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Age Manning
ae96dab5d2 Increase UPnP logging and decrease batch sizes (#1812)
## Description

This increases the logging of the underlying UPnP tasks to inform the user of UPnP error/success. 

This also decreases the batch syncing size to two epochs per batch.
2020-10-23 03:01:33 +00:00
Age Manning
c49dd94e20 Update to latest libp2p (#1810)
## Description

Updates to the latest libp2p and includes gossipsub updates. 

Of particular note is the limitation of a single topic per gossipsub message.

Co-authored-by: blacktemplar <blacktemplar@a1.net>
2020-10-23 03:01:31 +00:00
divma
668513b67e Sync state adjustments (#1804)
check for advanced peers and the state of the chain wrt the clock slot to decide if a chain is or not synced /transitioning to a head sync. Also a fix that prevented getting the right state while syncing heads
2020-10-22 00:26:06 +00:00
divma
2acf75785c More sync updates (#1791)
## Issue Addressed
#1614 and a couple of sync-stalling problems, the most important is a cyclic dependency between the sync manager and the peer manager
2020-10-20 22:34:18 +00:00
Michael Sproul
703c33bdc7 Fix head tracker concurrency bugs (#1771)
## Issue Addressed

Closes #1557

## Proposed Changes

Modify the pruning algorithm so that it mutates the head-tracker _before_ committing the database transaction to disk, and _only if_ all the heads to be removed are still present in the head-tracker (i.e. no concurrent mutations).

In the process of writing and testing this I also had to make a few other changes:

* Use internal mutability for all `BeaconChainHarness` functions (namely the RNG and the graffiti), in order to enable parallel calls (see testing section below).
* Disable logging in harness tests unless the `test_logger` feature is turned on

And chose to make some clean-ups:

* Delete the `NullMigrator`
* Remove type-based configuration for the migrator in favour of runtime config (simpler, less duplicated code)
* Use the non-blocking migrator unless the blocking migrator is required. In the store tests we need the blocking migrator because some tests make asserts about the state of the DB after the migration has run.
* Rename `validators_keypairs` -> `validator_keypairs` in the `BeaconChainHarness`

## Testing

To confirm that the fix worked, I wrote a test using [Hiatus](https://crates.io/crates/hiatus), which can be found here:

https://github.com/michaelsproul/lighthouse/tree/hiatus-issue-1557

That test can't be merged because it inserts random breakpoints everywhere, but if you check out that branch you can run the test with:

```
$ cd beacon_node/beacon_chain
$ cargo test --release --test parallel_tests --features test_logger
```

It should pass, and the log output should show:

```
WARN Pruning deferred because of a concurrent mutation, message: this is expected only very rarely!
```

## Additional Info

This is a backwards-compatible change with no impact on consensus.
2020-10-19 05:58:39 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
97be2ca295 Simulator and attestation service fixes (#1747)
## Issue Addressed

#1729 #1730 

Which issue # does this PR address?

## Proposed Changes

1. Fixes a bug in the simulator where nodes can't find each other due to 0 udp ports in their enr.
2. Fixes bugs in attestation service where we are unsubscribing from a subnet prematurely.

More testing is needed for attestation service fixes.
2020-10-15 07:11:31 +00:00
blacktemplar
8248afa793 Updates the message-id according to the Networking Spec (#1752)
## Proposed Changes

Implement the new message id function (see https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/pull/2089) using an additional fast message id function for better performance + caching decompressed data.
2020-10-14 06:51:58 +00:00
Paul Hauner
0e4cc50262
Remove unused deps 2020-10-09 15:58:20 +11:00
Paul Hauner
db3e0578e9
Merge branch 'v0.3.0-staging' into v3-master 2020-10-09 15:27:08 +11:00
Paul Hauner
da44821e39
Clean up obsolete TODOs (#1734)
Squashed commit of the following:

commit f99373cbaec9adb2bdbae3f7e903284327962083
Author: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 5 18:44:09 2020 +1100

    Clean up obsolute TODOs
2020-10-05 21:08:14 +11:00
Paul Hauner
ee7c8a0b7e Update external deps (#1711)
## Issue Addressed

- Resolves #1706 

## Proposed Changes

Updates dependencies across the workspace. Any crate that was not able to be brought to the latest version is listed in #1712.

## Additional Info

NA
2020-10-05 08:22:19 +00:00
Age Manning
240181e840
Upgrade discovery and restructure task execution (#1693)
* Initial rebase

* Remove old code

* Correct release tests

* Rebase commit

* Remove eth2-testnet dep on eth2libp2p

* Remove crates lost in rebase

* Remove unused dep
2020-10-05 18:45:54 +11:00
Age Manning
bcb629564a
Improve error handling in network processing (#1654)
* Improve error handling in network processing

* Cargo fmt

* Cargo fmt

* Improve error handling for prior genesis

* Remove dep
2020-10-05 17:34:56 +11:00
divma
113758a4f5
From panic to crit (#1726)
## Issue Addressed
Downgrade inconsistent chain segment states from `panic` to `crit`. I don't love this solution but since range can always bounce back from any of those, we don't panic.

Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-10-05 17:34:49 +11:00
divma
6997776494
Sync fixes (#1716)
## Issue Addressed

chain state inconsistencies

## Proposed Changes
- a batch can be fake-failed by Range if it needs to move a peer to another chain. The peer will still send blocks/ errors / produce timeouts for those  requests, so check when we get a response from the RPC that the request id matches, instead of only the peer, since a re-request can be directed to the same peer.
- if an optimistic batch succeeds, store the attempt to avoid trying it again when quickly switching chains. Also, use it only if ahead of our current target, instead of the segment's start epoch
2020-10-05 17:33:36 +11:00
Paul Hauner
e7eb99cb5e
Use Drop impl to send worker idle message (#1718)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Uses a `Drop` implementation to help ensure that `BeaconProcessor` workers are freed. This will help prevent against regression, if someone happens to add an early return and it will also help in the case of a panic.

## Additional Info

NA
2020-10-05 17:33:25 +11:00
Age Manning
fe07a3c21c
Improve error handling in network processing (#1654)
* Improve error handling in network processing

* Cargo fmt

* Cargo fmt

* Improve error handling for prior genesis

* Remove dep
2020-10-05 17:30:43 +11:00
divma
b1c121b880 From panic to crit (#1726)
## Issue Addressed
Downgrade inconsistent chain segment states from `panic` to `crit`. I don't love this solution but since range can always bounce back from any of those, we don't panic.

Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-10-05 04:02:09 +00:00
divma
86a18e72c4 Sync fixes (#1716)
## Issue Addressed

chain state inconsistencies

## Proposed Changes
- a batch can be fake-failed by Range if it needs to move a peer to another chain. The peer will still send blocks/ errors / produce timeouts for those  requests, so check when we get a response from the RPC that the request id matches, instead of only the peer, since a re-request can be directed to the same peer.
- if an optimistic batch succeeds, store the attempt to avoid trying it again when quickly switching chains. Also, use it only if ahead of our current target, instead of the segment's start epoch
2020-10-04 23:49:14 +00:00
Paul Hauner
d72c026d32 Use Drop impl to send worker idle message (#1718)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Uses a `Drop` implementation to help ensure that `BeaconProcessor` workers are freed. This will help prevent against regression, if someone happens to add an early return and it will also help in the case of a panic.

## Additional Info

NA
2020-10-04 21:59:20 +00:00
Sean
6af3bc9ce2
Add UPnP support for Lighthouse (#1587)
This commit was modified by Paul H whilst rebasing master onto
v0.3.0-staging

Adding UPnP support will help grow the DHT by allowing NAT traversal for peers with UPnP supported routers.

Using IGD library: https://docs.rs/igd/0.10.0/igd/

Adding the  the libp2p tcp port and discovery udp port. If this fails it simply logs the attempt and moves on

Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-10-03 10:07:47 +10:00
realbigsean
255cc25623
Weak subjectivity start from genesis (#1675)
This commit was edited by Paul H when rebasing from master to
v0.3.0-staging.

Solution 2 proposed here: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1435#issuecomment-692317639

- Adds an optional `--wss-checkpoint` flag that takes a string `root:epoch`
- Verify that the given checkpoint exists in the chain, or that the the chain syncs through this checkpoint. If not, shutdown and prompt the user to purge state before restarting.

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2020-10-03 10:00:28 +10:00
Sean
94b17ce02b Add UPnP support for Lighthouse (#1587)
Adding UPnP support will help grow the DHT by allowing NAT traversal for peers with UPnP supported routers.

## Issue Addressed

#927 

## Proposed Changes

Using IGD library: https://docs.rs/igd/0.10.0/igd/

Adding the  the libp2p tcp port and discovery udp port. If this fails it simply logs the attempt and moves on

## Additional Info



Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-10-02 08:47:00 +00:00
realbigsean
9d2d6239cd Weak subjectivity start from genesis (#1675)
## Issue Addressed
Solution 2 proposed here: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1435#issuecomment-692317639

## Proposed Changes
- Adds an optional `--wss-checkpoint` flag that takes a string `root:epoch`
- Verify that the given checkpoint exists in the chain, or that the the chain syncs through this checkpoint. If not, shutdown and prompt the user to purge state before restarting.

## Additional Info


Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2020-10-01 01:41:58 +00:00
Michael Sproul
22aedda1be
Add database schema versioning (#1688)
## Issue Addressed

Closes #673

## Proposed Changes

Store a schema version in the database so that future releases can check they're running against a compatible database version. This would also enable automatic migration on breaking database changes, but that's left as future work.

The database config is also stored in the database so that the `slots_per_restore_point` value can be checked for consistency, which closes #673
2020-10-01 11:12:36 +10:00
Paul Hauner
cdec3cec18
Implement standard eth2.0 API (#1569)
- Resolves #1550
- Resolves #824
- Resolves #825
- Resolves #1131
- Resolves #1411
- Resolves #1256
- Resolve #1177

- Includes the `ShufflingId` struct initially defined in #1492. That PR is now closed and the changes are included here, with significant bug fixes.
- Implement the https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-APIs in a new `http_api` crate using `warp`. This replaces the `rest_api` crate.
- Add a new `common/eth2` crate which provides a wrapper around `reqwest`, providing the HTTP client that is used by the validator client and for testing. This replaces the `common/remote_beacon_node` crate.
- Create a `http_metrics` crate which is a dedicated server for Prometheus metrics (they are no longer served on the same port as the REST API). We now have flags for `--metrics`, `--metrics-address`, etc.
- Allow the `subnet_id` to be an optional parameter for `VerifiedUnaggregatedAttestation::verify`. This means it does not need to be provided unnecessarily by the validator client.
- Move `fn map_attestation_committee` in `mod beacon_chain::attestation_verification` to a new `fn with_committee_cache` on the `BeaconChain` so the same cache can be used for obtaining validator duties.
- Add some other helpers to `BeaconChain` to assist with common API duties (e.g., `block_root_at_slot`, `head_beacon_block_root`).
- Change the `NaiveAggregationPool` so it can index attestations by `hash_tree_root(attestation.data)`. This is a requirement of the API.
- Add functions to `BeaconChainHarness` to allow it to create slashings and exits.
- Allow for `eth1::Eth1NetworkId` to go to/from a `String`.
- Add functions to the `OperationPool` to allow getting all objects in the pool.
- Add function to `BeaconState` to check if a committee cache is initialized.
- Fix bug where `seconds_per_eth1_block` was not transferring over from `YamlConfig` to `ChainSpec`.
- Add the `deposit_contract_address` to `YamlConfig` and `ChainSpec`. We needed to be able to return it in an API response.
- Change some uses of serde `serialize_with` and `deserialize_with` to a single use of `with` (code quality).
- Impl `Display` and `FromStr` for several BLS fields.
- Check for clock discrepancy when VC polls BN for sync state (with +/- 1 slot tolerance). This is not intended to be comprehensive, it was just easy to do.

- See #1434 for a per-endpoint overview.
- Seeking clarity here: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-APIs/issues/75

- [x] Add docs for prom port to close #1256
- [x] Follow up on this #1177
- [x] ~~Follow up with #1424~~ Will fix in future PR.
- [x] Follow up with #1411
- [x] ~~Follow up with  #1260~~ Will fix in future PR.
- [x] Add quotes to all integers.
- [x] Remove `rest_types`
- [x] Address missing beacon block error. (#1629)
- [x] ~~Add tests for lighthouse/peers endpoints~~ Wontfix
- [x] ~~Follow up with validator status proposal~~ Tracked in #1434
- [x] Unify graffiti structs
- [x] ~~Start server when waiting for genesis?~~ Will fix in future PR.
- [x] TODO in http_api tests
- [x] Move lighthouse endpoints off /eth/v1
- [x] Update docs to link to standard

- ~~Blocked on #1586~~

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
2020-10-01 11:12:36 +10:00
blacktemplar
ae28773965
Networking bug fixes (#1684)
* call correct unsubscribe method for subnets

* correctly delegate closed connections in behaviour

* correct unsubscribe method name
2020-09-29 18:28:15 +10:00
Paul Hauner
1ef4f0ea12 Add gossip conditions from spec v0.12.3 (#1667)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

There are four new conditions introduced in v0.12.3:

 1. _[REJECT]_ The attestation's epoch matches its target -- i.e. `attestation.data.target.epoch ==
  compute_epoch_at_slot(attestation.data.slot)`
1. _[REJECT]_ The attestation's target block is an ancestor of the block named in the LMD vote -- i.e.
  `get_ancestor(store, attestation.data.beacon_block_root, compute_start_slot_at_epoch(attestation.data.target.epoch)) == attestation.data.target.root`
1. _[REJECT]_ The committee index is within the expected range -- i.e. `data.index < get_committee_count_per_slot(state, data.target.epoch)`.
1. _[REJECT]_ The number of aggregation bits matches the committee size -- i.e.
  `len(attestation.aggregation_bits) == len(get_beacon_committee(state, data.slot, data.index))`.

This PR implements new logic to suit (1) and (2). Tests are added for (3) and (4), although they were already implicitly enforced.

## Additional Info

- There's a bit of edge-case with target root verification that I raised here: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/pull/2001#issuecomment-699246659
- I've had to add an `--ignore` to `cargo audit` to get CI to pass. See https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1669
2020-09-27 20:59:40 +00:00
divma
b8013b7b2c Super Silky Smooth Syncs, like a Sir (#1628)
## Issue Addressed
In principle.. closes #1551 but in general are improvements for performance, maintainability and readability. The logic for the optimistic sync in actually simple

## Proposed Changes
There are miscellaneous things here:
- Remove unnecessary `BatchProcessResult::Partial` to simplify the batch validation logic
- Make batches a state machine. This is done to ensure batch state transitions respect our logic (this was previously done by moving batches between `Vec`s) and to ease the cognitive load of the `SyncingChain` struct
- Move most batch-related logic to the batch
- Remove `PendingBatches` in favor of a map of peers to their batches. This is to avoid duplicating peers inside the chain (peer_pool and pending_batches)
- Add `must_use` decoration to the `ProcessingResult` so that chains that request to be removed are handled accordingly. This also means that chains are now removed in more places than before to account for unhandled cases
- Store batches in a sorted map (`BTreeMap`) access is not O(1) but since the number of _active_ batches is bounded this should be fast, and saves performing hashing ops. Batches are indexed by the epoch they start. Sorted, to easily handle chain advancements (range logic)
- Produce the chain Id from the identifying fields: target root and target slot. This, to guarantee there can't be duplicated chains and be able to consistently search chains by either Id or checkpoint
- Fix chain_id not being present in all chain loggers
- Handle mega-edge case where the processor's work queue is full and the batch can't be sent. In this case the chain would lose the blocks, remain in a "syncing" state and waiting for a result that won't arrive, effectively stalling sync.
- When a batch imports blocks or the chain starts syncing with a local finalized epoch greater that the chain's start epoch, the chain is advanced instead of reset. This is to avoid losing download progress and validate batches faster. This also means that the old `start_epoch` now means "current first unvalidated batch", so it represents more accurately the progress of the chain.
- Batch status peers from the same chain to reduce Arc access.
- Handle a couple of cases where the retry counters for a batch were not updated/checked are now handled via the batch state machine. Basically now if we forget to do it, we will know.
- Do not send back the blocks from the processor to the batch. Instead register the attempt before sending the blocks (does not count as failed)
- When re-requesting a batch, try to avoid not only the last failed peer, but all previous failed peers.
- Optimize requesting batches ahead in the buffer by shuffling idle peers just once (this is just addressing a couple of old TODOs in the code)
- In chain_collection, store chains by their id in a map
- Include a mapping from request_ids to (chain, batch) that requested the batch to avoid the double O(n) search on block responses
- Other stuff:
  - impl `slog::KV` for batches
  - impl `slog::KV` for syncing chains
  - PSA: when logging, we can use `%thing` if `thing` implements `Display`. Same for `?` and `Debug`

### Optimistic syncing:
Try first the batch that contains the current head, if the batch imports any block, advance the chain. If not, if this optimistic batch is inside the current processing window leave it there for future use, if not drop it. The tolerance for this block is the same for downloading, but just once for processing



Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-09-23 06:29:55 +00:00
Age Manning
80e52a0263 Subscribe to core topics after sync (#1613)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Prevent subscribing to core gossipsub topics until after we have achieved a full sync. This prevents us censoring gossipsub channels, getting penalised in gossipsub 1.1 scoring and saves us computation time in attempting to validate gossipsub messages which we will be unable to do with a non-sync'd chain.
2020-09-23 03:26:33 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
a97ec318c4 Subscribe to subnets an epoch in advance (#1600)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Subscibe to subnet an epoch in advance of the attestation slot instead of 4 slots in advance.
2020-09-22 07:29:34 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
14ff38539c Add trusted peers (#1640)
## Issue Addressed

Closes #1581 

## Proposed Changes

Adds a new cli option for trusted peers who always have the maximum possible score.
2020-09-22 01:12:36 +00:00
Age Manning
1db8daae0c Shift metadata to the global network variables (#1631)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Shifts the local `metadata` to `network_globals` making it accessible to the HTTP API and other areas of lighthouse.

## Additional Info

N/A
2020-09-21 02:00:38 +00:00
Age Manning
c9596fcf0e Temporary Sync Work-Around (#1615)
## Issue Addressed

#1590 

## Proposed Changes

This is a temporary workaround that prevents finalized chain sync from swapping chains. I'm merging this in now until the full solution is ready.
2020-09-13 23:58:49 +00:00
Age Manning
c6abc56113 Prevent large step-size parameters (#1583)
## Issue Addressed

Malicious users could request very large block ranges, more than we expect. Although technically legal, we are now quadraticaly weighting large step sizes in the filter. Therefore users may request large skips, but not a large number of blocks, to prevent requests forcing us to do long chain lookups. 

## Proposed Changes

Weight the step parameter in the RPC filter and prevent any overflows that effect us in the step parameter.

## Additional Info
2020-09-11 02:33:36 +00:00
blacktemplar
7f1b936905 ignore too early / too late attestations instead of penalizing them (#1608)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

This ignores attestations that are too early or too late as it is specified in the spec (see https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v0.12.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#global-topics first subpoint of `beacon_aggregate_and_proof`)
2020-09-11 01:43:15 +00:00
Age Manning
b19cf02d2d Penalise bad peer behaviour (#1602)
## Issue Addressed

#1386 

## Proposed Changes

Penalises peers in our scoring system that produce invalid attestations or blocks.
2020-09-10 03:51:06 +00:00
Age Manning
fb9d828e5e Extended Gossipsub metrics (#1577)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Adds extended metrics to get a better idea of what is happening at the gossipsub layer of lighthouse. This provides information about mesh statistics per topics, subscriptions and peer scores. 

## Additional Info
2020-09-01 06:59:14 +00:00
blacktemplar
c18d37c202 Use Gossipsub 1.1 (#1516)
## Issue Addressed

#1172

## Proposed Changes

* updates the libp2p dependency
* small adaptions based on changes in libp2p
* report not just valid messages but also invalid and distinguish between `IGNORE`d messages and `REJECT`ed messages


Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-08-30 13:06:50 +00:00
Adam Szkoda
d9f4819fe0 Alternative (to BeaconChainHarness) BeaconChain testing API (#1380)
The PR:

* Adds the ability to generate a crucial test scenario that isn't possible with `BeaconChainHarness` (i.e. two blocks occupying the same slot; previously forks necessitated skipping slots):

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/165678/88195404-4bce3580-cc40-11ea-8c08-b48d2e1d5959.png)

* New testing API: Instead of repeatedly calling add_block(), you generate a sorted `Vec<Slot>` and leave it up to the framework to generate blocks at those slots.
* Jumping backwards to an earlier epoch is a hard error, so that tests necessarily generate blocks in a epoch-by-epoch manner.
* Configures the test logger so that output is printed on the console in case a test fails.  The logger also plays well with `--nocapture`, contrary to the existing testing framework
* Rewrites existing fork pruning tests to use the new API
* Adds a tests that triggers finalization at a non epoch boundary slot
* Renamed `BeaconChainYoke` to `BeaconChainTestingRig` because the former has been too confusing
* Fixed multiple tests (e.g. `block_production_different_shuffling_long`, `delete_blocks_and_states`, `shuffling_compatible_simple_fork`) that relied on a weird (and accidental) feature of the old `BeaconChainHarness` that attestations aren't produced for epochs earlier than the current one, thus masking potential bugs in test cases.

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
2020-08-26 09:24:55 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
bbed42f30c Refactor attestation service (#1415)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Refactor attestation service to send out requests to find peers for subnets as soon as we get attestation duties. 
Earlier, we had much more involved logic to send the discovery requests to the discovery service only 6 slots before the attestation slot. Now that discovery is much smarter with grouped queries, the complexity in attestation service can be reduced considerably.



Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
2020-08-19 08:46:25 +00:00
divma
fdc6e2aa8e Shutdown like a Sir (#1545)
## Issue Addressed
#1494 

## Proposed Changes
- Give the TaskExecutor the sender side of a channel that a task can clone to request shutting down
- The receiver side of this channel is in environment and now we block until ctrl+c or an internal shutdown signal is received
- The swarm now informs when it has reached 0 listeners
- The network receives this message and requests the shutdown
2020-08-19 05:51:14 +00:00
Paul Hauner
8e7dd7b2b1 Add remaining network ops to queuing system (#1546)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

- Refactors the `BeaconProcessor` to remove some excessive nesting and file bloat
  - Sorry about the noise from this, it's all contained in 4d3f8c5 though.
- Adds exits, proposer slashings, attester slashings to the `BeaconProcessor` so we don't get overwhelmed with large amounts of slashings (which happened a few hours ago).

## Additional Info

NA
2020-08-19 05:09:53 +00:00
Age Manning
2d0b214b57 Clean up logs (#1541)
## Description

This PR improves some logging for the end-user. 

It downgrades some warning logs and removes the slots per second sync speed if we are syncing and the speed is 0. This is likely because we are syncing from a finalised checkpoint and the head doesn't change.
2020-08-18 08:11:39 +00:00
Age Manning
8311074d68 Purge out-dated head chains on chain completion (#1538)
## Description

There can be many head chains queued up to complete. Currently we try and process all of these to completion before we consider the node synced. 

In a chaotic network, there can be many of these and processing them to completion can be very expensive and slow. This PR removes any non-syncing head chains from the queue, and re-status's the peers. If, after we have synced to head on one chain, there is still a valid head chain to download, it will be re-established once the status has been returned. 

This should assist with getting nodes to sync on medalla faster.
2020-08-18 05:22:34 +00:00
Age Manning
3bb30754d9 Keep track of failed head chains and prevent re-lookups (#1534)
## Overview

There are forked chains which get referenced by blocks and attestations on a network. Typically if these chains are very long, we stop looking up the chain and downvote the peer. In extreme circumstances, many peers are on many chains, the chains can be very deep and become time consuming performing lookups. 

This PR adds a cache to known failed chain lookups. This prevents us from starting a parent-lookup (or stopping one half way through) if we have attempted the chain lookup in the past.
2020-08-18 03:54:09 +00:00
Age Manning
cc44a64d15 Limit parallelism of head chain sync (#1527)
## Description

Currently lighthouse load-balances across peers a single finalized chain. The chain is selected via the most peers. Once synced to the latest finalized epoch Lighthouse creates chains amongst its peers and syncs them all in parallel amongst each peer (grouped by their current head block). 

This is typically fast and relatively efficient under normal operations. However if the chain has not finalized in a long time, the head chains can grow quite long. Peer's head chains will update every slot as new blocks are added to the head. Syncing all head chains in parallel is a bottleneck and highly inefficient in block duplication leads to RPC timeouts when attempting to handle all new heads chains at once. 

This PR limits the parallelism of head syncing chains to 2. We now sync at most two head chains at a time. This allows for the possiblity of sync progressing alongside a peer being slow and holding up one chain via RPC timeouts.
2020-08-18 02:49:24 +00:00
divma
46dbf027af Do not reset batch ids & redownload out of range batches (#1528)
The changes are somewhat simple but should solve two issues:
- When quickly changing between chains once and a second time back again, batchIds would collide and cause havoc. 
- If we got an out of range response from a peer, sync would remain in syncing but without advancing

Changes:
- remove the batch id. Identify each batch (inside a chain) by its starting epoch. Target epochs for downloading and processing now advance by EPOCHS_PER_BATCH
- for the same reason, move the "to_be_downloaded_id" to be an epoch
- remove a sneaky line that dropped an out of range batch without downloading it
- bonus: put the chain_id in the log given to the chain. This is why explicitly logging the chain_id is removed
2020-08-18 01:29:51 +00:00
Michael Sproul
719a69aee0 Ignore blocks that skip a large distance from their parent (#1530)
## Proposed Changes

To mitigate the impact of minority forks on RAM and disk usage, this change rejects blocks whose parent lies more than 320 slots (10 epochs, ~1 hour) in the past. The behaviour is configurable via `lighthouse bn --max-skip-slots N`, and can be turned off entirely using `--max-skip-slots none`.

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2020-08-17 10:54:58 +00:00
Paul Hauner
f85485884f Process gossip blocks on the GossipProcessor (#1523)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Moves beacon block processing over to the newly-added `GossipProcessor`. This moves the task off the core executor onto the blocking one.

## Additional Info

- With this PR, gossip blocks are being ignored during sync.
2020-08-17 09:20:27 +00:00