As per benchmark results below, these changes speed up encoding/decoding of
consensus objects a bit.
name old time/op new time/op delta
EncodeRLP/legacy-header-8 384ns ± 1% 331ns ± 3% -13.83% (p=0.000 n=7+8)
EncodeRLP/london-header-8 411ns ± 1% 359ns ± 2% -12.53% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/receipt-for-storage-8 251ns ± 0% 239ns ± 0% -4.97% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/receipt-full-8 319ns ± 0% 300ns ± 0% -5.89% (p=0.000 n=8+7)
EncodeRLP/legacy-transaction-8 389ns ± 1% 387ns ± 1% ~ (p=0.099 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/access-transaction-8 607ns ± 0% 581ns ± 0% -4.26% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
EncodeRLP/1559-transaction-8 627ns ± 0% 606ns ± 1% -3.44% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
DecodeRLP/legacy-header-8 831ns ± 1% 813ns ± 1% -2.20% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
DecodeRLP/london-header-8 824ns ± 0% 804ns ± 1% -2.44% (p=0.000 n=8+7)
* rlp: pass length to byteArrayBytes
This makes it possible to inline byteArrayBytes. For arrays, the length is known
at encoder construction time, so the call to v.Len() can be avoided.
* rlp: avoid IsNil for pointer encoding
It's actually cheaper to use Elem first, because it performs less checks
on the value. If the pointer was nil, the result of Elem is 'invalid'.
* rlp: minor optimizations for slice/array encoding
For empty slices/arrays, we can avoid storing a list header entry in the
encoder buffer. Also avoid doing the tail check at encoding time because
it is already known at encoder construction time.
* eth/protocols, prp/tracker: add support for req/rep rtt tracking
* p2p/tracker: sanity cap the number of pending requests
* pap/tracker: linter <3
* p2p/tracker: disable entire tracker if no metrics are enabled
* swarm/storage: increase mget timeout in common_test.go
TestDbStoreCorrect_1k sometimes timed out with -race on Travis.
--- FAIL: TestDbStoreCorrect_1k (24.63s)
common_test.go:194: testStore failed: timed out after 10s
* swarm: remove unused vars from TestSnapshotSyncWithServer
nodeCount and chunkCount is returned from setupSim and those values
we use.
* swarm: move race/norace helpers from stream to testutil
As we will need to use the flag in other packages, too.
* swarm: refactor TestSwarmNetwork case
Extract long running test cases for better visibility.
* swarm/network: skip TestSyncingViaGlobalSync with -race
As panics on Travis.
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x7e351b]
* swarm: run TestSwarmNetwork with fewer nodes with -race
As otherwise we always get test failure with `network_test.go:374:
context deadline exceeded` even with raised `Timeout`.
* swarm/network: run TestDeliveryFromNodes with fewer nodes with -race
Test on Travis times out with 8 or more nodes if -race flag is present.
* swarm/network: smaller node count for discovery tests with -race
TestDiscoveryPersistenceSimulationSimAdapters failed on Travis with
`-race` flag present. The failure was due to extensive memory usage,
coming from the CGO runtime. Using a smaller node count resolves the
issue.
=== RUN TestDiscoveryPersistenceSimulationSimAdapter
==7227==ERROR: ThreadSanitizer failed to allocate 0x80000 (524288) bytes of clock allocator (error code: 12)
FATAL: ThreadSanitizer CHECK failed: ./gotsan.cc:6976 "((0 && "unable to mmap")) != (0)" (0x0, 0x0)
FAIL github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/swarm/network/simulations/discovery 804.826s
* swarm/network: run TestFileRetrieval with fewer nodes with -race
Otherwise we get a failure due to extensive memory usage, as the CGO
runtime cannot allocate more bytes.
=== RUN TestFileRetrieval
==7366==ERROR: ThreadSanitizer failed to allocate 0x80000 (524288) bytes of clock allocator (error code: 12)
FATAL: ThreadSanitizer CHECK failed: ./gotsan.cc:6976 "((0 && "unable to mmap")) != (0)" (0x0, 0x0)
FAIL github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/swarm/network/stream 155.165s
* swarm/network: run TestRetrieval with fewer nodes with -race
Otherwise we get a failure due to extensive memory usage, as the CGO
runtime cannot allocate more bytes ("ThreadSanitizer failed to
allocate").
* swarm/network: skip flaky TestGetSubscriptionsRPC on Travis w/ -race
Test fails a lot with something like:
streamer_test.go:1332: Real subscriptions and expected amount don't match; real: 0, expected: 20
* swarm/storage: skip TestDB_SubscribePull* tests on Travis w/ -race
Travis just hangs...
ok github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/swarm/storage/feed/lookup 1.307s
keepalive
keepalive
keepalive
or panics after a while.
Without these tests the race detector job is now stable. Let's
invetigate these tests in a separate issue:
https://github.com/ethersphere/go-ethereum/issues/1245