fix: retain and reuse forester proofs across eligibility windows - #2391
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughV2 proof processing now retains and selects cached proofs by root links, collects late proof results, and sends ready proof chains during slot processing. Sends check current forester eligibility and confirm successful chunks. Proof payloads omit the local sequence number, and the pipeline cancels jobs whose result channels close. ChangesV2 Proof Flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProofWorker
participant TxSender
participant SharedProofCache
participant EpochManager
participant TransactionSender
ProofWorker->>TxSender: provide proof results
TxSender->>SharedProofCache: transfer proofs and collect late results
EpochManager->>SharedProofCache: select root-linked ready chain
EpochManager->>TransactionSender: send eligible proof chunks
TransactionSender-->>EpochManager: return transaction result
EpochManager->>SharedProofCache: confirm successful proof chunks
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new proof-retention flow can keep stale proofs that disable prewarming and add repeated RPC load. Temporary send failures can also cause a forester to give up the rest of its eligible slot, which reduces queue throughput. The author also reports that the devnet canary is blocked and asks not to merge yet. Both issues should be resolved before merge. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Root and eligibility checks remain in place, and transaction signing authority is unchanged. However, recovery can replace a tree’s cache while a detached collector still retains work for the old cache, weakening failure containment and potentially consuming shared proving capacity without producing reusable results. Retained concerns
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Follow-up fix: 1ecdb0a. Ready proof prefixes can now be sent while collection continues; cache entries are acknowledged only after confirmation. Cached-send errors remain typed so ForesterNotEligible triggers schedule recovery. Pending collections suppress duplicate speculative chains, out-of-order handoff retains proofs across gaps, and prover payloads no longer include the changing local sequence number. Cached-work metrics now count queue items rather than proof instructions. Validation: 70 forester library tests passed; cargo clippy -p forester --lib -- -D warnings passed; forester formatting and release build passed. Devnet canary, 2026-09-24 17:22:41–17:25:37 UTC: updated devnet-1 confirmed 5 cached-proof transactions / 2,500 queue items with zero cached-send failures and zero warming deferrals. Unchanged devnet-2 confirmed no processing transactions in the same interval and logged 84 warming deferrals. This is a short operational canary, not a controlled sustained-throughput benchmark. Promoted devnet-2 after the canary; both APIs healthy with zero container restarts on the final image. Devnet-2 subsequently confirmed a 500-item batch. Mainnet and the shared prover were not restarted. An initial host-binary/runtime glibc mismatch was rolled back and corrected before the successful canary; final image: light-forester:ready-proof-cache-1ecdb0a24-noble. |
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Review comments at @forester/src/epoch_manager.rs:
- Around line 2388-2401: Update the cached-send handling in
process_light_slot_v2 around try_send_cached_proofs so only
forester-not-eligible errors propagate and other errors are logged and retried
within the slot with backoff. Preserve the existing success and no-result
behavior, including the wait and continue after a successful cached send.
Review comments at @forester/src/processor/v2/proof_cache.rs:
- Around line 161-164: Update `ready_chain` to timestamp cached proofs and prune
entries older than `LATE_PROOF_RETENTION_TIMEOUT`, in addition to removing
proofs whose `new_root` matches the current root. In
`prewarm_all_trees_during_wait`, determine whether a cached proof links to the
fetched current root before skipping prewarming, rather than treating any
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| if self | ||
| .try_send_cached_proofs( | ||
| epoch_info, | ||
| epoch_pda, | ||
| tree_accounts, | ||
| consecutive_eligibility_end, | ||
| ) | ||
| .await? | ||
| .is_some() | ||
| { | ||
| tokio::time::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MIN).await; | ||
| estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot(); | ||
| continue; | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Propagate only eligibility errors from try_send_cached_proofs. Retry other errors inside the slot.
try_send_cached_proofs(...).await? now runs on every loop pass. With ?, any error leaves process_light_slot_v2 early. process_queue then sets tree_schedule.slots[slot_idx] = None, so the rest of the eligible light slot is lost.
The send path has several error sources that are often temporary:
rpc_pool.get_connection().await?resolve_tree_priority_fee(...).await?- a failed
send_smart_transaction, which Line 4135 returns asErr(e.into())
The cache change exists so that a failed send can be retried. The log message says "preserving unconfirmed chain for retry". That retry cannot run while the loop exits on the first error.
The dispatch branch at Lines 2454-2467 already shows the correct pattern. It returns only when is_forester_not_eligible() is true. Otherwise it logs the error and backs off. The cached-send branch should do the same.
🐛 Proposed fix
- if self
- .try_send_cached_proofs(
- epoch_info,
- epoch_pda,
- tree_accounts,
- consecutive_eligibility_end,
- )
- .await?
- .is_some()
- {
- tokio::time::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MIN).await;
- estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot();
- continue;
- }
+ match self
+ .try_send_cached_proofs(
+ epoch_info,
+ epoch_pda,
+ tree_accounts,
+ consecutive_eligibility_end,
+ )
+ .await
+ {
+ Ok(Some(_)) => {
+ tokio::time::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MIN).await;
+ estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot();
+ continue;
+ }
+ Ok(None) => {}
+ Err(e) if e.is_forester_not_eligible() => return Err(e),
+ Err(e) => {
+ warn!(
+ event = "v2_cached_proof_send_failed",
+ run_id = %self.run_id,
+ tree = %tree_pubkey,
+ error = ?e,
+ "Cached proof send failed; retrying within slot"
+ );
+ tokio::time::sleep(poll_interval).await;
+ poll_interval = (poll_interval * 2).min(POLL_INTERVAL_MAX);
+ estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot();
+ continue;
+ }
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| if self | |
| .try_send_cached_proofs( | |
| epoch_info, | |
| epoch_pda, | |
| tree_accounts, | |
| consecutive_eligibility_end, | |
| ) | |
| .await? | |
| .is_some() | |
| { | |
| tokio::time::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MIN).await; | |
| estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot(); | |
| continue; | |
| } | |
| match self | |
| .try_send_cached_proofs( | |
| epoch_info, | |
| epoch_pda, | |
| tree_accounts, | |
| consecutive_eligibility_end, | |
| ) | |
| .await | |
| { | |
| Ok(Some(_)) => { | |
| tokio::time::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MIN).await; | |
| estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot(); | |
| continue; | |
| } | |
| Ok(None) => {} | |
| Err(e) if e.is_forester_not_eligible() => return Err(e), | |
| Err(e) => { | |
| warn!( | |
| event = "v2_cached_proof_send_failed", | |
| run_id = %self.run_id, | |
| tree = %tree_pubkey, | |
| error = ?e, | |
| "Cached proof send failed; retrying within slot" | |
| ); | |
| tokio::time::sleep(poll_interval).await; | |
| poll_interval = (poll_interval * 2).min(POLL_INTERVAL_MAX); | |
| estimated_slot = self.slot_tracker.estimated_current_slot(); | |
| continue; | |
| } | |
| } |
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Review comment at @forester/src/epoch_manager.rs around lines 2388 - 2401:
Update the cached-send handling in process_light_slot_v2 around
try_send_cached_proofs so only forester-not-eligible errors propagate and other
errors are logged and retried within the slot with backoff. Preserve the
existing success and no-result behavior, including the wait and continue after a
successful cached send.
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| let before = self.proofs.len(); | ||
| self.proofs.retain(|proof| proof.new_root != *current_root); | ||
| let skipped = before - self.proofs.len(); | ||
| let mut candidates = self.proofs.clone(); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Remove cached proofs that can no longer link to the current root.
The pruning rule in ready_chain removes only proofs where new_root == current_root. Proofs from earlier in the chain are never removed.
Here is how this happens:
- A chain
1→2, 2→3, 3→4is cached. Another forester, or a send that timed out but still landed, moves the on-chain root to4. ready_chain(&[4;32])removes3→4. It keeps1→2and2→3, because neithernew_rootequals4.- After this PR, nothing else removes those entries.
confirmremoves only exact confirmed pairs.QueueProcessor::clear_cacheno longer clears the proof cache. The old code cleared the cache when a root link broke; the new code does not. - The only remaining limit is
max_proofs = 256, which evicts the oldest entries first.
This has two effects that users will see:
- Pre-warming is skipped for good.
prewarm_all_trees_during_waitinforester/src/epoch_manager.rs(Lines 3731-3758, unchanged) returns"prewarm_skipped_cache_already_warm"whencache_len > 0 && !is_warmingand the root fetch succeeds. It never checks whether any cached proof links to that root. Stale entries therefore turn off pre-warming for that tree on every later epoch. - Every V2 loop pass makes an extra RPC call.
try_send_cached_proofssees!cache.is_empty(), takes the send lock, and callsfetch_current_root(get_account). Thenready_chainreturnsNone. The comments atforester/src/epoch_manager.rsLine 2339 already say that per-tick RPC load is the main cost to avoid.
Suggested fix:
- Record when each proof enters the cache, and drop entries older than the retention window (
LATE_PROOF_RETENTION_TIMEOUT, 600 s). After that point no collector can still add the missing predecessor. - Change the pre-warm skip check so it asks whether a proof links to the current root, not whether the cache is non-empty.
♻️ Sketch of the fix
pub struct CachedProof {
pub seq: u64,
pub old_root: [u8; 32],
pub new_root: [u8; 32],
pub instruction: BatchInstruction,
pub items: usize,
+ pub cached_at: std::time::Instant,
} let before = self.proofs.len();
- self.proofs.retain(|proof| proof.new_root != *current_root);
+ let max_age = self.max_age;
+ self.proofs.retain(|proof| {
+ proof.new_root != *current_root && proof.cached_at.elapsed() < max_age
+ });
let skipped = before - self.proofs.len();In prewarm_all_trees_during_wait, skip only when cache.ready_chain(¤t_root).await.is_some().
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Review comment at @forester/src/processor/v2/proof_cache.rs around lines 161 -
164:
Update `ready_chain` to timestamp cached proofs and prune entries older than
`LATE_PROOF_RETENTION_TIMEOUT`, in addition to removing proofs whose `new_root`
matches the current root. In `prewarm_all_trees_during_wait`, determine whether
a cached proof links to the fetched current root before skipping prewarming,
rather than treating any non-empty cache as warm.
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| "Cached proof send failed; preserving unconfirmed chain for retry" | ||
| ); | ||
| // Stop the dependent chain. In particular, preserve the | ||
| // typed 6004 error so process_queue re-finalizes eligibility. | ||
| return Err(e.into()); |
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When a cached transaction is rejected with a deterministic proof-verification error such as custom code 13006, this path converts it directly from RpcError and preserves the same chain for retry. Unlike the direct sender, which maps that code to V2Error::CircuitConstraint and removes the cache, every subsequent eligible slot attempts the invalid cached proof first and exits on the same error, preventing fresh proof generation until another forester advances the root. Classify definitive transaction failures and evict the rejected cached proofs instead of retaining all send failures.
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| ProofInput::Append(inputs) => BatchAppendInputsJson::from_inputs(inputs) | ||
| .with_tree_id(tree_id.to_string()) | ||
| .with_batch_index(batch_index) | ||
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When multiple proof workers submit jobs for one tree, the spawned HTTP tasks can reach the prover out of sequence, so its FIFO fallback does not preserve the local seq order claimed here. Omitting batchIndex assigns these requests the legacy value -1; prover/server/server/queue.go explicitly uses nonnegative batch indices to prioritize lower batches and even prioritizes all indexed jobs over legacy jobs. This can make an expensive later proof run before the chain head—or starve these requests during a mixed-version deployment—leaving TxSender blocked on the missing predecessor. Keep ordering metadata in the request and exclude it when computing the deduplication hash server-side instead.
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Includes the two proof-retention commits from #2387; no separate parent merge is required for this PR. Rebased all nine forester commits onto current main (a67a427), which includes the Photon JSON-RPC root-URL fix #2390, epoch retry #2388, and dashboard cache #2386. The previous head is preserved locally as backup/late-proof-cache-before-root-rebase-20260929.
Validation (2026-09-29)
cargo test -p photon-api -p forester --lib -j 4: 71 forester tests and 14 Photon-client tests passed.cargo clippy -p forester -p photon-api --lib -j 4 -- -D warnings: passed.cargo fmt -p forester -p photon-api -- --check: passed.git range-diffconfirms all nine forester patches were preserved by the rebase.Devnet canary — blocked upstream, do not merge yet
15fc4ab28eec0a04e3c9a9afec1c294db9aabb1f.light-forester:root-rpc-15fc4ab28-noble.okand zero restarts. Devnet-2 remains on the prior image. Mainnet was not changed by this canary.getIndexerHealthandgetIndexerSlotwork on the configured Helius devnet endpoint; the old method paths return HTTP 404.getQueueElements(with the exact forester parameters) andgetQueueInforeturn{"error":{"code":-32601,"message":"Method not found"},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}. The method-path variant also returns 404. No devnet fallback indexer is configured.getQueueElements, so root routing itself is compatible with that deployment.Summary by CodeRabbit