Merge pull request #2671 from matrix-org/rav/room_list_fixes

Reshuffle room list request code

synapse/handlers/room_list.py

@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ class RoomListHandler(BaseHandler):
             # We want larger rooms to be first, hence negating num_joined_users
             rooms_to_order_value[room_id] = (-num_joined_users, room_id)
 
+        logger.info("Getting ordering for %i rooms since %s",
+                    len(room_ids), stream_token)
         yield concurrently_execute(get_order_for_room, room_ids, 10)
 
         sorted_entries = sorted(rooms_to_order_value.items(), key=lambda e: e[1])
@@ -181,34 +183,42 @@ class RoomListHandler(BaseHandler):
                 rooms_to_scan = rooms_to_scan[:since_token.current_limit]
                 rooms_to_scan.reverse()
 
-        # Actually generate the entries. _append_room_entry_to_chunk will append to
-        # chunk but will stop if len(chunk) > limit
-        chunk = []
-        if limit and not search_filter:
-            step = limit + 1
-            for i in xrange(0, len(rooms_to_scan), step):
-                # We iterate here because the vast majority of cases we'll stop
-                # at first iteration, but occaisonally _append_room_entry_to_chunk
-                # won't append to the chunk and so we need to loop again.
+        logger.info("After sorting and filtering, %i rooms remain",
+                    len(rooms_to_scan))
+
+        # _append_room_entry_to_chunk will append to chunk but will stop if
+        # len(chunk) > limit
+        #
+        # Normally we will generate enough results on the first iteration here,
+        #  but if there is a search filter, _append_room_entry_to_chunk may
+        # filter some results out, in which case we loop again.
+        #
         # We don't want to scan over the entire range either as that
         # would potentially waste a lot of work.
+        #
+        # XXX if there is no limit, we may end up DoSing the server with
+        # calls to get_current_state_ids for every single room on the
+        # server. Surely we should cap this somehow?
+        #
+        if limit:
+            step = limit + 1
+        else:
+            step = len(rooms_to_scan)
+
+        chunk = []
+        for i in xrange(0, len(rooms_to_scan), step):
+            batch = rooms_to_scan[i:i + step]
+            logger.info("Processing %i rooms for result", len(batch))
             yield concurrently_execute(
                 lambda r: self._append_room_entry_to_chunk(
                     r, rooms_to_num_joined[r],
                     chunk, limit, search_filter
                 ),
-                    rooms_to_scan[i:i + step], 10
+                batch, 5,
             )
+            logger.info("Now %i rooms in result", len(chunk))
             if len(chunk) >= limit + 1:
                 break
-        else:
-            yield concurrently_execute(
-                lambda r: self._append_room_entry_to_chunk(
-                    r, rooms_to_num_joined[r],
-                    chunk, limit, search_filter
-                ),
-                rooms_to_scan, 5
-            )
 
         chunk.sort(key=lambda e: (-e["num_joined_members"], e["room_id"]))