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    • s0me0ne-unkn0wn's avatar
      Do not run unneeded subsystems on collator and its alongside node (#3061) · 3e8139e7
      s0me0ne-unkn0wn authored 
      Currently, collators and their alongside nodes spin up a full-scale
overseer running a bunch of subsystems that are not needed if the node
is not a validator. That was considered to be harmless; however, we've
got problems with unused subsystems getting stalled for a reason not
currently known, resulting in the overseer exiting and bringing down the
whole node.

This PR aims to only run needed subsystems on such nodes, replacing the
rest with `DummySubsystem`.

It also enables collator-optimized availability recovery subsystem
implementation.

Partially solves #1730.
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    • Marcin S.'s avatar
      PVF: fix unshare "could not create temporary directory"; refactor (#2663) · c5cf3959
      Marcin S. authored 
      

Co-authored-by: default avatarAlexandru Vasile <[email protected]>
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    • Squirrel's avatar
      Set clippy lints in workspace (requires rust 1.74) (#2390) · be8e6268
      Squirrel authored 
      

We currently use a bit of a hack in `.cargo/config` to make sure that
clippy isn't too annoying by specifying the list of lints.

There is now a stable way to define lints for a workspace. The only down
side is that every crate seems to have to opt into this so there's a
*few* files modified in this PR.

Dependencies:

- [x] PR that upgrades CI to use rust 1.74 is merged.

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Co-authored-by: default avatarjoe petrowski <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: default avatarBranislav Kontur <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: default avatarLiam Aharon <[email protected]>
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    • Alexandru Gheorghe's avatar
      Approve multiple candidates with a single signature (#1191) · a84dd0db
      Alexandru Gheorghe authored 
      Initial implementation for the plan discussed here: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/701
Built on top of https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1178
v0: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/7554,

## Overall idea

When approval-voting checks a candidate and is ready to advertise the
approval, defer it in a per-relay chain block until we either have
MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_COUNT candidates to sign or a candidate has stayed
MAX_APPROVALS_COALESCE_TICKS in the queue, in both cases we sign what
candidates we have available.

This should allow us to reduce the number of approvals messages we have
to create/send/verify. The parameters are configurable, so we should
find some values that balance:

- Security of the network: Delaying broadcasting of an approval
shouldn't but the finality at risk and to make sure that never happens
we won't delay sending a vote if we are past 2/3 from the no-show time.
- Scalability of the network: MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_COUNT = 1 &
MAX_APPROVALS_COALESCE_TICKS =0, is what we have now and we know from
the measurements we did on versi, it bottlenecks
approval-distribution/approval-voting when increase significantly the
number of validators and parachains
- Block storage: In case of disputes we have to import this votes on
chain and that increase the necessary storage with
MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_COUNT * CandidateHash per vote. Given that
disputes are not the normal way of the network functioning and we will
limit MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_COUNT in the single digits numbers, this
should be good enough. Alternatively, we could try to create a better
way to store this on-chain through indirection, if that's needed.

## Other fixes:
- Fixed the fact that we were sending random assignments to
non-validators, that was wrong because those won't do anything with it
and they won't gossip it either because they do not have a grid topology
set, so we would waste the random assignments.
- Added metrics to be able to debug potential no-shows and
mis-processing of approvals/assignments.

## TODO:
- [x] Get feedback, that this is moving in the right direction. @ordian
@sandreim @eskimor @burdges, let me know what you think.
- [x] More and more testing.
- [x]  Test in versi.
- [x] Make MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_COUNT &
MAX_APPROVAL_COALESCE_WAIT_MILLIS a parachain host configuration.
- [x] Make sure the backwards compatibility works correctly
- [x] Make sure this direction is compatible with other streams of work:
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/635 &
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/742


- [x] Final versi burn-in before merging

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandru Gheorghe <[email protected]>
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