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Jacek Sieka b8a32419b8
async batch verification (+40% sig verification throughput) (#5176)
* async batch verification

When batch verification is done, the main thread is blocked reducing
concurrency.

With this PR, the new thread signalling primitive in chronos is used to
offload the full batch verification process to a separate thread
allowing the main threads to continue async operations while the other
threads verify signatures.

Similar to previous behavior, the number of ongoing batch verifications
is capped to prevent runaway resource usage.

In addition to the asynchronous processing, 3 addition changes help
drive throughput:

* A loop is used for batch accumulation: this prevents a stampede of
small batches in eager mode where both the eager and the scheduled batch
runner would pick batches off the queue, prematurely picking "fresh"
batches off the queue
* An additional small wait is introduced for small batches - this helps
create slightly larger batches which make better used of the increased
concurrency
* Up to 2 batches are scheduled to the threadpool during high pressure,
reducing startup latency for the threads

Together, these changes increase attestation verification throughput
under load up to 30%.

* fixup

* Update submodules

* fix blst build issues (and a PIC warning)

* bump

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Co-authored-by: Zahary Karadjov <zahary@gmail.com>
2023-08-03 11:36:45 +03:00
Jacek Sieka e8379389e7
speed up state/block loading (#5207)
* speed up state/block loading

When loading blocks and states from db/era, we currently redundantly
check their CRC32 - for a state, this costs 50ms of loading time
presently (110mb uncompressed size) on a decent laptop.

* remove `maxDecompressedDbRecordSize` - not actually used on recent
data since we store the framed format - also, we're in luck: we blew
past the limit quite some time ago
* fix obsolete exception-based error checking
* avoid `zeroMem` when reading from era store

see https://github.com/status-im/nim-snappy/pull/22 for benchmarks

* bump snappy
2023-07-26 10:47:46 +03:00
tersec 565edfa351
remove unused code (#5158)
* remove unused code

* add copyright header
2023-07-15 16:30:52 +00:00
Etan Kissling 2722778ce5
reduce `nim-eth` dependencies just for RNG (#5099)
We have several modules that import `nim-eth` for the sole purpose of
its `keys.newRng` function. This function is meanwhile a simple wrapper
around `nim-bearssl`'s `HmacDrbgContext.new()`, so the import doesn't
really serve a use anymore. Replace `keys.newRng` with the direct call
to reduce `nim-eth` imports.
2023-06-19 22:43:50 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 58b93ccbe0
era: Capella+ support (fixes #4752) (#4853)
Post-Capella, historical roots are computed from historical summaries
instead of being directly stored in the beacon state.

Slightly messy to pass both lists around - this is done to avoid
computing the historical root unnecessarily.
2023-04-24 15:26:28 +02:00
tersec 3b41e6a0e7
rename ConsensusFork.EIP4844 to ConsensusFork.Deneb (#4692) 2023-03-04 13:35:39 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 65aee9cf22
ncli_db: use fork from runtimeconfig when verifying era file (#4689)
Sepolia in particular goes through two hard forks during era 1, meaning
the phase0 fork is no longer part of the state, even though blocks that
belong to it still are phase0.
2023-03-03 13:15:11 +01:00
tersec e342fdd97a
rename stateForkAtEpoch to consensusForkAtEpoch (#4627) 2023-02-16 11:32:12 +02:00
tersec 956aee2d35
fill some capella/EIP4844 missing implementations (#4585) 2023-02-02 22:24:06 +00:00
tersec 0fb726c420
`BeaconStateFork/BeaconBlockFork` -> `ConsensusFork` (#4560)
* `BeaconStateFork/BeaconBlockFork` -> `ConsensusFork`

* revert unrelated change

* revert unrelated changes

* update test summaries
2023-01-28 19:53:41 +00:00
Jacek Sieka aff0505807
Allow reindexing to start from an arbitrary state (#4437)
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
2023-01-03 20:37:09 +01:00
tersec 7faef7827e
fix EIP4844 withBlck (#4411)
* fix EIP4844 withBlck

* don't raiseAssert by default
2022-12-14 18:30:56 +01:00
tersec 2932d3b808
extent `BeaconStateFork` enum (#4396) 2022-12-07 16:47:23 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 41f21b2688
era: fix verification of era 1 (#4351)
it has block 0 which is special
2022-11-24 15:38:56 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 09ade6d33d
Make trusted node sync era-aware (#4283)
This PR removes a bunch of code to make TNS aware of era files, avoiding
a duplicated backfill when era files are available.

* reuse chaindag for loading backfill state, replacing the TNS homebrew
* fix era block iteration to skip empty slots
* add tests for `can_advance_slots`
2022-11-10 10:44:47 +00:00
tersec 5b46f0b723
add Capella support to Forked* (#4276)
* add Capella support to Forked*

* remove cruft

* add `OnForkyBlockAdded`
2022-11-02 16:23:30 +00:00
tersec 66a5e88203
allow accessing withState forky state via `forkyState` (#4026) 2022-08-26 17:14:18 +03:00
tersec 65cecc50ca
cleanups: unused and duplicate imports, inconsistent naming conventions, URL updates (#3724) 2022-06-09 14:30:13 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 48f01186d6
fix unnecessary HashList/HashArray cache invalidation (#3660)
* SSZ `[]` -> `mitem`
* `[]` -> `item`

immutable access via mutable instance cannot rely on template
overloading, and `[]` cannot be a `func` because of special seq handling
in compiler.
2022-05-30 13:30:42 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 011e0ca02f
era file verification (#3605)
* era file verification

Implement and document era file verification

* era file states now come with block applied for easier verification
* clarify conflicting version handling
* document verification requirements
* remove count from name, use start-era, end-root to discover range

* remove obsolete todo

* abstract out block root loading
2022-05-10 03:28:46 +03:00
Jacek Sieka d0dbc4a8f9
Snappy revamp (#3564)
This PR makes the necessary adjustments to deal with the revamped snappy
API.

In practical terms for nimbus-eth2, there are performance increases to
gossip processing, database reading and writing as well as era file
processing. Exporting `.era` files for example, a snappy-heavy
operation, almost halves in total processing time:

Pre:

```
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
      39.088,        8.735,       23.619,       53.301,           50, tState
     237.079,       46.692,      165.620,      355.481,           49, tBlocks
```

Post:

```
All time are ms
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
      25.350,        5.303,       15.351,       41.856,           50, tState
     141.238,       24.164,       99.990,      199.329,           49, tBlocks
```
2022-04-15 09:44:06 +02:00
tersec 3796810bcd
rm unused imports (#3580) 2022-04-08 21:35:52 +00:00
Jacek Sieka f70ff38b53
enable `styleCheck:usages` (#3573)
Some upstream repos still need fixes, but this gets us close enough that
style hints can be enabled by default.

In general, "canonical" spellings are preferred even if they violate
nep-1 - this applies in particular to spec-related stuff like
`genesis_validators_root` which appears throughout the codebase.
2022-04-08 16:22:49 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 4207b127f9
era: load blocks and states (#3394)
* era: load blocks and states

Era files contain finalized history and can be thought of as an
alternative source for block and state data that allows clients to avoid
syncing this information from the P2P network - the P2P network is then
used to "top up" the client with the most recent data. They can be
freely shared in the community via whatever means (http, torrent, etc)
and serve as a permanent cold store of consensus data (and, after the
merge, execution data) for history buffs and bean counters alike.

This PR gently introduces support for loading blocks and states in two
cases: block requests from rest/p2p and frontfilling when doing
checkpoint sync.

The era files are used as a secondary source if the information is not
found in the database - compared to the database, there are a few key
differences:

* the database stores the block indexed by block root while the era file
indexes by slot - the former is used only in rest, while the latter is
used both by p2p and rest.
* when loading blocks from era files, the root is no longer trivially
available - if it is needed, it must either be computed (slow) or cached
(messy) - the good news is that for p2p requests, it is not needed
* in era files, "framed" snappy encoding is used while in the database
we store unframed snappy - for p2p2 requests, the latter requires
recompression while the former could avoid it
* front-filling is the process of using era files to replace backfilling
- in theory this front-filling could happen from any block and
front-fills with gaps could also be entertained, but our backfilling
algorithm cannot take advantage of this because there's no (simple) way
to tell it to "skip" a range.
* front-filling, as implemented, is a bit slow (10s to load mainnet): we
load the full BeaconState for every era to grab the roots of the blocks
- it would be better to partially load the state - as such, it would
also be good to be able to partially decompress snappy blobs
* lookups from REST via root are served by first looking up a block
summary in the database, then using the slot to load the block data from
the era file - however, there needs to be an option to create the
summary table from era files to fully support historical queries

To test this, `ncli_db` has an era file exporter: the files it creates
should be placed in an `era` folder next to `db` in the data directory.
What's interesting in particular about this setup is that `db` remains
as the source of truth for security purposes - it stores the latest
synced head root which in turn determines where a node "starts" its
consensus participation - the era directory however can be freely shared
between nodes / people without any (significant) security implications,
assuming the era files are consistent / not broken.

There's lots of future improvements to be had:

* we can drop the in-memory `BlockRef` index almost entirely - at this
point, resident memory usage of Nimbus should drop to a cool 500-600 mb
* we could serve era files via REST trivially: this would drop backfill
times to whatever time it takes to download the files - unlike the
current implementation that downloads block by block, downloading an era
at a time almost entirely cuts out request overhead
* we can "reasonably" recreate detailed state history from almost any
point in time, turning an O(slot) process into O(1) effectively - we'll
still need caches and indices to do this with sufficient efficiency for
the rest api, but at least it cuts the whole process down to minutes
instead of hours, for arbitrary points in time

* CI: ignore failures with Nim-1.6 (temporary)

* test fixes

Co-authored-by: Ștefan Talpalaru <stefantalpalaru@yahoo.com>
2022-03-23 09:58:17 +01:00