* Remove portable in book
* Add back modern in docker.md
* Update Makefile
* Update release.yml
* Update docker.yml
* Update book
* Minor revision
* delete portable tarballs
* delete portable in Make command
* Fix link in book
* mdlint
* Remove modernity in docker
* Merge branch 'unstable' into update-book-portable
* Merge branch 'unstable' into update-book-portable
* Remove `-dev` docker images
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/unstable' into update-book-portable
## Proposed Changes
Add a new Cargo compilation profile called `maxperf` which enables more aggressive compiler optimisations at the expense of compilation time.
Some rough initial benchmarks show that this can provide up to a 25% reduction to run time for CPU bound tasks like block processing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15jHuZe7lLHhZq9Nw8kc6EL0Qh_N_YAYqkW2NQ_Afmtk/edit
The numbers in that spreadsheet compare the `consensus-context` branch from #3604 to the same branch compiled with the `maxperf` profile using:
```
PROFILE=maxperf make install-lcli
```
## Additional Info
The downsides of the maxperf profile are:
- It increases compile times substantially, which will particularly impact low-spec hardware. Compiling `lcli` is about 3x slower. Compiling Lighthouse is about 5x slower on my 5950X: 17m 38s rather than 3m 28s.
As a result I think we should not enable this everywhere by default.
- **Option 1**: enable by default for our released binaries. This gives the majority of users the fastest version of `lighthouse` possible, at the expense of slowing down our release CI. Source builds will continue to use the default `release` profile unless users opt-in to `maxperf`.
- **Option 2**: enable by default for source builds. This gives users building from source an edge, but makes them pay for it with compilation time.
I think I would prefer Option 1. I'll try doing some benchmarking to see how long a maxperf build of Lighthouse would take on GitHub actions.
Credit to Nicholas Nethercote for documenting these options in the Rust Performance Book: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/build-configuration.html.
## Proposed Changes
Enable multiple database backends for the slasher, either MDBX (default) or LMDB. The backend can be selected using `--slasher-backend={lmdb,mdbx}`.
## Additional Info
In order to abstract over the two library's different handling of database lifetimes I've used `Box::leak` to give the `Environment` type a `'static` lifetime. This was the only way I could think of using 100% safe code to construct a self-referential struct `SlasherDB`, where the `OpenDatabases` refers to the `Environment`. I think this is OK, as the `Environment` is expected to live for the life of the program, and both database engines leave the database in a consistent state after each write. The memory claimed for memory-mapping will be freed by the OS and appropriately flushed regardless of whether the `Environment` is actually dropped.
We are depending on two `sigp` forks of `libmdbx-rs` and `lmdb-rs`, to give us greater control over MDBX OS support and LMDB's version.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#2938
## Proposed Changes
* Build and publish images with a `-modern` suffix which enable CPU optimizations for modern hardware.
* Add docs for the plethora of available images!
* Unify all the Docker workflows in `docker.yml` (including for tagged releases).
## Additional Info
The `Dockerfile` is no longer used by our Docker Hub builds, as we use `cross` and a generic approach for ARM and x86. There's a new CI job `docker-build-from-source` which tests the `Dockerfile` without publishing anything.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#1504Closes#1505
Replaces #1703Closes#1707
## Proposed Changes
* Update BLST and Milagro to versions compatible with BLSv4 spec
* Update Lighthouse to spec v1.0.0-rc.0, and update EF test vectors
* Use the v1.0.0 constants for `MainnetEthSpec`.
* Rename `InteropEthSpec` -> `V012LegacyEthSpec`
* Change all constants to suit the mainnet `v0.12.3` specification (i.e., Medalla).
* Deprecate the `--spec` flag for the `lighthouse` binary
* This value is now obtained from the `config_name` field of the `YamlConfig`.
* Built in testnet YAML files have been updated.
* Ignore the `--spec` value, if supplied, log a warning that it will be deprecated
* `lcli` still has the spec flag, that's fine because it's dev tooling.
* Remove the `E: EthSpec` from `YamlConfig`
* This means we need to deser the genesis `BeaconState` on-demand, but this is fine.
* Swap the old "minimal", "mainnet" strings over to the new `EthSpecId` enum.
* Always require a `CONFIG_NAME` field in `YamlConfig` (it used to have a default).
## Additional Info
Lots of breaking changes, do not merge! ~~We will likely need a Lighthouse v0.4.0 branch, and possibly a long-term v0.3.0 branch to keep Medalla alive~~.
Co-authored-by: Kirk Baird <baird.k@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
This reverts commit 4fca306397.
Something in the BLST update is causing SIGILLs on aarch64 non-portable builds. While we debug the issue, I think it's best if we just revert the update.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#1504
Closes https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1505
## Proposed Changes
* Update `blst` to the latest version, which is more portable and includes finer-grained compilation controls (see below).
* Detect the case where a binary has been explicitly compiled with ADX support but it's missing at runtime, and report a nicer error than `SIGILL`.
## Known Issues
* None. The previous issue with `make build-aarch64` (https://github.com/supranational/blst/issues/27), has been resolved.
## Additional Info
I think we should tweak our release process and our Docker builds so that we provide two options:
Binaries:
* `lighthouse`: compiled with `modern`/`force-adx`, for CPUs 2013 and newer
* `lighthouse-portable`: compiled with `portable` for older CPUs
Docker images:
* `sigp/lighthouse:latest`: multi-arch image with `modern` x86_64 and vanilla aarch64 binary
* `sigp/lighthouse:latest-portable`: multi-arch image with `portable` builds for x86_64 and aarch64
And relevant Docker images for the releases (as per https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/1574#issuecomment-687766141), tagged `v0.x.y` and `v0.x.y-portable`
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds support for using the [`cross`](https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross) project to produce cross-compiled binaries using Docker images.
Provides quite clean and simple cross-compiles cause all the complexity is hidden in Dockerfiles. It does require you to be in the `docker` group though.
## Details
- Adds shortcut commands to `Makefile`
- Ensures `reqwest` and `discv5` use vendored openssl libs (i.e., static not shared).
- Switches to a [commit](284f705964) of blst that has a renamed C function to avoid a collision with openssl (upstream issue: https://github.com/supranational/blst/issues/21).
- Updates `ring` to the latest satisfiable version, since an earlier version was causing issues with `cross`.
- Off-topic, but adds extra message about Windows support as suggested by Discord user.
## Additional Info
- ~~Blocked on #1495~~
- There are no tests in CI for this yet for a few reasons:
- I'm hesitant to add more long-running tasks.
- Short-term bitrot should be avoided since we'll use it each release.
- In the long term I think it would be good to automate binary creation on a release.
- I observed the binaries increase in size from 50mb to 52mb after these changes.
