fix!: retrieve transactions from the mempool async, ignore irelevant rounds, and don't start processing messages until switching from blocksync to consensus by evan-forbes · Pull Request #1695 · celestiaorg/celestia-core

evan-forbes · 2025-03-26T18:37:47Z

Description

this PR started as a simple fix, but then its scope grew significantly as we found more bugs and made the testnet work

it:

makes retrieving the transactions from the mempool async during propagation.
ajusts priorities for gossip
stops automatically broadcasting transactions with CAT, instead only sends seentx (this stops peers from downloading transactions more than once)
minor optimizations around not verifying proofs that the node just generated.
NOTE: this PR reverts fix: remove go routines for RecheckTx #1553 and fix: mempool locking mechanism in v1 and cat #1582 cause those break CAT and we need a working mempool that doesn't re-gossip everything
ignores irelevant round
only processes compact blocks until the consensus reactor starts
a few other minor bug fixes

This reverts commit bb7ec10.

This reverts commit d51978e.

rach-id · 2025-03-30T11:21:55Z

+func (p *ProposalCache) AddProposal(cb *proptypes.CompactBlock) (added bool) {
 	p.pmtx.Lock()
 	defer p.pmtx.Unlock()
+	if cb.Proposal.Height <= p.consensusHeight {


so we're no longer storing past proposals? or it means we already have it?

…nc to consensus

evan-forbes

TIL github keeps all coments pending if there was a review started somehwere until that review is finished...

evan-forbes · 2025-03-29T21:18:28Z

+	for _, ind := range original.BitArray().GetTrueIndices() {
+		ps.totalMap.SetIndex(ind, true)
+	}
+	return ps


the only reason catchupp was working before this addition was becuase we were cacheing so many past blocks that most of the time nodes would still rely on the compact block to still be in their peers cache

evan-forbes · 2025-03-31T03:46:40Z

+	data := blockProp.unfinishedHeights()
 	peers := blockProp.getPeers()
 	for _, prop := range data {
 		height, round := prop.compactBlock.Proposal.Height, prop.compactBlock.Proposal.Round

-		if height == currentHeight && round == currentRound {
+		// don't re-request parts for any round on the current height
+		if height == currentHeight {


each catchup message will contribute to congestion, so if we leave old rounds here we introduce a feedback loop that eventually halts the chain as node fall more and more behind. this PR only applies catchup to the highest round this node has seen per height. It also ignores rounds of the current height

evan-forbes · 2025-03-31T03:48:19Z

-			missing.Sub(mc)
+			missing = missing.Sub(mc)


oof annoying bug

bit arrays are treated as pointers everywhere else except when they are subtracted or (and probably added?)

evan-forbes · 2025-03-31T03:57:40Z

-			Priority:            20,
+			Priority:            45,
 			SendQueueCapacity:   20000,
 			RecvMessageCapacity: maxMsgSize,
 			MessageType:         &propproto.Message{},
 		},
 		{
 			ID:                  DataChannel,
-			Priority:            15,
+			Priority:            40,


in general adjusting all of the important channel's priority to be much larger and the mempool's priorities much small help to ensure we're only gossiping mempool txs when we have bandwidth.

evan-forbes · 2025-03-31T04:08:23Z

 func (memR *Reactor) broadcastNewTx(wtx *wrappedTx) {
 	msg := &protomem.Message{
-		Sum: &protomem.Message_Txs{
-			Txs: &protomem.Txs{
-				Txs: [][]byte{wtx.tx.Tx},
+		Sum: &protomem.Message_SeenTx{
+			SeenTx: &protomem.SeenTx{
+				TxKey: wtx.tx.Hash(),


note the change here

Naively it makes sense to broadcast txs automatically, but when we look at the traces we see that this causes many nodes to download the transaction more than once becuse they will see a SeenTx from another peer before they finish downloading their tx, which they then request

rach-id

rach-id · 2025-04-02T19:40:19Z

+
+	_, partSet, _, found := blockProp.getAllState(cb.Proposal.Height, cb.Proposal.Round, false)
+	if !found {
+		blockProp.Logger.Error("failed to get all state for this node's proposal", "height", cb.Proposal.Height, "round", cb.Proposal.Round)


if we don't have the compact block or the partset, shouldn't we stop at this point?

rach-id · 2025-04-02T20:18:16Z

+	if height <= p.consensusHeight {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if round < p.consensusRound {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return true


potential refactor:

return height > p.consensusHeight || round >= p.consensusRound

evan-forbes · 2025-04-02T22:22:24Z

-func TestReactorBroadcastTxsMessage(t *testing.T) {
-	config := cfg.TestConfig()
-	const N = 5
-	reactors := makeAndConnectReactors(t, config, N)
-
-	txs := checkTxs(t, reactors[0].mempool, numTxs, mempool.UnknownPeerID)
-	sort.Slice(txs, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return txs[i].priority > txs[j].priority // N.B. higher priorities first
-	})
-	transactions := make(types.Txs, len(txs))
-	for idx, tx := range txs {
-		transactions[idx] = tx.tx
-	}
-
-	waitForTxsOnReactors(t, transactions, reactors)
-}
+// todo: readd this test after deugging it
+// func TestReactorBroadcastTxsMessage(t *testing.T) {
+// 	config := cfg.TestConfig()
+// 	const N = 5
+// 	reactors := makeAndConnectReactors(t, config, N)
+
+// 	txs := checkTxs(t, reactors[0].mempool, numTxs, mempool.UnknownPeerID)
+// 	sort.Slice(txs, func(i, j int) bool {
+// 		return txs[i].priority > txs[j].priority // N.B. higher priorities first
+// 	})
+// 	transactions := make(types.Txs, len(txs))
+// 	for idx, tx := range txs {
+// 		transactions[idx] = tx.tx
+// 	}
+
+// 	waitForTxsOnReactors(t, transactions, reactors)
+// }


there's a weird bug in CAT atm where not all txs from the rpc are broadcasted, at least in this test. The original broadcaster simply isn't sending the SeenTxs

…rounds, and don't start processing messages until switching from blocksync to consensus (#1695) ## Description this PR started as a simple fix, but then its scope grew significantly as we found more bugs and made the testnet work it: - makes retrieving the transactions from the mempool async during propagation. - ajusts priorities for gossip - stops automatically broadcasting transactions with CAT, instead only sends seentx (this stops peers from downloading transactions more than once) - minor optimizations around not verifying proofs that the node just generated. - NOTE: this PR reverts #1553 and #1582 cause those break CAT and we need a working mempool that doesn't re-gossip everything - ignores irelevant round - only processes compact blocks until the consensus reactor starts - a few other minor bug fixes

evan-forbes added 5 commits March 24, 2025 14:49

Revert "fix: mempool locking mechanism in v1 and cat (#1582)"

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This reverts commit bb7ec10.

Revert "fix: remove go routines for RecheckTx (#1553)"

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This reverts commit d51978e.

hack: remove

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hack: random optimizations

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fix: async retrieve transactions from the mempool

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Merge branch 'feature/recovery' into evan/recovery/debug-mamo

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chore: cleanup

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chore: minor cleanup

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fix!: catchup

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chore: clean up

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chore: modify tracing for recovered parts

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fix: non-gap catchup only request once

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feat: broadcast haves after recoverying txs from the mempool

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fix!: only gossip data from the latest round except during catchup

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fix: don't download block parts messages until switching from blocksy…

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…nc to consensus

evan-forbes changed the title ~~fix: retrieve transactions from the mempool async~~ fix: retrieve transactions from the mempool async, ignore irelevant rounds, and don't start processing messages until switching from blocksync to consensus Mar 31, 2025

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fix: overflow

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chore: fix tests

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feat: force pebbleDB for the blockstore only

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fix: use the db dir

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fix: data race

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hack: disable mempool broadcast test

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Fix CAT Broadcast test #1706

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feat: handle peer disconnections in the propagation reactor #1685

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