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Aaro Altonen 80616f6d03 Integrate litep2p into Polkadot SDK (#2944)
[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.

---------

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>
2024-04-08 16:44:13 +00:00

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[package]
description = "Substrate network common"
name = "sc-network-common"
version = "0.33.0"
license = "GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0"
authors.workspace = true
edition.workspace = true
homepage = "https://substrate.io"
repository.workspace = true
documentation = "https://docs.rs/sc-network-sync"
[lints]
workspace = true
[package.metadata.docs.rs]
targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"]
[build-dependencies]
prost-build = "0.11"
[dependencies]
async-trait = "0.1.79"
bitflags = "1.3.2"
codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.6.1", features = [
"derive",
] }
futures = "0.3.30"
libp2p-identity = { version = "0.1.3", features = ["peerid"] }
sc-consensus = { path = "../../consensus/common" }
sc-network-types = { path = "../types" }
sp-consensus = { path = "../../../primitives/consensus/common" }
sp-consensus-grandpa = { path = "../../../primitives/consensus/grandpa" }
sp-runtime = { path = "../../../primitives/runtime" }
[dev-dependencies]
tempfile = "3.1.0"