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Daniel Sockwell 4a13412f98
Improve handling of large Redis input (#143)
* Implement faster buffered input

This commit implements a modified ring buffer for input from Redis.
Specifically, Flodgatt now limits the amount of data it fetches from
Redis in one syscall to 8 KiB (two pages on most systems). Flodgatt
will process all complete messages it receives from Redis and then
re-use the same buffer for the next time it retrieves data.  If
Flodgatt received a partial message, it will copy the partial message
to the beginning of the buffer before its next read.

This change has little effect on Flodgatt under light load (because it
was rare for Redis to have more than 8 KiB of messages available at
any one time).  However, my hope is that this will significantly
reduce memory use on the largest instances.

* Improve handling of backpresure

This commit alters how Flodgatt behaves if it receives enough messages
for a single client to fill that clients channel. (Because the clients
regularly send their messages, should only occur if a single client
receives a large number of messages nearly simultaneously; this is
rare, but could occur, especially on large instances).

Previously, Flodgatt would drop messages in the rare case when the
client's channel was full.  Now, Flodgatt will pause the current Redis
poll and yield control back to the client streams, allowing the
clients to empty their channels; Flodgatt will then resume polling
Redis/sending the messages it previously received.  With the approach,
Flodgatt will never drop messages.

However, the risk to this approach is that, by never dropping
messages, Flodgatt does not have any way to reduce the amount of work
it needs to do when under heavy load – it delays the work slightly,
but doesn't reduce it.  What this means is that it would be
*theoretically* possible for Flodgatt to fall increasingly behind, if
it is continuously receiving more messages than it can process.  Due
to how quickly Flodgatt can process messages, though, I suspect this
would only come up if an admin were running Flodgatt in a
*significantly* resource constrained environment, but I wanted to
mention it for the sake of completeness.

This commit also adds a new /status/backpressure endpoint that
displays the current length of the Redis input buffer (which should
typically be low or 0).  Like the other /status endpoints, this
endpoint is only enabled when Flodgatt is compiled with the
`stub_status` feature.
2020-04-27 16:03:05 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 016f49a2d8
Improve module privacy (#136)
* Adjust module privacy

* Use trait object

* Finish module privacy refactor
2020-04-22 14:38:22 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 37b652ad79
Error handling, pt3 (#131)
* Improve handling of Postgres errors

* Finish error handling improvements

* Remove `format!` calls from hot path
2020-04-14 20:37:49 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 45f9d4b9fb
Code reorganization (#130)
* Reorganize files

* Refactor main()

* Code reorganization [WIP]

* Reorganize code [WIP]

* Refacto RedisConn [WIP]

* Complete code reorganization
2020-04-13 16:03:06 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell d5f079a864
Error handling, pt1 (#115)
* Initial work to support structured errors

* WIP error handling and RedisConn refactor

* WIP for error handling refactor

* Finish substantive work for Redis error handling

* Apply clippy lints
2020-04-01 15:35:24 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 5965a514fd
Reorganize code, pt2 (#112)
* Cleanup RedisMsg parsing [WIP]

* Add tests to Redis parsing

* WIP RedisMsg refactor

Committing WIP before trying a different approach

* WIP

* Refactor RedisConn and Receiver

* Finish second reorganization
2020-03-30 18:54:00 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 0acbde3eee
Reorganize code, pt1 (#110)
* Prevent Reciever from querying postgres

Before this commit, the Receiver would query Postgres for the name
associated with a hashtag when it encountered one not in its cache.
This ensured that the Receiver never encountered a (valid) hashtag id
that it couldn't handle, but caused a extra DB query and made
independent sections of the code more entangled than they need to be.

Now, we pass the relevant tag name to the Receiver when it first
starts managing a new subscription and it adds the tag name to its
cache then.

* Improve module boundary/privacy

* Reorganize Receiver to cut RedisStream

* Fix tests for code reorganization

Note that this change includes testing some private functionality by
exposing it publicly in tests via conditional compilation.  This
doesn't expose that functionality for the benchmarks, so the benchmark
tests do not currently pass without adding a few `pub use`
statements.  This might be worth changing later, but benchmark tests
aren't part of our CI and it's not hard to change when we want to test
performance.

This change also cuts the benchmark tests that were benchmarking old
ways Flodgatt functioned.  Those were useful for comparison purposes,
but have served their purpose – we've firmly moved away from the
older/slower approach.

* Fix Receiver for tests
2020-03-27 12:00:48 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 8843f18f5f
Fix valid language (#93)
* Fix panic on delete events

Previously, the code attempted to check the toot's language regardless
of event types.  That caused a panic for `delete` events, which lack a
language.

* WIP implementation of Message refactor

* Major refactor

* Refactor scope managment to use enum

* Use Timeline type instead of String

* Clean up Receiver's use of Timeline

* Make debug output more readable

* Block statuses from blocking users

This commit fixes an issue where a status from A would be displayed on
B's public timelines even when A had B blocked (i.e., it would treat B
as though they were muted rather than blocked for the purpose of
public timelines).

* Fix bug with incorrect parsing of incomming timeline

* Disable outdated tests

* Bump version
2020-03-18 20:37:10 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell c281418f25
Enforce type safety in config (#63)
* Add type-safe wrapper types to deployement_cfg

* Before deleting redundnat macros

* Store error messages as data

* Significant progress on type safety

* Add type safety to RedisConfig
2019-10-08 20:35:26 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 9d96907406
Functional config (#59) 2019-10-03 18:02:23 -04:00
Daniel Sockwell 11661d2fdc
Redis config (#56)
* Add most Redis config variables

* Add REDIS_NAMESPACE env var

* Fix Clippy lints
2019-10-02 00:03:18 -04:00