* 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()
* combine ncli_hash_tree_root and ncli_pretty into ncli_ssz
* disable ncli_query building by default
* fold ncli_transition into ncli_ssz and rename to ncli
* add helper for beacon committee length (used for quickly validating
attestations)
* refactor some attestation checks to do cheap checks early
* validate attestation epoch before computing active validator set
* clean up documentation / comments
* fill state cache on demand
* 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()
* adopt Result[void, string] in place of some bool return signatures
* string -> cstring to reduce memory allocations; ensure all err() strings are constants, with contextual information from higher-level callers
* logScope usage fixes
* homogenize err() reporting convention
* invalid signature in deposit isn't an error
* cleanups
* fix ncli state root check flag
* add block dump to ncli_db
* limit ncli_db benchmark length
* tone down finalization logs
* introduce trusted blocks
We only store blocks whose signature we've verified in the database - as
such, there's no need to check it again, and most importantly, no need
to deserialize the signature when loading from database.
50x startup time improvement, 200x block load time improvement.
* fix rewinding when deposits have invalid signature
* speed up ancestor iteration by avoiding copy
* avoid deserializing signatures for trusted data
* load blocks lazily when rewinding (less memory used)
* chronicles workarounds
* document trustedbeaconblock
* reorder ssz
* split into hash_trees and ssz_serialization, roughly, for hashing and
IO
* move bitseqs into ssz (from stew)
* clean up imports
* docs, imports
* Fix nbench compilation with HashedBeaconState
* Add nbench to tooling
* use newClone - fix 265e01e404 (r425198575)
* Detail advance_slot and hashTreeRoot
* Report throughput
* Fallback for ARM
* windows does not support inline ASM
* ssz: move ref support outside
Instead of allocating ref's inside SSZ, move it to separate helper:
* makes `ref` allocations explicit
* less magic inside SSZ
* `ref` in nim generally means reference whereas SSZ was loading as
value - if a type indeed used references it would get copies instead of
references to a single value on roundtrip which is unexpected
TODO: EF tests would benefit from some refactoring since they all do the
same thing practically..
Co-authored-by: Zahary Karadjov <zahary@gmail.com>
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.
* 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.
* nbench PoC
* Remove the yaml files from the example scenarios
* update README with current status
* Add an alternative implementation that uses defer
* Forgot to add the old proc body
* slots-processing
* allow benching state_transition failures
* Add Attestations processing (workaround confutils bug:
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/10
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/11
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/12
* Add CLI command in the readme
* Filter report and add notes about CPU cycles
* Report averages
* Add debugecho style time/cycle print
* Report when we skip BLS and state root verification
* Update to 0.9.3
* Generalize scenario parsing
* Support all block processing scenarios
* parallel bench runner PoC
* gitBetter load issues reporting (the load issues were invalid signature and expected to fail)
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Jacek Sieka
Zahary Karadjov
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Joao Gabriel Carvalho