## Issue Addressed
🐞 in which we don't actually unsubscribe from a random long lived subnet when it expires
## Proposed Changes
Remove code addressing a specific case in which we are subscribed to all subnets and handle the removal of the long lived subnet. I don't think the special case code is particularly important as, if someone is running with that many validators to be subscribed to all subnets, it should use `--subscribe-all-subnets` instead
## Additional Info
Noticed on some test nodes climbing bandwidth usage periodically (around 27hours, the time of subnet expirations) I'm running this code to test this does not happen anymore, but I think it should be good now
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
This PR removes duplicated block root computation.
Computing the `SignedBeaconBlock::canonical_root` has become more expensive since the merge as we need to compute the merke root of each transaction inside an `ExecutionPayload`.
Computing the root for [a mainnet block](https://beaconcha.in/slot/4704236) is taking ~10ms on my i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz (no sha extensions). Given that our median seen-to-imported time for blocks is presently 300-400ms, removing a few duplicated block roots (~30ms) could represent an easy 10% improvement. When we consider that the seen-to-imported times include operations *after* the block has been placed in the early attester cache, we could expect the 30ms to be more significant WRT our seen-to-attestable times.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
I have observed scenarios on Goerli where Lighthouse was receiving attestations which reference the same, un-cached shuffling on multiple threads at the same time. Lighthouse was then loading the same state from database and determining the shuffling on multiple threads at the same time. This is unnecessary load on the disk and RAM.
This PR modifies the shuffling cache so that each entry can be either:
- A committee
- A promise for a committee (i.e., a `crossbeam_channel::Receiver`)
Now, in the scenario where we have thread A and thread B simultaneously requesting the same un-cached shuffling, we will have the following:
1. Thread A will take the write-lock on the shuffling cache, find that there's no cached committee and then create a "promise" (a `crossbeam_channel::Sender`) for a committee before dropping the write-lock.
1. Thread B will then be allowed to take the write-lock for the shuffling cache and find the promise created by thread A. It will block the current thread waiting for thread A to fulfill that promise.
1. Thread A will load the state from disk, obtain the shuffling, send it down the channel, insert the entry into the cache and then continue to verify the attestation.
1. Thread B will then receive the shuffling from the receiver, be un-blocked and then continue to verify the attestation.
In the case where thread A fails to generate the shuffling and drops the sender, the next time that specific shuffling is requested we will detect that the channel is disconnected and return a `None` entry for that shuffling. This will cause the shuffling to be re-calculated.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
#3285
## Proposed Changes
Adds support for specifying histogram with buckets and adds new metric buckets for metrics mentioned in issue.
## Additional Info
Need some help for the buckets.
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
We currently subscribe to attestation subnets as soon as the subscription arrives (one epoch in advance), this makes it so that subscriptions for future slots are scheduled instead of done immediately.
## Proposed Changes
- Schedule subscriptions to subnets for future slots.
- Finish removing hashmap_delay, in favor of [delay_map](https://github.com/AgeManning/delay_map). This was the only remaining service to do this.
- Subscriptions for past slots are rejected, before we would subscribe for one slot.
- Add a new test for subscriptions that are not consecutive.
## Additional Info
This is also an effort in making the code easier to understand
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
As we've seen on Prater, there seems to be a correlation between these messages
```
WARN Not enough time for a discovery search subnet_id: ExactSubnet { subnet_id: SubnetId(19), slot: Slot(3742336) }, service: attestation_service
```
... and nodes falling 20-30 slots behind the head for short periods. These nodes are running ~20k Prater validators.
After running some metrics, I can see that the `network_recv` channel is processing ~250k `AttestationSubscribe` messages per minute. It occurred to me that perhaps the `AttestationSubscribe` messages are "washing out" the `SendRequest` and `SendResponse` messages. In this PR I separate the `AttestationSubscribe` and `SyncCommitteeSubscribe` messages into their own queue so the `tokio::select!` in the `NetworkService` can still process the other messages in the `network_recv` channel without necessarily having to clear all the subscription messages first.
~~I've also added filter to the HTTP API to prevent duplicate subscriptions going to the network service.~~
## Additional Info
- Currently being tested on Prater
## Proposed Changes
This PR has two aims: to speed up attestation packing in the op pool, and to fix bugs in the verification of attester slashings, proposer slashings and voluntary exits. The changes are bundled into a single database schema upgrade (v12).
Attestation packing is sped up by removing several inefficiencies:
- No more recalculation of `attesting_indices` during packing.
- No (unnecessary) examination of the `ParticipationFlags`: a bitfield suffices. See `RewardCache`.
- No re-checking of attestation validity during packing: the `AttestationMap` provides attestations which are "correct by construction" (I have checked this using Hydra).
- No SSZ re-serialization for the clunky `AttestationId` type (it can be removed in a future release).
So far the speed-up seems to be roughly 2-10x, from 500ms down to 50-100ms.
Verification of attester slashings, proposer slashings and voluntary exits is fixed by:
- Tracking the `ForkVersion`s that were used to verify each message inside the `SigVerifiedOp`. This allows us to quickly re-verify that they match the head state's opinion of what the `ForkVersion` should be at the epoch(s) relevant to the message.
- Storing the `SigVerifiedOp` on disk rather than the raw operation. This allows us to continue track the fork versions after a reboot.
This is mostly contained in this commit 52bb1840ae5c4356a8fc3a51e5df23ed65ed2c7f.
## Additional Info
The schema upgrade uses the justified state to re-verify attestations and compute `attesting_indices` for them. It will drop any attestations that fail to verify, by the logic that attestations are most valuable in the few slots after they're observed, and are probably stale and useless by the time a node restarts. Exits and proposer slashings and similarly re-verified to obtain `SigVerifiedOp`s.
This PR contains a runtime killswitch `--paranoid-block-proposal` which opts out of all the optimisations in favour of closely verifying every included message. Although I'm quite sure that the optimisations are correct this flag could be useful in the event of an unforeseen emergency.
Finally, you might notice that the `RewardCache` appears quite useless in its current form because it is only updated on the hot-path immediately before proposal. My hope is that in future we can shift calls to `RewardCache::update` into the background, e.g. while performing the state advance. It is also forward-looking to `tree-states` compatibility, where iterating and indexing `state.{previous,current}_epoch_participation` is expensive and needs to be minimised.
## Issue Addressed
#3032
## Proposed Changes
Pause sync when ee is offline. Changes include three main parts:
- Online/offline notification system
- Pause sync
- Resume sync
#### Online/offline notification system
- The engine state is now guarded behind a new struct `State` that ensures every change is correctly notified. Notifications are only sent if the state changes. The new `State` is behind a `RwLock` (as before) as the synchronization mechanism.
- The actual notification channel is a [tokio::sync::watch](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/watch/index.html) which ensures only the last value is in the receiver channel. This way we don't need to worry about message order etc.
- Sync waits for state changes concurrently with normal messages.
#### Pause Sync
Sync has four components, pausing is done differently in each:
- **Block lookups**: Disabled while in this state. We drop current requests and don't search for new blocks. Block lookups are infrequent and I don't think it's worth the extra logic of keeping these and delaying processing. If we later see that this is required, we can add it.
- **Parent lookups**: Disabled while in this state. We drop current requests and don't search for new parents. Parent lookups are even less frequent and I don't think it's worth the extra logic of keeping these and delaying processing. If we later see that this is required, we can add it.
- **Range**: Chains don't send batches for processing to the beacon processor. This is easily done by guarding the channel to the beacon processor and giving it access only if the ee is responsive. I find this the simplest and most powerful approach since we don't need to deal with new sync states and chain segments that are added while the ee is offline will follow the same logic without needing to synchronize a shared state among those. Another advantage of passive pause vs active pause is that we can still keep track of active advertised chain segments so that on resume we don't need to re-evaluate all our peers.
- **Backfill**: Not affected by ee states, we don't pause.
#### Resume Sync
- **Block lookups**: Enabled again.
- **Parent lookups**: Enabled again.
- **Range**: Active resume. Since the only real pause range does is not sending batches for processing, resume makes all chains that are holding read-for-processing batches send them.
- **Backfill**: Not affected by ee states, no need to resume.
## Additional Info
**QUESTION**: Originally I made this to notify and change on synced state, but @pawanjay176 on talks with @paulhauner concluded we only need to check online/offline states. The upcheck function mentions extra checks to have a very up to date sync status to aid the networking stack. However, the only need the networking stack would have is this one. I added a TODO to review if the extra check can be removed
Next gen of #3094
Will work best with #3439
Co-authored-by: Pawan Dhananjay <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
Solves #3390
So after checking some logs @pawanjay176 got, we conclude that this happened because we blacklisted a chain after trying it "too much". Now here, in all occurrences it seems that "too much" means we got too many download failures. This happened very slowly, exactly because the batch is allowed to stay alive for very long times after not counting penalties when the ee is offline. The error here then was not that the batch failed because of offline ee errors, but that we blacklisted a chain because of download errors, which we can't pin on the chain but on the peer. This PR fixes that.
## Proposed Changes
Adds a missing piece of logic so that if a chain fails for errors that can't be attributed to an objectively bad behavior from the peer, it is not blacklisted. The issue at hand occurred when new peers arrived claiming a head that had wrongfully blacklisted, even if the original peers participating in the chain were not penalized.
Another notable change is that we need to consider a batch invalid if it processed correctly but its next non empty batch fails processing. Now since a batch can fail processing in non empty ways, there is no need to mark as invalid previous batches.
Improves some logging as well.
## Additional Info
We should do this regardless of pausing sync on ee offline/unsynced state. This is because I think it's almost impossible to ensure a processing result will reach in a predictable order with a synced notification from the ee. Doing this handles what I think are inevitable data races when we actually pause sync
This also fixes a return that reports which batch failed and caused us some confusion checking the logs
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Removes three types of TODOs:
1. `execution_layer/src/lib.rs`: It was [determined](https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/issues/2636#issuecomment-988688742) that there is no action required here.
2. `beacon_processor/worker/gossip_methods.rs`: Removed TODOs relating to peer scoring that have already been addressed via `epe.penalize_peer()`.
- It seems `cargo fmt` wanted to adjust some things here as well 🤷
3. `proto_array_fork_choice.rs`: it would be nice to remove that useless `bool` for cleanliness, but I don't think it's something we need to do and the TODO just makes things look messier IMO.
## Additional Info
There should be no functional changes to the code in this PR.
There are still some TODOs lingering, those ones require actual changes or more thought.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Uses the `penalize_peer` function added in #3350 in sync methods as well. The existing code in sync methods missed the `ExecutionPayloadError::UnverifiedNonOptimisticCandidate` case.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
There are scenarios where the only viable head will have an invalid execution payload, in this scenario the `get_head` function on `proto_array` will return an error. We must recover from this scenario by importing blocks from the network.
This PR stops `BeaconChain::recompute_head` from returning an error so that we can't accidentally start down-scoring peers or aborting block import just because the current head has an invalid payload.
## Reviewer Notes
The following changes are included:
1. Allow `fork_choice.get_head` to fail gracefully in `BeaconChain::process_block` when trying to update the `early_attester_cache`; simply don't add the block to the cache rather than aborting the entire process.
1. Don't return an error from `BeaconChain::recompute_head_at_current_slot` and `BeaconChain::recompute_head` to defensively prevent calling functions from aborting any process just because the fork choice function failed to run.
- This should have practically no effect, since most callers were still continuing if recomputing the head failed.
- The outlier is that the API will return 200 rather than a 500 when fork choice fails.
1. Add the `ProtoArrayForkChoice::set_all_blocks_to_optimistic` function to recover from the scenario where we've rebooted and the persisted fork choice has an invalid head.
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#3351
## Proposed Changes
Returns a `ResourceUnavailable` rpc error if we are unable to serve full payloads to blocks by root and range requests because the execution layer is not synced.
## Additional Info
This PR also changes the penalties such that a `ResourceUnavailable` error is only penalized if it is an outgoing request. If we are syncing and aren't getting full block responses, then we don't have use for the peer. However, this might not be true for the incoming request case. We let the peer decide in this case if we are still useful or if we should be banned.
cc @divagant-martian please let me know if i'm missing something here.
## Issue Addressed
Add a flag that optionally enables unrealized vote tracking. Would like to test out on testnets and benchmark differences in methods of vote tracking. This PR includes a DB schema upgrade to enable to new vote tracking style.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
Co-authored-by: sean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mac L <mjladson@pm.me>
## Issue Addressed
* #3344
## Proposed Changes
There are a number of cases during block processing where we might get an `ExecutionPayloadError` but we shouldn't penalize peers. We were forgetting to enumerate all of the non-penalizing errors in every single match statement where we are making that decision. I created a function to make it explicit when we should and should not penalize peers and I used that function in all places where this logic is needed. This way we won't make the same mistake if we add another variant of `ExecutionPayloadError` in the future.
Improves some of the functionality around single and parent block lookup.
Gives extra information about whether failures for lookups are related to processing or downloading.
This is entirely untested.
Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
Duplicate of #3269. Making this since @divagant-martian opened the previous PR and she can't approve her own PR 😄
Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
## Overview
This rather extensive PR achieves two primary goals:
1. Uses the finalized/justified checkpoints of fork choice (FC), rather than that of the head state.
2. Refactors fork choice, block production and block processing to `async` functions.
Additionally, it achieves:
- Concurrent forkchoice updates to the EL and cache pruning after a new head is selected.
- Concurrent "block packing" (attestations, etc) and execution payload retrieval during block production.
- Concurrent per-block-processing and execution payload verification during block processing.
- The `Arc`-ification of `SignedBeaconBlock` during block processing (it's never mutated, so why not?):
- I had to do this to deal with sending blocks into spawned tasks.
- Previously we were cloning the beacon block at least 2 times during each block processing, these clones are either removed or turned into cheaper `Arc` clones.
- We were also `Box`-ing and un-`Box`-ing beacon blocks as they moved throughout the networking crate. This is not a big deal, but it's nice to avoid shifting things between the stack and heap.
- Avoids cloning *all the blocks* in *every chain segment* during sync.
- It also has the potential to clean up our code where we need to pass an *owned* block around so we can send it back in the case of an error (I didn't do much of this, my PR is already big enough 😅)
- The `BeaconChain::HeadSafetyStatus` struct was removed. It was an old relic from prior merge specs.
For motivation for this change, see https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3244#issuecomment-1160963273
## Changes to `canonical_head` and `fork_choice`
Previously, the `BeaconChain` had two separate fields:
```
canonical_head: RwLock<Snapshot>,
fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
```
Now, we have grouped these values under a single struct:
```
canonical_head: CanonicalHead {
cached_head: RwLock<Arc<Snapshot>>,
fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
}
```
Apart from ergonomics, the only *actual* change here is wrapping the canonical head snapshot in an `Arc`. This means that we no longer need to hold the `cached_head` (`canonical_head`, in old terms) lock when we want to pull some values from it. This was done to avoid deadlock risks by preventing functions from acquiring (and holding) the `cached_head` and `fork_choice` locks simultaneously.
## Breaking Changes
### The `state` (root) field in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event
Consider the scenario where epoch `n` is just finalized, but `start_slot(n)` is skipped. There are two state roots we might in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event:
1. The state root of the finalized block, which is `get_block(finalized_checkpoint.root).state_root`.
4. The state root at slot of `start_slot(n)`, which would be the state from (1), but "skipped forward" through any skip slots.
Previously, Lighthouse would choose (2). However, we can see that when [Teku generates that event](de2b2801c8/data/beaconrestapi/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/beaconrestapi/handlers/v1/events/EventSubscriptionManager.java (L171-L182)) it uses [`getStateRootFromBlockRoot`](de2b2801c8/data/provider/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/api/ChainDataProvider.java (L336-L341)) which uses (1).
I have switched Lighthouse from (2) to (1). I think it's a somewhat arbitrary choice between the two, where (1) is easier to compute and is consistent with Teku.
## Notes for Reviewers
I've renamed `BeaconChain::fork_choice` to `BeaconChain::recompute_head`. Doing this helped ensure I broke all previous uses of fork choice and I also find it more descriptive. It describes an action and can't be confused with trying to get a reference to the `ForkChoice` struct.
I've changed the ordering of SSE events when a block is received. It used to be `[block, finalized, head]` and now it's `[block, head, finalized]`. It was easier this way and I don't think we were making any promises about SSE event ordering so it's not "breaking".
I've made it so fork choice will run when it's first constructed. I did this because I wanted to have a cached version of the last call to `get_head`. Ensuring `get_head` has been run *at least once* means that the cached values doesn't need to wrapped in an `Option`. This was fairly simple, it just involved passing a `slot` to the constructor so it knows *when* it's being run. When loading a fork choice from the store and a slot clock isn't handy I've just used the `slot` that was saved in the `fork_choice_store`. That seems like it would be a faithful representation of the slot when we saved it.
I added the `genesis_time: u64` to the `BeaconChain`. It's small, constant and nice to have around.
Since we're using FC for the fin/just checkpoints, we no longer get the `0x00..00` roots at genesis. You can see I had to remove a work-around in `ef-tests` here: b56be3bc2. I can't find any reason why this would be an issue, if anything I think it'll be better since the genesis-alias has caught us out a few times (0x00..00 isn't actually a real root). Edit: I did find a case where the `network` expected the 0x00..00 alias and patched it here: 3f26ac3e2.
You'll notice a lot of changes in tests. Generally, tests should be functionally equivalent. Here are the things creating the most diff-noise in tests:
- Changing tests to be `tokio::async` tests.
- Adding `.await` to fork choice, block processing and block production functions.
- Refactor of the `canonical_head` "API" provided by the `BeaconChain`. E.g., `chain.canonical_head.cached_head()` instead of `chain.canonical_head.read()`.
- Wrapping `SignedBeaconBlock` in an `Arc`.
- In the `beacon_chain/tests/block_verification`, we can't use the `lazy_static` `CHAIN_SEGMENT` variable anymore since it's generated with an async function. We just generate it in each test, not so efficient but hopefully insignificant.
I had to disable `rayon` concurrent tests in the `fork_choice` tests. This is because the use of `rayon` and `block_on` was causing a panic.
Co-authored-by: Mac L <mjladson@pm.me>
## Issue Addressed
Deprecates the step parameter in the blocks by range request
## Proposed Changes
- Modifies the BlocksByRangeRequest type to remove the step parameter and everywhere we took it into account before
- Adds a new type to still handle coding and decoding of requests that use the parameter
## Additional Info
I went with a deprecation over the type itself so that requests received outside `lighthouse_network` don't even need to deal with this parameter. After the deprecation period just removing the Old blocks by range request should be straightforward
## Issue Addressed
Partly resolves https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3032
## Proposed Changes
Extracts some of the functionality of #3094 into a separate PR as the original PR requires a bit more work.
Do not unnecessarily penalize peers when we fail to validate received execution payloads because our execution layer is offline.
## Issue Addressed
currently we count a failed attempt for a syncing chain even if the peer is not at fault. This makes us do more work if the chain fails, and heavily penalize peers, when we can simply retry. Inspired by a proposal I made to #3094
## Proposed Changes
If a batch fails but the peer is not at fault, do not count the attempt
Also removes some annoying logs
## Additional Info
We still get a counter on ignored attempts.. just in case
## Issue Addressed
Reduces the effect of late blocks on overall node buildup
## Proposed Changes
change the capacity of the channels used to send work for reprocessing in the beacon processor, and to send back to the main processor task, to be 75% of the capacity of the channel for receiving new events
## Additional Info
The issues we've seen suggest we should still evaluate node performance under stress, with late blocks being a big factor.
Other changes that could help:
1. right now we have a cap for queued attestations for reprocessing that applies to the sum of aggregated and unaggregated attestations. We could consider adding a separate cap that favors aggregated ones.
2. solving #2848
## Issue Addressed
We were logging `out_finalized_epoch` instead of `our_finalized_epoch`. I noticed this ages ago but only just got around to fixing it.
## Additional Info
I also reformatted the log line to respect the line length limit (`rustfmt` won't do it because it gets confused by the `;` in slog's log macros).
## Issue Addressed
#3212
## Proposed Changes
Move chain segments coming from back-fill syncing from highest priority to lowest
## Additional Info
If this does not solve the issue, next steps would be lowering the batch size for back-fill sync, and as last resort throttling the processing of these chain segments
## Issue Addressed
This fixes the low-hanging Clippy lints introduced in Rust 1.61 (due any hour now). It _ignores_ one lint, because fixing it requires a structural refactor of the validator client that needs to be done delicately. I've started on that refactor and will create another PR that can be reviewed in more depth in the coming days. I think we should merge this PR in the meantime to unblock CI.
# Description
Since the `TaskExecutor` currently requires a `Weak<Runtime>`, it's impossible to use it in an async test where the `Runtime` is created outside our scope. Whilst we *could* create a new `Runtime` instance inside the async test, dropping that `Runtime` would cause a panic (you can't drop a `Runtime` in an async context).
To address this issue, this PR creates the `enum Handle`, which supports either:
- A `Weak<Runtime>` (for use in our production code)
- A `Handle` to a runtime (for use in testing)
In theory, there should be no change to the behaviour of our production code (beyond some slightly different descriptions in HTTP 500 errors), or even our tests. If there is no change, you might ask *"why bother?"*. There are two PRs (#3070 and #3175) that are waiting on these fixes to introduce some new tests. Since we've added the EL to the `BeaconChain` (for the merge), we are now doing more async stuff in tests.
I've also added a `RuntimeExecutor` to the `BeaconChainTestHarness`. Whilst that's not immediately useful, it will become useful in the near future with all the new async testing.
## Proposed Changes
Reduce post-merge disk usage by not storing finalized execution payloads in Lighthouse's database.
⚠️ **This is achieved in a backwards-incompatible way for networks that have already merged** ⚠️. Kiln users and shadow fork enjoyers will be unable to downgrade after running the code from this PR. The upgrade migration may take several minutes to run, and can't be aborted after it begins.
The main changes are:
- New column in the database called `ExecPayload`, keyed by beacon block root.
- The `BeaconBlock` column now stores blinded blocks only.
- Lots of places that previously used full blocks now use blinded blocks, e.g. analytics APIs, block replay in the DB, etc.
- On finalization:
- `prune_abanonded_forks` deletes non-canonical payloads whilst deleting non-canonical blocks.
- `migrate_db` deletes finalized canonical payloads whilst deleting finalized states.
- Conversions between blinded and full blocks are implemented in a compositional way, duplicating some work from Sean's PR #3134.
- The execution layer has a new `get_payload_by_block_hash` method that reconstructs a payload using the EE's `eth_getBlockByHash` call.
- I've tested manually that it works on Kiln, using Geth and Nethermind.
- This isn't necessarily the most efficient method, and new engine APIs are being discussed to improve this: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/146.
- We're depending on the `ethers` master branch, due to lots of recent changes. We're also using a workaround for https://github.com/gakonst/ethers-rs/issues/1134.
- Payload reconstruction is used in the HTTP API via `BeaconChain::get_block`, which is now `async`. Due to the `async` fn, the `blocking_json` wrapper has been removed.
- Payload reconstruction is used in network RPC to serve blocks-by-{root,range} responses. Here the `async` adjustment is messier, although I think I've managed to come up with a reasonable compromise: the handlers take the `SendOnDrop` by value so that they can drop it on _task completion_ (after the `fn` returns). Still, this is introducing disk reads onto core executor threads, which may have a negative performance impact (thoughts appreciated).
## Additional Info
- [x] For performance it would be great to remove the cloning of full blocks when converting them to blinded blocks to write to disk. I'm going to experiment with a `put_block` API that takes the block by value, breaks it into a blinded block and a payload, stores the blinded block, and then re-assembles the full block for the caller.
- [x] We should measure the latency of blocks-by-root and blocks-by-range responses.
- [x] We should add integration tests that stress the payload reconstruction (basic tests done, issue for more extensive tests: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3159)
- [x] We should (manually) test the schema v9 migration from several prior versions, particularly as blocks have changed on disk and some migrations rely on being able to load blocks.
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
## Issue Addressed
In very rare occasions we've seen most if not all our peers in a chain with which we don't agree. Purging these peers can take a very long time: number of retries of the chain. Meanwhile sync is caught in a loop trying the chain again and again. This makes it so that we fast track purging peers via registering the failed chain to prevent retrying for some time (30 seconds). Longer times could be dangerous since a chain can fail if a batch fails to download for example. In this case, I think it's still acceptable to fast track purging peers since they are nor providing the required info anyway
Co-authored-by: Divma <26765164+divagant-martian@users.noreply.github.com>
## Proposed Changes
Cut release v2.2.0 including proposer boost.
## Additional Info
I also updated the clippy lints for the imminent release of Rust 1.60, although LH v2.2.0 will continue to compile using Rust 1.58 (our MSRV).
## Proposed Changes
Add a `lighthouse db` command with three initial subcommands:
- `lighthouse db version`: print the database schema version.
- `lighthouse db migrate --to N`: manually upgrade (or downgrade!) the database to a different version.
- `lighthouse db inspect --column C`: log the key and size in bytes of every value in a given `DBColumn`.
This PR lays the groundwork for other changes, namely:
- Mark's fast-deposit sync (https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/2915), for which I think we should implement a database downgrade (from v9 to v8).
- My `tree-states` work, which already implements a downgrade (v10 to v8).
- Standalone purge commands like `lighthouse db purge-dht` per https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2824.
## Additional Info
I updated the `strum` crate to 0.24.0, which necessitated some changes in the network code to remove calls to deprecated methods.
Thanks to @winksaville for the motivation, and implementation work that I used as a source of inspiration (https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/2685).
## Issue Addressed
Removes the await points in sync waiting for a processor response for rpc block processing. Built on top of #3029
This also handles a couple of bugs in the previous code and adds a relatively comprehensive test suite.
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#2936
## Proposed Changes
Adds functionality for calling [`validator/prepare_beacon_proposer`](https://ethereum.github.io/beacon-APIs/?urls.primaryName=dev#/Validator/prepareBeaconProposer) in advance.
There is a `BeaconChain::prepare_beacon_proposer` method which, which called, computes the proposer for the next slot. If that proposer has been registered via the `validator/prepare_beacon_proposer` API method, then the `beacon_chain.execution_layer` will be provided the `PayloadAttributes` for us in all future forkchoiceUpdated calls. An artificial forkchoiceUpdated call will be created 4s before each slot, when the head updates and when a validator updates their information.
Additionally, I added strict ordering for calls from the `BeaconChain` to the `ExecutionLayer`. I'm not certain the `ExecutionLayer` will always maintain this ordering, but it's a good start to have consistency from the `BeaconChain`. There are some deadlock opportunities introduced, they are documented in the code.
## Additional Info
- ~~Blocked on #2837~~
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@GMAIL.com>
## Issue Addressed
#3010
## Proposed Changes
- move log debounce time latch to `./common/logging`
- add timelatch to limit logging for `attestations_delay_queue` and `queued_block_roots`
## Additional Info
- Is a separate crate for the time latch preferred?
- `elapsed()` could take `LOG_DEBOUNCE_INTERVAL ` as an argument to allow for different granularity.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses spec changes from v1.1.0:
- https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/2830
- https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/2846
## Proposed Changes
* Downgrade the REJECT for `HeadBlockFinalized` to an IGNORE. This applies to both unaggregated and aggregated attestations.
## Additional Info
I thought about also changing the penalty for `UnknownTargetRoot` but I don't think it's reachable in practice.
## Issue Addressed
#3006
## Proposed Changes
This PR changes the default behaviour of lighthouse to ignore discovered IPs that are not globally routable. It adds a CLI flag, --enable-local-discovery to permit the non-global IPs in discovery.
NOTE: We should take care in merging this as I will break current set-ups that rely on local IP discovery. I made this the non-default behaviour because we dont really want to be wasting resources attempting to connect to non-routable addresses and we dont want to propagate these to others (on the chance we can connect to one of these local nodes), improving discoveries efficiency.
## Description
This PR adds a single, trivial commit (f5d2b27d78349d5a675a2615eba42cc9ae708094) atop #2986 to resolve a tests compile error. The original author (@ethDreamer) is AFK so I'm getting this one merged ☺️
Please see #2986 for more information about the other, significant changes in this PR.
Co-authored-by: Mark Mackey <mark@sigmaprime.io>
Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>
## Issue Addressed
I noticed in some logs some excess and unecessary discovery queries. What was happening was we were pruning our peers down to our outbound target and having some disconnect. When we are below this threshold we try to find more peers (even if we are at our peer limit). The request becomes futile because we have no more peer slots.
This PR corrects this issue and advances the pruning mechanism to favour subnet peers.
An overview the new logic added is:
- We prune peers down to a target outbound peer count which is higher than the minimum outbound peer count.
- We only search for more peers if there is room to do so, and we are below the minimum outbound peer count not the target. So this gives us some buffer for peers to disconnect. The buffer is currently 10%
The modified pruning logic is documented in the code but for reference it should do the following:
- Prune peers with bad scores first
- If we need to prune more peers, then prune peers that are subscribed to a long-lived subnet
- If we still need to prune peers, the prune peers that we have a higher density of on any given subnet which should drive for uniform peers across all subnets.
This will need a bit of testing as it modifies some significant peer management behaviours in lighthouse.
## Issue Addressed
Lighthouse gossiping late messages
## Proposed Changes
Point LH to our fork using tokio interval, which 1) works as expected 2) is more performant than the previous version that actually worked as expected
Upgrade libp2p
## Additional Info
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/issues/2497
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Checks to see if attestations or sync messages are still valid before "accepting" them for propagation.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds `STRICT_LATE_MESSAGE_PENALTIES: bool` which allows for toggling penalties for late sync/attn messages.
`STRICT_LATE_MESSAGE_PENALTIES` is set to `false`, since we're seeing a lot of late messages on the network which are causing peer drops. We can toggle the bool during testing to try and figure out what/who is the cause of these late messages.
In effect, this PR *relaxes* peer downscoring for late attns and sync committee messages.
## Additional Info
- ~~Blocked on #2974~~
## Issue Addressed
This PR fixes the unnecessary `WARN Single block lookup failed` messages described here:
https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/2866#issuecomment-1008442640
## Proposed Changes
Add a new cache to the `BeaconChain` that tracks the block roots of blocks from before finalization. These could be blocks from the canonical chain (which might need to be read from disk), or old pre-finalization blocks that have been forked out.
The cache also stores a set of block roots for in-progress single block lookups, which duplicates some of the information from sync's `single_block_lookups` hashmap:
a836e180f9/beacon_node/network/src/sync/manager.rs (L192-L196)
On a live node you can confirm that the cache is working by grepping logs for the message: `Rejected attestation to finalized block`.
Checking how to priorize the polling of the network I moved most of the service code to functions. This change I think it's worth on it's own for code quality since inside the `tokio::select` many tools don't work (cargo fmt, sometimes clippy, and sometimes even the compiler's errors get wack). This is functionally equivalent to the previous code, just better organized
## Proposed Changes
Initially the idea was to remove hashing of blocks in backfill sync. After considering it more, we conclude that we need to do it in both (forward and backfill) anyway. But since we forgot why we were doing it in the first place, this PR documents this logic.
Future us should find it useful
Co-authored-by: Divma <26765164+divagant-martian@users.noreply.github.com>
## Proposed Changes
Allocate less memory in sync by hashing the `SignedBeaconBlock`s in a batch directly, rather than going via SSZ bytes.
Credit to @paulhauner for finding this source of temporary allocations.
## Issue Addressed
- Resolves https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2902
## Proposed Changes
As documented in https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2902, there are some cases where we will score peers very harshly for sending attestations to an unknown head.
This PR removes the penalty when an attestation for an unknown head is received, queued for block look-up, then popped from the queue without the head block being known. This prevents peers from being penalized for an unknown block when that peer was never actually asked for the block.
Peer penalties should still be applied to the peers who *do* get the request for the block and fail to respond with a valid block. As such, peers who send us attestations to non-existent heads should eventually be booted.
## Additional Info
- [ ] Need to confirm that a timeout for a bbroot request will incur a penalty.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
We have observed occasions were under-resourced nodes will receive messages that were valid *at the time*, but later become invalidated due to long waits for a `BeaconProcessor` worker.
In this PR, we will check to see if the message was valid *at the time of receipt*. If it was initially valid but invalid now, we just ignore the message without penalizing the peer.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
I've observed some Prater nodes (and potentially some mainnet nodes) banning peers due to validator pubkey cache lock timeouts. For the `BeaconChainError`-type of errors, they're caused by internal faults and we can't necessarily tell if the peer is bad or not. I think this is causing us to ban peers unnecessarily when running on under-resourced machines.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Introduces a cache to attestation to produce atop blocks which will become the head, but are not fully imported (e.g., not inserted into the database).
Whilst attesting to a block before it's imported is rather easy, if we're going to produce that attestation then we also need to be able to:
1. Verify that attestation.
1. Respond to RPC requests for the `beacon_block_root`.
Attestation verification (1) is *partially* covered. Since we prime the shuffling cache before we insert the block into the early attester cache, we should be fine for all typical use-cases. However, it is possible that the cache is washed out before we've managed to insert the state into the database and then attestation verification will fail with a "missing beacon state"-type error.
Providing the block via RPC (2) is also partially covered, since we'll check the database *and* the early attester cache when responding a blocks-by-root request. However, we'll still omit the block from blocks-by-range requests (until the block lands in the DB). I *think* this is fine, since there's no guarantee that we return all blocks for those responses.
Another important consideration is whether or not the *parent* of the early attester block is available in the databse. If it were not, we might fail to respond to blocks-by-root request that are iterating backwards to collect a chain of blocks. I argue that *we will always have the parent of the early attester block in the database.* This is because we are holding the fork-choice write-lock when inserting the block into the early attester cache and we do not drop that until the block is in the database.
## Issue Addressed
#2834
## Proposed Changes
Change log message severity from error to debug in attestation verification when attestation state is finalized.
## Issue Addressed
New rust lints
## Proposed Changes
- Boxing some enum variants
- removing some unused fields (is the validator lockfile unused? seemed so to me)
## Additional Info
- some error fields were marked as dead code but are logged out in areas
- left some dead fields in our ef test code because I assume they are useful for debugging?
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
* update initializing from eth1 for merge genesis
* read execution payload header from file lcli
* add `create-payload-header` command to `lcli`
* fix base fee parsing
* Apply suggestions from code review
* default `execution_payload_header` bool to false when deserializing `meta.yml` in EF tests
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
* Add payload verification status to fork choice
* Pass payload verification status to import_block
* Add valid back-propagation
* Add head safety status latch to API
* Remove ExecutionLayerStatus
* Add execution info to client notifier
* Update notifier logs
* Change use of "hash" to refer to beacon block
* Shutdown on invalid finalized block
* Tidy, add comments
* Fix failing FC tests
* Allow blocks with unsafe head
* Fix forkchoiceUpdate call on startup
* Thread eth1_block_hash into interop genesis state
* Add merge-fork-epoch flag
* Build LH with minimal spec by default
* Add verbose logs to execution_layer
* Add --http-allow-sync-stalled flag
* Update lcli new-testnet to create genesis state
* Fix http test
* Fix compile errors in tests
Added Execution Payload from Rayonism Fork
Updated new Containers to match Merge Spec
Updated BeaconBlockBody for Merge Spec
Completed updating BeaconState and BeaconBlockBody
Modified ExecutionPayload<T> to use Transaction<T>
Mostly Finished Changes for beacon-chain.md
Added some things for fork-choice.md
Update to match new fork-choice.md/fork.md changes
ran cargo fmt
Added Missing Pieces in eth2_libp2p for Merge
fix ef test
Various Changes to Conform Closer to Merge Spec
We were batch removing chains when purging, and then updating the status of the collection for each of those. This makes the range status be out of sync with the real status. This represented no harm to the global sync status, but I've changed it to comply with a correct debug assertion that I got triggered while doing some testing.
Also added tests and improved code quality as per @paulhauner 's suggestions.
## Issue Addressed
Part of a bigger effort to make the network globals read only. This moves all writes to the `PeerDB` to the `eth2_libp2p` crate. Limiting writes to the peer manager is a slightly more complicated issue for a next PR, to keep things reviewable.
## Proposed Changes
- Make the peers field in the globals a private field.
- Allow mutable access to the peers field to `eth2_libp2p` for now.
- Add a new network message to update the sync state.
Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
## Issue Addressed
Running a beacon node I triggered a sync debug panic. And so finally the time to create tests for sync arrived. Fortunately, te bug was not in the sync algorithm itself but a wrong assertion
## Proposed Changes
- Split Range's impl from the BeaconChain via a trait. This is needed for testing. The TestingRig/Harness is way bigger than needed and does not provide the modification functionalities that are needed to test sync. I find this simpler, tho some could disagree.
- Add a regression test for sync that fails before the changes.
- Fix the wrong assertion.
RPC Responses are for some reason not removing their timeout when they are completing.
As an example:
```
Nov 09 01:18:20.256 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728465, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:20.263 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728593, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:20.483 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 63, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466389, start_slot: 728465, msg: Failed to return all requested blocks, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:20.500 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 64, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466389, start_slot: 728593, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:21.068 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728529, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:21.272 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 63, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466389, start_slot: 728529, msg: Failed to return all requested blocks, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:23.434 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728657, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:23.665 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 64, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466390, start_slot: 728657, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:25.851 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728337, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:25.851 DEBG Received BlocksByRange Request step: 1, start_slot: 728401, count: 64, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:26.094 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 62, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466390, start_slot: 728401, msg: Failed to return all requested blocks, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:26.100 DEBG BlocksByRange Response sent returned: 63, requested: 64, current_slot: 2466390, start_slot: 728337, msg: Failed to return all requested blocks, peer: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw
Nov 09 01:18:31.070 DEBG RPC Error direction: Incoming, score: 0, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw, client: Prysm: version: a80b1c252a9b4773493b41999769bf3134ac373f, os_version: unknown, err: Stream Timeout, protocol: beacon_blocks_by_range, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:31.070 WARN Timed out to a peer's request. Likely insufficient resources, reduce peer count, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:31.085 DEBG RPC Error direction: Incoming, score: 0, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw, client: Prysm: version: a80b1c252a9b4773493b41999769bf3134ac373f, os_version: unknown, err: Stream Timeout, protocol: beacon_blocks_by_range, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:31.085 WARN Timed out to a peer's request. Likely insufficient resources, reduce peer count, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:31.459 DEBG RPC Error direction: Incoming, score: 0, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw, client: Prysm: version: a80b1c252a9b4773493b41999769bf3134ac373f, os_version: unknown, err: Stream Timeout, protocol: beacon_blocks_by_range, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:31.459 WARN Timed out to a peer's request. Likely insufficient resources, reduce peer count, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:34.129 DEBG RPC Error direction: Incoming, score: 0, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw, client: Prysm: version: a80b1c252a9b4773493b41999769bf3134ac373f, os_version: unknown, err: Stream Timeout, protocol: beacon_blocks_by_range, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:34.130 WARN Timed out to a peer's request. Likely insufficient resources, reduce peer count, service: libp2p
Nov 09 01:18:35.686 DEBG Peer Manager disconnecting peer reason: Too many peers, peer_id: 16Uiu2HAmEmBURejquBUMgKAqxViNoPnSptTWLA2CfgSPnnKENBNw, service: libp2p
```
This PR is to investigate and correct the issue.
~~My current thoughts are that for some reason we are not closing the streams correctly, or fast enough, or the executor is not registering the closes and waking up.~~ - Pretty sure this is not the case, see message below for a more accurate reason.
~~I've currently added a timeout to stream closures in an attempt to force streams to close and the future to always complete.~~ I removed this
## Issue Addressed
The computation of metrics in the network service can be expensive. This disables the computation unless the cli flag `metrics` is set.
## Additional Info
Metrics in other parts of the network are still updated, since most are simple metrics and checking if metrics are enabled each time each metric is updated doesn't seem like a gain.
## Issue Addressed
Getting too many peers kicked due to slightly late sync committee messages as tested on.. under-performant hardware.
## Proposed Changes
Only penalize if the message is more than one slot late. Still ignore the message-
Co-authored-by: Divma <26765164+divagant-martian@users.noreply.github.com>
## Issue Addressed
The [p2p-interface section of the `altair` spec](https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/dev/specs/altair/p2p-interface.md#transitioning-the-gossip) says you should subscribe to the topics for a fork "In advance of the fork" and unsubscribe from old topics `2 Epochs` after the new fork is activated. We've chosen to subscribe to new fork topics `2 slots` before the fork is initiated.
This function is supposed to return the required fork digests at any given time but as it was currently written, it doesn't return the fork digest for a previous fork if you've switched to the current fork less than 2 epoch's ago. Also this function required modification for every new fork we add.
## Proposed Changes
Make this function fork-agnostic and correctly handle the previous fork topic digests when you've only just switched to the new fork.
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#2611
## Proposed Changes
Adds a duplicate block root cache to the `BeaconProcessor`. Adds the block root to the cache before calling `process_gossip_block` and `process_rpc_block`. Since `process_rpc_block` is called only for single block lookups, we don't have to worry about batched block imports.
The block is imported from the source(gossip/rpc) that arrives first. The block that arrives second is not imported to avoid the db access issue.
There are 2 cases:
1. Block that arrives second is from rpc: In this case, we return an optimistic `BlockError::BlockIsAlreadyKnown` to sync.
2. Block that arrives second is from gossip: In this case, we only do gossip verification and forwarding but don't import the block into the the beacon chain.
## Additional info
Splits up `process_gossip_block` function to `process_gossip_unverified_block` and `process_gossip_verified_block`.
## Issue Addressed
In the backfill sync the state was maintained twice, once locally and also in the globals. This makes it so that it's maintained only once.
The only behavioral change is that when backfill sync in paused, the global backfill state is updated. I asked @AgeManning about this and he deemed it a bug, so this solves it.
## Description
The `eth2_libp2p` crate was originally named and designed to incorporate a simple libp2p integration into lighthouse. Since its origins the crates purpose has expanded dramatically. It now houses a lot more sophistication that is specific to lighthouse and no longer just a libp2p integration.
As of this writing it currently houses the following high-level lighthouse-specific logic:
- Lighthouse's implementation of the eth2 RPC protocol and specific encodings/decodings
- Integration and handling of ENRs with respect to libp2p and eth2
- Lighthouse's discovery logic, its integration with discv5 and logic about searching and handling peers.
- Lighthouse's peer manager - This is a large module handling various aspects of Lighthouse's network, such as peer scoring, handling pings and metadata, connection maintenance and recording, etc.
- Lighthouse's peer database - This is a collection of information stored for each individual peer which is specific to lighthouse. We store connection state, sync state, last seen ips and scores etc. The data stored for each peer is designed for various elements of the lighthouse code base such as syncing and the http api.
- Gossipsub scoring - This stores a collection of gossipsub 1.1 scoring mechanisms that are continuously analyssed and updated based on the ethereum 2 networks and how Lighthouse performs on these networks.
- Lighthouse specific types for managing gossipsub topics, sync status and ENR fields
- Lighthouse's network HTTP API metrics - A collection of metrics for lighthouse network monitoring
- Lighthouse's custom configuration of all networking protocols, RPC, gossipsub, discovery, identify and libp2p.
Therefore it makes sense to rename the crate to be more akin to its current purposes, simply that it manages the majority of Lighthouse's network stack. This PR renames this crate to `lighthouse_network`
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
This PR is near-identical to https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/2652, however it is to be merged into `unstable` instead of `merge-f2f`. Please see that PR for reasoning.
I'm making this duplicate PR to merge to `unstable` in an effort to shrink the diff between `unstable` and `merge-f2f` by doing smaller, lead-up PRs.
## Additional Info
NA
## Proposed Changes
This is a refactor of the PeerDB and PeerManager. A number of bugs have been surfacing around the connection state of peers and their interaction with the score state.
This refactor tightens the mutability properties of peers such that only specific modules are able to modify the state of peer information preventing inadvertant state changes that can lead to our local peer manager db being out of sync with libp2p.
Further, the logic around connection and scoring was quite convoluted and the distinction between the PeerManager and Peerdb was not well defined. Although these issues are not fully resolved, this PR is step to cleaning up this logic. The peerdb solely manages most mutability operations of peers leaving high-order logic to the peer manager.
A single `update_connection_state()` function has been added to the peer-db making it solely responsible for modifying the peer's connection state. The way the peer's scores can be modified have been reduced to three simple functions (`update_scores()`, `update_gossipsub_scores()` and `report_peer()`). This prevents any add-hoc modifications of scores and only natural processes of score modification is allowed which simplifies the reasoning of score and state changes.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
When peers switching to a disconnecting state, decrement the disconnected peers counter. This also downgrades some crit logs to errors.
I've also added a re-sync point when peers get unbanned the disconnected peer count will match back to the number of disconnected peers if it has gone out of sync previously.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#2528
## Proposed Changes
- Add `BlockTimesCache` to provide block timing information to `BeaconChain`. This allows additional metrics to be calculated for blocks that are set as head too late.
- Thread the `seen_timestamp` of blocks received from RPC responses (except blocks from syncing) through to the sync manager, similar to what is done for blocks from gossip.
## Additional Info
This provides the following additional metrics:
- `BEACON_BLOCK_OBSERVED_SLOT_START_DELAY_TIME`
- The delay between the start of the slot and when the block was first observed.
- `BEACON_BLOCK_IMPORTED_OBSERVED_DELAY_TIME`
- The delay between when the block was first observed and when the block was imported.
- `BEACON_BLOCK_HEAD_IMPORTED_DELAY_TIME`
- The delay between when the block was imported and when the block was set as head.
The metric `BEACON_BLOCK_IMPORTED_SLOT_START_DELAY_TIME` was removed.
A log is produced when a block is set as head too late, e.g.:
```
Aug 27 03:46:39.006 DEBG Delayed head block set_as_head_delay: Some(21.731066ms), imported_delay: Some(119.929934ms), observed_delay: Some(3.864596988s), block_delay: 4.006257988s, slot: 1931331, proposer_index: 24294, block_root: 0x937602c89d3143afa89088a44bdf4b4d0d760dad082abacb229495c048648a9e, service: beacon
```
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds the ability to verify batches of aggregated/unaggregated attestations from the network.
When the `BeaconProcessor` finds there are messages in the aggregated or unaggregated attestation queues, it will first check the length of the queue:
- `== 1` verify the attestation individually.
- `>= 2` take up to 64 of those attestations and verify them in a batch.
Notably, we only perform batch verification if the queue has a backlog. We don't apply any artificial delays to attestations to try and force them into batches.
### Batching Details
To assist with implementing batches we modify `beacon_chain::attestation_verification` to have two distinct categories for attestations:
- *Indexed* attestations: those which have passed initial validation and were valid enough for us to derive an `IndexedAttestation`.
- *Verified* attestations: those attestations which were indexed *and also* passed signature verification. These are well-formed, interesting messages which were signed by validators.
The batching functions accept `n` attestations and then return `n` attestation verification `Result`s, where those `Result`s can be any combination of `Ok` or `Err`. In other words, we attempt to verify as many attestations as possible and return specific per-attestation results so peer scores can be updated, if required.
When we batch verify attestations, we first try to map all those attestations to *indexed* attestations. If any of those attestations were able to be indexed, we then perform batch BLS verification on those indexed attestations. If the batch verification succeeds, we convert them into *verified* attestations, disabling individual signature checking. If the batch fails, we convert to verified attestations with individual signature checking enabled.
Ultimately, we optimistically try to do a batch verification of attestation signatures and fall-back to individual verification if it fails. This opens an attach vector for "poisoning" the attestations and causing us to waste a batch verification. I argue that peer scoring should do a good-enough job of defending against this and the typical-case gains massively outweigh the worst-case losses.
## Additional Info
Before this PR, attestation verification took the attestations by value (instead of by reference). It turns out that this was unnecessary and, in my opinion, resulted in some undesirable ergonomics (e.g., we had to pass the attestation back in the `Err` variant to avoid clones). In this PR I've modified attestation verification so that it now takes a reference.
I refactored the `beacon_chain/tests/attestation_verification.rs` tests so they use a builder-esque "tester" struct instead of a weird macro. It made it easier for me to test individual/batch with the same set of tests and I think it was a nice tidy-up. Notably, I did this last to try and make sure my new refactors to *actual* production code would pass under the existing test suite.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#1891Closes#1784
## Proposed Changes
Implement checkpoint sync for Lighthouse, enabling it to start from a weak subjectivity checkpoint.
## Additional Info
- [x] Return unavailable status for out-of-range blocks requested by peers (#2561)
- [x] Implement sync daemon for fetching historical blocks (#2561)
- [x] Verify chain hashes (either in `historical_blocks.rs` or the calling module)
- [x] Consistency check for initial block + state
- [x] Fetch the initial state and block from a beacon node HTTP endpoint
- [x] Don't crash fetching beacon states by slot from the API
- [x] Background service for state reconstruction, triggered by CLI flag or API call.
Considered out of scope for this PR:
- Drop the requirement to provide the `--checkpoint-block` (this would require some pretty heavy refactoring of block verification)
Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
