This commit introduces a new concept called `NotificationService` which
allows Polkadot protocols to communicate with the underlying
notification protocol implementation directly, without routing events
through `NetworkWorker`. This implies that each protocol has its own
service which it uses to communicate with remote peers and that each
`NotificationService` is unique with respect to the underlying
notification protocol, meaning `NotificationService` for the transaction
protocol can only be used to send and receive transaction-related
notifications.
The `NotificationService` concept introduces two additional benefits:
* allow protocols to start using custom handshakes
* allow protocols to accept/reject inbound peers
Previously the validation of inbound connections was solely the
responsibility of `ProtocolController`. This caused issues with light
peers and `SyncingEngine` as `ProtocolController` would accept more
peers than `SyncingEngine` could accept which caused peers to have
differing views of their own states. `SyncingEngine` would reject excess
peers but these rejections were not properly communicated to those peers
causing them to assume that they were accepted.
With `NotificationService`, the local handshake is not sent to remote
peer if peer is rejected which allows it to detect that it was rejected.
This commit also deprecates the use of `NetworkEventStream` for all
notification-related events and going forward only DHT events are
provided through `NetworkEventStream`. If protocols wish to follow each
other's events, they must introduce additional abtractions, as is done
for GRANDPA and transactions protocols by following the syncing protocol
through `SyncEventStream`.
Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/512
Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/514
Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/515
Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/554
Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/556
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These changes are transferred from
https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/14197 but there are no
functional changes compared to that PR
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* Accept only `--in-peers` many inbound full nodes in `SyncingEngine`
Due to full and light nodes being stored in the same set, it's possible
that `SyncingEngine` accepts more than `--in-peers` many inbound full
nodes which leaves some of its outbound slots unoccupied.
`ProtocolController` still tries to occupy these slots by opening
outbound substreams. As these substreams are accepted by the remote peer,
the connection is relayed to `SyncingEngine` which rejects the node
because it's already full. This in turn results in the substream being
inactive and the peer getting evicted.
Fixing this properly would require relocating the light peer slot
allocation away from `ProtocolController` or alternatively moving entire
the substream validation there, both of which are epic refactorings and
not necessarily in line with other goals. As a temporary measure, verify
in `SyncingEngine` that it doesn't accept more than the specified amount
of inbound full peers.
* Fix tests
* Apply review comments
* client/network: upgrade to libp2p 0.51.0
* make discovery.rs compile
* make peer_info.rs compile
* changes to notifications and request-response proto
* make service.rs compile
* towards making request_responses.rs compile
* make request_responses.rs compile
* make request_responses.rs compile
* fix notifications/behaviour.rs tests
* fix warnings
* remove old code
* allow deprecated code (temporary)
* upgrade to libp2p 0.51.1
* add TODO for behaviour tests
* return empty vec if peer_id is absent
https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13587#discussion_r1141695167
fyi: I don't really know what the old behaviour was.
* update comment to reflect new defaults
Closes#13338
* Revert "update comment to reflect new defaults"
This reverts commit 7a981abd69308e9d522ec94905f181439a1b1dba.
* remove config.rs (from wrong merge)
* upgrade to libp2p 0.51.2
* fix formatting
* use handle_pending_outbound_connection in networt_state RPC
* update deps
* use re-exports when we use other libp2p packages
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Markin <dmitry@markin.tech>
* format code
* handle potential errors in network_state RPC
* only update libp2p crate
* update libp2p-core
* fix docs
* use libp2p-identity instead of libp2p
where it's possible. libp2p-identity is much smaller, hence makes sense
to use it instead of larger libp2p crate.
* Update client/network/src/discovery.rs
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* update Cargo.lock
* add comment for per_connection_event_buffer_size
current value is somewhat arbitrary and needs to be tweaked depending on
memory usage and network worker sleep stats.
* fix link format
* update Cargo.lock
* upgrade to libp2p 0.51.3
* deprecate mplex
* Revert "deprecate mplex"
This reverts commit 9e25820e706e464a0e962a8604861fcb2a7641eb.
* Revert "upgrade to libp2p 0.51.3"
This reverts commit 6544dd4138e2f89517bd7c7281fc78a638ec7040.
* use new libp2p version in `statement` crate
* pin version temporarily
* libp2p 0.51.3
* deprecate mplex
* deprecate legacy noise handshake
* fix build error
* update libp2p-identity
* enable libp2p-identity:ed25519 feature in sc-consensus
* enable ed25519 for peerset as well
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* Attempt to relieve pressure on `mpsc_network_worker`
`SyncingEngine` interacting with `NetworkWorker` can put a lot of strain
on the channel if the number of inbound connections is high. This is
because `SyncingEngine` is notified of each inbound substream which it
then can either accept or reject and this causes a lot of message
exchange on the already busy channel.
Use a direct channel pair between `Protocol` and `SyncingEngine`
to exchange notification events. It is a temporary change to alleviate
the problems caused by syncing being an independent protocol and the
fix will be removed once `NotificationService` is implemented.
* Apply review comments
* fixes
* trigger ci
* Fix tests
Verify that both peers have a connection now that the validation goes
through `SyncingEngine`. Depending on how the tasks are scheduled,
one of them might not have the peer registered in `SyncingEngine` at which
point the test won't make any progress because block announcement received
from an unknown peer is discarded.
Move polling of `ChainSync` at the end of the function so that if a block
announcement causes a block request to be sent, that can be sent in the
same call to `SyncingEngine::poll()`.
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* Move service tests to `client/network/tests`
These tests depend on `sc-network` and `sc-network-sync` so they should
live outside the crate.
* Move some configs from `sc-network-common` to `sc-network`
* Move `NetworkService` traits to `sc-network`
* Move request-responses to `sc-network`
* Remove more stuff
* Remove rest of configs from `sc-network-common` to `sc-network`
* Remove more stuff
* Fix warnings
* Update client/network/src/request_responses.rs
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Markin <dmitry@markin.tech>
* Fix cargo doc
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Aaro Altonen