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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-06-10 20:28:08 +0100
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-06-10 20:28:08 +0100
commit69a43d9974824893605252bf32d08484fdaa28fb (patch)
tree180a6d2e659269ebf6e61b424051497cbab22848 /synapse/util/retryutils.py
parentSAML2 Improvements and redirect stuff (diff)
parentMerge branch 'release-v1.0.0' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into develop (diff)
downloadsynapse-69a43d9974824893605252bf32d08484fdaa28fb.tar.xz
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into rav/saml2_client
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/util/retryutils.py')
-rw-r--r--synapse/util/retryutils.py55
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index 26cce7d197..1a77456498 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ class NotRetryingDestination(Exception):
 
 
 @defer.inlineCallbacks
-def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False,
-                      **kwargs):
+def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False, **kwargs):
     """For a given destination check if we have previously failed to
     send a request there and are waiting before retrying the destination.
     If we are not ready to retry the destination, this will raise a
@@ -60,8 +59,7 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False,
         clock (synapse.util.clock): timing source
         store (synapse.storage.transactions.TransactionStore): datastore
         ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data and
-            try the request anyway. We will still update the next
-            retry_interval on success/failure.
+            try the request anyway. We will still reset the retry_interval on success.
 
     Example usage:
 
@@ -75,13 +73,12 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False,
     """
     retry_last_ts, retry_interval = (0, 0)
 
-    retry_timings = yield store.get_destination_retry_timings(
-        destination
-    )
+    retry_timings = yield store.get_destination_retry_timings(destination)
 
     if retry_timings:
         retry_last_ts, retry_interval = (
-            retry_timings["retry_last_ts"], retry_timings["retry_interval"]
+            retry_timings["retry_last_ts"],
+            retry_timings["retry_interval"],
         )
 
         now = int(clock.time_msec())
@@ -93,22 +90,36 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False,
                 destination=destination,
             )
 
+    # if we are ignoring the backoff data, we should also not increment the backoff
+    # when we get another failure - otherwise a server can very quickly reach the
+    # maximum backoff even though it might only have been down briefly
+    backoff_on_failure = not ignore_backoff
+
     defer.returnValue(
         RetryDestinationLimiter(
             destination,
             clock,
             store,
             retry_interval,
+            backoff_on_failure=backoff_on_failure,
             **kwargs
         )
     )
 
 
 class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
-    def __init__(self, destination, clock, store, retry_interval,
-                 min_retry_interval=10 * 60 * 1000,
-                 max_retry_interval=24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
-                 multiplier_retry_interval=5, backoff_on_404=False):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        destination,
+        clock,
+        store,
+        retry_interval,
+        min_retry_interval=10 * 60 * 1000,
+        max_retry_interval=24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
+        multiplier_retry_interval=5,
+        backoff_on_404=False,
+        backoff_on_failure=True,
+    ):
         """Marks the destination as "down" if an exception is thrown in the
         context, except for CodeMessageException with code < 500.
 
@@ -128,6 +139,9 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             multiplier_retry_interval (int): The multiplier to use to increase
                 the retry interval after a failed request.
             backoff_on_404 (bool): Back off if we get a 404
+
+            backoff_on_failure (bool): set to False if we should not increase the
+                retry interval on a failure.
         """
         self.clock = clock
         self.store = store
@@ -138,6 +152,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
         self.max_retry_interval = max_retry_interval
         self.multiplier_retry_interval = multiplier_retry_interval
         self.backoff_on_404 = backoff_on_404
+        self.backoff_on_failure = backoff_on_failure
 
     def __enter__(self):
         pass
@@ -173,10 +188,13 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             if not self.retry_interval:
                 return
 
-            logger.debug("Connection to %s was successful; clearing backoff",
-                         self.destination)
+            logger.debug(
+                "Connection to %s was successful; clearing backoff", self.destination
+            )
             retry_last_ts = 0
             self.retry_interval = 0
+        elif not self.backoff_on_failure:
+            return
         else:
             # We couldn't connect.
             if self.retry_interval:
@@ -190,7 +208,10 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
 
             logger.info(
                 "Connection to %s was unsuccessful (%s(%s)); backoff now %i",
-                self.destination, exc_type, exc_val, self.retry_interval
+                self.destination,
+                exc_type,
+                exc_val,
+                self.retry_interval,
             )
             retry_last_ts = int(self.clock.time_msec())
 
@@ -201,9 +222,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
                     self.destination, retry_last_ts, self.retry_interval
                 )
             except Exception:
-                logger.exception(
-                    "Failed to store destination_retry_timings",
-                )
+                logger.exception("Failed to store destination_retry_timings")
 
         # we deliberately do this in the background.
         synapse.util.logcontext.run_in_background(store_retry_timings)