Speed up initial MPT root computation after import #2788
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When
nimbus import
runs, we end up with a database without MPT roots leading to long startup times the first time one is needed.Computing the state root is slow because the on-disk order based on VertexID sorting does not match the trie traversal order and therefore makes lookups inefficent.
Here we introduce a helper that speeds up this computation by traversing the trie in on-disk order and computing the trie hashes bottom up instead - even though this leads to some redundant reads of nodes that we cannot yet compute, it's still a net win as leaves and "bottom" branches make up the majority of the database.
This PR also addresses a few other sources of inefficiency largely due to the separation of AriKey and AriVtx into their own column families.
Each column family is its own LSM tree that produces hundreds of SST filtes - with a limit of 512 open files, rocksdb must keep closing and opening files which leads to expensive metadata reads during random access.
When rocksdb makes a lookup, it has to read several layers of files for each lookup. Ribbon filters to skip over files that don't have the requested data but when these filters are not in memory, reading them is slow - this happens in two cases: when opening a file and when the filter has been evicted from the LRU cache. Addressing the open file limit solves one source of inefficiency, but we must also increase the block cache size to deal with this problem.
All these increases of course lead to increased memory usage, but at least performance is acceptable - in the future, we'll need to explore options such as joining AriVtx and AriKey and/or reducing the row count (by grouping branch layers under a single vertexid).
With this PR, the mainnet state root can be computed in ~8 hours (down from 2-3 days) - not great, but still better.
Further, we write all keys to the database, also those that are less than 32 bytes - because the mpt path is part of the input, it is very rare that we actually hit a key like this (about 200k such entries on mainnet), so the code complexity is not worth the benefit really, in the current database layout / design.