[litep2p](https://github.com/altonen/litep2p) is a libp2p-compatible P2P
networking library. It supports all of the features of `rust-libp2p`
that are currently being utilized by Polkadot SDK.
Compared to `rust-libp2p`, `litep2p` has a quite different architecture
which is why the new `litep2p` network backend is only able to use a
little of the existing code in `sc-network`. The design has been mainly
influenced by how we'd wish to structure our networking-related code in
Polkadot SDK: independent higher-levels protocols directly communicating
with the network over links that support bidirectional backpressure. A
good example would be `NotificationHandle`/`RequestResponseHandle`
abstractions which allow, e.g., `SyncingEngine` to directly communicate
with peers to announce/request blocks.
I've tried running `polkadot --network-backend litep2p` with a few
different peer configurations and there is a noticeable reduction in
networking CPU usage. For high load (`--out-peers 200`), networking CPU
usage goes down from ~110% to ~30% (80 pp) and for normal load
(`--out-peers 40`), the usage goes down from ~55% to ~18% (37 pp).
These should not be taken as final numbers because:
a) there are still some low-hanging optimization fruits, such as
enabling [receive window
auto-tuning](https://github.com/libp2p/rust-yamux/pull/176), integrating
`Peerset` more closely with `litep2p` or improving memory usage of the
WebSocket transport
b) fixing bugs/instabilities that incorrectly cause `litep2p` to do less
work will increase the networking CPU usage
c) verification in a more diverse set of tests/conditions is needed
Nevertheless, these numbers should give an early estimate for CPU usage
of the new networking backend.
This PR consists of three separate changes:
* introduce a generic `PeerId` (wrapper around `Multihash`) so that we
don't have use `NetworkService::PeerId` in every part of the code that
uses a `PeerId`
* introduce `NetworkBackend` trait, implement it for the libp2p network
stack and make Polkadot SDK generic over `NetworkBackend`
* implement `NetworkBackend` for litep2p
The new library should be considered experimental which is why
`rust-libp2p` will remain as the default option for the time being. This
PR currently depends on the master branch of `litep2p` but I'll cut a
new release for the library once all review comments have been
addresses.
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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <alexandru.vasile@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Markin <dmitry@markin.tech>
Co-authored-by: Alexandru Vasile <60601340+lexnv@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexandru Vasile <alexandru.vasile@parity.io>
This MR contains two major changes and some maintenance cleanup.
## 1. Free Standing Pallet Benchmark Runner
Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3045, depends
on your runtime exposing the `GenesisBuilderApi` (like
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1492).
Introduces a new binary crate: `frame-omni-bencher`.
It allows to directly benchmark a WASM blob - without needing a node or
chain spec.
This makes it much easier to generate pallet weights and should allow us
to remove bloaty code from the node.
It should work for all FRAME runtimes that dont use 3rd party host calls
or non `BlakeTwo256` block hashing (basically all polkadot parachains
should work).
It is 100% backwards compatible with the old CLI args, when the `v1`
compatibility command is used. This is done to allow for forwards
compatible addition of new commands.
### Example (full example in the Rust docs)
Installing the CLI:
```sh
cargo install --locked --path substrate/utils/frame/omni-bencher
frame-omni-bencher --help
```
Building the Westend runtime:
```sh
cargo build -p westend-runtime --release --features runtime-benchmarks
```
Benchmarking the runtime:
```sh
frame-omni-bencher v1 benchmark pallet --runtime target/release/wbuild/westend-runtime/westend_runtime.compact.compressed.wasm --all
```
## 2. Building the Benchmark Genesis State in the Runtime
Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/2664
This adds `--runtime` and `--genesis-builder=none|runtime|spec`
arguments to the `benchmark pallet` command to make it possible to
generate the genesis storage by the runtime. This can be used with both
the node and the freestanding benchmark runners. It utilizes the new
`GenesisBuilder` RA and depends on having
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3412 deployed.
## 3. Simpler args for `PalletCmd::run`
You can do three things here to integrate the changes into your node:
- nothing: old code keeps working as before but emits a deprecated
warning
- delete: remove the pallet benchmarking code from your node and use the
omni-bencher instead
- patch: apply the patch below and keep using as currently. This emits a
deprecated warning at runtime, since it uses the old way to generate a
genesis state, but is the smallest change.
```patch
runner.sync_run(|config| cmd
- .run::<HashingFor<Block>, ReclaimHostFunctions>(config)
+ .run_with_spec::<HashingFor<Block>, ReclaimHostFunctions>(Some(config.chain_spec))
)
```
## 4. Maintenance Change
- `pallet-nis` get a `BenchmarkSetup` config item to prepare its
counterparty asset.
- Add percent progress print when running benchmarks.
- Dont immediately exit on benchmark error but try to run as many as
possible and print errors last.
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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <oliver.tale-yazdi@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Liam Aharon <liam.aharon@hotmail.com>
The first step towards
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3155
Brings all templates under the following structure
```
templates
| parachain
| | polkadot-launch
| | runtime --> parachain-template-runtime
| | pallets --> pallet-parachain-template
| | node --> parachain-template-node
| minimal
| | runtime --> minimal-template-runtime
| | pallets --> pallet-minimal-template
| | node --> minimal-template-node
| solochain
| | runtime --> solochain-template-runtime
| | pallets --> pallet-template (the naming is not consistent here)
| | node --> solochain-template-node
```
The only note-worthy changes in this PR are:
- More `Cargo.toml` fields are forwarded to use the one from the
workspace.
- parachain template now has weights and benchmarks
- adds a shell pallet to the minimal template
- remove a few unused deps
A list of possible follow-ups:
- [ ] Unify READMEs, create a parent README for all
- [ ] remove references to `docs.substrate.io` in templates
- [ ] make all templates use `#[derive_impl]`
- [ ] update and unify all licenses
- [ ] Remove polkadot launch, use
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/35349df993ea2e7c4769914ef5d199e787b23d4c/cumulus/zombienet/examples/small_network.toml
instead.
Aaro Altonen