Ignore blocks that skip a large distance from their parent (#1530)

## Proposed Changes

To mitigate the impact of minority forks on RAM and disk usage, this change rejects blocks whose parent lies more than 320 slots (10 epochs, ~1 hour) in the past. The behaviour is configurable via `lighthouse bn --max-skip-slots N`, and can be turned off entirely using `--max-skip-slots none`.

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
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Michael Sproul
2020-08-17 10:54:58 +00:00
parent a58aa6ee55
commit 719a69aee0
13 changed files with 131 additions and 4 deletions

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use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};
pub const DEFAULT_IMPORT_BLOCK_MAX_SKIP_SLOTS: u64 = 10 * 32;
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize)]
pub struct ChainConfig {
/// Maximum number of slots to skip when importing a consensus message (e.g., block,
/// attestation, etc).
///
/// If `None`, there is no limit.
pub import_max_skip_slots: Option<u64>,
}
impl Default for ChainConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
import_max_skip_slots: Some(DEFAULT_IMPORT_BLOCK_MAX_SKIP_SLOTS),
}
}
}