It turns out that looping_call does check the deferred returned by its
callback, and (at least in the case of client_ips), we were relying on this,
and I broke it in #3604.
Update run_as_background_process to return the deferred, and make sure we
return it to clock.looping_call.
This is more involved than it might otherwise be, because the current
implementation just drops its logcontexts and runs everything in the sentinel
context.
It turns out that we aren't actually using a bunch of the functionality here
(notably suppress_failures and the fact that Distributor.fire returns a
deferred), so the easiest way to fix this is actually by simplifying a bunch of
code.
This fixes#3518, and ensures that we get useful logs and metrics for lots of
things that happen in the background.
(There are certainly more things that happen in the background; these are just
the common ones I've found running a single-process synapse locally).
The get_entities_changed function was changed to return all changed
entities since the given stream position, rather than only those changed
from a given list of entities. This resulted in the function incorrectly
returning large numbers of entities that, for example, caused large
increases in database usage.
The stream cache keeps track of all entities that have changed since
a particular stream position, so get_entities_changed does not need to
return unknown entites when given a larger stream position.
This makes it consistent with the behaviour of has_entity_changed.
This line shows up as about 5% of cpu time on a synchrotron:
not_known_entities = set(entities) - set(self._entity_to_key)
Presumably the problem here is that _entity_to_key can be largeish, and
building a set for its keys every time this function is called is slow.
Here we rewrite the logic to avoid building so many sets.
When _get_state_for_groups is given a wildcard filter, just do a complete
lookup. Hopefully this will give us the best of both worlds by not filling up
the ram if we only need one or two keys, but also making the cache still work
for the federation reader usecase.
When we finish processing a request, log the number of events we fetched from
the database to handle it.
[I'm trying to figure out which requests are responsible for large amounts of
event cache churn. It may turn out to be more helpful to add counts to the
prometheus per-request/block metrics, but that is an extension to this code
anyway.]
There's a frequent idiom I noticed where an iterable is split up into a
number of chunks/batches. Unfortunately that method does not work with
iterators like dict.keys() in python3. This implementation works with
iterators.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Tschira <nota@notafile.com>
So, it turns out that if you have a first `Deferred` `D1`, you can add a
callback which returns another `Deferred` `D2`, and `D2` must then complete
before any further callbacks on `D1` will execute (and later callbacks on `D1`
get the *result* of `D2` rather than `D2` itself).
So, `D1` might have `called=True` (as in, it has started running its
callbacks), but any new callbacks added to `D1` won't get run until `D2`
completes - so if you `yield D1` in an `inlineCallbacks` function, your `yield`
will 'block'.
In conclusion: some of our assumptions in `logcontext` were invalid. We need to
make sure that we don't optimise out the logcontext juggling when this
situation happens. Fortunately, it is easy to detect by checking `D1.paused`.
While I was going through uses of preserve_fn for other PRs, I converted places
which only use the wrapped function once to use run_in_background, to avoid
creating the function object.
There were a bunch of places where we fire off a process to happen in the
background, but don't have any exception handling on it - instead relying on
the unhandled error being logged when the relevent deferred gets
garbage-collected.
This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:
- logging on garbage collection is best-effort and may happen some time after
the error, if at all
- it can be hard to figure out where the error actually happened.
- it is logged as a scary CRITICAL error which (a) I always forget to grep for
and (b) it's not really CRITICAL if a background process we don't care about
fails.
So this is an attempt to add exception handling to everything we fire off into
the background.
This reverts commit 9fbe70a7dc.
It turns out that sortedcontainers.SortedDict is not an exact match for
blist.sorteddict; in particular, `popitem()` removes things from the opposite
end of the dict.
This is trivial to fix, but I want to add some unit tests, and potentially some
more thought about it, before we do so.
Adds a `.wrap` method to ResponseCache which wraps up the boilerplate of a
(get, set) pair, and then use it throughout the codebase.
This will be largely non-functional, but does include the following functional
changes:
* federation_server.on_context_state_request: drops use of _server_linearizer
which looked redundant and could cause incorrect cache misses by yielding
between the get and the set.
* RoomListHandler.get_remote_public_room_list(): fixes logcontext leaks
* the wrap function includes some logging. I'm hoping this won't be too noisy
on production.
it looks like everything that uses ResponseCache expects to have to
`make_deferred_yieldable` its results. It's debatable whether that is the best
approach, but let's document it for now to avoid further confusion.
The state cache bases its size on the sum of the size of entries. The
size of the entry is calculated once on insertion, so it is important
that the size of entries does not change.
The DictionaryCache modified the entries size, which caused the state
cache to incorrectly think it was smaller than it actually was.
It annoys me that we create temporary function objects when there's really no
need for it. Let's factor the gubbins out of preserve_fn and start using it.
Add federation_domain_whitelist
gives a way to restrict which domains your HS is allowed to federate with.
useful mainly for gracefully preventing a private but internet-connected HS from trying to federate to the wider public Matrix network
* [ ] split config options into allowed_local_3pids and registrations_require_3pid
* [ ] simplify and comment logic for picking registration flows
* [ ] fix docstring and move check_3pid_allowed into a new util module
* [ ] use check_3pid_allowed everywhere
@erikjohnston PTAL
Twisted core doesn't have a general purpose one, so we need to write one
ourselves.
Features:
- All writing happens in background thread
- Supports both push and pull producers
- Push producers get paused if the consumer falls behind
For each request, track the amount of time spent waiting for a db
connection. This entails adding it to the LoggingContext and we may as well add
metrics for it while we are passing.
It turns out that the only thing we use the __dict__ of LoggingContext for is
`request`, and given we create lots of LoggingContexts and then copy them every
time we do a db transaction or log line, using the __dict__ seems a bit
redundant. Let's try to optimise things by making the request attribute
explicit.
In order to circumvent the number of duplicate foo:count metrics increasing
without bounds, it's time for a rearrangement.
The following are all deprecated, and replaced with synapse_util_metrics_block_count:
synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:count
The following are all deprecated, and replaced with synapse_http_server_response_count:
synapse_http_server_requests
synapse_http_server_response_time:count
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:count
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:count
The following are renamed (the old metrics are kept for now, but deprecated):
synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_time:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:total
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration_seconds
Add some logging to the Limiter in a similar spirit to the Linearizer, to help
debug issues.
Also fix a logcontext leak.
Also refactor slightly to avoid throwing exceptions.
This is a bit of an experimental change at this point; the idea is to see if it
helps us track down where our stack overflows are coming from by logging the
stack when the exception was caught and turned into a Failure. (We'll also need
edf2704420).
If we deploy this, we'll be able to enable it via the log config yaml.
Occaisonally has_any_entity_changed would throw the error: "Set changed
size during iteration" when taking the max of the `sorteddict`. While
its uncertain how that happens, its quite inefficient to iterate over
the entire dict anyway so we change to using the more traditional
`bisect_*` functions.
We update the normal cache descriptors to handle caches with a single
argument specially so that the key wasn't a 1-tuple. We need to update
the cache list to be aware of this.
Most of the time was spent copying a dict to filter out sentinel values
that indicated that keys did not exist in the dict. The sentinel values
were added to ensure that we cached the non-existence of keys.
By updating DictionaryCache to keep track of which keys were known to
not exist itself we can remove a dictionary copy.
The _get_joined_users_from_context cache stores a mapping from user_id
to avatar_url and display_name. Instead of storing those in a dict,
store them in a namedtuple as that uses much less memory.
We also try converting the string to ascii to further reduce the size.
Currently the cache descriptors store deferreds rather than raw values,
this is a simple way of triggering only one database hit and sharing the
result if two callers attempt to get the same value.
However, there are a few caches that simply store a mapping from string
to string (or int). These caches can have a large number of entries,
under the assumption that each entry is small. However, the size of a
deferred (specifically the size of ObservableDeferred) is signigicantly
larger than that of the raw value, 2kb vs 32b.
This PR therefore changes the cache descriptors to store the raw values
rather than the deferreds.
As a side effect cached storage function now either return a deferred or
the actual value, as the cached list decriptor already does. This is
fine as we always end up just yield'ing on the returned value
eventually, which handles that case correctly.
