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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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