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Improve setup cost calculation #1798

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webmaster128 opened this issue Jan 26, 2024 · 0 comments
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Improve setup cost calculation #1798

webmaster128 opened this issue Jan 26, 2024 · 0 comments

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webmaster128 commented Jan 26, 2024

Setup cost is the gas charged every time a contract is set up for execution trhough any entry point (execute/instantiate/sudo/query/migrate/reply/....). Right now it is implemented like this:

// SetupContractCost costs when interacting with a wasm contract
func (g WasmGasRegister) SetupContractCost(pinned bool, msgLen int) storetypes.Gas {
	if msgLen < 0 {
		panic(errorsmod.Wrap(ErrInvalid, "negative length"))
	}
	dataCosts := storetypes.Gas(msgLen) * g.c.ContractMessageDataCost
	if pinned {
		return dataCosts
	}
	return g.c.InstanceCost + dataCosts
}

i.e. we charge for the message sent to it as well as creating the executable contract instance in memory. So the pinned flag has a significant impact on the gas usage. It is set to true in two cases:

  1. k.IsPinnedCode(ctx, contractInfo.CodeID) is true, i.e. the contract is pinnend
  2. We setup a contract for reply

Case 2. is actually a misuse of the flag, or at least in its current name. We use the assumption that the contract is still in the in-memory cache when we send the reply. This assumption is plausible but with a node-specific setting of the cache size can lead to situtions when we charge low gas.

In addition to reply, there are other cases in which a a contract is executed multiple times in a tx or block. Following the idea of reply in 2., we can say that the gas discount is given for all calls in a transaction or block that have been seen before. So instead of the current logic in reply

	// always consider this pinned
	replyCosts := k.gasRegister.ReplyCosts(true, reply)

we can say that if code (identified by checksum) was used in this transaction before, give a discount. This then always includes replys but many other cases as well. It would requiring a map from checksum to boolean that is maintained for the lifetime of the transaction.

I think the scope for the discount should be transaction, not block for the following reasons:

  • A block can have more contract executions than there is space in the in-memory cache, creating a risk for underpricing
  • The gas simulation becomes inacurate when the gas usage depends on other transactions in the block.

The reason for the discount for pinned contracts and contracts in the in-memory cache is that their Wasmer instance is created in ~45µs instead of 1.5ms (33x faster).

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