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author | Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org> | 2020-10-07 15:15:57 +0100 |
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committer | Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org> | 2020-10-07 17:08:58 +0100 |
commit | fa8934b175467d589dd34fae18639cac0d738fc9 (patch) | |
tree | b47f6e6628a61a5b6689ed576c98ec59b3542a8d /synapse/storage | |
parent | Add Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) to build scripts. (#8475) (diff) | |
download | synapse-fa8934b175467d589dd34fae18639cac0d738fc9.tar.xz |
Reduce serialization errors in MultiWriterIdGen (#8456)
We call `_update_stream_positions_table_txn` a lot, which is an UPSERT that can conflict in `REPEATABLE READ` isolation level. Instead of doing a transaction consisting of a single query we may as well run it outside of a transaction.
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/storage')
-rw-r--r-- | synapse/storage/database.py | 63 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | synapse/storage/engines/_base.py | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | synapse/storage/engines/sqlite.py | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | synapse/storage/util/id_generators.py | 12 |
5 files changed, 107 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/storage/database.py b/synapse/storage/database.py index 79ec8f119d..6116191b16 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/database.py +++ b/synapse/storage/database.py @@ -403,6 +403,24 @@ class DatabasePool: *args: Any, **kwargs: Any ) -> R: + """Start a new database transaction with the given connection. + + Note: The given func may be called multiple times under certain + failure modes. This is normally fine when in a standard transaction, + but care must be taken if the connection is in `autocommit` mode that + the function will correctly handle being aborted and retried half way + through its execution. + + Args: + conn + desc + after_callbacks + exception_callbacks + func + *args + **kwargs + """ + start = monotonic_time() txn_id = self._TXN_ID @@ -508,7 +526,12 @@ class DatabasePool: sql_txn_timer.labels(desc).observe(duration) async def runInteraction( - self, desc: str, func: "Callable[..., R]", *args: Any, **kwargs: Any + self, + desc: str, + func: "Callable[..., R]", + *args: Any, + db_autocommit: bool = False, + **kwargs: Any ) -> R: """Starts a transaction on the database and runs a given function @@ -518,6 +541,18 @@ class DatabasePool: database transaction (twisted.enterprise.adbapi.Transaction) as its first argument, followed by `args` and `kwargs`. + db_autocommit: Whether to run the function in "autocommit" mode, + i.e. outside of a transaction. This is useful for transactions + that are only a single query. + + Currently, this is only implemented for Postgres. SQLite will still + run the function inside a transaction. + + WARNING: This means that if func fails half way through then + the changes will *not* be rolled back. `func` may also get + called multiple times if the transaction is retried, so must + correctly handle that case. + args: positional args to pass to `func` kwargs: named args to pass to `func` @@ -538,6 +573,7 @@ class DatabasePool: exception_callbacks, func, *args, + db_autocommit=db_autocommit, **kwargs ) @@ -551,7 +587,11 @@ class DatabasePool: return cast(R, result) async def runWithConnection( - self, func: "Callable[..., R]", *args: Any, **kwargs: Any + self, + func: "Callable[..., R]", + *args: Any, + db_autocommit: bool = False, + **kwargs: Any ) -> R: """Wraps the .runWithConnection() method on the underlying db_pool. @@ -560,6 +600,9 @@ class DatabasePool: database connection (twisted.enterprise.adbapi.Connection) as its first argument, followed by `args` and `kwargs`. args: positional args to pass to `func` + db_autocommit: Whether to run the function in "autocommit" mode, + i.e. outside of a transaction. This is useful for transaction + that are only a single query. Currently only affects postgres. kwargs: named args to pass to `func` Returns: @@ -575,6 +618,13 @@ class DatabasePool: start_time = monotonic_time() def inner_func(conn, *args, **kwargs): + # We shouldn't be in a transaction. If we are then something + # somewhere hasn't committed after doing work. (This is likely only + # possible during startup, as `run*` will ensure changes are + # committed/rolled back before putting the connection back in the + # pool). + assert not self.engine.in_transaction(conn) + with LoggingContext("runWithConnection", parent_context) as context: sched_duration_sec = monotonic_time() - start_time sql_scheduling_timer.observe(sched_duration_sec) @@ -584,7 +634,14 @@ class DatabasePool: logger.debug("Reconnecting closed database connection") conn.reconnect() - return func(conn, *args, **kwargs) + try: + if db_autocommit: + self.engine.attempt_to_set_autocommit(conn, True) + + return func(conn, *args, **kwargs) + finally: + if db_autocommit: + self.engine.attempt_to_set_autocommit(conn, False) return await make_deferred_yieldable( self._db_pool.runWithConnection(inner_func, *args, **kwargs) diff --git a/synapse/storage/engines/_base.py b/synapse/storage/engines/_base.py index 908cbc79e3..d6d632dc10 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/engines/_base.py +++ b/synapse/storage/engines/_base.py @@ -97,3 +97,20 @@ class BaseDatabaseEngine(Generic[ConnectionType], metaclass=abc.ABCMeta): """Gets a string giving the server version. For example: '3.22.0' """ ... + + @abc.abstractmethod + def in_transaction(self, conn: Connection) -> bool: + """Whether the connection is currently in a transaction. + """ + ... + + @abc.abstractmethod + def attempt_to_set_autocommit(self, conn: Connection, autocommit: bool): + """Attempt to set the connections autocommit mode. + + When True queries are run outside of transactions. + + Note: This has no effect on SQLite3, so callers still need to + commit/rollback the connections. + """ + ... diff --git a/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py b/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py index ff39281f85..7719ac32f7 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py +++ b/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ import logging -from ._base import BaseDatabaseEngine, IncorrectDatabaseSetup +from synapse.storage.engines._base import BaseDatabaseEngine, IncorrectDatabaseSetup +from synapse.storage.types import Connection logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) @@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ class PostgresEngine(BaseDatabaseEngine): cursor.execute("SET synchronous_commit TO OFF") cursor.close() + db_conn.commit() @property def can_native_upsert(self): @@ -171,3 +173,9 @@ class PostgresEngine(BaseDatabaseEngine): return "%i.%i" % (numver / 10000, numver % 10000) else: return "%i.%i.%i" % (numver / 10000, (numver % 10000) / 100, numver % 100) + + def in_transaction(self, conn: Connection) -> bool: + return conn.status != self.module.extensions.STATUS_READY # type: ignore + + def attempt_to_set_autocommit(self, conn: Connection, autocommit: bool): + return conn.set_session(autocommit=autocommit) # type: ignore diff --git a/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite.py b/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite.py index 8a0f8c89d1..5db0f0b520 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite.py +++ b/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite.py @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import threading import typing from synapse.storage.engines import BaseDatabaseEngine +from synapse.storage.types import Connection if typing.TYPE_CHECKING: import sqlite3 # noqa: F401 @@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ class Sqlite3Engine(BaseDatabaseEngine["sqlite3.Connection"]): db_conn.create_function("rank", 1, _rank) db_conn.execute("PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;") + db_conn.commit() def is_deadlock(self, error): return False @@ -105,6 +107,14 @@ class Sqlite3Engine(BaseDatabaseEngine["sqlite3.Connection"]): """ return "%i.%i.%i" % self.module.sqlite_version_info + def in_transaction(self, conn: Connection) -> bool: + return conn.in_transaction # type: ignore + + def attempt_to_set_autocommit(self, conn: Connection, autocommit: bool): + # Twisted doesn't let us set attributes on the connections, so we can't + # set the connection to autocommit mode. + pass + # Following functions taken from: https://github.com/coleifer/peewee diff --git a/synapse/storage/util/id_generators.py b/synapse/storage/util/id_generators.py index 48efbb5067..ad017207aa 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/util/id_generators.py +++ b/synapse/storage/util/id_generators.py @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from typing_extensions import Deque from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process from synapse.storage.database import DatabasePool, LoggingTransaction +from synapse.storage.types import Cursor from synapse.storage.util.sequence import PostgresSequenceGenerator logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) @@ -552,7 +553,7 @@ class MultiWriterIdGenerator: # do. break - def _update_stream_positions_table_txn(self, txn): + def _update_stream_positions_table_txn(self, txn: Cursor): """Update the `stream_positions` table with newly persisted position. """ @@ -602,10 +603,13 @@ class _MultiWriterCtxManager: stream_ids = attr.ib(type=List[int], factory=list) async def __aenter__(self) -> Union[int, List[int]]: + # It's safe to run this in autocommit mode as fetching values from a + # sequence ignores transaction semantics anyway. self.stream_ids = await self.id_gen._db.runInteraction( "_load_next_mult_id", self.id_gen._load_next_mult_id_txn, self.multiple_ids or 1, + db_autocommit=True, ) # Assert the fetched ID is actually greater than any ID we've already @@ -636,10 +640,16 @@ class _MultiWriterCtxManager: # # We only do this on the success path so that the persisted current # position points to a persisted row with the correct instance name. + # + # We do this in autocommit mode as a) the upsert works correctly outside + # transactions and b) reduces the amount of time the rows are locked + # for. If we don't do this then we'll often hit serialization errors due + # to the fact we default to REPEATABLE READ isolation levels. if self.id_gen._writers: await self.id_gen._db.runInteraction( "MultiWriterIdGenerator._update_table", self.id_gen._update_stream_positions_table_txn, + db_autocommit=True, ) return False |