## Proposed Changes
Add `compare_fields(as_iter)` as a field attribute to `compare_fields_derive`. This allows any iterable type to be compared in the same as a slice (by index).
This is forwards-compatible with tree-states types like `List` and `Vector` which can not be cast to slices.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses #4778, and potentially fixes the flaky deneb builder test `builder_works_post_deneb`.
The [deneb builder test](c5c84f1213/beacon_node/http_api/tests/tests.rs (L5371)) has been quite flaky on our CI (`release-tests`) since it was introduced. I'm guessing that it might be timing out on the builder `get_header` call (1 second), and therefore the local payload is used, while the test expects builder payload to be used.
On my machine the [`get_header` ](c5c84f1213/beacon_node/execution_layer/src/test_utils/mock_builder.rs (L367)) call takes about 550ms, which could easily go over 1s on slower environments (our windows CI runner is much slower than the ubuntu one).
I did a profile on the test and it showed that `blob_to_kzg_commiment` and `compute_kzg_proof` was taking a large chunk of time, so perhaps pre-generating the blobs could help stablise this test.
## Proposed Changes
Pre-generate blobs bundle for Mainnet and Minimal presets.
Before the change `get_header` took about **550ms**, and it's now reduced to **50-55ms** after the change. If timeout was indeed the cause of the flaky test, this fix should stablise it. This also brings the flaky `builder_works_post_deneb` test time from 50s to 10s. (8s if we only use a single blob)
* use workspace deps in kzg crate
* delete unused blobs dp path field
* full match on fork name in engine api get payload v3
* only accept v3 payloads on get payload v3 endpoint in mock el
* remove FIXMEs related to merge transition tests
* move static tx to test utils
* default max_per_epoch_activation_churn_limit to mainnet value
* remove unnecessary async
* remove comment
* use task executor in `blob_sidecars` endpoint
## Proposed Changes
- only use LH types to avoid build issues
- use warp instead of axum for the server to avoid importing the dep
## Additional Info
- wondering if we can move the `execution_layer/test_utils` to its own crate and import it as a dev dependency
- this would be made easier by separating out our engine API types into their own crate so we can use them in the test crate
- or maybe we can look into using reth types for the engine api if they are in their own crate
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
* add processing and processed caching to the DA checker
* move processing cache out of critical cache
* get it compiling
* fix lints
* add docs to `AvailabilityView`
* some self review
* fix lints
* fix beacon chain tests
* cargo fmt
* make availability view easier to implement, start on testing
* move child component cache and finish test
* cargo fix
* cargo fix
* cargo fix
* fmt and lint
* make blob commitments not optional, rename some caches, add missing blobs struct
* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/processing_cache.rs
Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>
* marks review feedback and other general cleanup
* cargo fix
* improve availability view docs
* some renames
* some renames and docs
* fix should delay lookup logic
* get rid of some wrapper methods
* fix up single lookup changes
* add a couple docs
* add single blob merge method and improve process_... docs
* update some names
* lints
* fix merge
* remove blob indices from lookup creation log
* remove blob indices from lookup creation log
* delayed lookup logging improvement
* check fork choice before doing any blob processing
* remove unused dep
* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
* Update beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/data_availability_checker/availability_view.rs
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
* Update beacon_node/network/src/sync/block_lookups/delayed_lookup.rs
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
* remove duplicate deps
* use gen range in random blobs geneartor
* rename processing cache fields
* require block root in rpc block construction and check block root consistency
* send peers as vec in single message
* spawn delayed lookup service from network beacon processor
* fix tests
---------
Co-authored-by: ethDreamer <37123614+ethDreamer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
Attempting to improve our CI speeds as its recently been a pain point.
Major changes:
- Use a github action to pull stable/nightly rust rather than building it each run
- Shift test suite to `nexttest` https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest for CI
UPDATE:
So I've iterated on some changes, and although I think its still not optimal I think this is a good base to start from. Some extra things in this PR:
- Shifted where we pull rust from. We're now using this thing: https://github.com/moonrepo/setup-rust . It's got some interesting cache's built in, but was not seeing the gains that Jimmy managed to get. In either case tho, it can pull rust, cargofmt, clippy, cargo nexttest all in < 5s. So I think it's worthwhile.
- I've grouped a few of the check-like tests into a single test called `code-test`. Although we were using github runners in parallel which may be faster, it just seems wasteful. There were like 4-5 tests, where we would pull lighthouse, compile it, then run an action, like clippy, cargo-audit or fmt. I've grouped these into a single action, so we only compile lighthouse once, then in each step we run the checks. This avoids compiling lighthouse like 5 times.
- Ive made doppelganger tests run on our local machines to avoid pulling foundry, building and making lcli which are all now baked into the images.
- We have sccache and do not incremental compile lighthouse
Misc bonus things:
- Cargo update
- Fix web3 signer openssl keys which is required after a cargo update
- Use mock_instant in an LRU cache test to avoid non-deterministic test
- Remove race condition in building web3signer tests
There's still some things we could improve on. Such as downloading the EF tests every run and the web3-signer binary, but I've left these to be out of scope of this PR. I think the above are meaningful improvements.
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: antondlr <anton@delaruelle.net>
## Issue Addressed
Synchronize dependencies and edition on the workspace `Cargo.toml`
## Proposed Changes
with https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8415 merged it's now possible to synchronize details on the workspace `Cargo.toml` like the metadata and dependencies.
By only having dependencies that are shared between multiple crates aligned on the workspace `Cargo.toml` it's easier to not miss duplicate versions of the same dependency and therefore ease on the compile times.
## Additional Info
this PR also removes the no longer required direct dependency of the `serde_derive` crate.
should be reviewed after https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/4639 get's merged.
closes https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/4651
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Bumps `quinn-proto` to address a QUIC-related vulnerability: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0063
Fixes a `cargo audit` failure.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
#4738
## Proposed Changes
See the above issue for details. Went with option #2 to use the async reqwest client in `Eth2NetworkConfig` and propagate the async-ness.
## Issue Addressed
CI is plagued by `AddrAlreadyInUse` failures, which are caused by race conditions in allocating free ports.
This PR removes all usages of the `unused_port` crate for Lighthouse's HTTP API, in favour of passing `:0` as the listen address. As a result, the listen address isn't known ahead of time and must be read from the listening socket after it binds. This requires tying some self-referential knots, which is a little disruptive, but hopefully doesn't clash too much with Deneb 🤞
There are still a few usages of `unused_tcp4_port` left in cases where we start external processes, like the `watch` Postgres DB, Anvil, Geth, Nethermind, etc. Removing these usages is non-trivial because it's hard to read the port back from an external process after starting it with `--port 0`. We might be able to do something on Linux where we read from `/proc/`, but I'll leave that for future work.
* Implement `SignedBlockContent` decoding and fixed bug in `SignedBlockContent::new`
* Update Cargo.lock file
* Use `make_genesis_spec` to simplify test setup.
* Fix syntax errors.
## Issue Addressed
#4402
## Proposed Changes
This PR adds QUIC support to Lighthouse. As this is not officially spec'd this will only work between lighthouse <-> lighthouse connections. We attempt a QUIC connection (if the node advertises it) and if it fails we fallback to TCP.
This should be a backwards compatible modification. We want to test this functionality on live networks to observe any improvements in bandwidth/latency.
NOTE: This also removes the websockets transport as I believe no one is really using it. It should be mentioned in our release however.
Co-authored-by: João Oliveira <hello@jxs.pt>
## Proposed Changes
New release to replace the cancelled v4.4.0 release.
This release includes the bugfix #4687 which avoids a deadlock that was present in v4.4.0.
## Additional Info
Awaiting testing over the weekend this will be merged Monday September 4th.
## Issue Addressed
Fix a bug in the storage of the linear block roots array in the freezer DB. Previously this array was always written as part of state storage (or block backfill). With state pruning enabled by #4610, these states were no longer being written and as a result neither were the block roots.
The impact is quite low, we would just log an error when trying to forwards-iterate the block roots, which for validating nodes only happens when they try to look up blocks for peers:
> Aug 25 03:42:36.980 ERRO Missing chunk in forwards iterator chunk index: 49726, service: freezer_db
Any node checkpoint synced off `unstable` is affected and has a corrupt database. If you see the log above, you need to re-sync with the fix. Nodes that haven't checkpoint synced recently should _not_ be corrupted, even if they ran the buggy version.
## Proposed Changes
- Use a `ChunkWriter` to write the block roots when states are not being stored.
- Tweak the usage of `get_latest_restore_point` so that it doesn't return a nonsense value when state pruning is enabled.
- Tweak the guarantee on the block roots array so that block roots are assumed available up to the split slot (exclusive). This is a bit nicer than relying on anything to do with the latest restore point, which is a nonsensical concept when there aren't any restore points.
## Additional Info
I'm looking forward to deleting the chunked vector code for good when we merge tree-states 😁
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Add the Holesky network config as per 36e4ff2d51/custom_config_data.
Since the genesis state is ~190MB, I've opted to *not* include it in the binary and instead download it at runtime (see #4564 for context). To download this file we have:
- A hard-coded URL for a SigP-hosted S3 bucket with the Holesky genesis state. Assuming this download works correctly, users will be none the wiser that the state wasn't included in the binary (apart from some additional logs)
- If the user provides a `--checkpoint-sync-url` flag, then LH will download the genesis state from that server rather than our S3 bucket.
- If the user provides a `--genesis-state-url` flag, then LH will download the genesis state from that server regardless of the S3 bucket or `--checkpoint-sync-url` flag.
- Whenever a genesis state is downloaded it is checked against a checksum baked into the binary.
- A genesis state will never be downloaded if it's already included in the binary.
- There is a `--genesis-state-url-timeout` flag to tweak the timeout for downloading the genesis state file.
## Log Output
Example of log output when a state is downloaded:
```bash
Aug 23 05:40:13.424 INFO Logging to file path: "/Users/paul/.lighthouse/holesky/beacon/logs/beacon.log"
Aug 23 05:40:13.425 INFO Lighthouse started version: Lighthouse/v4.3.0-bd9931f+
Aug 23 05:40:13.425 INFO Configured for network name: holesky
Aug 23 05:40:13.426 INFO Data directory initialised datadir: /Users/paul/.lighthouse/holesky
Aug 23 05:40:13.427 INFO Deposit contract address: 0x4242424242424242424242424242424242424242, deploy_block: 0
Aug 23 05:40:13.427 INFO Downloading genesis state info: this may take some time on testnets with large validator counts, timeout: 60s, server: https://sigp-public-genesis-states.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/
Aug 23 05:40:29.895 INFO Starting from known genesis state service: beacon
```
Example of log output when there are no URLs specified:
```
Aug 23 06:29:51.645 INFO Logging to file path: "/Users/paul/.lighthouse/goerli/beacon/logs/beacon.log"
Aug 23 06:29:51.646 INFO Lighthouse started version: Lighthouse/v4.3.0-666a39c+
Aug 23 06:29:51.646 INFO Configured for network name: goerli
Aug 23 06:29:51.647 INFO Data directory initialised datadir: /Users/paul/.lighthouse/goerli
Aug 23 06:29:51.647 INFO Deposit contract address: 0xff50ed3d0ec03ac01d4c79aad74928bff48a7b2b, deploy_block: 4367322
The genesis state is not present in the binary and there are no known download URLs. Please use --checkpoint-sync-url or --genesis-state-url.
```
## Additional Info
I tested the `--genesis-state-url` flag with all 9 Goerli checkpoint sync servers on https://eth-clients.github.io/checkpoint-sync-endpoints/ and they all worked 🎉
My IDE eagerly formatted some `Cargo.toml`. I've disabled it but I don't see the value in spending time reverting the changes that are already there.
I also added the `GenesisStateBytes` enum to avoid an unnecessary clone on the genesis state bytes baked into the binary. This is not a huge deal on Mainnet, but will become more relevant when testing with big genesis states.
When we do a fresh checkpoint sync we're downloading the genesis state to check the `genesis_validators_root` against the finalised state we receive. This is not *entirely* pointless, since we verify the checksum when we download the genesis state so we are actually guaranteeing that the finalised state is on the same network. There might be a smarter/less-download-y way to go about this, but I've run out of cycles to figure that out. Perhaps we can grab it in the next release?
## Issue Addressed
updates underlying dependencies and removes the ignored `RUSTSEC`'s for `cargo audit`.
Also switches `procinfo` to `procfs` on `eth2` to remove the `nom` warning, `procinfo` is unmaintained see [here](https://github.com/danburkert/procinfo-rs/issues/46).
## Issue Addressed
Fixes a bug in the handling of `--beacon-process-max-workers` which caused it to have no effect.
## Proposed Changes
For this PR I channeled @ethDreamer and saw deep into the faulty CLI config -- this bug is almost identical to the one Mark found and fixed in #4622.
* remove protoc and token from network tests github action
* delete unused beacon chain methods
* downgrade writing blobs to store log
* reduce diff in block import logic
* remove some todo's and deneb built in network
* remove unnecessary error, actually use some added metrics
* remove some metrics, fix missing components on publish funcitonality
* fix status tests
* rename sidecar by root to blobs by root
* clean up some metrics
* remove unnecessary feature gate from attestation subnet tests, clean up blobs by range response code
* pawan's suggestion in `protocol_info`, peer score in matching up batch sync block and blobs
* fix range tests for deneb
* pub block and blob db cache behind the same mutex
* remove unused errs and an empty file
* move sidecar trait to new file
* move types from payload to eth2 crate
* update comment and add flag value name
* make function private again, remove allow unused
* use reth rlp for tx decoding
* fix compile after merge
* rename kzg commitments
* cargo fmt
* remove unused dep
* Update beacon_node/execution_layer/src/lib.rs
Co-authored-by: Pawan Dhananjay <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
* Update beacon_node/beacon_processor/src/lib.rs
Co-authored-by: Pawan Dhananjay <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
* pawan's suggestiong for vec capacity
* cargo fmt
* Revert "use reth rlp for tx decoding"
This reverts commit 5181837d81c66dcca4c960a85989ac30c7f806e2.
* remove reth rlp
---------
Co-authored-by: Pawan Dhananjay <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
* Update mock builder, mev-rs dependencies, eth2 lib to support deneb builder flow
* Replace `sharingForkTime` with `cancunTime`
* Patch `ethereum-consensus` to include some deneb-devnet-8 changes
* Add deneb builder test and fix block contents deserialization
* Fix builder bid encoding issue and passing deneb builder test \o/
* Fix test compilation
* Revert `cancunTime` change in genesis to pass doppelganger tests
## Proposed Changes
This PR updates `blst` to 0.3.11, which gives us _runtime detection of CPU features_ 🎉
Although [performance benchmarks](https://gist.github.com/michaelsproul/f759fa28dfa4003962507db34b439d6c) don't show a substantial detriment to running the `portable` build vs `modern`, in order to take things slowly I propose the following roll-out strategy:
- Keep both `modern` and `portable` builds for releases/Docker images.
- Run the `portable` build on half of SigP's infrastructure to monitor for performance deficits.
- Listen out for user issues with the `portable` builds (e.g. SIGILLs from misdetected hardware).
- Make the `portable` build the default and remove the `modern` build from our release binaries & Docker images.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Rather than spawning new tasks on the tokio executor to process each HTTP API request, send the tasks to the `BeaconProcessor`. This achieves:
1. Places a bound on how many concurrent requests are being served (i.e., how many we are actually trying to compute at one time).
1. Places a bound on how many requests can be awaiting a response at one time (i.e., starts dropping requests when we have too many queued).
1. Allows the BN prioritise HTTP requests with respect to messages coming from the P2P network (i.e., proiritise importing gossip blocks rather than serving API requests).
Presently there are two levels of priorities:
- `Priority::P0`
- The beacon processor will prioritise these above everything other than importing new blocks.
- Roughly all validator-sensitive endpoints.
- `Priority::P1`
- The beacon processor will prioritise practically all other P2P messages over these, except for historical backfill things.
- Everything that's not `Priority::P0`
The `--http-enable-beacon-processor false` flag can be supplied to revert back to the old behaviour of spawning new `tokio` tasks for each request:
```
--http-enable-beacon-processor <BOOLEAN>
The beacon processor is a scheduler which provides quality-of-service and DoS protection. When set to
"true", HTTP API requests will queued and scheduled alongside other tasks. When set to "false", HTTP API
responses will be executed immediately. [default: true]
```
## New CLI Flags
I added some other new CLI flags:
```
--beacon-processor-aggregate-batch-size <INTEGER>
Specifies the number of gossip aggregate attestations in a signature verification batch. Higher values may
reduce CPU usage in a healthy network while lower values may increase CPU usage in an unhealthy or hostile
network. [default: 64]
--beacon-processor-attestation-batch-size <INTEGER>
Specifies the number of gossip attestations in a signature verification batch. Higher values may reduce CPU
usage in a healthy network whilst lower values may increase CPU usage in an unhealthy or hostile network.
[default: 64]
--beacon-processor-max-workers <INTEGER>
Specifies the maximum concurrent tasks for the task scheduler. Increasing this value may increase resource
consumption. Reducing the value may result in decreased resource usage and diminished performance. The
default value is the number of logical CPU cores on the host.
--beacon-processor-reprocess-queue-len <INTEGER>
Specifies the length of the queue for messages requiring delayed processing. Higher values may prevent
messages from being dropped while lower values may help protect the node from becoming overwhelmed.
[default: 12288]
```
I needed to add the max-workers flag since the "simulator" flavor tests started failing with HTTP timeouts on the test assertions. I believe they were failing because the Github runners only have 2 cores and there just weren't enough workers available to process our requests in time. I added the other flags since they seem fun to fiddle with.
## Additional Info
I bumped the timeouts on the "simulator" flavor test from 4s to 8s. The prioritisation of consensus messages seems to be causing slower responses, I guess this is what we signed up for 🤷
The `validator/register` validator has some special handling because the relays have a bad habit of timing out on these calls. It seems like a waste of a `BeaconProcessor` worker to just wait for the builder API HTTP response, so we spawn a new `tokio` task to wait for a builder response.
I've added an optimisation for the `GET beacon/states/{state_id}/validators/{validator_id}` endpoint in [efbabe3](efbabe3252). That's the endpoint the VC uses to resolve pubkeys to validator indices, and it's the endpoint that was causing us grief. Perhaps I should move that into a new PR, not sure.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses #2557
## Proposed Changes
Adds the `lighthouse validator-manager` command, which provides:
- `lighthouse validator-manager create`
- Creates a `validators.json` file and a `deposits.json` (same format as https://github.com/ethereum/staking-deposit-cli)
- `lighthouse validator-manager import`
- Imports validators from a `validators.json` file to the VC via the HTTP API.
- `lighthouse validator-manager move`
- Moves validators from one VC to the other, utilizing only the VC API.
## Additional Info
In 98bcb947c I've reduced some VC `ERRO` and `CRIT` warnings to `WARN` or `DEBG` for the case where a pubkey is missing from the validator store. These were being triggered when we removed a validator but still had it in caches. It seems to me that `UnknownPubkey` will only happen in the case where we've removed a validator, so downgrading the logs is prudent. All the logs are `DEBG` apart from attestations and blocks which are `WARN`. I thought having *some* logging about this condition might help us down the track.
In 856cd7e37d I've made the VC delete the corresponding password file when it's deleting a keystore. This seemed like nice hygiene. Notably, it'll only delete that password file after it scans the validator definitions and finds that no other validator is also using that password file.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses [#4401](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/4401)
## Proposed Changes
Shift some constants into ```ChainSpec``` and remove the constant values from code space.
## Additional Info
I mostly used ```MainnetEthSpec::default_spec()``` for getting ```ChainSpec```. I wonder Did I make a mistake about that.
Co-authored-by: armaganyildirak <armaganyildirak@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
Upgrade libp2p to v0.52
## Proposed Changes
- **Workflows**: remove installation of `protoc`
- **Book**: remove installation of `protoc`
- **`Dockerfile`s and `cross`**: remove custom base `Dockerfile` for cross since it's no longer needed. Remove `protoc` from remaining `Dockerfiles`s
- **Upgrade `discv5` to `v0.3.1`:** we have some cool stuff in there: no longer needs `protoc` and faster ip updates on cold start
- **Upgrade `prometheus` to `0.21.0`**, now it no longer needs encoding checks
- **things that look like refactors:** bunch of api types were renamed and need to be accessed in a different (clearer) way
- **Lighthouse network**
- connection limits is now a behaviour
- banned peers no longer exist on the swarm level, but at the behaviour level
- `connection_event_buffer_size` now is handled per connection with a buffer size of 4
- `mplex` is deprecated and was removed
- rpc handler now logs the peer to which it belongs
## Additional Info
Tried to keep as much behaviour unchanged as possible. However, there is a great deal of improvements we can do _after_ this upgrade:
- Smart connection limits: Connection limits have been checked only based on numbers, we can now use information about the incoming peer to decide if we want it
- More powerful peer management: Dial attempts from other behaviours can be rejected early
- Incoming connections can be rejected early
- Banning can be returned exclusively to the peer management: We should not get connections to banned peers anymore making use of this
- TCP Nat updates: We might be able to take advantage of confirmed external addresses to check out tcp ports/ips
Co-authored-by: Age Manning <Age@AgeManning.com>
Co-authored-by: Akihito Nakano <sora.akatsuki@gmail.com>
## Proposed Changes
Remove patch for `arbitrary` in favour of upstream, now that the `arithmetic_side_effects` lint no longer triggers in derive macro code.
## Additional Info
~~Blocked on Rust 1.71.0, to be released 13 July 23~~
## Issue Addressed
This PR attempts to workaround the recent frequent eth1 simulator failures caused by missing eth logs from Anvil.
> FailedToInsertDeposit(NonConsecutive { log_index: 1, expected: 0 })
This usually occurs at the beginning of the tests, and it guarantees a timeout after a few hours if this log shows up, and this is currently causing our CIs to fail quite frequently.
Example failure here: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/actions/runs/5525760195/jobs/10079736914
## Proposed Changes
The quick fix applied here adds a timeout to node startup and restarts the node again.
- Add a 60 seconds timeout to beacon node startup in eth1 simulator tests. It takes ~10 seconds on my machine, but could take longer on CI runners.
- Wrap the startup code in a retry function, that allows for 3 retries before returning an error.
## Additional Info
We should probably raise an issue under the Anvil GitHub repo there so this can be further investigated.
## Issue Addressed
Fixes occasional compilation errors with mev-rs (see #4456).
## Proposed Changes
- Update `mev-rs` to the latest version, which allows us to remove hacky `[patch]` sections
- Update the `axum` version used in `watch` so LH only uses a single version
*Replaces #4434. It is identical, but this PR has a smaller diff due to a curated commit history.*
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
This PR moves the scheduling logic for the `BeaconProcessor` into a new crate in `beacon_node/beacon_processor`. Previously it existed in the `beacon_node/network` crate.
This addresses a circular-dependency problem where it's not possible to use the `BeaconProcessor` from the `beacon_chain` crate. The `network` crate depends on the `beacon_chain` crate (`network -> beacon_chain`), but importing the `BeaconProcessor` into the `beacon_chain` crate would create a circular dependancy of `beacon_chain -> network`.
The `BeaconProcessor` was designed to provide queuing and prioritized scheduling for messages from the network. It has proven to be quite valuable and I believe we'd make Lighthouse more stable and effective by using it elsewhere. In particular, I think we should use the `BeaconProcessor` for:
1. HTTP API requests.
1. Scheduled tasks in the `BeaconChain` (e.g., state advance).
Using the `BeaconProcessor` for these tasks would help prevent the BN from becoming overwhelmed and would also help it to prioritize operations (e.g., choosing to process blocks from gossip before responding to low-priority HTTP API requests).
## Additional Info
This PR is intended to have zero impact on runtime behaviour. It aims to simply separate the *scheduling* code (i.e., the `BeaconProcessor`) from the *business logic* in the `network` crate (i.e., the `Worker` impls). Future PRs (see #4462) can build upon these works to actually use the `BeaconProcessor` for more operations.
I've gone to some effort to use `git mv` to make the diff look more like "file was moved and modified" rather than "file was deleted and a new one added". This should reduce review burden and help maintain commit attribution.
