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-rw-r--r--synapse/replication/tcp/handler.py9
-rw-r--r--synapse/replication/tcp/resource.py9
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/handler.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/handler.py
index 615f1828dd..9aba1cd451 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/handler.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/handler.py
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ class ReplicationCommandHandler:
             # Ignore POSITION that are just our own echoes
             return
 
-        logger.info("Handling '%s %s'", cmd.NAME, cmd.to_line())
+        logger.debug("Handling '%s %s'", cmd.NAME, cmd.to_line())
 
         self._add_command_to_stream_queue(conn, cmd)
 
@@ -567,6 +567,11 @@ class ReplicationCommandHandler:
         # between then and now.
         missing_updates = cmd.prev_token != current_token
         while missing_updates:
+            # Note: There may very well not be any new updates, but we check to
+            # make sure. This can particularly happen for the event stream where
+            # event persisters continuously send `POSITION`. See `resource.py`
+            # for why this can happen.
+
             logger.info(
                 "Fetching replication rows for '%s' between %i and %i",
                 stream_name,
@@ -590,7 +595,7 @@ class ReplicationCommandHandler:
                     [stream.parse_row(row) for row in rows],
                 )
 
-        logger.info("Caught up with stream '%s' to %i", stream_name, cmd.new_token)
+            logger.info("Caught up with stream '%s' to %i", stream_name, cmd.new_token)
 
         # We've now caught up to position sent to us, notify handler.
         await self._replication_data_handler.on_position(
diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/resource.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/resource.py
index c6870df8f9..99f09669f0 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/resource.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/resource.py
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ class ReplicationStreamer:
                                 # turns out that e.g. account data streams share
                                 # their "current token" with each other, meaning
                                 # that it is *not* safe to send a POSITION.
+
+                                # Note: `last_token` may not *actually* be the
+                                # last token we sent out in a RDATA or POSITION.
+                                # This can happen if we sent out an RDATA for
+                                # position X when our current token was say X+1.
+                                # Other workers will see RDATA for X and then a
+                                # POSITION with last token of X+1, which will
+                                # cause them to check if there were any missing
+                                # updates between X and X+1.
                                 logger.info(
                                     "Sending position: %s -> %s",
                                     stream.NAME,