Wake up destination queues more aggressively (#1183)

* Wake up destination queues more aggressively

* We don't really need Ch here do we

federationsender/queue/destinationqueue.go

@@ -55,32 +55,8 @@ type destinationQueue struct {
 	pendingPDUs        atomic.Int64                            // how many PDUs are waiting to be sent
 	pendingEDUs        []*gomatrixserverlib.EDU                // owned by backgroundSend
 	pendingInvites     []*gomatrixserverlib.InviteV2Request    // owned by backgroundSend
-	wakeServerCh       chan bool                               // interrupts idle wait
-	retryServerCh      chan bool                               // interrupts backoff
-}
-
-// retry will clear the blacklist state and attempt to send built up events to the server,
-// resetting and interrupting any backoff timers.
-func (oq *destinationQueue) retry() {
-	// TODO: We don't send all events in the case where the server has been blacklisted as we
-	// drop events instead then. This means we will send the oldest N events (chan size, currently 128)
-	// and then skip ahead a lot which feels non-ideal but equally we can't persist thousands of events
-	// in-memory to maybe-send it one day. Ideally we would just shove these pending events in a database
-	// so we can send a lot of events.
-	//
-	// Interrupt the backoff. If the federation request that happens as a result of this is successful
-	// then the counters will be reset there and the backoff will cancel. If the federation request
-	// fails then we will retry at the current backoff interval, so as to prevent us from spamming
-	// homeservers which are behaving badly.
-	// We need to use an atomic bool here to prevent multiple calls to retry() blocking on the channel
-	// as it is unbuffered.
-	if oq.backingOff.CAS(true, false) {
-		oq.retryServerCh <- true
-	}
-	if !oq.running.Load() {
-		log.Infof("Restarting queue for %s", oq.destination)
-		go oq.backgroundSend()
-	}
+	notifyPDUs         chan bool                               // interrupts idle wait for PDUs
+	interruptBackoff   chan bool                               // interrupts backoff
 }
 
 // Send event adds the event to the pending queue for the destination.
@@ -122,7 +98,7 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) sendEvent(nid int64) {
 	// wake up if it's asleep. The return to the Add function will only
 	// be 1 if the previous value was 0, e.g. nothing was waiting before.
 	if oq.pendingPDUs.Add(1) == 1 {
-		oq.wakeServerCh <- true
+		oq.notifyPDUs <- true
 	}
 }
 
@@ -150,7 +126,16 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) sendInvite(ev *gomatrixserverlib.InviteV2Request) {
 	oq.incomingInvites <- ev
 }
 
+// wakeQueueIfNeeded will wake up the destination queue if it is
+// not already running. If it is running but it is backing off
+// then we will interrupt the backoff, causing any federation
+// requests to retry.
 func (oq *destinationQueue) wakeQueueIfNeeded() {
+	// If we are backing off then interrupt the backoff.
+	if oq.backingOff.CAS(true, false) {
+		oq.interruptBackoff <- true
+	}
+	// If we aren't running then wake up the queue.
 	if !oq.running.Load() {
 		// Look up how many events are pending in this queue. We need
 		// to do this so that the queue thinks it has work to do.
@@ -165,7 +150,7 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) wakeQueueIfNeeded() {
 			log.WithError(err).Errorf("Can't get pending PDU count for %q destination queue", oq.destination)
 		}
 		if count > 0 {
-			oq.wakeServerCh <- true
+			oq.notifyPDUs <- true
 		}
 		// Then start the queue.
 		go oq.backgroundSend()
@@ -186,7 +171,7 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) backgroundSend() {
 		// If we have nothing to do then wait either for incoming events, or
 		// until we hit an idle timeout.
 		select {
-		case <-oq.wakeServerCh:
+		case <-oq.notifyPDUs:
 			// We were woken up because there are new PDUs waiting in the
 			// database.
 		case edu := <-oq.incomingEDUs:
@@ -232,7 +217,7 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) backgroundSend() {
 			oq.backingOff.Store(true)
 			select {
 			case <-time.After(duration):
-			case <-oq.retryServerCh:
+			case <-oq.interruptBackoff:
 			}
 			oq.backingOff.Store(false)
 		}
@@ -255,7 +240,7 @@ func (oq *destinationQueue) backgroundSend() {
 					// PDUs waiting to be sent. By sending a message into the wake chan,
 					// the next loop iteration will try processing these PDUs again,
 					// subject to the backoff.
-					oq.wakeServerCh <- true
+					oq.notifyPDUs <- true
 				}
 			} else if transaction {
 				// If we successfully sent the transaction then clear out

federationsender/queue/queue.go

@@ -79,12 +79,6 @@ type SigningInfo struct {
 	PrivateKey ed25519.PrivateKey
 }
 
-func (oqs *OutgoingQueues) getQueueIfExists(destination gomatrixserverlib.ServerName) *destinationQueue {
-	oqs.queuesMutex.Lock()
-	defer oqs.queuesMutex.Unlock()
-	return oqs.queues[destination]
-}
-
 func (oqs *OutgoingQueues) getQueue(destination gomatrixserverlib.ServerName) *destinationQueue {
 	oqs.queuesMutex.Lock()
 	defer oqs.queuesMutex.Unlock()
@@ -99,8 +93,8 @@ func (oqs *OutgoingQueues) getQueue(destination gomatrixserverlib.ServerName) *d
 			statistics:       oqs.statistics.ForServer(destination),
 			incomingEDUs:     make(chan *gomatrixserverlib.EDU, 128),
 			incomingInvites:  make(chan *gomatrixserverlib.InviteV2Request, 128),
-			wakeServerCh:    make(chan bool, 128),
-			retryServerCh:   make(chan bool),
+			notifyPDUs:       make(chan bool, 128),
+			interruptBackoff: make(chan bool),
 			signing:          oqs.signing,
 		}
 		oqs.queues[destination] = oq
@@ -211,11 +205,11 @@ func (oqs *OutgoingQueues) SendEDU(
 
 // RetryServer attempts to resend events to the given server if we had given up.
 func (oqs *OutgoingQueues) RetryServer(srv gomatrixserverlib.ServerName) {
-	q := oqs.getQueueIfExists(srv)
+	q := oqs.getQueue(srv)
 	if q == nil {
 		return
 	}
-	q.retry()
+	q.wakeQueueIfNeeded()
 }
 
 // filterAndDedupeDests removes our own server from the list of destinations