Optimize validator duties (#2243)

## Issue Addressed

Closes #2052

## Proposed Changes

- Refactor the attester/proposer duties endpoints in the BN
    - Performance improvements
    - Fixes some potential inconsistencies with the dependent root fields.
    - Removes `http_api::beacon_proposer_cache` and just uses the one on the `BeaconChain` instead.
    - Move the code for the proposer/attester duties endpoints into separate files, for readability.
- Refactor the `DutiesService` in the VC
    - Required to reduce the delay on broadcasting new blocks.
    - Gets rid of the `ValidatorDuty` shim struct that came about when we adopted the standard API.
    - Separate block/attestation duty tasks so that they don't block each other when one is slow.
- In the VC, use `PublicKeyBytes` to represent validators instead of `PublicKey`. `PublicKey` is a legit crypto object whilst `PublicKeyBytes` is just a byte-array, it's much faster to clone/hash `PublicKeyBytes` and this change has had a significant impact on runtimes.
    - Unfortunately this has created lots of dust changes.
 - In the BN, store `PublicKeyBytes` in the `beacon_proposer_cache` and allow access to them. The HTTP API always sends `PublicKeyBytes` over the wire and the conversion from `PublicKey` -> `PublickeyBytes` is non-trivial, especially when queries have 100s/1000s of validators (like Pyrmont).
 - Add the `state_processing::state_advance` mod which dedups a lot of the "apply `n` skip slots to the state" code.
    - This also fixes a bug with some functions which were failing to include a state root as per [this comment](072695284f/consensus/state_processing/src/state_advance.rs (L69-L74)). I couldn't find any instance of this bug that resulted in anything more severe than keying a shuffling cache by the wrong block root.
 - Swap the VC block service to use `mpsc` from `tokio` instead of `futures`. This is consistent with the rest of the code base.
    
~~This PR *reduces* the size of the codebase 🎉~~ It *used* to reduce the size of the code base before I added more comments. 

## Observations on Prymont

- Proposer duties times down from peaks of 450ms to consistent <1ms.
- Current epoch attester duties times down from >1s peaks to a consistent 20-30ms.
- Block production down from +600ms to 100-200ms.

## Additional Info

- ~~Blocked on #2241~~
- ~~Blocked on #2234~~

## TODO

- [x] ~~Refactor this into some smaller PRs?~~ Leaving this as-is for now.
- [x] Address `per_slot_processing` roots.
- [x] Investigate slow next epoch times. Not getting added to cache on block processing?
- [x] Consider [this](072695284f/beacon_node/store/src/hot_cold_store.rs (L811-L812)) in the scenario of replacing the state roots


Co-authored-by: pawan <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
This commit is contained in:
Paul Hauner
2021-03-17 05:09:57 +00:00
parent 6a69b20be1
commit 015ab7d0a7
49 changed files with 2201 additions and 1833 deletions

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@@ -444,6 +444,62 @@ impl<T: EthSpec> BeaconState<T> {
cache.get_all_beacon_committees()
}
/// Returns the block root which decided the proposer shuffling for the current epoch. This root
/// can be used to key this proposer shuffling.
///
/// ## Notes
///
/// The `block_root` covers the one-off scenario where the genesis block decides its own
/// shuffling. It should be set to the latest block applied to `self` or the genesis block root.
pub fn proposer_shuffling_decision_root(&self, block_root: Hash256) -> Result<Hash256, Error> {
let decision_slot = self.proposer_shuffling_decision_slot();
if self.slot == decision_slot {
Ok(block_root)
} else {
self.get_block_root(decision_slot).map(|root| *root)
}
}
/// Returns the slot at which the proposer shuffling was decided. The block root at this slot
/// can be used to key the proposer shuffling for the current epoch.
fn proposer_shuffling_decision_slot(&self) -> Slot {
self.current_epoch()
.start_slot(T::slots_per_epoch())
.saturating_sub(1_u64)
}
/// Returns the block root which decided the attester shuffling for the given `relative_epoch`.
/// This root can be used to key that attester shuffling.
///
/// ## Notes
///
/// The `block_root` covers the one-off scenario where the genesis block decides its own
/// shuffling. It should be set to the latest block applied to `self` or the genesis block root.
pub fn attester_shuffling_decision_root(
&self,
block_root: Hash256,
relative_epoch: RelativeEpoch,
) -> Result<Hash256, Error> {
let decision_slot = self.attester_shuffling_decision_slot(relative_epoch);
if self.slot == decision_slot {
Ok(block_root)
} else {
self.get_block_root(decision_slot).map(|root| *root)
}
}
/// Returns the slot at which the proposer shuffling was decided. The block root at this slot
/// can be used to key the proposer shuffling for the current epoch.
fn attester_shuffling_decision_slot(&self, relative_epoch: RelativeEpoch) -> Slot {
match relative_epoch {
RelativeEpoch::Next => self.current_epoch(),
RelativeEpoch::Current => self.previous_epoch(),
RelativeEpoch::Previous => self.previous_epoch().saturating_sub(1_u64),
}
.start_slot(T::slots_per_epoch())
.saturating_sub(1_u64)
}
/// Compute the proposer (not necessarily for the Beacon chain) from a list of indices.
///
/// Spec v0.12.1

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@@ -35,16 +35,8 @@ impl AttestationShufflingId {
) -> Result<Self, BeaconStateError> {
let shuffling_epoch = relative_epoch.into_epoch(state.current_epoch());
let shuffling_decision_slot = shuffling_epoch
.saturating_sub(1_u64)
.start_slot(E::slots_per_epoch())
.saturating_sub(1_u64);
let shuffling_decision_block = if state.slot == shuffling_decision_slot {
block_root
} else {
*state.get_block_root(shuffling_decision_slot)?
};
let shuffling_decision_block =
state.attester_shuffling_decision_root(block_root, relative_epoch)?;
Ok(Self {
shuffling_epoch,