -
# by the time a new block reaches this point, the parent block will already
# have "established" itself in the network to some degree at least.
var cache = StateCache()
# We've verified that the slot of the new block is newer than that of the
# parent, so we should now be able to create an approriate clearance state
# onto which we can apply the new block
let clearanceBlock = BlockSlotId.init(parent.bid, signedBlock.message.slot)
if not updateState(
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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dag, dag.clearanceState, clearanceBlock, true, cache):
# We should never end up here - the parent must be a block no older than and
# rooted in the finalized checkpoint, hence we should always be able to
# load its corresponding state
error "Unable to load clearance state for parent block, database corrupt?",
Prune `BlockRef` on finalization (#3513) Up til now, the block dag has been using `BlockRef`, a structure adapted for a full DAG, to represent all of chain history. This is a correct and simple design, but does not exploit the linearity of the chain once parts of it finalize. By pruning the in-memory `BlockRef` structure at finalization, we save, at the time of writing, a cool ~250mb (or 25%:ish) chunk of memory landing us at a steady state of ~750mb normal memory usage for a validating node. Above all though, we prevent memory usage from growing proportionally with the length of the chain, something that would not be sustainable over time - instead, the steady state memory usage is roughly determined by the validator set size which grows much more slowly. With these changes, the core should remain sustainable memory-wise post-merge all the way to withdrawals (when the validator set is expected to grow). In-memory indices are still used for the "hot" unfinalized portion of the chain - this ensure that consensus performance remains unchanged. What changes is that for historical access, we use a db-based linear slot index which is cache-and-disk-friendly, keeping the cost for accessing historical data at a similar level as before, achieving the savings at no percievable cost to functionality or performance. A nice collateral benefit is the almost-instant startup since we no longer load any large indicies at dag init. The cost of this functionality instead can be found in the complexity of having to deal with two ways of traversing the chain - by `BlockRef` and by slot. * use `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` where finalized / historical data may be required * simplify clearance pre-advancement * remove dag.finalizedBlocks (~50:ish mb) * remove `getBlockAtSlot` - use `getBlockIdAtSlot` instead * `parent` and `atSlot` for `BlockId` now require a `ChainDAGRef` instance, unlike `BlockRef` traversal * prune `BlockRef` parents on finality (~200:ish mb) * speed up ChainDAG init by not loading finalized history index * mess up light client server error handling - this need revisiting :)
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clearanceBlock = shortLog(clearanceBlock)
return err(VerifierError.MissingParent)
let stateDataTick = Moment.now()
# First, batch-verify all signatures in block
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if skipBlsValidation notin dag.updateFlags:
# TODO: remove skipBlsValidation
var sigs: seq[SignatureSet]
if (let e = sigs.collectSignatureSets(
signedBlock, dag.db.immutableValidators,
dag.clearanceState, cache); e.isErr()):
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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# A PublicKey or Signature isn't on the BLS12-381 curve
info "Unable to load signature sets",
err = e.error()
return err(VerifierError.Invalid)
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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if not verifier.batchVerify(sigs):
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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info "Block signature verification failed",
signature = shortLog(signedBlock.signature)
return err(VerifierError.Invalid)
let sigVerifyTick = Moment.now()
? checkStateTransition(dag, signedBlock.asSigVerified(), cache)
let stateVerifyTick = Moment.now()
# Careful, clearanceState.data has been updated but not blck - we need to
# create the BlockRef first!
ok addResolvedHeadBlock(
dag, dag.clearanceState,
signedBlock.asTrusted(),
blockVerified = blockVerified,
parent, cache,
onBlockAdded,
stateDataDur = stateDataTick - startTick,
sigVerifyDur = sigVerifyTick - stateDataTick,
stateVerifyDur = stateVerifyTick - sigVerifyTick)
proc addHeadBlock*(
dag: ChainDAGRef, verifier: var BatchVerifier,
signedBlock: ForkySignedBeaconBlock,
onBlockAdded: OnForkyBlockAdded
): Result[BlockRef, VerifierError] =
addHeadBlock(
dag, verifier, signedBlock, blockVerified = true, onBlockAdded)
proc addBackfillBlock*(
dag: ChainDAGRef,
signedBlock: ForkySignedBeaconBlock | ForkySigVerifiedSignedBeaconBlock):
Result[void, VerifierError] =
## When performing checkpoint sync, we need to backfill historical blocks
## in order to respond to GetBlocksByRange requests. Backfill blocks are
## added in backwards order, one by one, based on the `parent_root` of the
## earliest block we know about.
##
## Because only one history is relevant when backfilling, one doesn't have to
## consider forks or other finalization-related issues - a block is either
## valid and finalized, or not.
logScope:
blockRoot = shortLog(signedBlock.root)
blck = shortLog(signedBlock.message)
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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signature = shortLog(signedBlock.signature)
backfill = (dag.backfill.slot, shortLog(dag.backfill.parent_root))
template blck(): untyped = signedBlock.message # shortcuts without copy
template blockRoot(): untyped = signedBlock.root
template checkSignature =
# If the hash is correct, the block itself must be correct, but the root does
# not cover the signature, which we check next
when signedBlock.signature isnot TrustedSig:
if blck.slot == GENESIS_SLOT:
# The genesis block must have an empty signature (since there's no proposer)
if signedBlock.signature != ValidatorSig():
info "Invalid genesis block signature"
return err(VerifierError.Invalid)
else:
let proposerKey = dag.validatorKey(blck.proposer_index)
if proposerKey.isNone():
# We've verified that the block root matches our expectations by following
# the chain of parents all the way from checkpoint. If all those blocks
# were valid, the proposer_index in this block must also be valid, and we
# should have a key for it but we don't: this is either a bug on our from
# which we cannot recover, or an invalid checkpoint state was given in which
# case we're in trouble.
fatal "Invalid proposer in backfill block - checkpoint state corrupt?",
head = shortLog(dag.head), tail = shortLog(dag.tail)
quit 1
if not verify_block_signature(
dag.forkAtEpoch(blck.slot.epoch),
getStateField(dag.headState, genesis_validators_root),
blck.slot,
signedBlock.root,
proposerKey.get(),
signedBlock.signature):
info "Block signature verification failed"
return err(VerifierError.Invalid)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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let startTick = Moment.now()
if blck.slot >= dag.backfill.slot:
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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let existing = dag.getBlockIdAtSlot(blck.slot)
if existing.isSome:
if existing.get().bid.slot == blck.slot and
existing.get().bid.root == blockRoot:
# Special case: when starting with only a checkpoint state, we will not
# have the head block data in the database
if dag.getForkedBlock(existing.get().bid).isNone():
checkSignature()
debug "Block backfilled (checkpoint)"
dag.putBlock(signedBlock.asTrusted())
return ok()
debug "Duplicate block"
return err(VerifierError.Duplicate)
# Block is older than finalized, but different from the block in our
# canonical history: it must be from an unviable branch
debug "Block from unviable fork",
existing = shortLog(existing.get()),
finalizedHead = shortLog(dag.finalizedHead)
return err(VerifierError.UnviableFork)
if dag.frontfill.isSome():
let frontfill = dag.frontfill.get()
if blck.slot == frontfill.slot and
dag.backfill.parent_root == frontfill.root:
if blockRoot != frontfill.root:
# We've matched the backfill blocks all the way back to frontfill via the
# `parent_root` chain and ended up at a different block - one way this
# can happen is when an invalid `--network` parameter is given during
# startup (though in theory, we check that - maybe the database was
# swapped or something?).
fatal "Checkpoint given during initial startup inconsistent with genesis block - wrong network used when starting the node?",
tail = shortLog(dag.tail), head = shortLog(dag.head)
quit 1
# Signal that we're done by resetting backfill
reset(dag.backfill)
dag.db.finalizedBlocks.insert(blck.slot, blockRoot)
dag.updateFrontfillBlocks()
notice "Received final block during backfill, backfill complete"
# Backfill done - dag.backfill.slot now points to genesis block just like
# it would if we loaded a fully synced database - returning duplicate
# here is appropriate, though one could also call it ... ok?
return err(VerifierError.Duplicate)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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if dag.backfill.parent_root != blockRoot:
debug "Block does not match expected backfill root"
return err(VerifierError.MissingParent) # MissingChild really, but ..
if blck.slot < dag.horizon:
# This can happen as the horizon keeps moving - we'll discard it as
# duplicate since it would have duplicated an existing block had we been
# interested
debug "Block past horizon, dropping", horizon = dag.horizon
return err(VerifierError.Duplicate)
checkSignature()
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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let sigVerifyTick = Moment.now
dag.putBlock(signedBlock.asTrusted())
chaindag: don't keep backfill block table in memory (#3429) This PR names and documents the concept of the archive: a range of slots for which we have degraded functionality in terms of historical access - in particular: * we don't support rewinding to states in this range * we don't keep an in-memory representation of the block dag The archive de-facto exists in a trusted-node-synced node, but this PR gives it a name and drops the in-memory digest index. In order to satisfy `GetBlocksByRange` requests, we ensure that we have blocks for the entire archive period via backfill. Future versions may relax this further, adding a "pre-archive" period that is fully pruned. During by-slot searches in the archive (both for libp2p and rest requests), an extra database lookup is used to covert the given `slot` to a `root` - future versions will avoid this using era files which natively are indexed by `slot`. That said, the lookup is quite fast compared to the actual block loading given how trivial the table is - it's hard to measure, even. A collateral benefit of this PR is that checkpoint-synced nodes will see 100-200MB memory usage savings, thanks to the dropped in-memory cache - future pruning work will bring this benefit to full nodes as well. * document chaindag storage architecture and assumptions * look up parent using block id instead of full block in clearance (future-proofing the code against a future in which blocks come from era files) * simplify finalized block init, always writing the backfill portion to db at startup (to ensure lookups work as expected) * preallocate some extra memory for finalized blocks, to avoid immediate realloc
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dag.db.finalizedBlocks.insert(blck.slot, blockRoot)
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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dag.backfill = blck.toBeaconBlockSummary()
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293) * limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory - this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with the chain growing. We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful: * unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period * finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds, really In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case: finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number. Future work includes: * limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40 bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal with the tail vs state problem * persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps growing unbounded (albeit slowly) Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of writing. * No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead. * return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found - this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention * `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef` instances * in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to genesis, or panic * add backfill timings to log * fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with `getForkedBlock` reliably * shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled * in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef` * fix dag.blocks ref
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let putBlockTick = Moment.now
debug "Block backfilled",
sigVerifyDur = sigVerifyTick - startTick,
putBlockDur = putBlockTick - sigVerifyTick
ok()