Merge pull request #457 from matrix-org/markjh/cached_sync

Add a cache for initialSync responses that expires after 5 minutes

synapse/handlers/message.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from synapse.events.utils import serialize_event
 from synapse.events.validator import EventValidator
 from synapse.util import unwrapFirstError
 from synapse.util.logcontext import PreserveLoggingContext
+from synapse.util.caches.snapshot_cache import SnapshotCache
 from synapse.types import UserID, RoomStreamToken, StreamToken
 
 from ._base import BaseHandler
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ class MessageHandler(BaseHandler):
         self.state = hs.get_state_handler()
         self.clock = hs.get_clock()
         self.validator = EventValidator()
+        self.snapshot_cache = SnapshotCache()
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_message(self, msg_id=None, room_id=None, sender_id=None,
@@ -326,7 +328,6 @@ class MessageHandler(BaseHandler):
             [serialize_event(c, now) for c in room_state.values()]
         )
 
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def snapshot_all_rooms(self, user_id=None, pagin_config=None,
                            as_client_event=True, include_archived=False):
         """Retrieve a snapshot of all rooms the user is invited or has joined.
@@ -346,6 +347,28 @@ class MessageHandler(BaseHandler):
             is joined on, may return a "messages" key with messages, depending
             on the specified PaginationConfig.
         """
+        key = (
+            user_id,
+            pagin_config.from_token,
+            pagin_config.to_token,
+            pagin_config.direction,
+            pagin_config.limit,
+            as_client_event,
+            include_archived,
+        )
+        now_ms = self.clock.time_msec()
+        result = self.snapshot_cache.get(now_ms, key)
+        if result is not None:
+            return result
+
+        return self.snapshot_cache.set(now_ms, key, self._snapshot_all_rooms(
+            user_id, pagin_config, as_client_event, include_archived
+        ))
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def _snapshot_all_rooms(self, user_id=None, pagin_config=None,
+                            as_client_event=True, include_archived=False):
+
         memberships = [Membership.INVITE, Membership.JOIN]
         if include_archived:
             memberships.append(Membership.LEAVE)

synapse/util/caches/snapshot_cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from synapse.util.async import ObservableDeferred
+
+
+class SnapshotCache(object):
+    """Cache for snapshots like the response of /initialSync.
+    The response of initialSync only has to be a recent snapshot of the
+    server state. It shouldn't matter to clients if it is a few minutes out
+    of date.
+
+    This caches a deferred response. Until the deferred completes it will be
+    returned from the cache. This means that if the client retries the request
+    while the response is still being computed, that original response will be
+    used rather than trying to compute a new response.
+
+    Once the deferred completes it will removed from the cache after 5 minutes.
+    We delay removing it from the cache because a client retrying its request
+    could race with us finishing computing the response.
+
+    Rather than tracking precisely how long something has been in the cache we
+    keep two generations of completed responses. Every 5 minutes discard the
+    old generation, move the new generation to the old generation, and set the
+    new generation to be empty. This means that a result will be in the cache
+    somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes.
+    """
+
+    DURATION_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000  # Cache results for 5 minutes.
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.pending_result_cache = {}  # Request that haven't finished yet.
+        self.prev_result_cache = {}  # The older requests that have finished.
+        self.next_result_cache = {}  # The newer requests that have finished.
+        self.time_last_rotated_ms = 0
+
+    def rotate(self, time_now_ms):
+        # Rotate once if the cache duration has passed since the last rotation.
+        if time_now_ms - self.time_last_rotated_ms >= self.DURATION_MS:
+            self.prev_result_cache = self.next_result_cache
+            self.next_result_cache = {}
+            self.time_last_rotated_ms += self.DURATION_MS
+
+        # Rotate again if the cache duration has passed twice since the last
+        # rotation.
+        if time_now_ms - self.time_last_rotated_ms >= self.DURATION_MS:
+            self.prev_result_cache = self.next_result_cache
+            self.next_result_cache = {}
+            self.time_last_rotated_ms = time_now_ms
+
+    def get(self, time_now_ms, key):
+        self.rotate(time_now_ms)
+        # This cache is intended to deduplicate requests, so we expect it to be
+        # missed most of the time. So we just lookup the key in all of the
+        # dictionaries rather than trying to short circuit the lookup if the
+        # key is found.
+        result = self.prev_result_cache.get(key)
+        result = self.next_result_cache.get(key, result)
+        result = self.pending_result_cache.get(key, result)
+        if result is not None:
+            return result.observe()
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    def set(self, time_now_ms, key, deferred):
+        self.rotate(time_now_ms)
+
+        result = ObservableDeferred(deferred)
+
+        self.pending_result_cache[key] = result
+
+        def shuffle_along(r):
+            # When the deferred completes we shuffle it along to the first
+            # generation of the result cache. So that it will eventually
+            # expire from the rotation of that cache.
+            self.next_result_cache[key] = result
+            self.pending_result_cache.pop(key, None)
+
+        result.observe().addBoth(shuffle_along)
+
+        return result.observe()

tests/util/test_snapshot_cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+from .. import unittest
+
+from synapse.util.caches.snapshot_cache import SnapshotCache
+from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
+
+class SnapshotCacheTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.cache = SnapshotCache()
+        self.cache.DURATION_MS = 1
+
+    def test_get_set(self):
+        # Check that getting a missing key returns None
+        self.assertEquals(self.cache.get(0, "key"), None)
+
+        # Check that setting a key with a deferred returns
+        # a deferred that resolves when the initial deferred does
+        d = Deferred()
+        set_result = self.cache.set(0, "key", d)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(set_result)
+        self.assertFalse(set_result.called)
+
+        # Check that getting the key before the deferred has resolved
+        # returns a deferred that resolves when the initial deferred does.
+        get_result_at_10 = self.cache.get(10, "key")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(get_result_at_10)
+        self.assertFalse(get_result_at_10.called)
+
+        # Check that the returned deferreds resolve when the initial deferred
+        # does.
+        d.callback("v")
+        self.assertTrue(set_result.called)
+        self.assertTrue(get_result_at_10.called)
+
+        # Check that getting the key after the deferred has resolved
+        # before the cache expires returns a resolved deferred.
+        get_result_at_11 = self.cache.get(11, "key")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(get_result_at_11)
+        self.assertTrue(get_result_at_11.called)
+
+        # Check that getting the key after the deferred has resolved
+        # after the cache expires returns None
+        get_result_at_12 = self.cache.get(12, "key")
+        self.assertIsNone(get_result_at_12)