perf: reduce amount of used memory and threads - #7659
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With the default optinos dashd spawn 38 check-queue workers on 24-core machine and very thread carries about 0.86 MB of thread-local storage (the BLS library keeps its context per thread). Running functional tests with -j30 and knowing that some tests spawn more than 10 dashd at once, it gives 30 * 38 * 10 = 11Gb overhead for running functional tests. Running functional tests in limited amount of memory even with -j4 (such as CI with github with 16Gb RAM in total) is benefitial as well, especially for tsan / asan sanitizer which have bunch of extra checks for every allocated byte so performance of these jobs should be improved as weel. Two threads are enough to keep the check queues and the RPC server genuinely concurrent, so races and lock-order issues stay reachable; anything above that only costs memory. Tests that need a specific count (-par=1 for exact reject reasons, -rpcthreads=1 in interface_rpc) still pass their own value, which comes later on the command line and wins. Measured with the memory profiler, peak PSS per test, same durations: feature_protx_version 1212 -> 868 MB, feature_llmq_chainlocks 822 -> 588 MB, feature_llmq_signing 744 -> 540 MB.
CuckooCache::setup_bytes resizes and zero-fills the signature and script execution cache tables at startup, so every test node carries 32 MiB of resident memory for two caches that stay practically empty on regtest: a standalone dashd drops from 116 MB to 85 MB PSS with the cache set to 1 MiB and still stores 16384 entries per cache. Measured with the memory profiler on top of the two-thread defaults, peak PSS per test (duration of the test is unchanged): feature_protx_version 868 -> 552 MB feature_llmq_chainlocks 588 -> 363 MB feature_llmq_signing 540 -> 355 MB
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| // The job may reference this manager: ~LLMQContext stops the worker pool before destroying it. | ||
| blsWorker.PushJob([this, pQuorum = std::move(pQuorum)]() { |
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When a watcher loads many verification vectors, each quorum adds a long-running warming job to the same FIFO CBLSWorker pool used by AsyncVerifySig; scans can populate up to 64 quorums, so signature, ChainLock, and InstantSend verification submitted afterward cannot run until all earlier warmers finish. The former dedicated thread kept warming off the latency-sensitive verification pool; retain a single outstanding warming task or otherwise prioritize verification work.
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| connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch || | ||
| g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport(); |
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In a normal wallet-enabled build, WalletInit::HasWalletSupport() is hard-coded to return true even when the node was launched with -disablewallet. Consequently every such non-masternode, non-watcher—including most walletless functional-test nodes—still creates threadOpenMasternodeConnections, so this part of the memory/thread reduction never takes effect; include the runtime -disablewallet state in this condition.
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participant LLMQContext
participant CQuorumManager
participant CBLSWorker
participant QuorumCache
CQuorumManager->>CBLSWorker: Submit quorum warming job
CBLSWorker->>CQuorumManager: Execute warming job
CQuorumManager->>QuorumCache: Warm quorum cache
LLMQContext->>CQuorumManager: InterruptWarming()
CQuorumManager-->>CBLSWorker: Stop at interruption check
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In `@src/init.cpp`:
- Line 2567: Update the wallet-support condition in the masternode connection
initialization to also require that runtime wallet functionality is enabled,
honoring the existing -disablewallet setting before enabling
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| connOptions.m_active_masternode = node.active_ctx != nullptr; | ||
| // wallets may mix with CoinJoin, which connects to the mixing masternode | ||
| connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch || | ||
| g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport(); |
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Gate m_masternode_connections on runtime wallet availability.
HasWalletSupport() indicates compiled wallet support. Repository code checks -disablewallet separately for runtime behavior. A wallet-enabled build with -disablewallet=1 therefore still enables mncon, although a wallet-less build does not. Add the runtime wallet-disabled check before enabling wallet-driven CoinJoin connections.
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In `@src/init.cpp` at line 2567, Update the wallet-support condition in the
masternode connection initialization to also require that runtime wallet
functionality is enabled, honoring the existing -disablewallet setting before
enabling m_masternode_connections. Preserve the current compiled-support check
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CQuorumManager ran a dedicated thread that polled a queue every 100 ms only to precompute the public key shares of freshly built quorums. That is BLS work with no ordering or latency requirement of its own, so push each quorum as a job to the CBLSWorker pool instead. One thread less per node (0.9 MB of thread-local storage each while the BLS library keeps its context per thread), no idle polling, and the queue, its mutex and the interrupt go away with it. A job only holds a shared_ptr to its quorum, so it needs nothing from the manager and Stop() of the pool drains it on shutdown.
Masternodes, quorum watchers and wallet mixing with CoinJoin creates masternode connections. Every node started the "mncon" thread though it should be spawn only when needed. Plain nodes with wallets disabled no longer carry the thread and its 0.9 MB of thread-local storage.
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The resource reductions are well scoped, but the unconditional -parbls default breaks functional tests that launch supported pre-v23 binaries. The production changes also leave the masternode connection thread enabled for runtime-disabled wallets and allow bulk cache warming to delay latency-sensitive BLS work.
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In `test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py`:
- [BLOCKING] test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py:115-121: Gate -parbls for pre-v23 test binaries
`TestNode` applies this argument to explicitly versioned previous-release binaries as well as the current binary. Tests such as `wallet_backwards_compatibility.py` launch v21.1.1 and older releases, but `-parbls` was not registered until v23; those older `ArgsManager` implementations reject unknown command-line options as invalid parameters, so the nodes fail before startup. Keep the defaults supported by older releases unconditional and append `-parbls=2` only for v23 or newer binaries.
In `src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/llmq/quorumsman.cpp:505-521: Bound background warming on the shared BLS pool
Each quorum now contributes one job that computes every valid member's public-key share on the same 1–4-thread FIFO `CBLSWorker` pool used for signature verification, quorum-vector construction, aggregation, and DKG contribution verification. A fresh `ScanQuorums()` can enqueue up to `keepOldConnections` warmers—64 for `LLMQ_60_75`—so work submitted afterward remains behind the bulk warming queue, including callers waiting synchronously on BLS futures. The former dedicated thread isolated this background work. Preserve the thread reduction while limiting warming to one outstanding quorum at a time or otherwise prioritizing operational BLS jobs.
In `src/init.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/init.cpp:2566-2567: Use runtime wallet availability to gate mncon
`HasWalletSupport()` only reports whether wallet support was compiled and always returns true in a wallet-enabled build. It remains true when `-disablewallet` makes `WalletInit::Construct()` return without creating a wallet loader, so non-masternode, non-watcher nodes with runtime-disabled wallets—including most functional-test nodes—still start `threadOpenMasternodeConnections`. At this point `node.wallet_loader` is non-null exactly when wallet functionality was constructed and can require CoinJoin masternode connections.
| "-par=2", | ||
| "-parbls=2", | ||
| "-rpcthreads=2", | ||
| # The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup | ||
| # whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each. | ||
| "-maxsigcachesize=1", | ||
| ] |
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🔴 Blocking: Gate -parbls for pre-v23 test binaries
TestNode applies this argument to explicitly versioned previous-release binaries as well as the current binary. Tests such as wallet_backwards_compatibility.py launch v21.1.1 and older releases, but -parbls was not registered until v23; those older ArgsManager implementations reject unknown command-line options as invalid parameters, so the nodes fail before startup. Keep the defaults supported by older releases unconditional and append -parbls=2 only for v23 or newer binaries.
| "-par=2", | |
| "-parbls=2", | |
| "-rpcthreads=2", | |
| # The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup | |
| # whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each. | |
| "-maxsigcachesize=1", | |
| ] | |
| "-par=2", | |
| "-rpcthreads=2", | |
| # The signature and script execution caches are allocated and zero-filled at startup | |
| # whether or not anything is ever cached; 1 MiB still leaves 16384 entries each. | |
| "-maxsigcachesize=1", | |
| ] | |
| if self.version_is_at_least(23000000): | |
| self.args.append("-parbls=2") |
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| blsWorker.PushJob([this, pQuorum = std::move(pQuorum)]() { | ||
| cxxtimer::Timer t(true); | ||
| LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::%s -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s start\n", __func__, | ||
| LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s start\n", | ||
| std23::to_underlying(pQuorum->params.type), pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->nHeight, | ||
| pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->GetBlockHash().ToString()); | ||
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| // when then later some other thread tries to get keys, it will be much faster | ||
| for (const auto i : util::irange(pQuorum->members.size())) { | ||
| if (m_cache_interrupt) { | ||
| break; | ||
| if (m_warming_interrupted) { | ||
| return; | ||
| } | ||
| if (pQuorum->qc->validMembers[i]) { | ||
| pQuorum->GetPubKeyShare(i); | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::%s -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s done. time=%d\n", __func__, | ||
| LogPrint(BCLog::LLMQ, "CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming -- type=%d height=%d hash=%s done. time=%d\n", | ||
| std23::to_underlying(pQuorum->params.type), pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->nHeight, | ||
| pQuorum->m_quorum_base_block_index->GetBlockHash().ToString(), t.count()); | ||
| } | ||
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| void CQuorumManager::QueueQuorumForWarming(CQuorumCPtr pQuorum) const | ||
| { | ||
| if (pQuorum->HasVerificationVector()) { | ||
| LOCK(m_cache_cs); | ||
| m_cache_queue.push_back(std::move(pQuorum)); | ||
| } | ||
| }); |
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🟡 Suggestion: Bound background warming on the shared BLS pool
Each quorum now contributes one job that computes every valid member's public-key share on the same 1–4-thread FIFO CBLSWorker pool used for signature verification, quorum-vector construction, aggregation, and DKG contribution verification. A fresh ScanQuorums() can enqueue up to keepOldConnections warmers—64 for LLMQ_60_75—so work submitted afterward remains behind the bulk warming queue, including callers waiting synchronously on BLS futures. The former dedicated thread isolated this background work. Preserve the thread reduction while limiting warming to one outstanding quorum at a time or otherwise prioritizing operational BLS jobs.
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| connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch || | ||
| g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport(); |
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🟡 Suggestion: Use runtime wallet availability to gate mncon
HasWalletSupport() only reports whether wallet support was compiled and always returns true in a wallet-enabled build. It remains true when -disablewallet makes WalletInit::Construct() return without creating a wallet loader, so non-masternode, non-watcher nodes with runtime-disabled wallets—including most functional-test nodes—still start threadOpenMasternodeConnections. At this point node.wallet_loader is non-null exactly when wallet functionality was constructed and can require CoinJoin masternode connections.
| connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch || | |
| g_wallet_init_interface.HasWalletSupport(); | |
| connOptions.m_masternode_connections = node.active_ctx != nullptr || quorums_watch || | |
| node.wallet_loader != nullptr; |
source: ['claude', 'codex']
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Issue being fixed or feature implemented
ASAN jobs failed with OOM. Let's reduce RAM usage!
What was done?
This PR touches 2 scopes: running functional tests scope and production nodes.
How Has This Been Tested?
Run locally while watching memory consumption.
Also, ASAN job succeed for this PR https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/34058535842/job/101627442179?pr=7659, but failed for develop: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/34049601389/job/101534812733 with OOM
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