From de8f0a03a3cc3a2327dfd3058c99e48067965079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 16:53:22 +0100
Subject: Don't set the external cache if its been done recently (#9905)

---
 synapse/handlers/federation.py |  4 +++-
 synapse/handlers/message.py    | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'synapse/handlers')

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/federation.py b/synapse/handlers/federation.py
index 9d867aaf4d..e8330a2b50 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/federation.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/federation.py
@@ -2446,7 +2446,9 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler):
         # If we are going to send this event over federation we precaclculate
         # the joined hosts.
         if event.internal_metadata.get_send_on_behalf_of():
-            await self.event_creation_handler.cache_joined_hosts_for_event(event)
+            await self.event_creation_handler.cache_joined_hosts_for_event(
+                event, context
+            )
 
         return context
 
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/message.py b/synapse/handlers/message.py
index 393f17c3a3..8729332d4b 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/message.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/message.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ from synapse.storage.state import StateFilter
 from synapse.types import Requester, RoomAlias, StreamToken, UserID, create_requester
 from synapse.util import json_decoder, json_encoder
 from synapse.util.async_helpers import Linearizer
+from synapse.util.caches.expiringcache import ExpiringCache
 from synapse.util.metrics import measure_func
 from synapse.visibility import filter_events_for_client
 
@@ -457,6 +458,19 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
 
         self._external_cache = hs.get_external_cache()
 
+        # Stores the state groups we've recently added to the joined hosts
+        # external cache. Note that the timeout must be significantly less than
+        # the TTL on the external cache.
+        self._external_cache_joined_hosts_updates = (
+            None
+        )  # type: Optional[ExpiringCache]
+        if self._external_cache.is_enabled():
+            self._external_cache_joined_hosts_updates = ExpiringCache(
+                "_external_cache_joined_hosts_updates",
+                self.clock,
+                expiry_ms=30 * 60 * 1000,
+            )
+
     async def create_event(
         self,
         requester: Requester,
@@ -967,7 +981,7 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
 
         await self.action_generator.handle_push_actions_for_event(event, context)
 
-        await self.cache_joined_hosts_for_event(event)
+        await self.cache_joined_hosts_for_event(event, context)
 
         try:
             # If we're a worker we need to hit out to the master.
@@ -1008,7 +1022,9 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
             await self.store.remove_push_actions_from_staging(event.event_id)
             raise
 
-    async def cache_joined_hosts_for_event(self, event: EventBase) -> None:
+    async def cache_joined_hosts_for_event(
+        self, event: EventBase, context: EventContext
+    ) -> None:
         """Precalculate the joined hosts at the event, when using Redis, so that
         external federation senders don't have to recalculate it themselves.
         """
@@ -1016,6 +1032,9 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
         if not self._external_cache.is_enabled():
             return
 
+        # If external cache is enabled we should always have this.
+        assert self._external_cache_joined_hosts_updates is not None
+
         # We actually store two mappings, event ID -> prev state group,
         # state group -> joined hosts, which is much more space efficient
         # than event ID -> joined hosts.
@@ -1023,16 +1042,21 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
         # Note: We have to cache event ID -> prev state group, as we don't
         # store that in the DB.
         #
-        # Note: We always set the state group -> joined hosts cache, even if
-        # we already set it, so that the expiry time is reset.
+        # Note: We set the state group -> joined hosts cache if it hasn't been
+        # set for a while, so that the expiry time is reset.
 
         state_entry = await self.state.resolve_state_groups_for_events(
             event.room_id, event_ids=event.prev_event_ids()
         )
 
         if state_entry.state_group:
+            if state_entry.state_group in self._external_cache_joined_hosts_updates:
+                return
+
             joined_hosts = await self.store.get_joined_hosts(event.room_id, state_entry)
 
+            # Note that the expiry times must be larger than the expiry time in
+            # _external_cache_joined_hosts_updates.
             await self._external_cache.set(
                 "event_to_prev_state_group",
                 event.event_id,
@@ -1046,6 +1070,8 @@ class EventCreationHandler:
                 expiry_ms=60 * 60 * 1000,
             )
 
+            self._external_cache_joined_hosts_updates[state_entry.state_group] = None
+
     async def _validate_canonical_alias(
         self, directory_handler, room_alias_str: str, expected_room_id: str
     ) -> None:
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