`v1.4.0-beta.4` made the Gossip rules more strict and now requires to
ignore blobs from other branches if there are equivocating blocks.
Those blobs are only requestable via Req/Resp.
* ShufflingRef approach to next-epoch validator duty calculation/prediction
* refactor action_tracker.updateActions to take ShufflingRef + beacon_proposers; refactor maybeUpdateActionTrackerNextEpoch to be separate and reused function; add actual fallback logic
* document one possible set of conditions
* check epoch participation flags and inactivity scores to ensure no penalties and MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE to ensure rewards don't matter
* correctly (un)shuffle each proposer index
* remove debugging assertion
Directly initialize `ForkedLightClientObj` instead of separately first
setting the `kind` (initializing everything to zero) and then assigning
the forky data after that.
For symmetry with `forkyState` when using `withState`, and to avoid
problems with shadowing of `blck` when using `withBlck` in `template`,
also rename the injected `blck` to `forkyBlck`.
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/22698
To allow testing https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/issues/3466
add support for selecting fork choice version at launch. This means we
can deploy a different logic when `DENEB_FORK_EPOCH != FAR_FUTURE_EPOCH`
that won't be used on Mainnet.
This PR renames the existing `validator_duties` to `beacon_validators`
and in doing so, names validators running inside the beacon node process
"beacon validators" while those running the VC can be referred to as
"client validators" to disambiguate the two.
The existing `validator_duties` instead takes on a new responsibility:
as a home for logic shared between beacon and client validators - ie
code that provides consistency in implementation and behavior between
the two modes of operation.
Not only does this simplify reasoning about where to put code -it also
reduces the number of dependencies the validator client has from ~5000
to ~3000 modules (!) according to `nim genDepend` significantly reducing
compile times.
When a block is introduced to the system both via REST and gossip at the
same time, we will call `storeBlock` from two locations leading to a
dupliace check race condition as we wait for the EL.
This issue may manifest in particular when using an external block
builder that itself publishes the block onto the gossip network.
* refactor enqueue flow
* simplify calling `addBlock`
* complete request manager verifier future for blobless blocks
* re-verify parent conditions before adding block
among other things, it might have gone stale or finalized between one
call and the other
Split up the `ShufflingRef` acceleration logic into generically usable
parts and attester shuffling specific parts. The generic parts could be
used to accelerate other purposes, e.g., REST `/states/xxx/randao` API.
To enable additional use cases, e.g., `/states/###/randao` beacon API,
`ShufflingRef` acceleration logic needs to be able to operate on parts
of the DAG that do not have `BlockRef`. Changing `commonAncestor` to
act on `BlockId` instead of `BlockRef` is a step toward that and also
simplifies the logic some more.
* fall back to non-fcu fork choice on epoch boundaries
* Future[bool]
* fix
* Update beacon_chain/consensus_object_pools/consensus_manager.nim
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* make things consistent with Opt[void] return
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Post-merge blocks contain all information to directly obtain RANDAO
without having to load any additional info. Take advantage of that to
further accelerate `ShufflingRef` computation. Note that it is still
necessary to verify that `blck` / `state` share a sufficiently recent
ancestor for the purpose of computing attester shufflings.
- new: 243.71s, 239.67s, 237.32s, 238.36s, 239.57s
- old: 251.33s, 234.29s, 249.28s, 237.03s, 236.78s
Current RANDAO recovery logic is quite complex as it optimizes for the
minimum amount of database reads. Loading blocks isn't the bottleneck
though, so rather make the implementation more concise by avoiding the
complex strategy planning step. Note that this also prepares for an even
faster implementation for post-merge blocks in the future that extracts
RANDAO from `ExecutionPayload` directly if available, so even in cases
where efficiency is slightly lower, only historical data is affected.
`time nim c -r tests/test_blockchain_dag` (cached binary):
- new: 145.45s, 133.59s, 144.65s, 127.69s, 136.14s
- old: 149.15s, 150.84s, 135.77s, 137.49s, 133.89s
* Perform block pre-check before validating execution
When syncing, blocks have not been gossip-validated and are therefore
prone to trivial faults like being known-unviable, duplicate or missing
their parent.
In addition, the duplicate-block check in BlockProcessor was not
considering the quarantine flow and would therefore cause
recently-quarantined blocks to be silenty dropped when their parent
appears delaying the sync end-game and thus causing longer startup
resync time.
This PR verifies trivial conditions before performing execution
validation thus avoiding duplicates and missing parents alike.
It also ensures that the fast-sync EL mode is used for finalized blocks
even if the EL is timing out / slow to respond - this allows the CL to
complete its sync faster and switch to "normal" lock-step at the head of
the chain more quickly, thus also allowing the EL to access the latest
consensensus information earlier.
* oops
* remove unused constant
When the requestmanager is busy fetching blocks, the queue might get
filled with multiple entries of the same root - since there is no
deduplication, requests containing the same root multiple times will be
sent out.
Also, because the items sit in the queue for a long time potentially,
the request might be stale by the time that the manager is ready with
the previous request.
This PR removes the queue and directly fetches the blocks to download
from the quarantine which solves both problems (the quarantine already
de-duplicates and is clean of stale information).
Removing the queue for blobs is left for a future PR.
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* early exit `commonAncestor` when comparing with `finalizedHead`
As all `BlockRef` lead to `finalizedHead` (`parent == nil`),
can shortcut in that situation and immediately return `finalizedHead`
if passed as one of the arguments.
* typo in comment
* add test from #5152
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* add note about test complexity
* regenerate test summary
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Etan Kissling
tersec
Eugene Kabanov
Jacek Sieka