* use IntSet rather than HashSet[ValidatorIndex]
* add bounds check before uint64 -> int conversion
* use intsets in block transitions
* remove superfluous Nim issue explanation/reference
* performance fixes
* don't mark tree cache as dirty on read-only List accesses
* store only blob in memory for keys and signatures, parse blob lazily
* compare public keys by blob instead of parsing / converting to raw
* compare Eth2Digest using non-constant-time comparison
* avoid some unnecessary validator copying
This branch will in particular speed up deposit processing which has
been slowing down block replay.
Pre (mainnet, 1600 blocks):
```
All time are ms
Average, StdDev, Min, Max, Samples, Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
3450.269, 0.000, 3450.269, 3450.269, 1, Initialize DB
0.417, 0.822, 0.036, 21.098, 1400, Load block from database
16.521, 0.000, 16.521, 16.521, 1, Load state from database
27.906, 50.846, 8.104, 1507.633, 1350, Apply block
52.617, 37.029, 20.640, 135.938, 50, Apply epoch block
```
Post:
```
3502.715, 0.000, 3502.715, 3502.715, 1, Initialize DB
0.080, 0.560, 0.035, 21.015, 1400, Load block from database
17.595, 0.000, 17.595, 17.595, 1, Load state from database
15.706, 11.028, 8.300, 107.537, 1350, Apply block
33.217, 12.622, 17.331, 60.580, 50, Apply epoch block
```
* more perf fixes
* load EpochRef cache into StateCache more aggressively
* point out security concern with public key cache
* reuse proposer index from state when processing block
* avoid genericAssign in a few more places
* don't parse key when signature is unparseable
* fix `==` overload for Eth2Digest
* preallocate validator list when getting active validators
* speed up proposer index calculation a little bit
* reuse cache when replaying blocks in ncli_db
* avoid a few more copying loops
```
Average, StdDev, Min, Max, Samples, Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
3279.158, 0.000, 3279.158, 3279.158, 1, Initialize DB
0.072, 0.357, 0.035, 13.400, 1400, Load block from database
17.295, 0.000, 17.295, 17.295, 1, Load state from database
5.918, 9.896, 0.198, 98.028, 1350, Apply block
15.888, 10.951, 7.902, 39.535, 50, Apply epoch block
0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0, Database block store
```
* clear full balance cache before processing rewards and penalties
```
All time are ms
Average, StdDev, Min, Max, Samples, Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
3947.901, 0.000, 3947.901, 3947.901, 1, Initialize DB
0.124, 0.506, 0.026, 202.370, 363345, Load block from database
97.614, 0.000, 97.614, 97.614, 1, Load state from database
0.186, 0.188, 0.012, 99.561, 357262, Advance slot, non-epoch
14.161, 5.966, 1.099, 395.511, 11524, Advance slot, epoch
1.372, 4.170, 0.017, 276.401, 363345, Apply block, no slot processing
0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0, Database block store
```
* stop discarding non-existent future epochs during epoch state transitions; remove a pointless StateCache() construction in advance_slots()
* update nbench to pass StateCache to process_slots()
* Bump BLSCurve
* Use unified aggregation API
* use new blscurve with unified aggregate API
* bump
* fix toRaw
* replace state_sim combine with AggregateSignature
* Fix 32-bit
* Fix 32-bit for real and test deactivating ccache for fno-tree-lopp-vectorize flag
* change compilation switches to narrow down Linux issue
* Use -fno-tree-vectorize to disable both tree-loop-vectorize and tree-slp-vectorize
* blscurve now disables both Loop and SLP vectorization
* Add tests for the miracl/milagro fallback
* Travis has max log size of 4MB
* Test with Miracl in the finalization test
* fix state_sim log level
* Coment out the slow fallback tests
* Lazy loading of crypto objects
* Try to fix incorrect field access by hiding fields but no luck. SSZ/Chronicles/macro bug?
* Fix incorrect blsValue access. was "aggregate" not "chronicles"
* Fix tests that rely on the internal BLSValue representation
* avoid converting from uint64 to int, and where most feasible, int type conversion at all
* .len.uint64 -> .len64
* fix 32-bit compilation
* try keeping state_sim loop variable/bounds as int for 32-bit Azure
* len64 -> lenu64
hash_tree_root was turning up when running beacon_node, turns out to be
repeated hash_tree_root invocations - this pr brings them back down to
normal.
this PR caches the root of a block in the SignedBeaconBlock object -
this has the potential downside that even invalid blocks will be hashed
(as part of deserialization) - later, one could imagine delaying this
until checks have passed
there's also some cleanup of the `cat=` logs which were applied randomly
and haphazardly, and to a large degree are duplicated by other
information in the log statements - in particular, topics fulfill the
same role
* restore EpochRef and flush statecaches on epoch transitions
* more targeted cache invalidation
* remove get_empty_per_epoch_cache(); implement simpler but still faster get_beacon_proposer_index()/compute_proposer_index() approach; add some abstraction layer for accessing the shuffled validator indices cache
* reduce integer type conversions
* remove most of rest of integer type conversion in compute_proposer_index()
* update most of the remaining non-fork-choice spec refs, updating code where necessary
* revert presumably harmless compute_signing_root() change, but this way, keep things really unchanged outside inspector
* collect signature production and verificaiton in one place
Signatures are made over data and domain - here we collect all such
activities in one place.
Also:
* security: fix cast-before-range-check
* log block/attestation verification consistently
* run block verification based on `getProposer` in its own history
* clean up some unused stuff
* import
* missing raises
* sync fixes
* fix Status message finalized info
* work around sync starting before initial status exchange
* don't fail block on deposit signature check failure (fixes#989)
* print ForkDigest and Version nicely
* dump incoming blocks
* fix crash when libp2p peer connection is closed
* update chunk size to 16 to work around missing blocks when syncing
* bump libp2p
* bump libp2p
* better deposit skip message
* remove near-duplicate code paths: process_slot(), process_slots(), and state_transition() for BeaconState are now wrappers around the HashedBeaconState versions
* convert tests/test_state_transition.nim to use HashedBeaconState
* convert mocking infrastructure and spec_block/epoch_processing tests to use HashedBeaconBlock, and remove thus unused process_slot*(state: var BeaconState)
In BlockPool, we keep the head state around, so it's trivial to restore
the temporary state there and keep going as if nothing happened.
This solves 3 problems:
* stack space - the state copy on mainnet is huge
* GC scanning - using stack space for state slows down the GC
significantly
* reckless copying - the copy itself takes a long time
In state_sim, we'll do the same and allocate on heap - this helps a
little with GC - without it, the collection of the temporary strings
created with `toHex` while printing the json dominates the trace.
* crypto: cleanup
* fix several Defect-on-user-input
* make crypto interface more similar to secp
* use `crypto.nim` in all of nbc
* digest: raises
* fix
* vendor
* refactor and fix merkle proof construction in test suite and thereby remove most remaining skipMerkleValidation flags, now unnecessary
* a few non-semantic comment update/removals
* initial 0.11.1 spec commit; no test regressions and finalizes in eth2_network_simulation
* with BLS 0.10/0.11 available, stop skipping attester slashing, proposer slashing, and voluntary exist operations fixture tests
* switch param orders to group state.{fork, genesis_validators_root}; bump spec/datatypes spec version for network purposes
* mark attestation construction and broadcast and some minimal/mainnet constants as 0.11.1-compatible; remove phase 1 sharding constants from minimal which don't exist in that preset
* Initial implementation of runtime bls skipping.
Add libnfuzz skipBLSValidation handling, check that it propagates.
* Rename skipBLSValidation -> skipBlsValidation, start skipStateRootValidation
* Replace skipValidation flags with more granular flags.
Also added skipBlockParentRootValidation flag
Mainly replaced with skipBlsValidation but also StateRoot or
BlockParentRootValidation flags where appropriate.
* Adjust interop test to pass when skipping merkle validation.
* Stop skipping validation for mainchain_monitor.
* Remove comment.
* Also skipMerkleValidation for test_beacon_chain_db.
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Dustin Brody
Jacek Sieka
Zahary Karadjov
Joao Gabriel Carvalho