Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

v1.4.0 #2378

Closed
wants to merge 5 commits into from
Closed

v1.4.0 #2378

wants to merge 5 commits into from

Conversation

paulhauner
Copy link
Member

@paulhauner paulhauner commented May 31, 2021

Issue Addressed

NA

Proposed Changes

Bump versions.

Additional Info

This is not exactly the release described in Lighthouse Update #36.

Whilst it contains:

  • Beta Windows support
  • A reduction in Eth1 queries
  • A reduction in memory footprint

It does not contain:

  • Altair
  • Doppelganger Protection
  • The remote signer

We have decided to release some features early. This is primarily due to the desire to allow users to benefit from the memory saving improvements as soon as possible.

TODO

macladson and others added 5 commits May 31, 2021 04:18
## Issue Addressed

sigp#2282 

## Proposed Changes

Reduce the outbound requests made to eth1 endpoints by caching the results from `eth_chainId` and `net_version`.
Further reduce the overall request count by increasing `auto_update_interval_millis` from `7_000` (7 seconds) to `60_000` (1 minute). 
This will result in a reduction from ~2000 requests per hour to 360 requests per hour (during normal operation). A reduction of 82%.

## Additional Info

If an endpoint fails, its state is dropped from the cache and the `eth_chainId` and `net_version` calls will be made for that endpoint again during the regular update cycle (once per minute) until it is back online.


Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <[email protected]>
## Issue Addressed

sigp#2325 

## Proposed Changes

This pull request changes the behavior of the Peer Manager by including a minimum outbound-only peers requirement. The peer manager will continue querying for peers if this outbound-only target number hasn't been met. Additionally, when peers are being removed, an outbound-only peer will not be disconnected if doing so brings us below the minimum. 

## Additional Info

Unit test for heartbeat function tests that disconnection behavior is correct. Continual querying for peers if outbound-only hasn't been met is not directly tested, but indirectly through unit testing of the helper function that counts the number of outbound-only peers.

EDIT: Am concerned about the behavior of ```update_peer_scores```. If we have connected to a peer with a score below the disconnection threshold (-20), then its connection status will remain connected, while its score state will change to disconnected. 

```rust
let previous_state = info.score_state();            
// Update scores            
info.score_update();
Self::handle_score_transitions(                
               previous_state,
                peer_id,
                info, 
               &mut to_ban_peers,
               &mut to_unban_peers,
               &mut self.events,
               &self.log,
);
```

```previous_state``` will be set to Disconnected, and then because ```handle_score_transitions``` only changes connection status for a peer if the state changed, the peer remains connected. Then in the heartbeat code, because we only disconnect healthy peers if we have too many peers, these peers don't get disconnected. I'm not sure realistically how often this scenario would occur, but it might be better to adjust the logic to account for scenarios where the score state implies a connection status different from the current connection status. 

Co-authored-by: Kevin Lu <[email protected]>
## 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 :wastebasket:.

## 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 sigp#2377.
@paulhauner paulhauner added the work-in-progress PR is a work-in-progress label May 31, 2021
@paulhauner
Copy link
Member Author

Closed in favor of #2379 (this branch has a conflicting branch name)

@paulhauner paulhauner closed this May 31, 2021
@paulhauner paulhauner deleted the v1.4.0 branch May 31, 2021 06:40
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
work-in-progress PR is a work-in-progress
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants