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Improve cost of BLS key serialization for gRPC #1343

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Improve cost of BLS key serialization for gRPC
hexfusion Apr 14, 2023
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Improve docs
hexfusion Apr 14, 2023
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Fix key scope
hexfusion Apr 14, 2023
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Add sanity test
hexfusion Apr 14, 2023
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Merge branch 'dev' into bls_perf
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Merge branch 'dev' into bls_perf
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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions snow/validators/gvalidators/validator_state_client.go
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Expand Up @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package gvalidators

import (
"context"
"errors"

"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/emptypb"

Expand All @@ -15,7 +16,10 @@ import (
pb "github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/proto/pb/validatorstate"
)

var _ validators.State = (*Client)(nil)
var (
_ validators.State = (*Client)(nil)
errFailedPublicKeyDeserialize = errors.New("couldn't deserialize public key")
)

type Client struct {
client pb.ValidatorStateClient
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -72,9 +76,13 @@ func (c *Client) GetValidatorSet(
}
var publicKey *bls.PublicKey
if len(validator.PublicKey) > 0 {
publicKey, err = bls.PublicKeyFromBytes(validator.PublicKey)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
// This is a performance optimization to avoid the cost of compression
// and key re-verification with PublicKeyFromBytes. We can safely
// assume that the BLS Public Keys are verified before being added
// to the P-Chain and served by the gRPC server.
publicKey = new(bls.PublicKey).Deserialize(validator.PublicKey)
if publicKey == nil {
return nil, errFailedPublicKeyDeserialize
}
}
vdrs[nodeID] = &validators.GetValidatorOutput{
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions snow/validators/gvalidators/validator_state_server.go
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Expand Up @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (

"github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/ids"
"github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/snow/validators"
"github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/utils/crypto/bls"

pb "github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/proto/pb/validatorstate"
)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -70,7 +69,9 @@ func (s *Server) GetValidatorSet(ctx context.Context, req *pb.GetValidatorSetReq
Weight: vdr.Weight,
}
if vdr.PublicKey != nil {
vdrPB.PublicKey = bls.PublicKeyToBytes(vdr.PublicKey)
// This is a performance optimization to avoid the cost of compression
// from PublicKeyToBytes.
vdrPB.PublicKey = vdr.PublicKey.Serialize()
}
resp.Validators[i] = vdrPB
i++
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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions snow/validators/gvalidators/validator_state_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -183,6 +183,19 @@ func TestGetValidatorSet(t *testing.T) {
require.Error(err)
}

func TestPublicKeyDeserialize(t *testing.T) {
require := require.New(t)

sk, err := bls.NewSecretKey()
require.NoError(err)
pk := bls.PublicFromSecretKey(sk)

pkBytes := pk.Serialize()
pkDe := new(bls.PublicKey).Deserialize(pkBytes)
require.NotNil(pkDe)
require.EqualValues(pk, pkDe)
}

// BenchmarkGetValidatorSet measures the time it takes complete a gRPC client
// request based on a mocked validator set.
func BenchmarkGetValidatorSet(b *testing.B) {
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