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Summary

New dag/walker package for memory-efficient DAG traversal with bloom filter deduplication, plus new pinned-provider strategies that use it to avoid re-announcing duplicate blocks across pins.

dag/walker (new package)

  • VisitedTracker interface with two implementations:
    • BloomTracker -- auto-scaling bloom filter chain (~4 bytes/CID vs ~75 for a map), with uncorrelated false positives across nodes (unique random SipHash keys per instance)
    • MapTracker -- exact dedup for tests and small datasets
  • WalkDAG -- iterative DFS traversal with integrated dedup, codec-agnostic link extraction (dag-pb, dag-cbor, raw, and any registered codec). ~2x faster than the legacy go-ipld-prime selector-based walker.
  • WalkEntityRoots -- entity-aware traversal that emits only file/directory/HAMT shard roots instead of every block, skipping internal file chunks.

pinner

  • NewUniquePinnedProvider -- emits all blocks reachable from pins with cross-pin bloom dedup (recursive DAGs first, then direct pins).
  • NewPinnedEntityRootsProvider -- same but emits only entity roots via WalkEntityRoots.
  • Both log and skip corrupted pin entries instead of aborting the entire provide cycle.

provider

  • NewPrioritizedProvider now continues to the next stream when one fails instead of stopping all streams.
  • NewConcatProvider added for pre-deduplicated streams that don't need the cidutil.StreamingSet overhead.

Other

  • Identity CIDs are filtered out during walks (they are inlined data, not real blocks).
  • Siblings are visited in left-to-right link order for deterministic traversal.

VisitedTracker interface for memory-efficient DAG traversal dedup.
BloomTracker uses a scalable bloom filter chain (~4 bytes/CID vs ~75
for a map), enabling dedup on repos with tens of millions of CIDs.

- BloomTracker: auto-scaling chain, configurable FP rate via BloomParams,
  unique random SipHash keys per instance (uncorrelated FPs across nodes)
- MapTracker: exact dedup for tests and small datasets
- *cid.Set satisfies the interface for drop-in compatibility
- go.mod: update ipfs/bbloom to master (for NewWithKeys)
@lidel lidel force-pushed the feat/provide-entity-roots-with-dedup branch from 4dad6c1 to c8962fc Compare March 21, 2026 03:15
iterative DFS walker that integrates VisitedTracker dedup directly
into the traversal loop, skipping entire subtrees in O(1).

- LinksFetcherFromBlockstore: extracts links from any codec registered
  in the global multicodec registry (dag-pb, dag-cbor, raw, etc.)
- ~2x faster than legacy go-ipld-prime selector traversal (no selector
  machinery, simpler decoding, fewer allocations)
- WithLocality option for MFS providers to skip non-local blocks
- best-effort error handling: fetch failures log and skip, do not mark
  the CID as visited (allows retry via another pin or next cycle)
- benchmarks comparing BlockAll vs WalkDAG across dag-pb, dag-cbor,
  and mixed-codec DAGs
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✅ Project coverage is 62.77%. Comparing base (43c30ce) to head (14c5f91).

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lidel added 14 commits March 21, 2026 05:23
emits entity roots (files, directories, HAMT shards) skipping
internal file chunks. core of the +entities provide strategy.

- NodeFetcherFromBlockstore: detects UnixFS entity type from the
  ipld-prime decoded node's Data field
- directories and HAMT shards: emit and recurse into children
- non-UnixFS codecs (dag-cbor, dag-json): emit and follow links
- same options as WalkDAG: WithVisitedTracker, WithLocality
- tests: dag-pb, raw, dag-cbor, mixed codecs, HAMT, dedup,
  error handling, stop conditions
catch unexpected regressions in ipfs/bbloom behavior or BloomParams
derivation that would silently degrade the false positive rate.

- measurable rate (1/1000): 100K probes produce observable FPs,
  asserts rate is within 5x of target
- default rate (1/4.75M): 100K probes must produce exactly 0 FPs
- NewPrioritizedProvider: stream init error no longer stops remaining
  streams (e.g. MFS flush error does not prevent pinned content from
  being provided)
- NewConcatProvider: concatenates pre-deduplicated streams without
  its own visited set, for use with shared VisitedTracker
…vider

NewUniquePinnedProvider: emits all pinned blocks with cross-pin
dedup via shared VisitedTracker (bloom or map). walks recursive pin
DAGs first, then direct pins.

NewPinnedEntityRootsProvider: same structure but uses WalkEntityRoots,
emitting only entity roots and skipping internal file chunks.

existing NewPinnedProvider is unchanged.
- remove unused daggen variable in uniquepinprovider_test.go
…tency

match the defensive read-side ctx.Done select pattern already used by
NewPrioritizedProvider in the same file
- deduplicate LinkSystem construction used by both
  LinksFetcherFromBlockstore and NodeFetcherFromBlockstore
- wrap blockstore with NewIdStore so identity CIDs (multihash 0x00,
  data inline in the CID) are decoded without a datastore lookup
identity CIDs (multihash 0x00) embed data inline, so providing them
to the DHT is wasteful. the walker now traverses through identity
CIDs (following their links) but never emits them.

- add isIdentityCID check to WalkDAG and WalkEntityRoots
- simplify WalkEntityRoots emit/descend logic
- tests for identity raw leaf, identity dag-pb directory with normal
  children, normal directory with identity child
- inline identity CID check (c.Prefix().MhType == mh.IDENTITY) in all
  emit paths: WalkDAG, WalkEntityRoots, and direct pin loops in both
  NewUniquePinnedProvider and NewPinnedEntityRootsProvider
- move all identity CID tests to dag/walker/identity_test.go
- add provider-level identity tests for direct pins and recursive DAGs
the stack-based DFS was pushing children in link order, causing
the last child to be popped first (right-to-left). reverse children
before pushing so the first link is on top and gets visited first.

this matches the legacy fetcherhelpers.BlockAll selector traversal
(ipld-prime iterates list/map entries in insertion order) and the
conventional DFS order described in IPIP-0412.

- walker.go, entity.go: slices.Reverse(children) before stack push
- walker.go: document traversal order in WalkDAG godoc
- entity.go: document order parity in WalkEntityRoots godoc
- walker_test.go, entity_test.go: add sibling order regression tests
a corrupted pin entry was stopping the entire provide cycle because
the goroutine returned on RecursiveKeys/DirectKeys error. change to
continue so remaining pins are still provided (best-effort).

the error from the pinner iterator already contains context (bad CID
bytes, datastore key, etc.) -- sc.Pin.Key is zero-value on error so
including it in the log would be noise.

matches the best-effort pattern used in WalkDAG/WalkEntityRoots
where fetch errors are logged and skipped.
- collectLinks: note that map keys are not recursed (no known codec
  uses link-typed map keys)
- detectEntityType: extract c.Prefix() once for readability
- grow: document MinBloomCapacity invariant that prevents small-bitset
  FP rate issues in grown blooms
@lidel lidel changed the title feat(dag/walker): BloomTracker experiment feat(dag/walker): opt-in BloomTracker to avoid duplicated walks Mar 23, 2026
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Made a few suggestions but nothing blocking.

// skip identity CIDs: content is inline, no need to provide.
// we still descend (above) so an inlined dag-pb directory's
// normal children get provided.
if c.Prefix().MhType == mh.IDENTITY {
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Should this be done before any other work is done?

stack = append(stack, children...)

// skip identity CIDs: content is inline, no need to provide
if c.Prefix().MhType == mh.IDENTITY {
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Do this before other work? Prevent polluting tracker with identity CIDs?

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if tracker.Visit(sc.Pin.Key) {
if !emit(sc.Pin.Key) {
return
}
}
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Matches above logic flow.

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if tracker.Visit(sc.Pin.Key) {
if !emit(sc.Pin.Key) {
return
}
}
// Skip if not first visit.
if !tracker.Visit(sc.Pin.Key) {
continue
}
// Emit pin key on first visit.
if !emit(sc.Pin.Key) {
return
}

Do we want to track how many pins are skipped and maybe log the number? Maybe even log that there is a x% chance skipping a pin that should be provided?

// synchronization.
type VisitedTracker interface {
// Visit marks a CID as visited. Returns true if it was NOT
// previously visited (first visit).
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// previously visited (first visit).
// previously visited (first visit). Returns false if high
// probability that CID was previously visited.

// Visit marks a CID as visited. Returns true if it was NOT
// previously visited (first visit).
Visit(c cid.Cid) bool
// Has returns true if the CID was previously visited.
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// Has returns true if the CID was previously visited.
// Has returns true if there is a high probability that the CID
// was previously visited. Returns false if NOT visited.

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