2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/federation/send_queue.py b/synapse/federation/send_queue.py
index 99b5835780..98cf125cb5 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/send_queue.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/send_queue.py
@@ -13,6 +13,22 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+"""A federation sender that forwards things to be sent across replication to
+a worker process.
+
+It assumes there is a single worker process feeding off of it.
+
+Each row in the replication stream consists of a type and some json, where the
+types indicate whether they are presence, or edus, etc.
+
+Ephemeral or non-event data are queued up in-memory. When the worker requests
+updates since a particular point, all in-memory data since before that point is
+dropped. We also expire things in the queue after 5 minutes, to ensure that a
+dead worker doesn't cause the queues to grow limitlessly.
+
+Events are replicated via a separate events stream.
+"""
+
 from .units import Edu
 
 from blist import sorteddict
@@ -27,6 +43,7 @@ DEVICE_MESSAGE_TYPE = "d"
 
 
 class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
+    """A drop in replacement for TransactionQueue"""
 
     def __init__(self, hs):
         self.server_name = hs.hostname
@@ -58,6 +75,7 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
         return pos
 
     def _clear_queue(self):
+        """Clear the queues for anything older than N minutes"""
         # TODO measure this function time.
 
         FIVE_MINUTES_AGO = 5 * 60 * 1000
@@ -75,6 +93,7 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
         self._clear_queue_before_pos(position_to_delete)
 
     def _clear_queue_before_pos(self, position_to_delete):
+        """Clear all the queues from before a given position"""
         # Delete things out of presence maps
         keys = self.presence_changed.keys()
         i = keys.bisect_left(position_to_delete)
@@ -122,9 +141,13 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
             del self.device_messages[key]
 
     def notify_new_events(self, current_id):
+        """As per TransactionQueue"""
+        # We don't need to replicate this as it gets sent down a different
+        # stream.
         pass
 
     def send_edu(self, destination, edu_type, content, key=None):
+        """As per TransactionQueue"""
         pos = self._next_pos()
 
         edu = Edu(
@@ -142,6 +165,7 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
             self.edus[pos] = edu
 
     def send_presence(self, destination, states):
+        """As per TransactionQueue"""
         pos = self._next_pos()
 
         self.presence_map.update({
@@ -154,11 +178,13 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
         ]
 
     def send_failure(self, failure, destination):
+        """As per TransactionQueue"""
         pos = self._next_pos()
 
         self.failures[pos] = (destination, str(failure))
 
     def send_device_messages(self, destination):
+        """As per TransactionQueue"""
         pos = self._next_pos()
         self.device_messages[pos] = destination
 
diff --git a/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py b/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py
index 0b3fdc1067..c94c74a67e 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ class TransactionQueue(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def notify_new_events(self, current_id):
+        """This gets called when we have some new events we might want to
+        send out to other servers.
+        """
         self._last_poked_id = max(current_id, self._last_poked_id)
 
         if self._is_processing: