lighthouse/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/lib.rs
Paul Hauner 4c7bb4984c Use the forwards iterator more often (#2376)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Primary Change

When investigating memory usage, I noticed that retrieving a block from an early slot (e.g., slot 900) would cause a sharp increase in the memory footprint (from 400mb to 800mb+) which seemed to be ever-lasting.

After some investigation, I found that the reverse iteration from the head back to that slot was the likely culprit. To counter this, I've switched the `BeaconChain::block_root_at_slot` to use the forwards iterator, instead of the reverse one.

I also noticed that the networking stack is using `BeaconChain::root_at_slot` to check if a peer is relevant (`check_peer_relevance`). Perhaps the steep, seemingly-random-but-consistent increases in memory usage are caused by the use of this function.

Using the forwards iterator with the HTTP API alleviated the sharp increases in memory usage. It also made the response much faster (before it felt like to took 1-2s, now it feels instant).

## Additional Changes

In the process I also noticed that we have two functions for getting block roots:

- `BeaconChain::block_root_at_slot`: returns `None` for a skip slot.
- `BeaconChain::root_at_slot`: returns the previous root for a skip slot.

I unified these two functions into `block_root_at_slot` and added the `WhenSlotSkipped` enum. Now, the caller must be explicit about the skip-slot behaviour when requesting a root. 

Additionally, I replaced `vec![]` with `Vec::with_capacity` in `store::chunked_vector::range_query`. I stumbled across this whilst debugging and made this modification to see what effect it would have (not much). It seems like a decent change to keep around, but I'm not concerned either way.

Also, `BeaconChain::get_ancestor_block_root` is unused, so I got rid of it 🗑️.

## Additional Info

I haven't also done the same for state roots here. Whilst it's possible and a good idea, it's more work since the fwds iterators are presently block-roots-specific.

Whilst there's a few places a reverse iteration of state roots could be triggered (e.g., attestation production, HTTP API), they're no where near as common as the `check_peer_relevance` call. As such, I think we should get this PR merged first, then come back for the state root iters. I made an issue here https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2377.
2021-05-31 04:18:20 +00:00

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#![recursion_limit = "128"] // For lazy-static
pub mod attestation_verification;
mod beacon_chain;
mod beacon_fork_choice_store;
mod beacon_proposer_cache;
mod beacon_snapshot;
mod block_verification;
pub mod builder;
pub mod chain_config;
mod errors;
pub mod eth1_chain;
pub mod events;
mod head_tracker;
mod metrics;
pub mod migrate;
mod naive_aggregation_pool;
mod observed_attestations;
mod observed_attesters;
mod observed_block_producers;
pub mod observed_operations;
mod persisted_beacon_chain;
mod persisted_fork_choice;
pub mod schema_change;
mod shuffling_cache;
mod snapshot_cache;
pub mod state_advance_timer;
pub mod test_utils;
mod timeout_rw_lock;
pub mod validator_monitor;
mod validator_pubkey_cache;
pub use self::beacon_chain::{
AttestationProcessingOutcome, BeaconChain, BeaconChainTypes, BeaconStore, ChainSegmentResult,
ForkChoiceError, StateSkipConfig, WhenSlotSkipped, MAXIMUM_GOSSIP_CLOCK_DISPARITY,
};
pub use self::beacon_snapshot::BeaconSnapshot;
pub use self::chain_config::ChainConfig;
pub use self::errors::{BeaconChainError, BlockProductionError};
pub use attestation_verification::Error as AttestationError;
pub use beacon_fork_choice_store::{BeaconForkChoiceStore, Error as ForkChoiceStoreError};
pub use block_verification::{BlockError, GossipVerifiedBlock};
pub use eth1_chain::{Eth1Chain, Eth1ChainBackend};
pub use events::ServerSentEventHandler;
pub use metrics::scrape_for_metrics;
pub use parking_lot;
pub use slot_clock;
pub use state_processing::per_block_processing::errors::{
AttestationValidationError, AttesterSlashingValidationError, DepositValidationError,
ExitValidationError, ProposerSlashingValidationError,
};
pub use store;
pub use types;