Backfill start after init-sync at head #13623
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Problem
Backfill doesn't cooperate with init-sync to preserve rate limit capacity. Making backfill requests concurrently with init-sync requests could be causing peers serving init-sync requests to give init-sync rate limit errors, especially on goerli where some prysm nodes are running with excessively low blob batch limits. We should prioritize init-sync over backfill at node startup so the node can get up to head as soon as possible.
And so
This PR adds a step to backfill service startup to block on the signal that other services use to wait for init-sync to catch up to head for the first time. Backfill won't spawn the worker pool or begin computing batches until node begins gossip syncing at head.