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Michael Sproul
940fa81a5b Fast path for /eth/v1/beacon/blocks/head/root (#8729)
Closes:

- https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/8667


  Use the `early_attester_cache` to serve the head block root (if present). This should be faster than waiting for the head to finish importing.


Co-Authored-By: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
2026-02-02 06:41:43 +00:00
Jimmy Chen
dbe474e132 Delete attester cache (#8469)
Fixes attester cache write lock contention. Alternative to #8463.


  


Co-Authored-By: Jimmy Chen <jchen.tc@gmail.com>
2026-01-06 03:08:02 +00:00
Jimmy Chen
759b0612b3 Offloading KZG Proof Computation from the beacon node (#7117)
Addresses #7108

- Add EL integration for `getPayloadV5` and `getBlobsV2`
- Offload proof computation and use proofs from EL RPC APIs
2025-04-08 07:37:16 +00:00
Mac L
0e6da0fcaf Merge branch 'release-v7.0.0' into v7-backmerge 2025-04-04 13:32:58 +11:00
Mac L
82d1674455 Rust 1.86.0 lints (#7254)
Implement lints for the new Rust compiler version 1.86.0.
2025-04-04 02:30:22 +00:00
Lion - dapplion
3fab6a2c0b Block availability data enum (#6866)
PeerDAS has undergone multiple refactors + the blending with the get_blobs optimization has generated technical debt.

A function signature like this

f008b84079/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/beacon_chain.rs (L7171-L7178)

Allows at least the following combination of states:
- blobs: Some / None
- data_columns: Some / None
- data_column_recv: Some / None
- Block has data? Yes / No
- Block post-PeerDAS? Yes / No

In reality, we don't have that many possible states, only:

- `NoData`: pre-deneb, pre-PeerDAS with 0 blobs or post-PeerDAS with 0 blobs
- `Blobs(BlobSidecarList<E>)`: post-Deneb pre-PeerDAS with > 0 blobs
- `DataColumns(DataColumnSidecarList<E>)`: post-PeerDAS with > 0 blobs
- `DataColumnsRecv(oneshot::Receiver<DataColumnSidecarList<E>>)`: post-PeerDAS with > 0 blobs, but we obtained the columns via reconstruction

^ this are the variants of the new `AvailableBlockData` enum

So we go from 2^5 states to 4 well-defined. Downstream code benefits nicely from this clarity and I think it makes the whole feature much more maintainable.

Currently `is_available` returns a bool, and then we construct the available block in `make_available`. In a way the availability condition is duplicated in both functions. Instead, this PR constructs `AvailableBlockData` in `is_available` so the availability conditions are written once

```rust
if let Some(block_data) = is_available(..) {
let available_block = make_available(block_data);
}
```
2025-02-24 04:47:09 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
1f6850fae2 Rust 1.84 lints (#6781)
* Fix few lints

* Fix remaining lints

* Use fully qualified syntax
2025-01-10 01:13:29 +00:00
Jimmy Chen
acd3151184 Import gossip data column into data availability checker (#6197)
* Import gossip data column into data availability checker
2024-08-02 12:42:11 +00:00
ethDreamer
c52c598f69 Electra: Remaining Consensus Data Structures (#5712)
* Attestation superstruct changes for EIP 7549 (#5644)

* update

* experiment

* superstruct changes

* revert

* superstruct changes

* fix tests

* indexed attestation

* indexed attestation superstruct

* updated TODOs

* `superstruct` the `AttesterSlashing` (#5636)

* `superstruct` Attester Fork Variants

* Push a little further

* Deal with Encode / Decode of AttesterSlashing

* not so sure about this..

* Stop Encode/Decode Bounds from Propagating Out

* Tons of Changes..

* More Conversions to AttestationRef

* Add AsReference trait (#15)

* Add AsReference trait

* Fix some snafus

* Got it Compiling! :D

* Got Tests Building

* Get beacon chain tests compiling

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Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/unstable' into electra_attestation_changes

* Make EF Tests Fork-Agnostic (#5713)

* Finish EF Test Fork Agnostic (#5714)

* Superstruct `AggregateAndProof` (#5715)

* Upgrade `superstruct` to `0.8.0`

* superstruct `AggregateAndProof`

* Merge remote-tracking branch 'sigp/unstable' into electra_attestation_changes

* cargo fmt

* Merge pull request #5726 from realbigsean/electra_attestation_changes

Merge unstable into Electra attestation changes

* EIP7549 `get_attestation_indices` (#5657)

* get attesting indices electra impl

* fmt

* get tests to pass

* fmt

* fix some beacon chain tests

* fmt

* fix slasher test

* fmt got me again

* fix more tests

* fix tests

* Some small changes (#5739)

* cargo fmt (#5740)

* Sketch op pool changes

* fix get attesting indices (#5742)

* fix get attesting indices

* better errors

* fix compile

* only get committee index once

* Ef test fixes (#5753)

* attestation related ef test fixes

* delete commented out stuff

* Fix Aggregation Pool for Electra (#5754)

* Fix Aggregation Pool for Electra

* Remove Outdated Interface

* fix ssz (#5755)

* Get `electra_op_pool` up to date (#5756)

* fix get attesting indices (#5742)

* fix get attesting indices

* better errors

* fix compile

* only get committee index once

* Ef test fixes (#5753)

* attestation related ef test fixes

* delete commented out stuff

* Fix Aggregation Pool for Electra (#5754)

* Fix Aggregation Pool for Electra

* Remove Outdated Interface

* fix ssz (#5755)

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Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>

* Revert "Get `electra_op_pool` up to date (#5756)" (#5757)

This reverts commit ab9e58aa3d.

* Merge branch 'electra_attestation_changes' of https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse into electra_op_pool

* Compute on chain aggregate impl (#5752)

* add compute_on_chain_agg impl to op pool changes

* fmt

* get op pool tests to pass

* update the naive agg pool interface (#5760)

* Fix bugs in cross-committee aggregation

* Add comment to max cover optimisation

* Fix assert

* Merge pull request #5749 from sigp/electra_op_pool

Optimise Electra op pool aggregation

* update committee offset

* Fix Electra Fork Choice Tests (#5764)

* Subscribe to the correct subnets for electra attestations (#5782)

* subscribe to the correct att subnets for electra

* subscribe to the correct att subnets for electra

* cargo fmt

* fix slashing handling

* Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/unstable'

* Send unagg attestation based on fork

* Publish all aggregates

* just one more check bro plz..

* Merge pull request #5832 from ethDreamer/electra_attestation_changes_merge_unstable

Merge `unstable` into `electra_attestation_changes`

* Merge pull request #5835 from realbigsean/fix-validator-logic

Fix validator logic

* Merge pull request #5816 from realbigsean/electra-attestation-slashing-handling

Electra slashing handling

* Electra attestation changes rm decode impl (#5856)

* Remove Crappy Decode impl for Attestation

* Remove Inefficient Attestation Decode impl

* Implement Schema Upgrade / Downgrade

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/schema_change/migration_schema_v20.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Fix failing attestation tests and misc electra attestation cleanup (#5810)

* - get attestation related beacon chain tests to pass
- observed attestations are now keyed off of data + committee index
- rename op pool attestationref to compactattestationref
- remove unwraps in agg pool and use options instead
- cherry pick some changes from ef-tests-electra

* cargo fmt

* fix failing test

* Revert dockerfile changes

* make committee_index return option

* function args shouldnt be a ref to attestation ref

* fmt

* fix dup imports

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Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@GMAIL.com>

* fix some todos (#5817)

* Merge branch 'unstable' of https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse into electra_attestation_changes

* add consolidations to merkle calc for inclusion proof

* Remove Duplicate KZG Commitment Merkle Proof Code (#5874)

* Remove Duplicate KZG Commitment Merkle Proof Code

* s/tree_lists/fields/

* Merge branch 'unstable' of https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse into electra_attestation_changes

* fix compile

* Fix slasher tests (#5906)

* Fix electra tests

* Add electra attestations to double vote tests

* Update superstruct to 0.8

* Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/unstable' into electra_attestation_changes

* Small cleanup in slasher tests

* Clean up Electra observed aggregates (#5929)

* Use consistent key in observed_attestations

* Remove unwraps from observed aggregates

* Merge branch 'unstable' of https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse into electra_attestation_changes

* De-dup attestation constructor logic

* Remove unwraps in Attestation construction

* Dedup match_attestation_data

* Remove outdated TODO

* Use ForkName Ord in fork-choice tests

* Use ForkName Ord in BeaconBlockBody

* Make to_electra not fallible

* Remove TestRandom impl for IndexedAttestation

* Remove IndexedAttestation faulty Decode impl

* Drop TestRandom impl

* Add PendingAttestationInElectra

* Indexed att on disk (#35)

* indexed att on disk

* fix lints

* Update slasher/src/migrate.rs

Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Lion - dapplion <35266934+dapplion@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>

* add electra fork enabled fn to ForkName impl (#36)

* add electra fork enabled fn to ForkName impl

* remove inadvertent file

* Update common/eth2/src/types.rs

Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>

* Dedup attestation constructor logic in attester cache

* Use if let Ok for committee_bits

* Dedup Attestation constructor code

* Diff reduction in tests

* Fix beacon_chain tests

* Diff reduction

* Use Ord for ForkName in pubsub

* Resolve into_attestation_and_indices todo

* Remove stale TODO

* Fix beacon_chain tests

* Test spec invariant

* Use electra_enabled in pubsub

* Remove get_indexed_attestation_from_signed_aggregate

* Use ok_or instead of if let else

* committees are sorted

* remove dup method `get_indexed_attestation_from_committees`

* Merge pull request #5940 from dapplion/electra_attestation_changes_lionreview

Electra attestations #5712 review

* update default persisted op pool deserialization

* ensure aggregate and proof uses serde untagged on ref

* Fork aware ssz static attestation tests

* Electra attestation changes from Lions review (#5971)

* dedup/cleanup and remove unneeded hashset use

* remove irrelevant TODOs

* Merge branch 'unstable' of https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse into electra_attestation_changes

* Electra attestation changes sean review (#5972)

* instantiate empty bitlist in unreachable code

* clean up error conversion

* fork enabled bool cleanup

* remove a couple todos

* return bools instead of options in `aggregate` and use the result

* delete commented out code

* use map macros in simple transformations

* remove signers_disjoint_from

* get ef tests compiling

* get ef tests compiling

* update intentionally excluded files

* Avoid changing slasher schema for Electra

* Delete slasher schema v4

* Fix clippy

* Fix compilation of beacon_chain tests

* Update database.rs

* Add electra lightclient types

* Update slasher/src/database.rs

* fix imports

* Merge pull request #5980 from dapplion/electra-lightclient

Add electra lightclient types

* Merge pull request #5975 from michaelsproul/electra-slasher-no-migration

Avoid changing slasher schema for Electra

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/attestation_verification.rs

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/attestation_verification.rs
2024-06-24 21:08:07 +00:00
Eitan Seri-Levi
01ec42e75a Fix Rust beta compiler errors 1.78.0-beta.1 (#5439)
* remove redundant imports

* fix test

* contains key

* fmt

* Merge branch 'unstable' into fix-beta-compiler
2024-03-20 05:17:02 +00:00
Eitan Seri-Levi
4ce01ddd11 Activate clippy::manual_let_else lint (#4889)
## Issue Addressed

#4888

## Proposed Changes

Enabled `clippy::manual_let_else` lint and resolved the warning messages.
2023-10-31 10:31:02 +00:00
realbigsean
c7ddf1f0b1 add processing and processed caching to the DA checker (#4732)
* add processing and processed caching to the DA checker

* move processing cache out of critical cache

* get it compiling

* fix lints

* add docs to `AvailabilityView`

* some self review

* fix lints

* fix beacon chain tests

* cargo fmt

* make availability view easier to implement, start on testing

* move child component cache and finish test

* cargo fix

* cargo fix

* cargo fix

* fmt and lint

* make blob commitments not optional, rename some caches, add missing blobs struct

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/processing_cache.rs

Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>

* marks review feedback and other general cleanup

* cargo fix

* improve availability view docs

* some renames

* some renames and docs

* fix should delay lookup logic

* get rid of some wrapper methods

* fix up single lookup changes

* add a couple docs

* add single blob merge method and improve process_... docs

* update some names

* lints

* fix merge

* remove blob indices from lookup creation log

* remove blob indices from lookup creation log

* delayed lookup logging improvement

* check fork choice before doing any blob processing

* remove unused dep

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* Update beacon_node/network/src/sync/block_lookups/delayed_lookup.rs

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>

* remove duplicate deps

* use gen range in random blobs geneartor

* rename processing cache fields

* require block root in rpc block construction and check block root consistency

* send peers as vec in single message

* spawn delayed lookup service from network beacon processor

* fix tests

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Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
2023-10-03 09:59:33 -04:00
realbigsean
deec9c51ba clean up blob by root response (#4136) 2023-03-28 12:49:32 -04:00
Pawan Dhananjay
b276af98b7 Rework block processing (#4092)
* introduce availability pending block

* add intoavailableblock trait

* small fixes

* add 'gossip blob cache' and start to clean up processing and transition types

* shard memory blob cache

* Initial commit

* Fix after rebase

* Add gossip verification conditions

* cache cleanup

* general chaos

* extended chaos

* cargo fmt

* more progress

* more progress

* tons of changes, just tryna compile

* everything, everywhere, all at once

* Reprocess an ExecutedBlock on unavailable blobs

* Add sus gossip verification for blobs

* Merge stuff

* Remove reprocessing cache stuff

* lint

* Add a wrapper to allow construction of only valid `AvailableBlock`s

* rename blob arc list to blob list

* merge cleanuo

* Revert "merge cleanuo"

This reverts commit 5e98326878.

* Revert "Revert "merge cleanuo""

This reverts commit 3a4009443a.

* fix rpc methods

* move beacon block and blob to eth2/types

* rename gossip blob cache to data availability checker

* lots of changes

* fix some compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* cargo fmt

* use a common data structure for block import types

* fix availability check on proposal import

* refactor the blob cache and split the block wrapper into two types

* add type conversion for signed block and block wrapper

* fix beacon chain tests and do some renaming, add some comments

* Partial processing (#4)

* move beacon block and blob to eth2/types

* rename gossip blob cache to data availability checker

* lots of changes

* fix some compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* fix compilation issues

* cargo fmt

* use a common data structure for block import types

* fix availability check on proposal import

* refactor the blob cache and split the block wrapper into two types

* add type conversion for signed block and block wrapper

* fix beacon chain tests and do some renaming, add some comments

* cargo update (#6)

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Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
2023-03-24 17:30:41 -04:00
ethDreamer
d1e653cfdb Update Blob Storage Structure (#4104)
* Initial Changes to Blob Storage

* Add Arc to SignedBlobSidecar Definition
2023-03-21 15:33:06 -04:00
Emilia Hane
09370e70d9 Fix rebase conflicts 2023-02-10 09:41:19 +01:00
realbigsean
eb9feed784 add new traits 2023-01-20 16:04:35 -05:00
realbigsean
3cb8fb7973 block wrapper refactor initial commit 2023-01-20 11:50:16 -05:00
Diva M
aeb243fe61 fmt 2022-12-23 17:44:50 -05:00
realbigsean
adf5f462d5 fix blob validation for empty blobs when using 2022-12-23 12:59:04 -05:00
realbigsean
1dc0759f57 impl hash correctly for the blob wrapper 2022-12-23 12:53:59 -05:00
Diva M
979a95d62f handle unknown parents for block-blob pairs
wip

handle unknown parents for block-blob pairs
2022-11-30 17:21:54 -05:00
realbigsean
dc87156641 block and blob handling progress 2022-11-19 16:53:34 -05:00
Justin Traglia
0f62d900fe Fix some typos (#3376)
## Proposed Changes

This PR fixes various minor typos in the project.
2022-07-27 00:51:06 +00:00
Paul Hauner
be4e261e74 Use async code when interacting with EL (#3244)
## Overview

This rather extensive PR achieves two primary goals:

1. Uses the finalized/justified checkpoints of fork choice (FC), rather than that of the head state.
2. Refactors fork choice, block production and block processing to `async` functions.

Additionally, it achieves:

- Concurrent forkchoice updates to the EL and cache pruning after a new head is selected.
- Concurrent "block packing" (attestations, etc) and execution payload retrieval during block production.
- Concurrent per-block-processing and execution payload verification during block processing.
- The `Arc`-ification of `SignedBeaconBlock` during block processing (it's never mutated, so why not?):
    - I had to do this to deal with sending blocks into spawned tasks.
    - Previously we were cloning the beacon block at least 2 times during each block processing, these clones are either removed or turned into cheaper `Arc` clones.
    - We were also `Box`-ing and un-`Box`-ing beacon blocks as they moved throughout the networking crate. This is not a big deal, but it's nice to avoid shifting things between the stack and heap.
    - Avoids cloning *all the blocks* in *every chain segment* during sync.
    - It also has the potential to clean up our code where we need to pass an *owned* block around so we can send it back in the case of an error (I didn't do much of this, my PR is already big enough 😅)
- The `BeaconChain::HeadSafetyStatus` struct was removed. It was an old relic from prior merge specs.

For motivation for this change, see https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3244#issuecomment-1160963273

## Changes to `canonical_head` and `fork_choice`

Previously, the `BeaconChain` had two separate fields:

```
canonical_head: RwLock<Snapshot>,
fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
```

Now, we have grouped these values under a single struct:

```
canonical_head: CanonicalHead {
  cached_head: RwLock<Arc<Snapshot>>,
  fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
} 
```

Apart from ergonomics, the only *actual* change here is wrapping the canonical head snapshot in an `Arc`. This means that we no longer need to hold the `cached_head` (`canonical_head`, in old terms) lock when we want to pull some values from it. This was done to avoid deadlock risks by preventing functions from acquiring (and holding) the `cached_head` and `fork_choice` locks simultaneously.

## Breaking Changes

### The `state` (root) field in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event

Consider the scenario where epoch `n` is just finalized, but `start_slot(n)` is skipped. There are two state roots we might in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event:

1. The state root of the finalized block, which is `get_block(finalized_checkpoint.root).state_root`.
4. The state root at slot of `start_slot(n)`, which would be the state from (1), but "skipped forward" through any skip slots.

Previously, Lighthouse would choose (2). However, we can see that when [Teku generates that event](de2b2801c8/data/beaconrestapi/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/beaconrestapi/handlers/v1/events/EventSubscriptionManager.java (L171-L182)) it uses [`getStateRootFromBlockRoot`](de2b2801c8/data/provider/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/api/ChainDataProvider.java (L336-L341)) which uses (1).

I have switched Lighthouse from (2) to (1). I think it's a somewhat arbitrary choice between the two, where (1) is easier to compute and is consistent with Teku.

## Notes for Reviewers

I've renamed `BeaconChain::fork_choice` to `BeaconChain::recompute_head`. Doing this helped ensure I broke all previous uses of fork choice and I also find it more descriptive. It describes an action and can't be confused with trying to get a reference to the `ForkChoice` struct.

I've changed the ordering of SSE events when a block is received. It used to be `[block, finalized, head]` and now it's `[block, head, finalized]`. It was easier this way and I don't think we were making any promises about SSE event ordering so it's not "breaking".

I've made it so fork choice will run when it's first constructed. I did this because I wanted to have a cached version of the last call to `get_head`. Ensuring `get_head` has been run *at least once* means that the cached values doesn't need to wrapped in an `Option`. This was fairly simple, it just involved passing a `slot` to the constructor so it knows *when* it's being run. When loading a fork choice from the store and a slot clock isn't handy I've just used the `slot` that was saved in the `fork_choice_store`. That seems like it would be a faithful representation of the slot when we saved it.

I added the `genesis_time: u64` to the `BeaconChain`. It's small, constant and nice to have around.

Since we're using FC for the fin/just checkpoints, we no longer get the `0x00..00` roots at genesis. You can see I had to remove a work-around in `ef-tests` here: b56be3bc2. I can't find any reason why this would be an issue, if anything I think it'll be better since the genesis-alias has caught us out a few times (0x00..00 isn't actually a real root). Edit: I did find a case where the `network` expected the 0x00..00 alias and patched it here: 3f26ac3e2.

You'll notice a lot of changes in tests. Generally, tests should be functionally equivalent. Here are the things creating the most diff-noise in tests:
- Changing tests to be `tokio::async` tests.
- Adding `.await` to fork choice, block processing and block production functions.
- Refactor of the `canonical_head` "API" provided by the `BeaconChain`. E.g., `chain.canonical_head.cached_head()` instead of `chain.canonical_head.read()`.
- Wrapping `SignedBeaconBlock` in an `Arc`.
- In the `beacon_chain/tests/block_verification`, we can't use the `lazy_static` `CHAIN_SEGMENT` variable anymore since it's generated with an async function. We just generate it in each test, not so efficient but hopefully insignificant.

I had to disable `rayon` concurrent tests in the `fork_choice` tests. This is because the use of `rayon` and `block_on` was causing a panic.

Co-authored-by: Mac L <mjladson@pm.me>
2022-07-03 05:36:50 +00:00
Paul Hauner
db8a6f81ea Prevent attestation to future blocks from early attester cache (#3183)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

Prevents the early attester cache from producing attestations to future blocks. This bug could result in a missed head vote if the BN was requested to produce an attestation for an earlier slot than the head block during the (usually) short window of time between verifying a block and setting it as the head.

This bug was noticed in an [Antithesis](https://andreagrieser.com/) test and diagnosed by @realbigsean. 

## Additional Info

NA
2022-05-17 01:51:25 +00:00
Paul Hauner
02e2fd2fb8 Add early attester cache (#2872)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Introduces a cache to attestation to produce atop blocks which will become the head, but are not fully imported (e.g., not inserted into the database).

Whilst attesting to a block before it's imported is rather easy, if we're going to produce that attestation then we also need to be able to:

1. Verify that attestation.
1. Respond to RPC requests for the `beacon_block_root`.

Attestation verification (1) is *partially* covered. Since we prime the shuffling cache before we insert the block into the early attester cache, we should be fine for all typical use-cases. However, it is possible that the cache is washed out before we've managed to insert the state into the database and then attestation verification will fail with a "missing beacon state"-type error.

Providing the block via RPC (2) is also partially covered, since we'll check the database *and* the early attester cache when responding a blocks-by-root request. However, we'll still omit the block from blocks-by-range requests (until the block lands in the DB). I *think* this is fine, since there's no guarantee that we return all blocks for those responses.

Another important consideration is whether or not the *parent* of the early attester block is available in the databse. If it were not, we might fail to respond to blocks-by-root request that are iterating backwards to collect a chain of blocks. I argue that *we will always have the parent of the early attester block in the database.* This is because we are holding the fork-choice write-lock when inserting the block into the early attester cache and we do not drop that until the block is in the database.
2022-01-11 01:35:55 +00:00