Finality notification: Optimize calculation of stale heads (#11200)

* Finality notification: Optimize calculation of stale heads

While looking into some problem on Versi where a collator seemed to be stuck. I found out that it
was not stuck but there was a huge gap between last finalized and best block. This lead to a lot
leaves and it was basically trapped inside some loop of reading block headers from the db to find
the stale heads. While looking into this I found out that `leaves` already supports the feature to
give us the stale heads relative easily. However, the semantics change a little bit. Instead of
returning all stale heads of blocks that are not reachable anymore after finalizing a block, we
currently only return heads with a number lower than the finalized block. This should be no problem,
because these other leaves that are stale will be returned later when a block gets finalized which
number is bigger than the block number of these leaves.

While doing that, I also changed `tree_route` of the `FinalityNotification` to include the
`old_finalized`. Based on the comment I assumed that this was already part of it. However, if
wanted, I can revert this change.

* FMT

* Update client/service/src/client/client.rs

Co-authored-by: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>

* Do not include the last finalized block

* Rename function

* FMT

* Fix tests

* Update figure

Co-authored-by: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>
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Bastian Köcher
2022-04-12 13:12:53 +02:00
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parent f84fc59892
commit cc4b5c4818
9 changed files with 99 additions and 38 deletions
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ impl<Block: BlockT> TreeRoute<Block> {
pub fn enacted(&self) -> &[HashAndNumber<Block>] {
&self.route[self.pivot + 1..]
}
/// Returns the last block.
pub fn last(&self) -> Option<&HashAndNumber<Block>> {
self.route.last()
}
}
/// Handles header metadata: hash, number, parent hash, etc.