[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>
**Update:** Pushed additional changes based on the review comments.
**This pull request fixes various spelling mistakes in this
repository.**
Most of the changes are contained in the first **3** commits:
- `Fix spelling mistakes in comments and docs`
- `Fix spelling mistakes in test names`
- `Fix spelling mistakes in error messages, panic messages, logs and
tracing`
Other source code spelling mistakes are separated into individual
commits for easier reviewing:
- `Fix the spelling of 'authority'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'REASONABLE_HEADERS_IN_JUSTIFICATION_ANCESTRY'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'prev_enqueud_messages'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'endpoint'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'children'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'PenpalSiblingSovereignAccount'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'PenpalSudoAccount'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'insufficient'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'PalletXcmExtrinsicsBenchmark'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'subtracted'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'CandidatePendingAvailability'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'exclusive'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'until'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'discriminator'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'nonexistent'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'subsystem'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'indices'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'committed'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'topology'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'response'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'beneficiary'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'formatted'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'UNKNOWN_PROOF_REQUEST'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'succeeded'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'reopened'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'proposer'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'InstantiationNonce'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'depositor'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'expiration'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'phantom'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'AggregatedKeyValue'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'randomness'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'defendant'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'AquaticMammal'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'transactions'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'PassingTracingSubscriber'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'TxSignaturePayload'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'versioning'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'descendant'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'overridden'`
- `Fix the spelling of 'network'`
Let me know if this structure is adequate.
**Note:** The usage of the words `Merkle`, `Merkelize`, `Merklization`,
`Merkelization`, `Merkleization`, is somewhat inconsistent but I left it
as it is.
~~**Note:** In some places the term `Receival` is used to refer to
message reception, IMO `Reception` is the correct word here, but I left
it as it is.~~
~~**Note:** In some places the term `Overlayed` is used instead of the
more acceptable version `Overlaid` but I also left it as it is.~~
~~**Note:** In some places the term `Applyable` is used instead of the
correct version `Applicable` but I also left it as it is.~~
**Note:** Some usage of British vs American english e.g. `judgement` vs
`judgment`, `initialise` vs `initialize`, `optimise` vs `optimize` etc.
are both present in different places, but I suppose that's
understandable given the number of contributors.
~~**Note:** There is a spelling mistake in `.github/CODEOWNERS` but it
triggers errors in CI when I make changes to it, so I left it as it
is.~~
This PR should supersede
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2814 and accomplish the
same with less changes. It's needed to run sync strategies in parallel,
like running `ChainSync` and `GapSync` as independent strategies, and
running `ChainSync` and Sync 2.0 alongside each other.
The difference with https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2814
is that we allow simultaneous requests to remote peers initiated by
different strategies, as this is not tracked on the remote node in any
way. Therefore, `PeerPool` is not needed.
CC @skunert
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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Kunert <skunert49@gmail.com>
This is a rather big change in jsonrpsee, the major things in this bump
are:
- Server backpressure (the subscription impls are modified to deal with
that)
- Allow custom error types / return types (remove jsonrpsee::core::Error
and jsonrpee::core::CallError)
- Bug fixes (graceful shutdown in particular not used by substrate
anyway)
- Less dependencies for the clients in particular
- Return type requires Clone in method call responses
- Moved to tokio channels
- Async subscription API (not used in this PR)
Major changes in this PR:
- The subscriptions are now bounded and if subscription can't keep up
with the server it is dropped
- CLI: add parameter to configure the jsonrpc server bounded message
buffer (default is 64)
- Add our own subscription helper to deal with the unbounded streams in
substrate
The most important things in this PR to review is the added helpers
functions in `substrate/client/rpc/src/utils.rs` and the rest is pretty
much chore.
Regarding the "bounded buffer limit" it may cause the server to handle
the JSON-RPC calls
slower than before.
The message size limit is bounded by "--rpc-response-size" thus "by
default 10MB * 64 = 640MB"
but the subscription message size is not covered by this limit and could
be capped as well.
Hopefully the last release prior to 1.0, sorry in advance for a big PR
Previous attempt: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13992
Resolves https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/748, resolves
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/627
Extract `WarpSync` (and `StateSync` as part of warp sync) from
`ChainSync` as independent syncing strategy called by `SyncingEngine`.
Introduce `SyncingStrategy` enum as a proxy between `SyncingEngine` and
specific syncing strategies.
## Limitations
Gap sync is kept in `ChainSync` for now because it shares the same set
of peers as block syncing implementation in `ChainSync`. Extraction of a
common context responsible for peer management in syncing strategies
able to run in parallel is planned for a follow-up PR.
## Further improvements
A possibility of conversion of `SyncingStartegy` into a trait should be
evaluated. The main stopper for this is that different strategies need
to communicate different actions to `SyncingEngine` and respond to
different events / provide different APIs (e.g., requesting
justifications is only possible via `ChainSync` and not through
`WarpSync`; `SendWarpProofRequest` action is only relevant to
`WarpSync`, etc.)
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Co-authored-by: Aaro Altonen <48052676+altonen@users.noreply.github.com>
Aaro Altonen