nimbus-eth2/ncli
Jacek Sieka 5713a3ce4c
performance fixes (#2259)
* performance fixes

* don't mark tree cache as dirty on read-only List accesses
* store only blob in memory for keys and signatures, parse blob lazily
* compare public keys by blob instead of parsing / converting to raw
* compare Eth2Digest using non-constant-time comparison
* avoid some unnecessary validator copying

This branch will in particular speed up deposit processing which has
been slowing down block replay.

Pre (mainnet, 1600 blocks):

```
All time are ms
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
    3450.269,        0.000,     3450.269,     3450.269,            1, Initialize DB
       0.417,        0.822,        0.036,       21.098,         1400, Load block from database
      16.521,        0.000,       16.521,       16.521,            1, Load state from database
      27.906,       50.846,        8.104,     1507.633,         1350, Apply block
      52.617,       37.029,       20.640,      135.938,           50, Apply epoch block
```

Post:

```
    3502.715,        0.000,     3502.715,     3502.715,            1, Initialize DB
       0.080,        0.560,        0.035,       21.015,         1400, Load block from database
      17.595,        0.000,       17.595,       17.595,            1, Load state from database
      15.706,       11.028,        8.300,      107.537,         1350, Apply block
      33.217,       12.622,       17.331,       60.580,           50, Apply epoch block
```

* more perf fixes

* load EpochRef cache into StateCache more aggressively
* point out security concern with public key cache
* reuse proposer index from state when processing block
* avoid genericAssign in a few more places
* don't parse key when signature is unparseable
* fix `==` overload for Eth2Digest
* preallocate validator list when getting active validators
* speed up proposer index calculation a little bit
* reuse cache when replaying blocks in ncli_db
* avoid a few more copying loops

```
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
    3279.158,        0.000,     3279.158,     3279.158,            1, Initialize DB
       0.072,        0.357,        0.035,       13.400,         1400, Load block from database
      17.295,        0.000,       17.295,       17.295,            1, Load state from database
       5.918,        9.896,        0.198,       98.028,         1350, Apply block
      15.888,       10.951,        7.902,       39.535,           50, Apply epoch block
       0.000,        0.000,        0.000,        0.000,            0, Database block store
```

* clear full balance cache before processing rewards and penalties

```
All time are ms
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
    3947.901,        0.000,     3947.901,     3947.901,            1, Initialize DB
       0.124,        0.506,        0.026,      202.370,       363345, Load block from database
      97.614,        0.000,       97.614,       97.614,            1, Load state from database
       0.186,        0.188,        0.012,       99.561,       357262, Advance slot, non-epoch
      14.161,        5.966,        1.099,      395.511,        11524, Advance slot, epoch
       1.372,        4.170,        0.017,      276.401,       363345, Apply block, no slot processing
       0.000,        0.000,        0.000,        0.000,            0, Database block store
```
2021-01-25 13:04:18 +01:00
..
.gitignore rm ncli_signing_root 2019-12-17 00:06:03 +02:00
README.md update nim-beacon-chain to nimbus-eth2 in beacon_chain/, ncli/, tests/, and README.md (#1843) 2020-10-08 19:02:05 +00:00
ncli.nim fix tools/all build (#2010) 2020-11-13 13:57:48 +01:00
ncli_db.nim performance fixes (#2259) 2021-01-25 13:04:18 +01:00
ncli_query.nim 12x speedup on state sim with 100k validators sans BLS by caching get_beacon_proposer_index(...) 2020-06-04 17:07:51 +00:00
nim.cfg minimize imports, specially for spec - cuts 2/3 of ncli build time (#500) 2019-10-25 12:59:56 +02:00

README.md

Introduction

ncli is a set of low level / debugging tools to interact with the nimbus beacon chain specification implementation, simliar to zcli. With it, you explore SSZ, make state transitions and compute hash tree roots.

Tools

  • transition: Perform state transition given a pre-state and a block to apply (both in SSZ format)
  • hash_tree_root: Print tree root of an SSZ object
  • pretty: Pretty-print SSZ object as JSON

Building

Follow the instructions from nimbus-eth2

git clone https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2.git
cd nimbus-eth2
make

Usage

# Build with minimal config
../env.sh nim c -d:const_preset=minimal ncli_transition
# Build with mainnet config
../env.sh nim c -d:const_preset=mainnet ncli_transition

# Run..
./ncli_transition --help