Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into erikj/e2e_one_time_upsert

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/util/__init__.py b/synapse/util/__init__.py
index 30fc480108..98a5a26ac5 100644
--- a/synapse/util/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/util/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 class DeferredTimedOutError(SynapseError):
     def __init__(self):
-        super(SynapseError).__init__(504, "Timed out")
+        super(SynapseError, self).__init__(504, "Timed out")
 
 
 def unwrapFirstError(failure):
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@ class Clock(object):
         ret_deferred = defer.Deferred()
 
         def timed_out_fn():
+            e = DeferredTimedOutError()
+
             try:
-                ret_deferred.errback(DeferredTimedOutError())
+                ret_deferred.errback(e)
             except:
                 pass
 
@@ -114,7 +116,7 @@ class Clock(object):
 
         ret_deferred.addBoth(cancel)
 
-        def sucess(res):
+        def success(res):
             try:
                 ret_deferred.callback(res)
             except:
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ class Clock(object):
             except:
                 pass
 
-        given_deferred.addCallbacks(callback=sucess, errback=err)
+        given_deferred.addCallbacks(callback=success, errback=err)
 
         timer = self.call_later(time_out, timed_out_fn)
 
diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index b68e8c4e9f..4fa9d1a03c 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ class NotRetryingDestination(Exception):
 
 
 @defer.inlineCallbacks
-def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **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
@@ -43,6 +44,14 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **kwargs):
     that will mark the destination as down if an exception is thrown (excluding
     CodeMessageException with code < 500)
 
+    Args:
+        destination (str): name of homeserver
+        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.
+
     Example usage:
 
         try:
@@ -66,7 +75,7 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **kwargs):
 
         now = int(clock.time_msec())
 
-        if retry_last_ts + retry_interval > now:
+        if not ignore_backoff and retry_last_ts + retry_interval > now:
             raise NotRetryingDestination(
                 retry_last_ts=retry_last_ts,
                 retry_interval=retry_interval,
@@ -124,7 +133,13 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
 
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
         valid_err_code = False
-        if exc_type is not None and issubclass(exc_type, CodeMessageException):
+        if exc_type is None:
+            valid_err_code = True
+        elif not issubclass(exc_type, Exception):
+            # avoid treating exceptions which don't derive from Exception as
+            # failures; this is mostly so as not to catch defer._DefGen.
+            valid_err_code = True
+        elif issubclass(exc_type, CodeMessageException):
             # Some error codes are perfectly fine for some APIs, whereas other
             # APIs may expect to never received e.g. a 404. It's important to
             # handle 404 as some remote servers will return a 404 when the HS
@@ -142,11 +157,13 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             else:
                 valid_err_code = False
 
-        if exc_type is None or valid_err_code:
+        if valid_err_code:
             # We connected successfully.
             if not self.retry_interval:
                 return
 
+            logger.debug("Connection to %s was successful; clearing backoff",
+                         self.destination)
             retry_last_ts = 0
             self.retry_interval = 0
         else:
@@ -160,6 +177,10 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             else:
                 self.retry_interval = self.min_retry_interval
 
+            logger.debug(
+                "Connection to %s was unsuccessful (%s(%s)); backoff now %i",
+                self.destination, exc_type, exc_val, self.retry_interval
+            )
             retry_last_ts = int(self.clock.time_msec())
 
         @defer.inlineCallbacks