In this PR, we add support for protocol version eth/70, defined by EIP-7975.
Overall changes:
- Each response is buffered in the peer’s receipt buffer when the
`lastBlockIncomplete` field is true.
- Continued request uses the same request id of its original
request(`RequestPartialReceipts`).
- Partial responses are verified in `validateLastBlockReceipt`.
- Even if all receipts for partial blocks of the request are collected,
those partial results are not sinked to the downloader, to avoid
complexity. This assumes that partial response and buffering occur only
in exceptional cases.
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
With this, we are dropping support for protocol version eth/68. The only supported
version is eth/69 now. The p2p receipt encoding logic can be simplified a lot, and
processing of receipts during sync gets a little faster because we now transform
the network encoding into the database encoding directly, without decoding the
receipts first.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
This changes the p2p protocol handlers to delay message decoding. It's
the first part of a larger change that will delay decoding all the way
through message processing. For responses, we delay the decoding until
it is confirmed that the response matches an active request and does not
exceed its limits.
In order to make this work, all messages have been changed to use
rlp.RawList instead of a slice of the decoded item type. For block
bodies specifically, the decoding has been delayed all the way until
after verification of the response hash.
The role of p2p/tracker.Tracker changes significantly in this PR. The
Tracker's original purpose was to maintain metrics about requests and
responses in the peer-to-peer protocols. Each protocol maintained a
single global Tracker instance. As of this change, the Tracker is now
always active (regardless of metrics collection), and there is a
separate instance of it for each peer. Whenever a response arrives, it
is first verified that a request exists for it in the tracker. The
tracker is also the place where limits are kept.
This PR implements eth/69. This protocol version drops the bloom filter
from receipts messages, reducing the amount of data needed for a sync
by ~530GB (2.3B txs * 256 byte) uncompressed. Compressed this will
be reduced to ~100GB
The new version also changes the Status message and introduces the
BlockRangeUpdate message to relay information about the available history
range.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.
Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.
In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.
All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.
Caveats:
- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.
Questions:
- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
* eth: drop support for forward sync triggers and head block packets
* consensus, eth: enforce always merged network
* eth: fix tx looper startup and shutdown
* cmd, core: fix some tests
* core: remove notion of future blocks
* core, eth: drop unused methods and types
This change makes use of the new code generator rlp/rlpgen to improve the
performance of RLP encoding for Header and StateAccount. It also speeds up
encoding of ReceiptForStorage using the new rlp.EncoderBuffer API.
The change is much less transparent than I wanted it to be, because Header and
StateAccount now have an EncodeRLP method defined with pointer receiver. It
used to be possible to encode non-pointer values of these types, but the new
method prevents that and attempting to encode unadressable values (even if
part of another value) will return an error. The error can be surprising and may
pop up in places that previously didn't expect any errors.
To make things work, I also needed to update all code paths (mostly in unit tests)
that lead to encoding of non-pointer values, and pass a pointer instead.
Benchmark results:
name old time/op new time/op delta
EncodeRLP/legacy-header-8 328ns ± 0% 237ns ± 1% -27.63% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/london-header-8 353ns ± 0% 247ns ± 1% -30.06% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/receipt-for-storage-8 237ns ± 0% 123ns ± 0% -47.86% (p=0.000 n=8+7)
EncodeRLP/receipt-full-8 297ns ± 0% 301ns ± 1% +1.39% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
name old speed new speed delta
EncodeRLP/legacy-header-8 1.66GB/s ± 0% 2.29GB/s ± 1% +38.19% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/london-header-8 1.55GB/s ± 0% 2.22GB/s ± 1% +42.99% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/receipt-for-storage-8 38.0MB/s ± 0% 64.8MB/s ± 0% +70.48% (p=0.000 n=8+7)
EncodeRLP/receipt-full-8 910MB/s ± 0% 897MB/s ± 1% -1.37% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
EncodeRLP/legacy-header-8 0.00B 0.00B ~ (all equal)
EncodeRLP/london-header-8 0.00B 0.00B ~ (all equal)
EncodeRLP/receipt-for-storage-8 64.0B ± 0% 0.0B -100.00% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/receipt-full-8 320B ± 0% 320B ± 0% ~ (all equal)
This PR reduces the amount of work we do when answering header queries, e.g. when a peer
is syncing from us.
For some items, e.g block bodies, when we read the rlp-data from database, we plug it
directly into the response package. We didn't do that for headers, but instead read
headers-rlp, decode to types.Header, and re-encode to rlp. This PR changes that to keep it
in RLP-form as much as possible. When a node is syncing from us, it typically requests 192
contiguous headers. On master it has the following effect:
- For headers not in ancient: 2 db lookups. One for translating hash->number (even though
the request is by number), and another for reading by hash (this latter one is sometimes
cached).
- For headers in ancient: 1 file lookup/syscall for translating hash->number (even though
the request is by number), and another for reading the header itself. After this, it
also performes a hashing of the header, to ensure that the hash is what it expected. In
this PR, I instead move the logic for "give me a sequence of blocks" into the lower
layers, where the database can determine how and what to read from leveldb and/or
ancients.
There are basically four types of requests; three of them are improved this way. The
fourth, by hash going backwards, is more tricky to optimize. However, since we know that
the gap is 0, we can look up by the parentHash, and stlil shave off all the number->hash
lookups.
The gapped collection can be optimized similarly, as a follow-up, at least in three out of
four cases.
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
* eth/protocols, prp/tracker: add support for req/rep rtt tracking
* p2p/tracker: sanity cap the number of pending requests
* pap/tracker: linter <3
* p2p/tracker: disable entire tracker if no metrics are enabled
This commit splits the eth package, separating the handling of eth and snap protocols. It also includes the capability to run snap sync (https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/caps/snap.md) , but does not enable it by default.
Co-authored-by: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
