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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

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# Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Status Research & Development GmbH
# Licensed and distributed under either of
# * MIT license (license terms in the root directory or at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
# * Apache v2 license (license terms in the root directory or at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
# at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
import
std/os,
chronicles,
stew/results,
snappy/framing,
../ncli/e2store,
./spec/datatypes/[altair, bellatrix, phase0],
./spec/forks,
./consensus_object_pools/block_dag # TODO move to somewhere else to avoid circular deps
export results, forks, e2store
type
EraFile = ref object
handle: IoHandle
stateIdx: Index
blockIdx: Index
EraDB* = ref object
## The Era database manages a collection of era files that together make up
## a linear history of beacon chain data.
cfg: RuntimeConfig
path: string
genesis_validators_root: Eth2Digest
files: seq[EraFile]
proc getEraFile(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], era: Era):
Result[EraFile, string] =
for f in db.files:
if f.stateIdx.startSlot.era == era:
return ok(f)
if db.files.len > 16:
discard closeFile(db.files[0].handle)
db.files.delete(0)
if era.uint64 > historical_roots.lenu64():
return err("Era outside of known history")
let
name = eraFileName(db.cfg, db.genesis_validators_root, historical_roots, era)
var
f = Opt[IoHandle].ok(? openFile(db.path / name, {OpenFlags.Read}).mapErr(ioErrorMsg))
defer:
if f.isSome(): discard closeFile(f[])
# Indices can be found at the end of each era file - we only support
# single-era files for now
? f[].setFilePos(0, SeekPosition.SeekEnd).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
# Last in the file is the state index
let
stateIdxPos = ? f[].findIndexStartOffset()
? f[].setFilePos(stateIdxPos, SeekPosition.SeekCurrent).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
let
stateIdx = ? f[].readIndex()
if stateIdx.offsets.len() != 1:
return err("State index length invalid")
? f[].setFilePos(stateIdxPos, SeekPosition.SeekCurrent).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
# The genesis era file does not contain a block index
let blockIdx = if stateIdx.startSlot > 0:
let
blockIdxPos = ? f[].findIndexStartOffset()
? f[].setFilePos(blockIdxPos, SeekPosition.SeekCurrent).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
let idx = ? f[].readIndex()
if idx.offsets.lenu64() != SLOTS_PER_HISTORICAL_ROOT:
return err("Block index length invalid")
idx
else:
Index()
let res = EraFile(handle: f[], stateIdx: stateIdx, blockIdx: blockIdx)
reset(f)
db.files.add(res)
ok(res)
proc getBlockSZ*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot, bytes: var seq[byte]):
Result[void, string] =
## Get a snappy-frame-compressed version of the block data - may overwrite
## `bytes` on error
# Block content for the blocks of an era is found in the file for the _next_
# era
let
f = ? db.getEraFile(historical_roots, slot.era + 1)
pos = f[].blockIdx.offsets[slot - f[].blockIdx.startSlot]
if pos == 0:
return err("No block at given slot")
? f.handle.setFilePos(pos, SeekPosition.SeekBegin).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
let header = ? f.handle.readRecord(bytes)
if header.typ != SnappyBeaconBlock:
return err("Invalid era file: didn't find block at index position")
ok()
proc getBlockSSZ*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot,
bytes: var seq[byte]): Result[void, string] =
var tmp: seq[byte]
? db.getBlockSZ(historical_roots, slot, tmp)
try:
bytes = framingFormatUncompress(tmp)
ok()
except CatchableError as exc:
err(exc.msg)
proc getBlock*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot,
root: Opt[Eth2Digest], T: type ForkyTrustedSignedBeaconBlock): Opt[T] =
var tmp: seq[byte]
? db.getBlockSSZ(historical_roots, slot, tmp).mapErr(proc(x: auto) = discard)
result.ok(default(T))
try:
readSszBytes(tmp, result.get(), updateRoot = root.isNone)
if root.isSome():
result.get().root = root.get()
except CatchableError as exc:
result.err()
proc getStateSZ*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot,
bytes: var seq[byte]):
Result[void, string] =
## Get a snappy-frame-compressed version of the state data - may overwrite
## `bytes` on error
## https://github.com/google/snappy/blob/8dd58a519f79f0742d4c68fbccb2aed2ddb651e8/framing_format.txt#L34
# Block content for the blocks of an era is found in the file for the _next_
# era
let
f = ? db.getEraFile(historical_roots, slot.era)
if f.stateIdx.startSlot != slot:
return err("State not found in era file")
let pos = f.stateIdx.offsets[0]
if pos == 0:
return err("No state at given slot")
? f.handle.setFilePos(pos, SeekPosition.SeekBegin).mapErr(ioErrorMsg)
let header = ? f.handle.readRecord(bytes)
if header.typ != SnappyBeaconState:
return err("Invalid era file: didn't find state at index position")
ok()
proc getStateSSZ*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot,
bytes: var seq[byte]): Result[void, string] =
var tmp: seq[byte]
? db.getStateSZ(historical_roots, slot, tmp)
try:
bytes = framingFormatUncompress(tmp)
ok()
except CatchableError as exc:
err(exc.msg)
type
PartialBeaconState = object
# The first bytes of a beacon state object are (for now) shared between all
# forks - we exploit this to speed up loading
# Versioning
genesis_time*: uint64
genesis_validators_root*: Eth2Digest
slot*: Slot
fork*: Fork
# History
latest_block_header*: BeaconBlockHeader ##\
## `latest_block_header.state_root == ZERO_HASH` temporarily
block_roots*: HashArray[Limit SLOTS_PER_HISTORICAL_ROOT, Eth2Digest] ##\
## Needed to process attestations, older to newer
proc getPartialState(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], slot: Slot,
output: var PartialBeaconState): bool =
# TODO don't read all bytes: we only need a few, and shouldn't decompress the
# rest - our snappy impl is very slow, in part to the crc32 check it
# performs
var tmp: seq[byte]
if (let e = db.getStateSSZ(historical_roots, slot, tmp); e.isErr):
debugecho e.error()
return false
static: doAssert isFixedSize(PartialBeaconState)
const partialBytes = fixedPortionSize(PartialBeaconState)
try:
readSszBytes(tmp.toOpenArray(0, partialBytes - 1), output)
true
except CatchableError as exc:
# TODO log?
false
iterator getBlockIds*(
db: EraDB, historical_roots: openArray[Eth2Digest], era: Era): BlockId =
# The state from which we load block roots is stored in the file corresponding
# to the "next" era
let fileEra = era + 1
var
state = (ref PartialBeaconState)() # avoid stack overflow
# `case` ensures we're on a fork for which the `PartialBeaconState`
# definition is consistent
case db.cfg.stateForkAtEpoch(fileEra.start_slot().epoch)
of BeaconStateFork.Phase0, BeaconStateFork.Altair, BeaconStateFork.Bellatrix:
if not getPartialState(db, historical_roots, fileEra.start_slot(), state[]):
state = nil # No `return` in iterators
if state != nil:
var
slot = era.start_slot()
for root in state[].block_roots:
yield BlockId(root: root, slot: slot)
slot += 1
proc new*(
T: type EraDB, cfg: RuntimeConfig, path: string,
genesis_validators_root: Eth2Digest): EraDB =
EraDb(cfg: cfg, path: path, genesis_validators_root: genesis_validators_root)
when isMainModule:
# Testing EraDB gets messy because of the large amounts of data involved:
# this snippet contains some sanity checks for mainnet at least
import
os,
stew/arrayops
let
dbPath =
if os.paramCount() == 1: os.paramStr(1)
else: "era"
db = EraDB.new(
defaultRuntimeConfig, dbPath,
Eth2Digest(
data: array[32, byte].initCopyFrom([byte 0x4b, 0x36, 0x3d, 0xb9])))
historical_roots = [
Eth2Digest(
data: array[32, byte].initCopyFrom([byte 0x40, 0xcf, 0x2f, 0x3c]))]
var got8191 = false
var slot4: Eth2Digest
for bid in db.getBlockIds(historical_roots, Era(0)):
if bid.slot == Slot(1):
doAssert bid.root == Eth2Digest.fromHex(
"0xbacd20f09da907734434f052bd4c9503aa16bab1960e89ea20610d08d064481c")
elif bid.slot == Slot(4):
slot4 = bid.root
elif bid.slot == Slot(5) and bid.root != slot4:
raiseAssert "this slot was skipped, should have same root"
elif bid.slot == Slot(8191):
doAssert bid.root == Eth2Digest.fromHex(
"0x48ea23af46320b0290eae668b0c3e6ae3e0534270f897db0e83a57f51a22baca")
got8191 = true
doAssert db.getBlock(
historical_roots, Slot(1), Opt[Eth2Digest].err(),
phase0.TrustedSignedBeaconBlock).get().root ==
Eth2Digest.fromHex(
"0xbacd20f09da907734434f052bd4c9503aa16bab1960e89ea20610d08d064481c")
doAssert got8191