[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>
* Change copyright year to 2023 from 2022
* Fix incorrect update of copyright year
* Remove years from copy right header
* Fix remaining files
* Fix typo in a header and remove update-copyright.sh
* Upgrade to libp2p 0.45.1
* Limit max_negotiating_inbound_streams to 512
* Upgrade prost-build to 0.10
* Set max_negotiating_inbound_streams to 2048
Co-authored-by: Pierre Krieger <pierre.krieger1708@gmail.com>
* Fix authority discovery protobuf
* Fix comments in authority-discovery schema
Co-authored-by: Pierre Krieger <pierre.krieger1708@gmail.com>
* Add a comment about transport initialization
Co-authored-by: Pierre Krieger <pierre.krieger1708@gmail.com>
* Add new hardware and software metrics
* Move sysinfo tests into `mod tests`
* Correct a typo in a comment
* Remove unnecessary `nix` dependency
* Fix the version tests
* Add a `--disable-hardware-benchmarks` CLI argument
* Disable hardware benchmarks in the integration tests
* Remove unused import
* Fix benchmarks compilation
* Move code to a new `sc-sysinfo` crate
* Correct `impl_version` comment
* Move `--disable-hardware-benchmarks` to the chain-specific bin crate
* Move printing out of hardware bench results to `sc-sysinfo`
* Move hardware benchmarks to a separate messages; trigger them manually
* Rename some of the fields in the `HwBench` struct
* Revert changes to the telemetry crate; manually send hwbench messages
* Move sysinfo logs into the sysinfo crate
* Move the `TARGET_OS_*` constants into the sysinfo crate
* Minor cleanups
* Move the `HwBench` struct to the sysinfo crate
* Derive `Clone` for `HwBench`
* Fix broken telemetry connection notification stream
* Prevent the telemetry connection notifiers from leaking if they're disconnected
* Turn the telemetry notification failure log into a debug log
* Rename `--disable-hardware-benchmarks` to `--no-hardware-benchmarks`
* Run cargo fmt on the whole code base
* Second run
* Add CI check
* Fix compilation
* More unnecessary braces
* Handle weights
* Use --all
* Use correct attributes...
* Fix UI tests
* AHHHHHHHHH
* 🤦
* Docs
* Fix compilation
* 🤷
* Please stop
* 🤦 x 2
* More
* make rustfmt.toml consistent with polkadot
Co-authored-by: André Silva <andrerfosilva@gmail.com>
Aaro Altonen