perf(drive-abci): fetch the next core height's masternode and quorum lists ahead of time - #4572
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…lists ahead of time Replaying history, about two thirds of mainnet blocks advance the core chain-locked height by one, and each of those blocks waits on protx listdiff and then quorum listextended — together about a millisecond of the seven a block costs, nearly all of it Core's round trip. The heights are consecutive, so start the next pair as soon as the current one returns, on a second connection so a speculative call never sits in front of a real one. A guess that fails — the normal case at the tip, where the next core block does not exist yet — backs the prefetcher off for the next 32 calls instead of asking again every block. A node that cannot open the second connection logs a warning and runs without prefetching.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds speculative Core RPC fetching for quorum lists and masternode list diffs. ChangesCore RPC speculative prefetching
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR can make block synchronization wait on a stalled speculative Core request instead of using the normal RPC path, potentially delaying validator or masternode state updates; overlapping requests may also increase Core and node resource usage. Merge should wait for bounded fallback behavior or explicit owner acceptance of these risks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DefaultCoreRPC
participant CorePrefetcher
participant PrefetchCoreRPC
participant CoreRPC
DefaultCoreRPC->>CorePrefetcher: Check prefetched quorum list or protx diff
alt Matching result exists
CorePrefetcher-->>DefaultCoreRPC: Return cached result
else No matching result
DefaultCoreRPC->>CoreRPC: Request current height or block
CoreRPC-->>DefaultCoreRPC: Return result
DefaultCoreRPC->>CorePrefetcher: Start next-height prefetch
CorePrefetcher->>PrefetchCoreRPC: Send background request
end
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In `@packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs`:
- Line 81: The speculative receive paths in
packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs at lines 81-81 and 116-116 must not
block production RPC calls: replace each unbounded Receiver::recv use with a
bounded or non-blocking receive, and fall back to the primary client when the
speculative result is not ready. Apply the same behavior to both the regular RPC
prefetch path and the masternode-list diff path.
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Do not block production RPC calls on speculative requests. Receiver::recv() waits until the secondary-client request completes. If that connection is slow or stalled while the primary client remains usable, the caller cannot execute its normal RPC fallback and block sync waits on the optimization.
packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs#L81-L81: use a bounded or non-blocking receive, then fall back to the primary client when the speculative request is not ready.packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs#L116-L116: apply the same bounded fallback behavior for masternode-list diffs.
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In `@packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs` at line 81, The speculative
receive paths in packages/rs-drive-abci/src/rpc/prefetch.rs at lines 81-81 and
116-116 must not block production RPC calls: replace each unbounded
Receiver::recv use with a bounded or non-blocking receive, and fall back to the
primary client when the speculative result is not ready. Apply the same behavior
to both the regular RPC prefetch path and the masternode-list diff path.
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Issue being fixed or feature implemented
Replaying history, about two thirds of mainnet blocks advance the core chain-locked height by one, and each of those blocks blocks on two Core RPCs in turn:
protx listdifffor the masternode diff, thenquorum listextended.Measured replaying mainnet with per-block phase timing:
core_infototalprotx listdiffquorum listextendedSo ~0.96 ms of the ~7 ms a block costs is drive-abci sitting on a Core round trip, and Core has spare capacity while it waits.
What was done?
The heights are consecutive, so start the next pair as soon as the current one returns.
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CorePrefetcherholds one in-flight speculative fetch of each kind, keyed on the height (and base height, for the diff) it was started for.get_quorum_listextendedandget_protx_diff_with_masternodestake the speculative answer when the key matches what they were asked for, and start the next guess either way. A key mismatch falls through to a real call, so a wrong guess costs nothing but a discarded response.Two things keep it from misbehaving at the tip, where the next core block does not exist yet:
jsonrpc's HTTP transport serialises requests behind a single socket mutex, so sharing the connection would defeat the point.A node that cannot open the second connection logs a warning and runs without prefetching.
How Has This Been Tested?
Interleaved A/B on a fixed window at mainnet height 190k, four runs alternating:
core_inforpc_protx_diff682 → 514 µs,rpc_quorum_list670 → 470 µs. Note these runs shared onedashdwith two other syncing nodes, so the residual wait is partly RPC contention from the harness rather than a limit of the approach.Also exercised across a full mainnet replay, genesis to 424,981, with every committed app hash matching a reference sync.
cargo test -p drive-abci --lib— 2,770 passed.Breaking Changes
None. One extra Core RPC connection per node, and speculative requests that Core answers from data it already has.
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