chainimport[3/3]: import block and filter headers on startup before falling back to P2P synchronization #324
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This pull request introduces a significant new feature to Neutrino, allowing it to import block and filter headers from local files on startup. This capability is designed to accelerate initial synchronization, particularly for new users or when resetting header data, by pre-populating the header stores before falling back to traditional P2P synchronization. Alongside this, the underlying header storage and indexing mechanisms have undergone substantial refactoring to enhance robustness, modularity, and performance.
Highlights
- File-based Header Import: Introduced a new
chainimportpackage that enables Neutrino to import block and filter headers from local files. This process occurs on startup, prior to P2P synchronization, and is intended to speed up initial sync. - Header Storage Refactoring: The
headerfspackage has been significantly refactored to use interfaces (headerfs.FilterHeaderStore) and embed a newheaderFilestruct, improving modularity, flexibility, and maintainability of the header storage layer. - Robust Header Rollback: Enhanced header rollback mechanisms in
headerfsto support truncating multiple headers at once (RollbackBlockHeaders) and to ensure atomicity during header writes. If a database write fails, the corresponding file changes are now rolled back to maintain consistency. - Improved Header Indexing: The header indexing logic has been updated to efficiently handle the deletion of multiple header entries. This includes support for both old (root bucket) and new (sub-bucket) storage formats, ensuring backward compatibility and optimized performance.
- Adaptive Batch Processing: The new header import process dynamically adjusts the write batch size based on available system memory. This optimization aims to balance performance and resource utilization during large-scale header imports.
- Comprehensive Validation: The import process includes extensive validation steps to ensure compatibility between imported header sources and the target chain, as well as chain continuity. This helps prevent the import of corrupted or inconsistent header data.
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This pull request introduces a significant new feature for importing headers from files to speed up initial sync. The new chainimport package is well-structured with clear interfaces and implementations for file-based sources. The changes also include valuable refactoring in the headerfs package to support bulk operations like RollbackBlockHeaders, which improves efficiency. The integration into neutrino.go is clean. I've found a couple of potential issues in the new chainimport package related to resource management and error messages that should be addressed.
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This pull request introduces a significant new feature for importing block and filter headers from files to accelerate initial synchronization. A new chainimport package contains the core logic for this, handling various scenarios like overlapping or diverging headers. The changes also include substantial refactoring in the headerfs package to support multi-header rollbacks, improve the storage interfaces, and update mocks. My review focused on the new import logic and the refactored storage components. I've identified a high-severity issue in the chain continuity validation logic that could prevent successful imports under common conditions, and a medium-severity issue related to an unhelpful error message. Overall, this is a great feature addition with thoughtful refactoring.
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This pull request introduces a major new feature: importing block and filter headers from external sources on startup. This can significantly speed up initial sync. The implementation is in a new chainimport package and is very comprehensive, handling file and HTTP sources, validation, and different import scenarios like overlap and divergence.
The PR also includes significant refactoring in the headerfs package to support the new functionality, such as improving the header store interfaces and making database operations more robust and efficient. The testing strategy is thorough, with new unit tests, integration tests, and a valuable performance benchmark for the import functionality.
I have a few minor suggestions to improve code clarity by replacing magic numbers with constants and updating a comment. Overall, this is an excellent contribution.
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In this commit, we consolidate block header and filter header verification logic into reusable verification functions at target height. The main motive behind is change is allowing flexibility when adapting the appendMode parameter later
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In this commit, we introduce a way to validate headers in the specified range using sampling approach to ensure data integrity between import and target sources. This will be handy when we process overlap and divergence headers region.
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With this commit, we process the overlap headers region and remove the safe guards that previously preventing importing into non-empty target header stores
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As discussed offline, we don't need the sampling verification at all. if a client has headers up to 500k, and the file has headers up to 900k, then we only need to verify that we have the exact header at height 500. Without loss of generality, this then indicates that we've verified the same header chain up to that point. With this simplification, we should be able to delete a lot of code in this PR. |
Description
Closes #70.
Prev #317.
Motivation and Context
By processing these regions, we enable incremental updates of header imports, primarily serving existing Neutrino users with already populated header stores.