Parallel preprocessing of blocks + transactions #1360

pmconrad · 2018-10-05T15:23:57Z

~~Work in progress, do not merge yet!~~

Will ~~some day~~ resolve #1079 insofar as it is possible without modifying consensus.

This includes the changes from #1359 . Requires bitshares/bitshares-fc#78 .

Status: seems to be working, at least with boost-1.60. Testing.

clockworkgr · 2018-10-05T15:42:17Z

good stuff peter!

pmconrad · 2018-10-05T16:19:06Z

Thanks, but not yet. :-/

clockworkgr · 2018-10-05T16:37:55Z

ah!..got overexcited over the "working version" commit :)

abitmore

Since it's still WIP, perhaps will have answer later.

libraries/chain/include/graphene/chain/protocol/transaction.hpp

abitmore · 2018-10-12T13:04:37Z

libraries/app/application.cpp

+                      graphene::chain::database::skip_tapos_check |
+                      graphene::chain::database::skip_witness_schedule_check;
+      if( _options->count("revalidate-blockchain") ) // see also handle_block()
+         skip = _options->count("force-validate") ? 0 : graphene::chain::database::skip_transaction_signatures;


I think it's better to replace 0 with graphene::chain::database::skip_nothing.

Code readability here looks a bit poor. Now it reads:

declare skip = something; if (condition A) { skip = condition B ? something else : yet something else; }

How about change the if to ?:

declare skip = condition A ? condition B ? something else : yet something else : something;

or change the ?: to if else?

libraries/chain/db_block.cpp

abitmore

And need to resolve FC conflicts.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T16:58:20Z

libraries/app/application.cpp

@@ -961,9 +979,10 @@ void application::set_program_options(boost::program_options::options_descriptio
          "Path to create a Genesis State at. If a well-formed JSON file exists at the path, it will be parsed and any "
          "missing fields in a Genesis State will be added, and any unknown fields will be removed. If no file or an "
          "invalid file is found, it will be replaced with an example Genesis State.")
-         ("replay-blockchain", "Rebuild object graph by replaying all blocks")
+         ("replay-blockchain", "Rebuild object graph by replaying all blocks without validatino")


abitmore · 2018-10-21T17:05:26Z

libraries/chain/db_block.cpp

+         uint32_t chunks = fc::asio::default_io_service_scope::get_num_threads();
+         uint32_t chunk_size = block.transactions.size() / chunks;
+         if( chunks * chunk_size < block.transactions.size() )
+            chunk_size++;


Is it essentially rounding up? If it's true then can code like this:

uint32_t chunk_size = ( block.transactions.size() + chunks - 1 ) / chunks;

abitmore · 2018-10-21T18:30:52Z

libraries/chain/include/graphene/chain/protocol/transaction.hpp

-      void                validate() const;
+      digest_type                        digest()const;
+      virtual const transaction_id_type& id()const;
+      virtual void                       validate() const;
      /// Calculate the digest used for signature validation


This comment should be moved to correct place.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T18:38:59Z

libraries/chain/protocol/transaction.cpp

@@ -307,20 +305,17 @@ const flat_set<public_key_type>& signed_transaction::get_signature_keys( const c
 { try {
   // Strictly we should check whether the given chain ID is same as the one used to initialize the `signees` field.
   // However, we don't pass in another chain ID so far, for better performance, we skip the check.


The comments should be removed if signees are calculated every time.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T18:39:53Z

libraries/chain/protocol/transaction.cpp

@@ -307,20 +305,17 @@ const flat_set<public_key_type>& signed_transaction::get_signature_keys( const c
 { try {
   // Strictly we should check whether the given chain ID is same as the one used to initialize the `signees` field.
   // However, we don't pass in another chain ID so far, for better performance, we skip the check.
-   if( signees.empty() && !signatures.empty() )
+   auto d = sig_digest( chain_id );
+   flat_set<public_key_type> result;


Use a non-default key_compare here?

That wouldn't help, because then the set has to be re-sorted when assigning to _signees field.
Unless we also change the sorting order there, which means the signature of this method has to be changed as well, and all places that use it... it simply doesn't pay out, see #1401 .

abitmore · 2018-10-21T18:44:06Z

libraries/chain/include/graphene/chain/protocol/transaction.hpp

+      precomputable_transaction( const signed_transaction& tx ) : signed_transaction(tx) {};
+      precomputable_transaction( signed_transaction&& tx ) : signed_transaction(tx) {};
+
+      virtual const transaction_id_type&       id()const;


Can add an override keyword to overridden functions here.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T18:49:06Z

libraries/db/object_database.cpp

-            _index[space][type]->save( _data_dir / "object_database.tmp" / fc::to_string(space)/fc::to_string(type) );
+            tasks.push_back( fc::do_parallel( [this,space,type] () {
+               _index[space][type]->save( _data_dir / "object_database.tmp" / fc::to_string(space)/fc::to_string(type) );
+            } ) );


Does this really increase performance? Isn't IO the bottleneck here?

Perhaps better if we adopt the behavior of ChainBase, store not only data but also indexes, to improve startup speed (may slow down shutdown speed though). This belongs to another ticket.

IO isn't necessarily the bottleneck, e. g. when restarting a node the previously saved data might still be in system buffers.

Here is save aka writing but not reading. When we're writing, usually the data has changed, even if it didn't change much, since we're writing to temporary (aka different) files, so the buffer doesn't help.

Of course disk buffer helps when writing.
On a system with a slow disk and the bare minimum of RAM you're right, parallelizing won't help - but it won't hurt either.
With sufficient buffer memory, or on a RAM-disk, parallel saving should be faster.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T19:38:01Z

libraries/chain/db_management.cpp

+         {
+            wlog( "Reindexing terminated due to gap:  Block ${i} does not exist!", ("i", i) );
+            uint32_t dropped_count = 0;
+            while( true )


I still believe this (old) code is inefficient. But it may belong to another ticket with lower priority.

abitmore · 2018-10-21T19:49:36Z

libraries/plugins/delayed_node/delayed_node_plugin.cpp

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ void delayed_node_plugin::sync_with_trusted_node()
         fc::optional<graphene::chain::signed_block> block = my->database_api->get_block( db.head_block_num()+1 );
         FC_ASSERT(block, "Trusted node claims it has blocks it doesn't actually have.");
         ilog("Pushing block #${n}", ("n", block->block_num()));
+         db.precompute_parallel( *block, graphene::chain::database::skip_nothing ).wait();


Can adopt same approach used in reindex here for even better performance, IMHO low priority though. Add a TODO?

abitmore · 2018-10-21T19:50:41Z

tests/common/database_fixture.hpp

@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ extern uint32_t GRAPHENE_TESTING_GENESIS_TIMESTAMP;

 namespace graphene { namespace chain {

+class clearable_block : public signed_block {


Please write some comments for this class.

pmconrad · 2018-11-07T17:07:50Z

Rebased. Will bump fc after bitshares/bitshares-fc#78 has been merged.

pmconrad · 2018-11-07T17:22:52Z

Timings taken up to block 31,000,000 with various core versions (also see #1371), on a quad-core (with hyperthreading) "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz", 64G RAM, default config:

Version	2.0.180823	develop as of 2018-10-24	#1401	this pr
Replay	2:00:21	1:58:15	1:59:23	2:00:36
Resync	3:35:51	3:46:15	3:44:55	3:24:07
Resync (full validation)	7:15:06	7:21:59	7:18:52	3:48:52
Revalidate	n/a	n/a	2:51:08	2:46:05
Revalidate (full validation)	n/a	n/a	6:13:40	3:45:56

(Resync was done at different times of day, fluctuations due to network conditions are to be expected.)

jmjatlanta

Code looks good. I believe fc is all set. Please fix the conflict and I will approve this after some final testing. Nice work!

…_transaction_signatures

…of signed_transaction

pmconrad · 2018-12-07T18:48:55Z

Rebased on latest develop + bumped fc to latest master

jmjatlanta

Code looks good. Tested with Ubuntu 18.10 / Boost 1.67 / OpenSSL 1.1.0. chain_test runs with no errors detected. Thank you for tackling this.

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Performance opt pt 1 #1359

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Fix #584 authorize transactions with non-immediate owner authorities #1259

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Removed skip_authority flag because its used interchangably with skip…

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Add warning when revalidating with checkpoints

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Preprocess blocks + transactions in parallel, working version

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		@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ extern uint32_t GRAPHENE_TESTING_GENESIS_TIMESTAMP;

		namespace graphene { namespace chain {

		class clearable_block : public signed_block {

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