perf: resolve transactions before sequencing

[bmuddha]

What changed

• Resolve live, verified-replication, and recovery transactions before they enter the sequencer, and make the sequencer message carry the resolved transaction directly.
• Compact resolved writable-account metadata into four machine words and stop retaining empty loaded-address state while address lookup tables remain disabled.
• Reduce signature-cache hashing to a 16-byte signature prefix while retaining ahash, prioritize ingress in the sequencer loop, run the root sequencer future unconstrained, and tighten per-executor queued work.

Closes #119

Impact

SequencerMessage::Transaction intentionally changes from TransactionView to ResolvedTransaction. Transaction resolution now runs on the submitting runtime instead of the serial sequencer thread. Signature-prefix collisions are intentionally treated as the same live cache entry; the 128-bit key makes that risk negligible for the bounded cache.

CPU-affinity changes are deliberately excluded: isolated-core experiments substantially reduced throughput, so thread placement remains under the OS scheduler.

Reviewer notes

The sequencer still owns canonical admission, ledger append, block hashing, dependency registration, and dispatch order. Replication and recovery continue submitting their source streams sequentially. The compact resolved representation relies on the existing sanitizer invariant that rejects address lookup tables.

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The change passes ResolvedTransaction through engine accessors, sequencer messages, scheduling, and tests. ResolvedTransactionView removes retained lookup-table state and stores writable-account flags in a packed bit mask. Signature status caches use 16-byte signature prefixes and a RandomState index. The sequencer prioritizes inbound messages, runs unconstrained, and uses a dispatch channel with capacity two. The runtime feature documentation now identifies resolved-transaction execution messages.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aaa05

The change moves transaction resolution ahead of sequencing and alters ingress scheduling; under sustained rejected input, executor progress and shutdown may be starved indefinitely, so merge should wait for bounded fairness or cooperative scheduling. The signature-prefix cache behavior also needs explicit documentation of its collision semantics.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The pull request addresses compact resolved transactions, an Engine-specific resolution path, signature-cache optimization, ingress prioritization, and executor queue changes [#119]. It does not imple…	Implement the remaining #119 objectives: batch immediately available transactions without crossing block, checkpoint, or barrier boundaries; batch Keeper admission, signature-cache maintenance, ledger enqueueing, completion processing, and …

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are related to the performance and transaction-resolution objectives described in the pull request and linked issue. No unrelated code changes are evident, and CPU-affinity changes were ex…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 80.95% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: resolving transactions before sequencing.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately covers the transaction-resolution change and the related performance and representation updates.

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Explanation

The pull request addresses compact resolved transactions, an Engine-specific resolution path, signature-cache optimization, ingress prioritization, and executor queue changes [#119]. It does not implement the linked issue's required batching of transactions and Keeper work, or ingress-ticket assignment with result reordering [#119].

Resolution

Implement the remaining #119 objectives: batch immediately available transactions without crossing block, checkpoint, or barrier boundaries; batch Keeper admission, signature-cache maintenance, ledger enqueueing, completion processing, and ready dispatch while preserving acceptance order; and use executor capacity for transaction preparation with ingress tickets and result reordering before serial admission.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes are related to the performance and transaction-resolution objectives described in the pull request and linked issue. No unrelated code changes are evident, and CPU-affinity changes were explicitly excluded.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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Docstring coverage is 80.95% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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keeper/src/accessor.rs (1)

159-164: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document prefix-based deduplication.

append now uses the first 16 bytes of signature as the cache key. A live prefix collision can therefore return AlreadyProcessed for a different full signature. Update this rustdoc to state the prefix-based identity and collision behavior.

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In `@keeper/src/accessor.rs` around lines 159 - 164, Update the rustdoc for append
to state that deduplication uses the first 16 bytes of the signature as the
cache identity, and document that distinct full signatures sharing this prefix
may be treated as already processed. Keep the existing return-value and
commit_execution descriptions accurate.

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In `@processor/src/sequencer/mod.rs`:
- Line 125: Update the spawned runtime around `self.run()` to preserve Tokio
cooperative scheduling instead of wrapping the sequencer loop in
`task::unconstrained`. Ensure repeated rejected inbound transactions cannot
starve executor-event or shutdown polling, and add a regression test covering
pending executor and shutdown events.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@keeper/src/accessor.rs`:
- Around line 159-164: Update the rustdoc for append to state that deduplication
uses the first 16 bytes of the signature as the cache identity, and document
that distinct full signatures sharing this prefix may be treated as already
processed. Keep the existing return-value and commit_execution descriptions
accurate.

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• engine/src/accessor.rs
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• processor/src/sequencer/mod.rs
• processor/src/tests.rs
• solana/transaction-view/src/resolved_transaction_view.rs

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[bmuddha]

The remaining #119 checklist items were experimental directions, not required follow-up work for this PR. Profiling documented in the issue showed that batching should remain removed, while CPU-affinity experiments materially reduced throughput. This PR intentionally retains only the improvements supported by those measurements, so implementing the abandoned tactics is not necessary to close #119.