lighthouse-pulse/beacon_node/beacon_chain
Michael Sproul 77eabc5401 Revert "Optimise HTTP validator lookups" (#3658)
## Issue Addressed

This reverts commit ca9dc8e094 (PR #3559) with some modifications.

## Proposed Changes

Unfortunately that PR introduced a performance regression in fork choice. The optimisation _intended_ to build the exit and pubkey caches on the head state _only if_ they were not already built. However, due to the head state always being cloned without these caches, we ended up building them every time the head changed, leading to a ~70ms+ penalty on mainnet.

fcfd02aeec/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/canonical_head.rs (L633-L636)

I believe this is a severe enough regression to justify immediately releasing v3.2.1 with this change.

## Additional Info

I didn't fully revert #3559, because there were some unrelated deletions of dead code in that PR which I figured we may as well keep.

An alternative would be to clone the extra caches, but this likely still imposes some cost, so in the interest of applying a conservative fix quickly, I think reversion is the best approach. The optimisation from #3559 was not even optimising a particularly significant path, it was mostly for VCs running larger numbers of inactive keys. We can re-do it in the `tree-states` world where cache clones are cheap.
2022-10-26 06:50:04 +00:00
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src Revert "Optimise HTTP validator lookups" (#3658) 2022-10-26 06:50:04 +00:00
tests Fix attestation shuffling filter (#3629) 2022-10-18 04:02:06 +00:00
Cargo.toml Impl oneshot_broadcast for committee promises (#3595) 2022-09-21 01:01:50 +00:00