Block processing consists of:
* saving block/transactions to the DB
* executing blocks/transactions
* processing notifications/saving AERs
* updating MPT
* atomically updating Blockchain state
Of these the first one is completely independent of others, it can be done in
a separate routine easily. The third one technically depends on the second,
it just doesn't have data until something is executed. At the same time it
doesn't affect future executions in any way, so we can offload
AER/notification processing to separate goroutine (while the main thread
proceeds with other transactions).
MPT update depends on all executions, so it can't be offloaded, but it can be
done concurrently to AER processing. And only the last thing actually needs
all previous ones to be finished, so it's a natural synchronization point.
So we spawn two additional routines and let the main one execute transactions
and update MPT as fast as it can. While technically all of these routines
could share single DAO (they are working with different KV sets) benchmarking
shows that using separate DAOs and then persisting them to lower one actually
works about 7-8%% better. At the same time we can simplify DAOs used, Cached
one is only relevant for AER processing because it caches NEP-17 tracking
data, everything else can do just fine with Simple.
The change was tested for performance with neo-bench (single node, 10 workers,
LevelDB) on two machines and block dump processing (RC4 testnet up to 50825
with VerifyBlocks set to false) on i7-8565U. neo-bench creates huge blocks
with lots of transactions while RC4 dump mostly consists of empty blocks.
Reference results (06c3dda5d1):
Ryzen 9 5950X:
RPS ≈ 20059.569 21186.328 20158.983 ≈ 20468 ± 3.05%
TPS ≈ 19544.993 20585.450 19658.338 ≈ 19930 ± 2.86%
CPU ≈ 18.682% 23.877% 22.852% ≈ 21.8 ± 12.62%
Mem ≈ 618.981MB 559.246MB 541.539MB ≈ 573 ± 7.08%
Core i7-8565U:
RPS ≈ 5927.082 6526.739 6372.115 ≈ 6275 ± 4.96%
TPS ≈ 5899.531 6477.187 6329.515 ≈ 6235 ± 4.81%
CPU ≈ 56.346% 61.955% 58.125% ≈ 58.8 ± 4.87%
Mem ≈ 212.191MB 224.974MB 205.479MB ≈ 214 ± 4.62%
DB restore:
real 0m12.683s 0m13.222s 0m13.382s ≈ 13.096 ± 2.80%
user 0m18.501s 0m19.163s 0m19.489s ≈ 19.051 ± 2.64%
sys 0m1.404s 0m1.396s 0m1.666s ≈ 1.489 ± 10.32%
After the change:
Ryzen 9 5950X:
RPS ≈ 23056.899 22822.015 23006.543 ≈ 22962 ± 0.54%
TPS ≈ 22594.785 22292.071 22800.857 ≈ 22562 ± 1.13%
CPU ≈ 24.262% 23.185% 25.921% ≈ 24.5 ± 5.65%
Mem ≈ 614.254MB 613.204MB 555.491MB ≈ 594 ± 5.66%
Core i7-8565U:
RPS ≈ 6378.702 6423.927 6363.788 ≈ 6389 ± 0.49%
TPS ≈ 6327.072 6372.552 6311.179 ≈ 6337 ± 0.50%
CPU ≈ 57.599% 58.622% 59.737% ≈ 58.7 ± 1.82%
Mem ≈ 198.697MB 188.746MB 200.235MB ≈ 196 ± 3.18%
DB restore:
real 0m13.576s 0m13.334s 0m12.757s ≈ 13.222 ± 3.18%
user 0m19.113s 0m19.490s 0m20.197s ≈ 19.600 ± 2.81%
sys 0m2.211s 0m1.558s 0m1.559s ≈ 1.776 ± 21.21%
On Ryzen 9 we've got 12% better RPS, 13% better TPS with 12% CPU and 3% RAM
more used. Core i7-8565U changes don't seem to be statistically significant:
1.8% more RPS, 1.6% more TPS with about the same CPU and 8.5% less RAM
used. It also is 1% worse in DB restore time.
The result is somewhat expected, on a powerful machine with lots of spare
cores we get 10%+ better results while on average resource-constrained laptop it
doesn't change much (the machine is already saturated). Overall, this seems to
be worthwhile.
If wallet size decreases, we need to remove trailing garbage if it
exists. This can happen when removing account or reading pretty-printed
wallet. It doesn't affect our CLI (we decode only file prefix), but
it is nice to always have a valid JSON file.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Stratonikov <evgeniy@nspcc.ru>
Request NEP17 balances from a set of NEP17 contracts instead of getting
them from storage. LastUpdatedBlock tracking remains untouched, because
there's no way to retrieve it dynamically.
Balances are to be removed from state.NEP17TransferInfo, so the remnant
fields are NextTransferBatch, NewBatch and a map of LastUpdatedBlocks.
These fields are more staff-related.
Also rename dao.[Get, Put, put]NEP17Balances and STNEP17Balances
preffix.
Also rename NEP17TransferInfo.Trackers to LastUpdatedBlockTrackers
because NEP17TransferInfo.Balances are to be removed.
So use base64 too and add compatibility test. Unfortunately this breaks
support for old (hex-based) files, but those should be completed a long time
ago.
It supposedly fixes some Windows and Solaris problem, but this commit is
deliberately taken before the package switches to Go 1.17 (as we still need
older versions).
