- Apr 25, 2024
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s0me0ne-unkn0wn authored
Currently, PVFs are re-prepared if any execution environment parameter changes. As we've recently seen on Kusama and Polkadot, that may lead to a severe finality lag because every validator has to re-prepare every PVF. That cannot be avoided altogether; however, we could cease re-preparing PVFs when a change in the execution environment can't lead to a change in the artifact itself. For example, it's clear that changing the execution timeout cannot affect the artifact. In this PR, I'm introducing a separate hash for the subset of execution environment parameters that changes only if a preparation-related parameter changes. It introduces some minor code duplication, but without that, the scope of changes would be much bigger. TODO: - [x] Add a test to ensure the artifact is not re-prepared if non-preparation-related parameter is changed - [x] Add a test to ensure the artifact is re-prepared if a preparation-related parameter is changed - [x] Add comments, warnings, and, possibly, a test to ensure a new parameter ever added to the executor environment parameters will be evaluated by the author of changes with respect to its artifact preparation impact and added to the new hash preimage if needed. Closes #4132
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