For all code paths (gossip push, pull, purge, etc) that remove or
override a crds value, it is necessary to record hash of values purged
from crds table, in order to exclude them from subsequent pull-requests;
otherwise the next pull request will likely return outdated values,
wasting bandwidth:
https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/ed51cde37/core/src/crds_gossip_pull.rs#L486-L491
Currently this is done all over the place in multiple modules, and this
has caused bugs in the past where purged values were not recorded.
This commit encapsulated this bookkeeping into crds module, so that any
code path which removes or overrides a crds value, also records the hash
of purged value in-place.
(cherry picked from commit 9d112cf41f)
Co-authored-by: behzad nouri <behzadnouri@gmail.com>
filter_crds_values checks every crds filter against every hash value:
https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/ee646aa7/core/src/crds_gossip_pull.rs#L432
which can be inefficient if the filter's bit-mask only matches small
portion of the entire crds table.
This commit shards crds values into separate tables based on shard_bits
first bits of their hash prefix. Given a (mask, mask_bits) filter,
filtering crds can be done by inspecting only relevant shards.
If CrdsFilter.mask_bits <= shard_bits, then precisely only the crds
values which match (mask, mask_bits) bit pattern are traversed.
If CrdsFilter.mask_bits > shard_bits, then approximately only
1/2^shard_bits of crds values are inspected.
Benchmarking on a gce cluster of 20 nodes, I see ~10% improvement in
generate_pull_responses metric, but with larger clusters, crds table and
2^mask_bits are both larger, so the impact should be more significant.
