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Handle processing results of non faulty batches

Open divagant-martian opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Issue Addressed

Solves #3390

So after checking some logs @pawanjay176 got, we conclude that this happened because we blacklisted a chain after trying it "too much". Now here, in all occurrences it seems that "too much" means we got too many download failures. This happened very slowly, exactly because the batch is allowed to stay alive for very long times after not counting penalties when the ee is offline. The error here then was not that the batch failed because of offline ee errors, but that we blacklisted a chain because of download errors, which we can't pin on the chain but on the peer. This PR fixes that.

Proposed Changes

Adds a missing piece of logic so that if a chain fails for errors that can't be attributed to an objectively bad behavior from the peer, it is not blacklisted. The issue at hand occurred when new peers arrived claiming a head that had wrongfully blacklisted, even if the original peers participating in the chain were not penalized.

Another notable change is that we need to consider a batch invalid if it processed correctly but its next non empty batch fails processing. Now since a batch can fail processing in non empty ways, there is no need to mark as invalid previous batches.

Improves some logging as well.

Additional Info

We should do this regardless of pausing sync on ee offline/unsynced state. This is because I think it's almost impossible to ensure a processing result will reach in a predictable order with a synced notification from the ee. Doing this handles what I think are inevitable data races when we actually pause sync

This also fixes a return that reports which batch failed and caused us some confusion checking the logs

divagant-martian avatar Aug 08 '22 20:08 divagant-martian

Doing some testing with this PR.

pawanjay176 avatar Aug 08 '22 23:08 pawanjay176

bors r+

paulhauner avatar Aug 12 '22 00:08 paulhauner