From 0bf180cbb43f6e3d489ddaa5d66226b6daeea027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Eastwood Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:59:27 -0500 Subject: Comment about a better future where we can get the state diff between two events (#13586) Split off from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13561 Part of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13356 Mentioned in [internal doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lvUoVfYUiy6UaHB6Rb4HicjaJAU40-APue9Q4vzuW3c/edit#bookmark=id.2tvwz3yhcafh) --- synapse/handlers/federation_event.py | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'synapse') diff --git a/synapse/handlers/federation_event.py b/synapse/handlers/federation_event.py index 048c4111f6..ace7adcffb 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/federation_event.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/federation_event.py @@ -1041,6 +1041,14 @@ class FederationEventHandler: InvalidResponseError: if the remote homeserver's response contains fields of the wrong type. """ + + # It would be better if we could query the difference from our known + # state to the given `event_id` so the sending server doesn't have to + # send as much and we don't have to process as many events. For example + # in a room like #matrix:matrix.org, we get 200k events (77k state_events, 122k + # auth_events) from this call. + # + # Tracked by https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13618 ( state_event_ids, auth_event_ids, -- cgit 1.5.1