consensus: remove caching functionality from block import pipeline (#13551)

* consensus: remove caching functionality from block import pipeline

* client: update docs on Verifier::verify

* node: fix block production benchmark

substrate/client/api/src/backend.rs

@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@
 
 //! Substrate Client data backend
 
-use crate::{
-	blockchain::{well_known_cache_keys, Backend as BlockchainBackend},
-	UsageInfo,
-};
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+
 use parking_lot::RwLock;
-use sp_blockchain;
+
 use sp_consensus::BlockOrigin;
 use sp_core::offchain::OffchainStorage;
 use sp_runtime::{
@@ -35,7 +33,8 @@ use sp_state_machine::{
 	OffchainChangesCollection, StorageCollection, StorageIterator,
 };
 use sp_storage::{ChildInfo, StorageData, StorageKey};
-use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+
+use crate::{blockchain::Backend as BlockchainBackend, UsageInfo};
 
 pub use sp_state_machine::{Backend as StateBackend, KeyValueStates};
 
@@ -179,9 +178,6 @@ pub trait BlockImportOperation<Block: BlockT> {
 		state: NewBlockState,
 	) -> sp_blockchain::Result<()>;
 
-	/// Update cached data.
-	fn update_cache(&mut self, cache: HashMap<well_known_cache_keys::Id, Vec<u8>>);
-
 	/// Inject storage data into the database.
 	fn update_db_storage(
 		&mut self,

substrate/client/api/src/in_mem.rs

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ use std::{
 
 use crate::{
 	backend::{self, NewBlockState},
-	blockchain::{self, well_known_cache_keys::Id as CacheKeyId, BlockStatus, HeaderBackend},
+	blockchain::{self, BlockStatus, HeaderBackend},
 	leaves::LeafSet,
 	UsageInfo,
 };
@@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ where
 		Ok(())
 	}
 
-	fn update_cache(&mut self, _cache: HashMap<CacheKeyId, Vec<u8>>) {}
-
 	fn update_db_storage(
 		&mut self,
 		update: <InMemoryBackend<HashFor<Block>> as StateBackend<HashFor<Block>>>::Transaction,