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perf(drive-abci): stop rewriting the whole platform state every block - #4571
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BlockEnd
participant StateStorage
participant Drive
participant StateLoader
BlockEnd->>StateStorage: persist PlatformState
StateStorage->>Drive: write full state when required
StateStorage->>Drive: write PlatformStateRecent
StateLoader->>Drive: read full state and recent record
StateLoader->>StateLoader: merge recent metadata and quorum hashes
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A narrowly scoped tolerated commit conflict can cause historical replay to retain outdated masternode, validator, or quorum data after restart. Preserve dirty state until the commit succeeds before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Verdict: merge after changes, and after #4570 lands (this is stacked on it and its base will move).
1. Correctness
I audited the dirty flag. Every mutation of the six heavy fields goes through a PlatformStateV0Methods setter or _mut accessor; there is no direct field access outside the module, and the only PlatformState { .. } constructors start dirty. set_current_protocol_version_in_consensus marking dirty is the important subtle case, because the protocol version selects the on-disk structure. All readers go through fetch_platform_state, which applies the small record only when its height is at least the full record's height; both are written in the same transaction, so they cannot disagree. The Option<u64> comparison handles the pre-first-block case (None >= None) correctly.
The two "do not borrow mutably when nothing moved" changes are equivalent to the old code. The read-only quorum comparison checks equal length plus every current quorum present with the same index, which means the sets are identical. The empty-diff early return in update_state_masternode_list skips only no-op operations.
Local verification on a319483d: cargo test -p drive-abci --lib passes, and the four stop_and_restart strategy tests pass (they run with store_platform_state: true and the 2023 genesis time, so they do exercise the skip-and-merge path).
The downgrade hazard is real and well described. Confining the skip to historical blocks is the right mitigation.
2. Clarity
Clear. The three-part "What was done" maps onto the diff. The comment blocks in store_platform_state and recent.rs explain the invariant a future reader needs: both records in one transaction, full record rewritten every block at the tip.
3. Codebase standards
Two deviations:
- The two new Drive methods are not versioned. Every other Drive method, including
store_platform_state_bytesright next to them, has amod.rsdispatcher over aFeatureVersioninrs-platform-versionand av0/implementation.store_platform_state_recent_bytesandfetch_platform_state_recent_bytesare plainimpl Drivefunctions inplatform_state/mod.rs. Please follow the convention. - The bincode config for the small record is duplicated in
store_platform_stateandfetch_platform_state. GivePlatformStateRecentserialize_to_bytes/deserializemethods and keep the config in one place.
Also: TryFrom<&PlatformState> duplicates TryFrom<PlatformState> field by field. If the owned conversion has no production caller left, delegate it to the borrowed one and drop the duplicate.
4. Importance and alternatives
1.3 ms of a ~7 ms block and 545 GB of write amplification over a sync. Splitting the record into a stable full part and a small per-block part, without changing the full record's format, is the least disruptive design; splitting the on-disk format itself would break older readers. No simpler approach avoids the per-block write, since block info changes every block.
5. Missing test
There is no focused test of the merge path: store with the dirty flag set, mutate block info, store again with the flag clear on a historical block, fetch, and assert the block info is new and the heavy fields intact. The restart strategy tests cover it indirectly but only run on push and nightly.
I will push: rebase onto the fixed #4570, versioned Drive methods, PlatformStateRecent (de)serialization helpers, the dedupe, and a merge test.
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Rebased onto the new head of #4570 (9dfffa6) and pushed one commit on top of the original:
One thing to be aware of: the Tests workflow only triggers for PRs whose base is Ready for human review once #4570 is in; this PR should be merged after it. 🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta. |
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Verified the supplied Phase-2 findings against exact head 8e3a555. Three non-blocking suggestions remain: two new regression tests have coverage blind spots, and the new dirty-tracking invariant is not enforced by field visibility. Source inspection and git diff --check completed successfully; the reviewers' reported test runs were not independently rerun.
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In `packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/should_checkpoint/v0/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/should_checkpoint/v0/mod.rs:206-208: Enable checkpoints in the historical-block regression test
The default test configuration sets disable_checkpoints to true, and the crate's dev-dependency enables testing-config. This fixture therefore returns Ok(None) at the initial configuration guard, before reaching the historical-block predicate. Removing the replay-skip check would leave this test passing. Explicitly enable checkpoints, as the neighboring first-block test does, so this assertion exercises the new behavior.
In `packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/update_state_cache/v0/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/update_state_cache/v0/mod.rs:290-293: Exercise a clean-to-dirty transition in the persistence test
The newly constructed platform state already has heavy_fields_dirty = true, and set_genesis_state does not clear it. The assertion after full_masternode_list_mut() therefore does not verify that this accessor marks the state dirty: removing its dirty-bit assignment would still allow block 7 to write in full and block 8 to exercise the small-record merge. Add a third historical block that mutates the heavy collection after block 8 has left the state clean, then verify that the full record advances and the mutation survives reload. This preserves the existing merge coverage while also testing the dirty transition that prevents lost updates.
In `packages/rs-drive-abci/src/platform_types/platform_state/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/platform_types/platform_state/mod.rs:67-75: Encapsulate the fields that participate in dirty tracking
Historical-block persistence now skips the full record when heavy_fields_dirty is false, but the heavy collections, current protocol version, and dirty flag remain public. Directly mutating a collection can therefore bypass the tracked accessors and leave the state eligible to skip a required write; before this PR, the unconditional full write persisted such mutations. The inspected production mutation paths use the tracked accessors, so this is an API-invariant concern rather than a confirmed lost update in a current caller. Make the tracked fields and flag private, retain read and tracked-mutation accessors, and provide a narrowly scoped method for the persistence layer to mark the state clean.
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| /// blocks, so the full record is rewritten only when this is set; every block | ||
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| /// Not part of the saved record: a state read back from disk starts dirty. | ||
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🟡 Suggestion: Encapsulate the fields that participate in dirty tracking
Historical-block persistence now skips the full record when heavy_fields_dirty is false, but the heavy collections, current protocol version, and dirty flag remain public. Directly mutating a collection can therefore bypass the tracked accessors and leave the state eligible to skip a required write; before this PR, the unconditional full write persisted such mutations. The inspected production mutation paths use the tracked accessors, so this is an API-invariant concern rather than a confirmed lost update in a current caller. Make the tracked fields and flag private, retain read and tracked-mutation accessors, and provide a narrowly scoped method for the persistence layer to mark the state clean.
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The saved platform state is 1.28 MB on mainnet, almost all of it masternode lists, validator sets and quorum sets, and it was serialized and written to GroveDB aux storage on every block. Serialization also cloned the entire state first, so a block paid two full copies of some 4,000 masternodes. Serialization now builds the saving form from a borrowed state, and a test asserts the bytes are identical to the owned path. The heavy fields carry a dirty flag set by the accessors that can change them, and while replaying history the full record is rewritten only when it is set, with a small companion record holding the per-block fields written every block; both land in the block's transaction, and a database without the companion record reads exactly as before. Once at the tip the full record is written every block again, so an up-to-date node always has a complete record on disk. The two Core-driven update paths now decide read-only whether anything actually moved before taking a mutable borrow, because Core reports the same masternodes and quorums on most blocks and the borrow alone would force the rewrite.
…ge and test its merge The two Drive methods for the per-block record now follow the crate's versioned dispatch like store_platform_state_bytes next to them, with feature versions in rs-platform-version. PlatformStateRecent owns its bincode config through serialize_to_bytes and deserialize, so store and fetch no longer repeat it. The owned PlatformStateForSavingV1 conversion delegates to the borrowed one instead of duplicating it field by field. A test stores a historical block that changed a heavy field, then one that did not, and reloads from disk: block info comes from the small record, the masternode from the full one.
…d and pin dirty tracking to the accessors The historical-block checkpoint test built its platform with the default test config, which disables checkpoints, so should_checkpoint returned before looking at the block's age and the test passed with the guard deleted. It now enables checkpoints like the neighbouring first-block test. The dirty flag is what lets a historical block skip rewriting the full saved state, so every accessor that can change a field carried only by that record has to set it. Nothing checked that directly: the existing merge test starts from a state that is already dirty. Three tests now cover it from a clean state: each heavy-field setter and mutable borrow marks the state dirty, each per-block accessor leaves it clean, and a freshly built state starts dirty. Both new tests were checked to fail when the code they guard is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rebased onto the current head of Rebase. #4570 has merged, so its two commits are dropped from this branch and the diff is now the 26 files this PR actually changes (plus one test file below). The three remaining commits replayed with no conflicts; New commit
Both were checked to fail with the guarded code removed and pass with it restored. This addresses two of the three suggestions from the automated review above. The third (making the tracked fields private) is left for a follow-up; no current caller bypasses the accessors and it would widen a perf PR. Local: targeted drive-abci tests (platform_state, update_state_cache, update_quorum_info, update_state_masternode_list, should_checkpoint, replay) 44 passed; 🤖 Posted autonomously by Codex on behalf of pasta. |
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packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/core_based_updates/update_quorum_info/v0/mod.rs (1)
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is_validator_set_updatedis false, current construction, update, and restore paths preserve the existingIndexMaporder. Existing updates change member fields, notcore_heightorquorum_hash, and saved entries retain their order. Clarify that the order is descending bycore_heightand thenquorum_hash, or add a debug assertion, so future changes can detect an incorrectly ordered validator set.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 57-61: Update update_state_cache_v0 so heavy_fields_dirty remains
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the clean cache before commit. On commit failure, restore the previous cache
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is_validator_set_updated: when it is false, assert in debug builds that the
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Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)
Source inspection confirms one non-blocking test-coverage gap: the tests do not directly protect full-record refresh for a clean block at the tip, which underpins older-binary compatibility. The two prior test findings are fixed; field encapsulation remains explicitly deferred, with no current production mutation bypass identified. No blocking finding was confirmed; tests were not rerun during this verification.
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criticalbygpt-6-astra(effort low) — This changes consensus-relevant platform-state persistence, dirty tracking, and transactional recovery across two storage records, where missed mutations or incorrect merging could cause stale validator/quorum state, app-hash divergence, or restart and downgrade failures. - Phase 1 reviewers: not run (skipped for throughput: 21 PRs queued, above the 10 limit)
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In `packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/update_state_cache/v0/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/block_end/update_state_cache/v0/mod.rs:349-353: Test that a clean tip block refreshes the full record
This test proves that a clean historical block skips the full write, but it does not protect the complementary guarantee that a clean block at the tip refreshes the legacy full record. `store_platform_state_v0` implements that guarantee through its non-historical fallback. Restart tests reload through `fetch_platform_state`, which merges the recent record, so a stale full record can remain invisible to those assertions if that fallback is removed. Extend this scenario with a third block whose heavy fields remain clean and whose timestamp is current, then fetch and deserialize the raw full record and assert that its height advanced to that block. This directly protects the older-binary readability promised for caught-up nodes.
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Conflict in fetch_platform_state/v0/mod.rs: keep this branch's let-else body and small-record merge, decode the full record with the trusted decoder (PlatformDeserializableFromVersionedStructureTrusted, #4625). The two test call sites this branch added are renamed the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…l platform-state record The small record is written every block, so it should carry only what moves every block or every few blocks: the block info and the validator set quorum hashes, which rotate once the active quorum has cycled its members. Drop the fields that do not: - genesis_block_info is cleared at block end before every store, so it was `None` in every record ever written. - current_protocol_version_in_consensus already forced a full rewrite, because it picks the structure the full record is written in. - next_epoch_protocol_version moves once per epoch at most, so its setter and mutable accessor now mark the state dirty and a change rewrites the full record instead. The record format is unreleased, so V0 is edited in place. The dirty classification tests move the next-epoch accessors to the dirty set and say why the genesis clear stays clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…f changes nothing stored Core's `protx listdiff` reports a masternode as updated whenever any field of its state moved, including the payment and penalty fields (last paid height, consecutive payments, PoSe penalty) that the stored item does not keep. One masternode is paid per Core block, so the update list is non-empty on nearly every block while the stored lists do not change. In the mainnet fixture covering Core blocks 2128896 to 2129440, 580 of the 610 updates are payment or penalty only. The update step still took the mutable borrows for those, which marked the state dirty and rewrote the full saved record for nothing. Apply each diff to a copy of the stored state first and return before the first mutable borrow when nothing would change. Additions, removals and diffs that do change a stored field take the same path as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…mit conflict On mainnet evo1 heights 32326 to 32328 a Busy commit error is tolerated and the block proceeds with its transaction uncommitted, as the network did at the time. The block's saved platform state was in that transaction, so the full record on disk is behind the state cache the block published as clean, and the next historical block would write only the small record on top of a stale full one. Mark the cached state dirty again in that branch so the next block rewrites the full record. Also extends the persistence test with a clean block at the tip and asserts the raw full record advances to it, pinning the every-block refresh that keeps a caught-up node's record readable by an older drive-abci. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The saved platform state is written to GroveDB aux storage on every block, and on mainnet it is 1.28 MB — almost all of it masternode lists, validator sets and the chain-lock and instant-lock quorum sets.
PlatformSerializable::serialize_to_bytesalso didself.clone()before converting to the saving form, so a block paid two full deep copies of some 4,000 masternodes plus the validator sets, then serialized 1.28 MB, then wrote it.Measured replaying mainnet, per block: 1.08 ms serializing, 0.23 ms for the extra clone, and 1.28 MB into the block's transaction — 545 GB of writes over a full sync.
Stacked on #4570, which introduces the
utils::is_historical_blockpredicate this uses.What was done?
Three things.
Serialize from a borrowed state. A
TryFrom<&PlatformState>for the saving form clones each field once instead of cloning the whole state first. A test asserts the bytes are byte-identical to the owned path.Rewrite the full record only when it changed. The heavy fields carry a dirty flag, set by the accessors that can change them. While replaying history the full record is written only when the flag is set; a small companion record under a second aux key carries the per-block fields — block info, quorum hashes, protocol versions — every block. Both are written in the block's transaction, so a reader never sees them disagree, and a database without the companion record reads exactly as before.
Once the node is at the tip the full record is written every block again, so an up-to-date node always has a complete record on disk and an older drive-abci can still read it. Skipping is confined to a node that is catching up, where the remedy for any format trouble is the resync it is already doing.
Don't take a mutable borrow when nothing moved. Core reports the same quorums on most blocks and an empty masternode diff often, but
update_quorum_infoandupdate_state_masternode_listreached for_mut()accessors regardless — and the borrow alone marks the state dirty. Both now decide read-only whether anything actually changed first.How Has This Been Tested?
Full mainnet replay, genesis to 424,981. Every committed app hash matched a reference sync across all 424,971 heights, and the final app hash matched exactly.
Crash recovery specifically: two mid-sync restarts, at heights 40,200 and 80,188. Both resumed at the right height from the companion record and continued with no app-hash mismatch — which requires the heavy fields to be correct too, since they feed the app hash through masternode identity updates and rewards.
cargo test -p drive-abci --lib— 2,776 passed, including the new byte-identity test.Breaking Changes
None for normal operation, an interrupted sync included. A node that stops mid-sync restarts and carries on by itself with no operator action: the companion record restores the height, and the heavy fields are unchanged since the full record was written. Two mid-sync restarts are part of the testing above.
The one case that needs care is a deliberate downgrade. A node interrupted mid-initial-sync leaves a full record that lags the database, and an older drive-abci reading that database panics in the
Infohandler, which compares the saved state's app hash against GroveDB's root hash — confirmed by running a pre-change binary against a database this one wrote. That is why the skip is confined to historical blocks: a node that has caught up has a complete record on disk and can always be rolled back. A node caught mid-sync would need to finish syncing on the new build, or resync on the old one.Checklist:
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