With https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/4420 implemented, the
checks that we perform are equivalent to those of a `SYNCING` EL - as
such, we can treat missing EL the same as SYNCING and proceed with an
optimistic sync.
This mode of operation significantly speeds up recovery after an offline
EL event because the CL is already synced and can immediately inform the
EL of the latest head.
It also allows using a beacon node for consensus archival queries
without an execution client.
* deprecate `--optimistic` flag
* log block details on EL error, soften log level because we can now
continue to operate
* `UnviableFork` -> `Invalid` when block hash verification fails -
failed hash verification is not a fork-related block issue
When not backfilling all the way to genesis (#4421), it becomes more
useful to start rebuilding the historical indices from an arbitrary
starting point.
To rebuild the index from non-genesis, a state and an unbroken block
history is needed - here, we allow loading the state from an era file
and recreating the history from there onwards.
* speed up partial era state loading
This is needed because commit 0be57eec6e
changed the location of the nimbus_beacon_node executable within the
container file system. For users, not relying on the official entrypoint
this was a breaking change.
When backfilling, we only need to download blocks that are newer than
MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_BLOCK_REQUESTS - the rest cannot reliably be fetched from
the network and does not have to be provided to others.
This change affects only trusted-node-synced clients - genesis sync
continues to work as before (because it needs to construct a state by
building it from genesis).
Those wishing to complete a backfill should do so with era files
instead.
Trigger ANSI art on upgrade to Capella, similar to the merge.
Future extension could log blinking art when user successfully managed
to get BLS to Execution change included into a block for a validator.
Art created by http://beatscribe.com/ (beatscribe#1008 on Discord)
* 60% state replay speedup
* don't use HashList for epoch participation - in addition to the code
currently clearing the caches several times redundantly, clearing has to
be done each block nullifying the benefit (35%)
* introduce active balance cache - computing it is slow due to cache
unfriendliness in the random access pattern and bounds checking and we
do it for every block - this cache follows the same update pattern as
the active validator index cache (20%)
* avoid recomputing base reward several times per attestation (5%)
Applying 1024 blocks goes from 20s to ~8s on my laptop - these kinds of
requests happen on historical REST queries but also whenever there's a
reorg.
* fix test and diffs
* consolidate consensus spec transition test fixtures
* include capella
* consoliate fork test fixtures
* note change in EIP-4844 process_block in alpha.2
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