## 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>
## Proposed Changes
Implement the consensus changes necessary for the upcoming Altair hard fork.
## Additional Info
This is quite a heavy refactor, with pivotal types like the `BeaconState` and `BeaconBlock` changing from structs to enums. This ripples through the whole codebase with field accesses changing to methods, e.g. `state.slot` => `state.slot()`.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Updates out of date dependencies.
## Additional Info
See also https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1712 for a list of dependencies that are still out of date and the resasons.
* Remove redundant method
* Pull out a method out of a struct
* More precise db access abstractions
* Move fake trait method out of it
* cargo fmt
* Fix compilation error after refactoring
* Move another fake method out the Store trait
* Get rid of superfluous method
* Fix refactoring bug
* Rename: SimpleStoreItem -> StoreItem
* Get rid of the confusing DiskStore type alias
* Get rid of SimpleDiskStore type alias
* Correction: A method took both self and a ref to Self
* Add LRU caches to store
* Improvements to LRU caches
* Take state by value in `Store::put_state`
* Store blocks by value, configurable cache sizes
* Use a StateBatch to efficiently store skip states
* Fix store tests
* Add CloneConfig test, remove unused metrics
* Use Mutexes instead of RwLocks for LRU caches
* Add basic block/state caching on beacon chain
* Adds checkpoint cache
* Stop storing the tree hash cache in the db
* Remove dedunant beacon state write
* Use caching get methods in fork choice
* Use caching state getting in state_by_slot
* Add state.cacheless_clone
* Attempt to improve attestation processing times
* Introduce HeadInfo struct
* Used cache tree hash for block processing
* Use cached tree hash for block production too
* Add state enc/dec benches
* Add example for flamegraph
* Use `PublicKeyBytes` for `Validator`
* Ripple PublicKeyBytes change through codebase
* Add benches, optimizations to store BeaconState
* Store BeaconState in StorageContainer too
* Optimize StorageContainer with std::mem magic
* Fix rest_api tests
* Implement freezer database for state vectors
* Improve BeaconState safe accessors
And fix a bug in the compact committees accessor.
* Banish dodgy type bounds back to gRPC
* Clean up
* Switch to exclusive end points in chunked vec
* Cleaning up and start of tests
* Randao fix, more tests
* Fix unsightly hack
* Resolve test FIXMEs
* Config file support
* More clean-ups, migrator beginnings
* Finish migrator, integrate into BeaconChain
* Fixups
* Fix store tests
* Fix BeaconChain tests
* Fix LMD GHOST tests
* Address review comments, delete 'static bounds
* Cargo format
* Address review comments
* Fix LMD ghost tests
* Update to spec v0.9.0
* Update to v0.9.1
* Bump spec tags for v0.9.1
* Formatting, fix CI failures
* Resolve accidental KeyPair merge conflict
* Document new BeaconState functions
* Fix incorrect cache drops in `advance_caches`
* Update fork choice for v0.9.1
* Clean up some FIXMEs
* Fix a few docs/logs
* Update for new builder paradigm, spec changes
* Freezer DB integration into BeaconNode
* Cleaning up
* This works, clean it up
* Cleanups
* Fix and improve store tests
* Refine store test
* Delete unused beacon_chain_builder.rs
* Fix CLI
* Store state at split slot in hot database
* Make fork choice lookup fast again
* Store freezer DB split slot in the database
* Handle potential div by 0 in chunked_vector
* Exclude committee caches from freezer DB
* Remove FIXME about long-running test
* Implement basic tree hash caching
* Use spaces to indent top-level Cargo.toml
* Optimize BLS tree hash by hashing bytes directly
* Implement tree hash caching for validator registry
* Persist BeaconState tree hash cache to disk
* Address Paul's review comments
* Renamed fork_choice::process_attestation_from_block
* Processing attestation in fork choice
* Retrieving state from store and checking signature
* Looser check on beacon state validity.
* Cleaned up get_attestation_state
* Expanded fork choice api to provide latest validator message.
* Checking if the an attestation contains a latest message
* Correct process_attestation error handling.
* Copy paste error in comment fixed.
* Tidy ancestor iterators
* Getting attestation slot via helper method
* Refactored attestation creation in test utils
* Revert "Refactored attestation creation in test utils"
This reverts commit 4d277fe4239a7194758b18fb5c00dfe0b8231306.
* Integration tests for free attestation processing
* Implicit conflicts resolved.
* formatting
* Do first pass on Grants code
* Add another attestation processing test
* Tidy attestation processing
* Remove old code fragment
* Add non-compiling half finished changes
* Simplify, fix bugs, add tests for chain iters
* Remove attestation processing from op pool
* Fix bug with fork choice, tidy
* Fix overly restrictive check in fork choice.
* Ensure committee cache is build during attn proc
* Ignore unknown blocks at fork choice
* Various minor fixes
* Make fork choice write lock in to read lock
* Remove unused method
* Tidy comments
* Fix attestation prod. target roots change
* Fix compile error in store iters
* Reject any attestation prior to finalization
* Begin metrics refactor
* Move beacon_chain to new metrics structure.
* Make metrics not panic if already defined
* Use global prometheus gather at rest api
* Unify common metric fns into a crate
* Add heavy metering to block processing
* Remove hypen from prometheus metric name
* Add more beacon chain metrics
* Add beacon chain persistence metric
* Prune op pool on finalization
* Add extra prom beacon chain metrics
* Prefix BeaconChain metrics with "beacon_"
* Add more store metrics
* Add basic metrics to libp2p
* Add metrics to HTTP server
* Remove old `http_server` crate
* Update metrics names to be more like standard
* Fix broken beacon chain metrics, add slot clock metrics
* Add lighthouse_metrics gather fn
* Remove http args
* Fix wrong state given to op pool prune
* Make prom metric names more consistent
* Add more metrics, tidy existing metrics
* Fix store block read metrics
* Tidy attestation metrics
* Fix minor PR comments
* Allow travis failures on beta (see desc)
There's a non-backward compatible change in `cargo fmt`. Stable and beta
do not agree.
* Tidy `lighthouse_metrics` docs
* Fix typo
