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authorErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-11-11 17:19:51 +0000
committerErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-11-11 17:19:51 +0000
commite21cef9bb56493cf05fa82e2d3262df213657cf6 (patch)
tree54fada4d427cfa90dc1a327ac01cc73c9a0fabad /synapse/storage/background_updates.py
parentMerge pull request #358 from matrix-org/daniel/publicwritable (diff)
parentFix param style to work on both sqlite and postgres (diff)
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Merge pull request #359 from matrix-org/markjh/incremental_indexing
Incremental background updates for db indexes
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2014, 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from ._base import SQLBaseStore
+
+from twisted.internet import defer
+
+import ujson as json
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class BackgroundUpdatePerformance(object):
+    """Tracks the how long a background update is taking to update its items"""
+
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        self.name = name
+        self.total_item_count = 0
+        self.total_duration_ms = 0
+        self.avg_item_count = 0
+        self.avg_duration_ms = 0
+
+    def update(self, item_count, duration_ms):
+        """Update the stats after doing an update"""
+        self.total_item_count += item_count
+        self.total_duration_ms += duration_ms
+
+        # Exponential moving averages for the number of items updated and
+        # the duration.
+        self.avg_item_count += 0.1 * (item_count - self.avg_item_count)
+        self.avg_duration_ms += 0.1 * (duration_ms - self.avg_duration_ms)
+
+    def average_items_per_ms(self):
+        """An estimate of how long it takes to do a single update.
+        Returns:
+            A duration in ms as a float
+        """
+        if self.total_item_count == 0:
+            return None
+        else:
+            # Use the exponential moving average so that we can adapt to
+            # changes in how long the update process takes.
+            return float(self.avg_item_count) / float(self.avg_duration_ms)
+
+    def total_items_per_ms(self):
+        """An estimate of how long it takes to do a single update.
+        Returns:
+            A duration in ms as a float
+        """
+        if self.total_item_count == 0:
+            return None
+        else:
+            return float(self.total_item_count) / float(self.total_duration_ms)
+
+
+class BackgroundUpdateStore(SQLBaseStore):
+    """ Background updates are updates to the database that run in the
+    background. Each update processes a batch of data at once. We attempt to
+    limit the impact of each update by monitoring how long each batch takes to
+    process and autotuning the batch size.
+    """
+
+    MINIMUM_BACKGROUND_BATCH_SIZE = 100
+    DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_BATCH_SIZE = 100
+    BACKGROUND_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MS = 1000
+    BACKGROUND_UPDATE_DURATION_MS = 100
+
+    def __init__(self, hs):
+        super(BackgroundUpdateStore, self).__init__(hs)
+        self._background_update_performance = {}
+        self._background_update_queue = []
+        self._background_update_handlers = {}
+        self._background_update_timer = None
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def start_doing_background_updates(self):
+        while True:
+            if self._background_update_timer is not None:
+                return
+
+            sleep = defer.Deferred()
+            self._background_update_timer = self._clock.call_later(
+                self.BACKGROUND_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MS / 1000., sleep.callback, None
+            )
+            try:
+                yield sleep
+            finally:
+                self._background_update_timer = None
+
+            try:
+                result = yield self.do_background_update(
+                    self.BACKGROUND_UPDATE_DURATION_MS
+                )
+            except:
+                logger.exception("Error doing update")
+
+            if result is None:
+                logger.info(
+                    "No more background updates to do."
+                    " Unscheduling background update task."
+                )
+                return
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def do_background_update(self, desired_duration_ms):
+        """Does some amount of work on a background update
+        Args:
+            desired_duration_ms(float): How long we want to spend
+                updating.
+        Returns:
+            A deferred that completes once some amount of work is done.
+            The deferred will have a value of None if there is currently
+            no more work to do.
+        """
+        if not self._background_update_queue:
+            updates = yield self._simple_select_list(
+                "background_updates",
+                keyvalues=None,
+                retcols=("update_name",),
+            )
+            for update in updates:
+                self._background_update_queue.append(update['update_name'])
+
+        if not self._background_update_queue:
+            defer.returnValue(None)
+
+        update_name = self._background_update_queue.pop(0)
+        self._background_update_queue.append(update_name)
+
+        update_handler = self._background_update_handlers[update_name]
+
+        performance = self._background_update_performance.get(update_name)
+
+        if performance is None:
+            performance = BackgroundUpdatePerformance(update_name)
+            self._background_update_performance[update_name] = performance
+
+        items_per_ms = performance.average_items_per_ms()
+
+        if items_per_ms is not None:
+            batch_size = int(desired_duration_ms * items_per_ms)
+            # Clamp the batch size so that we always make progress
+            batch_size = max(batch_size, self.MINIMUM_BACKGROUND_BATCH_SIZE)
+        else:
+            batch_size = self.DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_BATCH_SIZE
+
+        progress_json = yield self._simple_select_one_onecol(
+            "background_updates",
+            keyvalues={"update_name": update_name},
+            retcol="progress_json"
+        )
+
+        progress = json.loads(progress_json)
+
+        time_start = self._clock.time_msec()
+        items_updated = yield update_handler(progress, batch_size)
+        time_stop = self._clock.time_msec()
+
+        duration_ms = time_stop - time_start
+
+        logger.info(
+            "Updating %r. Updated %r items in %rms."
+            " (total_rate=%r/ms, current_rate=%r/ms, total_updated=%r)",
+            update_name, items_updated, duration_ms,
+            performance.total_items_per_ms(),
+            performance.average_items_per_ms(),
+            performance.total_item_count,
+        )
+
+        performance.update(items_updated, duration_ms)
+
+        defer.returnValue(len(self._background_update_performance))
+
+    def register_background_update_handler(self, update_name, update_handler):
+        """Register a handler for doing a background update.
+
+        The handler should take two arguments:
+
+        * A dict of the current progress
+        * An integer count of the number of items to update in this batch.
+
+        The handler should return a deferred integer count of items updated.
+        The hander is responsible for updating the progress of the update.
+
+        Args:
+            update_name(str): The name of the update that this code handles.
+            update_handler(function): The function that does the update.
+        """
+        self._background_update_handlers[update_name] = update_handler
+
+    def start_background_update(self, update_name, progress):
+        """Starts a background update running.
+
+        Args:
+            update_name: The update to set running.
+            progress: The initial state of the progress of the update.
+
+        Returns:
+            A deferred that completes once the task has been added to the
+            queue.
+        """
+        # Clear the background update queue so that we will pick up the new
+        # task on the next iteration of do_background_update.
+        self._background_update_queue = []
+        progress_json = json.dumps(progress)
+
+        return self._simple_insert(
+            "background_updates",
+            {"update_name": update_name, "progress_json": progress_json}
+        )
+
+    def _end_background_update(self, update_name):
+        """Removes a completed background update task from the queue.
+
+        Args:
+            update_name(str): The name of the completed task to remove
+        Returns:
+            A deferred that completes once the task is removed.
+        """
+        self._background_update_queue = [
+            name for name in self._background_update_queue if name != update_name
+        ]
+        return self._simple_delete_one(
+            "background_updates", keyvalues={"update_name": update_name}
+        )
+
+    def _background_update_progress_txn(self, txn, update_name, progress):
+        """Update the progress of a background update
+
+        Args:
+            txn(cursor): The transaction.
+            update_name(str): The name of the background update task
+            progress(dict): The progress of the update.
+        """
+
+        progress_json = json.dumps(progress)
+
+        self._simple_update_one_txn(
+            txn,
+            "background_updates",
+            keyvalues={"update_name": update_name},
+            updatevalues={"progress_json": progress_json},
+        )