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    • Andrei Eres's avatar
      [subsystem-benchmarks] Save results to json (#3829) · fd79b3b0
      Andrei Eres authored 
      Here we add the ability to save subsystem benchmark results in JSON
format to display them as graphs

To draw graphs, CI team will use
[github-action-benchmark](https://github.com/benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark).
Since we are using custom benchmarks, we need to prepare [a specific
data
type](https://github.com/benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark?tab=readme-ov-file#examples):
```
[
    {
        "name": "CPU Load",
        "unit": "Percent",
        "value": 50
    }
]
```

Then we'll get graphs like this: 

![example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhysd/ss/master/github-action-benchmark/main.png)

[A live page with
graphs](https://benchmark-action.github.io/github-action-benchmark/dev/bench/

)

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Co-authored-by: default avatarordian <[email protected]>
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    • Dcompoze's avatar
      Fix spelling mistakes across the whole repository (#3808) · 002d9260
      Dcompoze authored 
      **Update:** Pushed additional changes based on the review comments.

**This pull request fixes various spelling mistakes in this
repository.**

Most of the changes are contained in the first **3** commits:

- `Fix spelling mistakes in comments and docs`

- `Fix spelling mistakes in test names`

- `Fix spelling mistakes in error messages, panic messages, logs and
tracing`

Other source code spelling mistakes are separated into individual
commits for easier reviewing:

- `Fix the spelling of 'authority'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'REASONABLE_HEADERS_IN_JUSTIFICATION_ANCESTRY'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'prev_enqueud_messages'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'endpoint'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'children'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'PenpalSiblingSovereignAccount'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'PenpalSudoAccount'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'insufficient'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'PalletXcmExtrinsicsBenchmark'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'subtracted'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'CandidatePendingAvailability'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'exclusive'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'until'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'discriminator'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'nonexistent'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'subsystem'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'indices'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'committed'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'topology'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'response'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'beneficiary'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'formatted'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'UNKNOWN_PROOF_REQUEST'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'succeeded'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'reopened'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'proposer'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'InstantiationNonce'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'depositor'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'expiration'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'phantom'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'AggregatedKeyValue'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'randomness'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'defendant'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'AquaticMammal'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'transactions'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'PassingTracingSubscriber'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'TxSignaturePayload'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'versioning'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'descendant'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'overridden'`

- `Fix the spelling of 'network'`

Let me know if this structure is adequate.

**Note:** The usage of the words `Merkle`, `Merkelize`, `Merklization`,
`Merkelization`, `Merkleization`, is somewhat inconsistent but I left it
as it is.

~~**Note:** In some places the term `Receival` is used to refer to
message reception, IMO `Reception` is the correct word here, but I left
it as it is.~~

~~**Note:** In some places the term `Overlayed` is used instead of the
more acceptable version `Overlaid` but I also left it as it is.~~

~~**Note:** In some places the term `Applyable` is used instead of the
correct version `Applicable` but I also left it as it is.~~

**Note:** Some usage of British vs American english e.g. `judgement` vs
`judgment`, `initialise` vs `initialize`, `optimise` vs `optimize` etc.
are both present in different places, but I suppose that's
understandable given the number of contributors.

~~**Note:** There is a spelling mistake in `.github/CODEOWNERS` but it
triggers errors in CI when I make changes to it, so I left it as it
is.~~
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    • ordian's avatar
      collator protocol changes for elastic scaling (validator side) (#3302) · 02e1a7f4
      ordian authored 
      Fixes #3128.

This introduces a new variant for the collation response from the
collator that includes the parent head data. For now, collators won't
send this new variant. We'll need to change the collator side of the
collator protocol to detect all the cores assigned to a para and send
the parent head data in the case when it's more than 1 core.

- [x] validate approach
- [x] check head data hash
      02e1a7f4
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    • Andrei Eres's avatar
      subsystem-bench: adjust test config to Kusama (#3583) · 05381afc
      Andrei Eres authored 
      Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3528

```rust
latency:
    mean_latency_ms = 30 // common sense
    std_dev = 2.0 // common sense
n_validators = 300 // max number of validators, from chain config
n_cores = 60 // 300/5
max_validators_per_core = 5 // default
min_pov_size = 5120 // max
max_pov_size = 5120 // max
peer_bandwidth = 44040192 // from the Parity's kusama validators
bandwidth = 44040192 // from the Parity's kusama validators
connectivity = 90 // we need to be connected to 90-95% of peers
```
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  23. Mar 08, 2024
    • Alexandru Gheorghe's avatar
      collator-protocol: Always stay connected to validators in backing group (#3544) · 6f3caac0
      Alexandru Gheorghe authored 
      Looking at rococo-asset-hub
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3519 there seems to be
a lot of instances where collator did not advertise their collations,
while there are multiple problems there, one of it is that we are
connecting and disconnecting to our assigned validators every block,
because on reconnect_timeout every 4s we call connect_to_validators and
that will produce 0 validators when all went well, so set_reseverd_peers
called from validator discovery will disconnect all our peers.
More details here:
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3519#issuecomment-1972667343

Now, this shouldn't be a problem, but it stacks with an existing bug in
our network stack where if disconnect from a peer the peer might not
notice it, so it won't detect the reconnect either and it won't send us
the necessary view updates, so we won't advertise the collation to it
more details here:

https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3519#issuecomment-1972958276



To avoid hitting this condition that often, let's keep the peers in the
reserved set for the entire duration we are allocated to a backing
group. Backing group sizes(1 rococo, 3 kusama, 5 polkadot) are really
small, so this shouldn't lead to that many connections. Additionally,
the validators would disconnect us any way if we don't advertise
anything for 4 blocks.

## TODO
- [x] More testing.
- [x] Confirm on rococo that this is improving the situation. (It
doesn't but just because other things are going wrong there).

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandru Gheorghe <[email protected]>
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  25. Mar 01, 2024
    • Andrei Eres's avatar
      subsystem-bench: add regression tests for availability read and write (#3311) · f0e589d7
      Andrei Eres authored 
      ### What's been done
- `subsystem-bench` has been split into two parts: a cli benchmark
runner and a library.
- The cli runner is quite simple. It just allows us to run `.yaml` based
test sequences. Now it should only be used to run benchmarks during
development.
- The library is used in the cli runner and in regression tests. Some
code is changed to make the library independent of the runner.
- Added first regression tests for availability read and write that
replicate existing test sequences.

### How we run regression tests
- Regression tests are simply rust integration tests without the
harnesses.
- They should only be compiled under the `subsystem-benchmarks` feature
to prevent them from running with other tests.
- This doesn't work when running tests with `nextest` in CI, so
additional filters have been added to the `nextest` runs.
- Each benchmark run takes a different time in the beginning, so we
"warm up" the tests until their CPU usage differs by only 1%.
- After the warm-up, we run the benchmarks a few more times and compare
the average with the exception using a precision.

### What is still wrong?
- I haven't managed to set up approval voting tests. The spread of their
results is too large and can't be narrowed down in a reasonable amount
of time in the warm-up phase.
- The tests start an unconfigurable prometheus endpoint inside, which
causes errors because they use the same 9999 port. I disable it with a
flag, but I think it's better to extract the endpoint launching outside
the test, as we already do with `valgrind` and `pyroscope`. But we still
use `prometheus` inside the tests.

### Future work
* https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3528
* https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3529
* https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3530
* https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3531



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Co-authored-by: default avatarAlexander Samusev <[email protected]>
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  27. Feb 26, 2024
  29. Feb 20, 2024
    • Oliver Tale-Yazdi's avatar
      Lift dependencies to the workspace (Part 2/x) (#3366) · e89d0fca
      Oliver Tale-Yazdi authored 
      

Lifting some more dependencies to the workspace. Just using the
most-often updated ones for now.
It can be reproduced locally.

```sh
# First you can check if there would be semver incompatible bumps (looks good in this case):
$ zepter transpose dependency lift-to-workspace --ignore-errors syn quote thiserror "regex:^serde.*"

# Then apply the changes:
$ zepter transpose dependency lift-to-workspace --version-resolver=highest syn quote thiserror "regex:^serde.*" --fix

# And format the changes:
$ taplo format --config .config/taplo.toml
```

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Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>
      e89d0fca
  31. Feb 19, 2024
    • Alexandru Gheorghe's avatar
      gossip-support: add unittests for update authorities (#3258) · 197c6cf9
      Alexandru Gheorghe authored 
      

~The previous fix was actually incomplete because we update the
authorties only on the situation where we decided to reconnect because
we had a low connectivity issue. Now the problem is that
update_authority_ids use the list of connected peers, so on restart that
does contain anything, so calling immediately after
issue_connection_request won't detect all authorities, so we need to
also check every block as the comment said, but that did not match the
code.~

Actually the fix was correct the flow is follow if more than 1/3 of the
authorities can not be resolved we set last_failure and call
`ConnectToResolvedValidators`.

We will call UpdateAuthorities for all the authorities already connected
and for which we already know the address and for the ones that will
connect later on `PeerConnected` will have the AuthorityId field set,
because it is already known, so approval-distribution will update its
cache topology.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandru Gheorghe <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: default avatarAlexander Samusev <[email protected]>
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    • Andrei Sandu's avatar
      approval-distribution: aggresion must target unfinalized chain rather than unapproved chain (#2988) · b4dfad83
      Andrei Sandu authored 
      

Found the issue while investigating the recent finality stall on Westend
after upgrading to 1.6.0. Approval distribution aggression is supposed
to trade off bandwidth and re-send assignemnts/approvals until enough
approvals are be received by at least 2/3 validators. This is supposed
to be a catch all mechanism when network connectivity goes south or many
validators reboot at the same time.

This fix ensures that we always resend approvals starting with the first
unfinalized block even in the case when it appears approved from the
node's perspective.

TODO:
- [x] Versi test

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrei Sandu <[email protected]>
      b4dfad83
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    • Andrei Sandu's avatar
      Introduce subsystem benchmarking tool (#2528) · 8a6e9ef1
      Andrei Sandu authored 
      This tool makes it easy to run parachain consensus stress/performance
testing on your development machine or in CI.

## Motivation
The parachain consensus node implementation spans across many modules
which we call subsystems. Each subsystem is responsible for a small part
of logic of the parachain consensus pipeline, but in general the most
load and performance issues are localized in just a few core subsystems
like `availability-recovery`, `approval-voting` or
`dispute-coordinator`. In the absence of such a tool, we would run large
test nets to load/stress test these parts of the system. Setting up and
making sense of the amount of data produced by such a large test is very
expensive, hard to orchestrate and is a huge development time sink.

## PR contents
- CLI tool 
- Data Availability Read test
- reusable mockups and components needed so far
- Documentation on how to get started

### Data Availability Read test

An overseer is built with using a real `availability-recovery` susbsytem
instance while dependent subsystems like `av-store`, `network-bridge`
and `runtime-api` are mocked. The network bridge will emulate all the
network peers and their answering to requests.

The test is going to be run for a number of blocks. For each block it
will generate send a “RecoverAvailableData” request for an arbitrary
number of candidates. We wait for the subsystem to respond to all
requests before moving to the next block.
At the same time we collect the usual subsystem metrics and task CPU
metrics and show some nice progress reports while running.

### Here is how the CLI looks like:

```
[2023-11-28T13:06:27Z INFO  subsystem_bench::core::display] n_validators = 1000, n_cores = 20, pov_size = 5120 - 5120, error = 3, latency = Some(PeerLatency { min_latency: 1ms, max_latency: 100ms })
[2023-11-28T13:06:27Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Generating template candidate index=0 pov_size=5242880
[2023-11-28T13:06:27Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Created test environment.
[2023-11-28T13:06:27Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Pre-generating 60 candidates.
[2023-11-28T13:06:30Z INFO  subsystem-bench::core] Initializing network emulation for 1000 peers.
[2023-11-28T13:06:30Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Current block 1/3
[2023-11-28T13:06:30Z INFO  substrate_prometheus_endpoint] 〽️ Prometheus exporter started at 127.0.0.1:9999
[2023-11-28T13:06:30Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] 20 recoveries pending
[2023-11-28T13:06:37Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] Block time 6262ms
[2023-11-28T13:06:37Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Sleeping till end of block (0ms)
[2023-11-28T13:06:37Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Current block 2/3
[2023-11-28T13:06:37Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] 20 recoveries pending
[2023-11-28T13:06:43Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] Block time 6369ms
[2023-11-28T13:06:43Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Sleeping till end of block (0ms)
[2023-11-28T13:06:43Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Current block 3/3
[2023-11-28T13:06:43Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] 20 recoveries pending
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] Block time 6194ms
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem-bench::availability] Sleeping till end of block (0ms)
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] All blocks processed in 18829ms
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] Throughput: 102400 KiB/block
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] Block time: 6276 ms
[2023-11-28T13:06:49Z INFO  subsystem_bench::availability] 
    
    Total received from network: 415 MiB
    Total sent to network: 724 KiB
    Total subsystem CPU usage 24.00s
    CPU usage per block 8.00s
    Total test environment CPU usage 0.15s
    CPU usage per block 0.05s
```

### Prometheus/Grafana stack in action
<img width="1246" alt="Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 15 11 10"
src="https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/assets/54316454/eaa47422-4a5e-4a3a-aaef-14ca644c1574">
<img width="1246" alt="Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 15 12 01"
src="https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/assets/54316454/237329d6-1710-4c27-8f67-5fb11d7f66ea">
<img width="1246" alt="Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 15 12 38"
src="https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/assets/54316454/a07119e8-c9f1-4810-a1b3-f1b7b01cf357

">

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrei Sandu <[email protected]>
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