* don't lag aggregated attestations by a slot
* don't use aggregation topic at all
* use aggregates again, but with aggressively low ATTESTATION_PROPAGATION_SLOT_RANGE; seems to hold on to LH 1.0 nodes
* clean up scaffolding and double ATTESTATION_PROPAGATION_SLOT_RANGE to 16
* increase ATTESTATION_PROPAGATION_SLOT_RANGE to 24
* increase ATTESTATION_PROPAGATION_SLOT_RANGE to 28 and isolate in only used function due to customization; remove TRAILING_DISTANCE machinery
* Handle some web3 timeouts better
* Add support for developer .env files
* Eth1 improvements; Mainnet genesis state
Notable changes:
* The deposits table have been removed from the database. The client
will no longer process all deposits on start-up.
* The network metadata now includes a "state snapshot" of the deposit
contract. This allows the client to skip syncing deposits made prior
to the snapshot (i.e. genesis). Suitable metadata added for Pyrmont
and Mainnet.
* The Eth1 monitor won't be started unless there are validators attached
to the node.
* The genesis detection code is now optional and disabled by default
* Bugfix: The client should not produce blocks that will fail validation
when it hasn't downloaded the latest deposits yet
* Bugfix: Work around the database corruption affecting Pyrmont nodes
* Remove metadata for Toledo and Medalla
* log when database is loading (to avoid confusion)
* generate network keys later during startup
* fix quarantine not scheduling chain of parents for download and
increase size to one epoch
* log validator count, enr and peerid more clearly on startup
* misc memory and perf fixes
* use EpochRef for attestation aggregation
* compress effective balances in memory (medalla unfinalized: 4gb ->
1gb)
* avoid hitting db when rewinding to head or clearance state
* avoid hitting db when blocks can be applied to in-memory state -
speeds up startup considerably
* avoid storing epochref in fork choice
* simplify and speed up beacon block creation flow - avoids state reload
thanks to head rewind optimization
* iterator-based committee and attestation participation help avoid lots
of small memory allocations throughout epoch transition (40% speedup on
epoch processing, for example during startup)
* add constant for threshold
* in exit pool, filter out already-packaged messages; bundle remaining messages into beaconblocks
* filter messages at block construction time
* allow adding up to intended capacity of buffers, beyond per-block limits
* document rationale/design for filtering mechanism
* Slashing protection + interchange initial commit
* Restrict the when UseSlashingProtection dance in other modules
* Integrate slashing tests in other all_tests
* Add attestation slashing protection support
* Add a message that mention if built with/without slashing protection
* no op the initialization proc
* test slashing protection in Jenkins (temp)
* where to configure NIMFLAGS in Jenkins ...
* Jenkins -> ensure Built with slashing protection
* Add slashing protection complete import
* use Opt.get(otherwise)
* Don't use negation in proc name
* Turn slashing protection on by default
* remove some superfluous gcsafes
* remove getTailState (unused)
* don't store old epochrefs in blocks
* document attestation pool a bit
* remove `pcs =` cruft from log
* ignore sqlite WAL journal files in git; switch attestation resolved from info to debug
* promote sent attestations/blocks to notice rather than demote resolved attestations/blocks to debug
* initial - cheaper pruning - addresses #1534
* Pass tests: update offset when pruning, proper handling of pruned parents
* Use options instead of nil for nilable newHead (finalization passing but rootcause not solved)
* First line of defense against stackoverflow in tests
* Fix compute_delta offset after pruning
* Rebase fix - medalla ready
* Remove Option[BlockRef]
When blocks and attestations arrive, they are SSZ-decoded twice: once
for validation and once for processing. This branch enqueues the decoded
block directly for processing, avoiding the second, slow
deserialization.
* move processing of blocks and attestations to queue
* ...and out from beacon_node
* split attestation processing into attestations and aggregates
* also updates metrics
* clean up logging to better follow the lifetime of gossip: arrival,
validation and processing
* drop attestations and aggregates if there are too many
* try to prioritise blocks and aggregates before single-validator
attestations
* collect all epochrefs in specific blocks to make them easier to find
and to avoid lots of small seqs
* reuse validator key databases more aggressively by comparing keys
* make state cache available from within `withState`
* make epochRef available from within onBlockAdded callback
* integrate getEpochInfo into block resolution and epoch ref logic such
that epochrefs are created when blocks are added to pool or lazily when
needed by a getEpochRef
* fill state cache better from EpochRef, speeding up replay and
validation
* store epochRef in specific blocks to make them easier to find and
reuse
* fix database corruption when state is saved while replaying quarantine
* replay slots fully from block pool before processing state
* compare bls values more smartly
* store epoch state without block applied in database - it's recommended
to resync the node!
this branch will drastically speed up processing in times of long
non-finality, as well as cut memory usage by 10x during the recent
medalla madness.
* remove one cache, add another
This cache removes the need for rewinding in most attestation validation
flow since the attestations come from one of two epochs and must be
targetting a viable block.
Additionally, it also removes all state caches which are less likely to
be used over-all - more metrics are needed to track the rewinding.
On risk is that when chains don't finalize, we'll have lots of epochrefs
in memory meaning lots of validator key databases, most being exactly
the same. This can be addressed in any number of ways. Some of the
memory usage is mitigated by the fact that we previously had lots of big
state caches and now we're keeping only keys instead.
* cleanups
* doc
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Zahary Karadjov
Jacek Sieka
Sacha Saint-Leger
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Viktor Kirilov