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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-09-20 01:32:42 +0100
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-09-20 01:32:42 +0100
commitafbd773dc66d43d066d5a0b4639075a2d09cb4e5 (patch)
tree80228c92d62350410f6d79ecd1f1ddc6d791af37 /synapse
parentConsistency for how verify_request.deferred is called (diff)
downloadsynapse-afbd773dc66d43d066d5a0b4639075a2d09cb4e5.tar.xz
Add some comments to _start_key_lookups
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse')
-rw-r--r--synapse/crypto/keyring.py8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/crypto/keyring.py b/synapse/crypto/keyring.py
index 22bb325cfd..d7fd831bf9 100644
--- a/synapse/crypto/keyring.py
+++ b/synapse/crypto/keyring.py
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ class Keyring(object):
         Args:
             verify_requests (List[VerifyKeyRequest]):
         """
+
+        # create a deferred for each server we're going to look up the keys
+        # for; we'll resolve them once we have completed our lookups.
+        # These will be passed into wait_for_previous_lookups to block
+        # any other lookups until we have finished.
+        # The deferreds are called with no logcontext.
         server_to_deferred = {
             rq.server_name: defer.Deferred()
             for rq in verify_requests
@@ -162,6 +168,8 @@ class Keyring(object):
             # When we've finished fetching all the keys for a given server_name,
             # resolve the deferred passed to `wait_for_previous_lookups` so that
             # any lookups waiting will proceed.
+            #
+            # map from server name to a set of request ids
             server_to_request_ids = {}
 
             def remove_deferreds(res, server_name, verify_request):