Ignore backoff history for invites, aliases, and roomdirs

Add a param to the federation client which lets us ignore historical backoff
data for federation queries, and set it for a handful of operations.

synapse/federation/federation_client.py

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class FederationClient(FederationBase):
 
     @log_function
     def make_query(self, destination, query_type, args,
-                   retry_on_dns_fail=False):
+                   retry_on_dns_fail=False, ignore_backoff=False):
         """Sends a federation Query to a remote homeserver of the given type
         and arguments.
 
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ class FederationClient(FederationBase):
                 handler name used in register_query_handler().
             args (dict): Mapping of strings to strings containing the details
                 of the query request.
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data
+                and try the request anyway.
 
         Returns:
             a Deferred which will eventually yield a JSON object from the
@@ -106,7 +108,8 @@ class FederationClient(FederationBase):
         sent_queries_counter.inc(query_type)
 
         return self.transport_layer.make_query(
-            destination, query_type, args, retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail
+            destination, query_type, args, retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
     @log_function

synapse/federation/transport/client.py

@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ class TransportLayerClient(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     @log_function
-    def make_query(self, destination, query_type, args, retry_on_dns_fail):
+    def make_query(self, destination, query_type, args, retry_on_dns_fail,
+                   ignore_backoff=False):
         path = PREFIX + "/query/%s" % query_type
 
         content = yield self.client.get_json(
@@ -184,6 +185,7 @@ class TransportLayerClient(object):
             args=args,
             retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail,
             timeout=10000,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
         defer.returnValue(content)
@@ -243,6 +245,7 @@ class TransportLayerClient(object):
             destination=destination,
             path=path,
             data=content,
+            ignore_backoff=True,
         )
 
         defer.returnValue(response)
@@ -270,6 +273,7 @@ class TransportLayerClient(object):
             destination=remote_server,
             path=path,
             args=args,
+            ignore_backoff=True,
         )
 
         defer.returnValue(response)

synapse/handlers/directory.py

@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ class DirectoryHandler(BaseHandler):
                         "room_alias": room_alias.to_string(),
                     },
                     retry_on_dns_fail=False,
+                    ignore_backoff=True,
                 )
             except CodeMessageException as e:
                 logging.warn("Error retrieving alias")

synapse/handlers/profile.py

@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ class ProfileHandler(BaseHandler):
                     args={
                         "user_id": target_user.to_string(),
                         "field": "displayname",
-                    }
+                    },
+                    ignore_backoff=True,
                 )
             except CodeMessageException as e:
                 if e.code != 404:
@@ -99,7 +100,8 @@ class ProfileHandler(BaseHandler):
                     args={
                         "user_id": target_user.to_string(),
                         "field": "avatar_url",
-                    }
+                    },
+                    ignore_backoff=True,
                 )
             except CodeMessageException as e:
                 if e.code != 404:

synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py

@@ -106,12 +106,16 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
     def _request(self, destination, method, path,
                  body_callback, headers_dict={}, param_bytes=b"",
                  query_bytes=b"", retry_on_dns_fail=True,
-                 timeout=None, long_retries=False, backoff_on_404=False):
+                 timeout=None, long_retries=False,
+                 ignore_backoff=False,
+                 backoff_on_404=False):
         """ Creates and sends a request to the given server
         Args:
             destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request to.
             method (str): HTTP method
             path (str): The HTTP path
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data
+                and try the request anyway.
             backoff_on_404 (bool): Back off if we get a 404
 
         Returns:
@@ -127,6 +131,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             self.clock,
             self._store,
             backoff_on_404=backoff_on_404,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
         destination = destination.encode("ascii")
@@ -271,7 +276,9 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def put_json(self, destination, path, data={}, json_data_callback=None,
-                 long_retries=False, timeout=None, backoff_on_404=False):
+                 long_retries=False, timeout=None,
+                 ignore_backoff=False,
+                 backoff_on_404=False):
         """ Sends the specifed json data using PUT
 
         Args:
@@ -286,6 +293,8 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
                 retry for a short or long time.
             timeout(int): How long to try (in ms) the destination for before
                 giving up. None indicates no timeout.
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data
+                and try the request anyway.
             backoff_on_404 (bool): True if we should count a 404 response as
                 a failure of the server (and should therefore back off future
                 requests)
@@ -319,6 +328,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             headers_dict={"Content-Type": ["application/json"]},
             long_retries=long_retries,
             timeout=timeout,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
             backoff_on_404=backoff_on_404,
         )
 
@@ -331,7 +341,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def post_json(self, destination, path, data={}, long_retries=False,
-                  timeout=None):
+                  timeout=None, ignore_backoff=False):
         """ Sends the specifed json data using POST
 
         Args:
@@ -344,7 +354,8 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
                 retry for a short or long time.
             timeout(int): How long to try (in ms) the destination for before
                 giving up. None indicates no timeout.
-
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data and
+                try the request anyway.
         Returns:
             Deferred: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result
             will be the decoded JSON body. On a 4xx or 5xx error response a
@@ -368,6 +379,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             headers_dict={"Content-Type": ["application/json"]},
             long_retries=long_retries,
             timeout=timeout,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
         if 200 <= response.code < 300:
@@ -380,7 +392,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_json(self, destination, path, args={}, retry_on_dns_fail=True,
-                 timeout=None):
+                 timeout=None, ignore_backoff=False):
         """ GETs some json from the given host homeserver and path
 
         Args:
@@ -392,6 +404,8 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             timeout (int): How long to try (in ms) the destination for before
                 giving up. None indicates no timeout and that the request will
                 be retried.
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data
+                and try the request anyway.
         Returns:
             Deferred: Succeeds when we get *any* HTTP response.
 
@@ -424,6 +438,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             body_callback=body_callback,
             retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail,
             timeout=timeout,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
         if 200 <= response.code < 300:
@@ -436,13 +451,16 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_file(self, destination, path, output_stream, args={},
-                 retry_on_dns_fail=True, max_size=None):
+                 retry_on_dns_fail=True, max_size=None,
+                 ignore_backoff=False):
         """GETs a file from a given homeserver
         Args:
             destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request to.
             path (str): The HTTP path to GET.
             output_stream (file): File to write the response body to.
             args (dict): Optional dictionary used to create the query string.
+            ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data
+                and try the request anyway.
         Returns:
             Deferred: resolves with an (int,dict) tuple of the file length and
             a dict of the response headers.
@@ -473,7 +491,8 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
             path,
             query_bytes=query_bytes,
             body_callback=body_callback,
-            retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail
+            retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail,
+            ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
         )
 
         headers = dict(response.headers.getAllRawHeaders())

synapse/util/retryutils.py

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ class NotRetryingDestination(Exception):
 
 
 @defer.inlineCallbacks
-def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **kwargs):
+def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, ignore_backoff=False,
+                      **kwargs):
     """For a given destination check if we have previously failed to
     send a request there and are waiting before retrying the destination.
     If we are not ready to retry the destination, this will raise a
@@ -43,6 +44,14 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **kwargs):
     that will mark the destination as down if an exception is thrown (excluding
     CodeMessageException with code < 500)
 
+    Args:
+        destination (str): name of homeserver
+        clock (synapse.util.clock): timing source
+        store (synapse.storage.transactions.TransactionStore): datastore
+        ignore_backoff (bool): true to ignore the historical backoff data and
+            try the request anyway. We will still update the next
+            retry_interval on success/failure.
+
     Example usage:
 
         try:
@@ -66,7 +75,7 @@ def get_retry_limiter(destination, clock, store, **kwargs):
 
         now = int(clock.time_msec())
 
-        if retry_last_ts + retry_interval > now:
+        if not ignore_backoff and retry_last_ts + retry_interval > now:
             raise NotRetryingDestination(
                 retry_last_ts=retry_last_ts,
                 retry_interval=retry_interval,