improvement: persist cached auth chains in db

src/client_server/sync.rs

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use std::{
     time::Duration,
 };
 use tokio::sync::watch::Sender;
-use tracing::{error, warn};
+use tracing::error;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "conduit_bin")]
 use rocket::{get, tokio};

src/database.rs

@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ impl Database {
                 statekey_shortstatekey: builder.open_tree("statekey_shortstatekey")?,
                 shortstatekey_statekey: builder.open_tree("shortstatekey_statekey")?,
 
+                shorteventid_authchain: builder.open_tree("shorteventid_authchain")?,
+
                 roomid_shortroomid: builder.open_tree("roomid_shortroomid")?,
 
                 shortstatehash_statediff: builder.open_tree("shortstatehash_statediff")?,
@@ -292,7 +294,7 @@ impl Database {
                 eventid_outlierpdu: builder.open_tree("eventid_outlierpdu")?,
                 referencedevents: builder.open_tree("referencedevents")?,
                 pdu_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(100_000)),
-                auth_chain_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(100_000)),
+                auth_chain_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(1_000_000)),
                 shorteventid_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(1_000_000)),
                 eventidshort_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(1_000_000)),
                 shortstatekey_cache: Mutex::new(LruCache::new(1_000_000)),

src/database/rooms.rs

@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ pub struct Rooms {
     pub(super) statehash_shortstatehash: Arc<dyn Tree>,
     pub(super) shortstatehash_statediff: Arc<dyn Tree>, // StateDiff = parent (or 0) + (shortstatekey+shorteventid++) + 0_u64 + (shortstatekey+shorteventid--)
 
+    pub(super) shorteventid_authchain: Arc<dyn Tree>,
+
     /// RoomId + EventId -> outlier PDU.
     /// Any pdu that has passed the steps 1-8 in the incoming event /federation/send/txn.
     pub(super) eventid_outlierpdu: Arc<dyn Tree>,
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ pub struct Rooms {
     pub(super) referencedevents: Arc<dyn Tree>,
 
     pub(super) pdu_cache: Mutex<LruCache<EventId, Arc<PduEvent>>>,
-    pub(super) auth_chain_cache: Mutex<LruCache<Vec<u64>, HashSet<u64>>>,
+    pub(super) auth_chain_cache: Mutex<LruCache<Vec<u64>, Arc<HashSet<u64>>>>,
     pub(super) shorteventid_cache: Mutex<LruCache<u64, EventId>>,
     pub(super) eventidshort_cache: Mutex<LruCache<EventId, u64>>,
     pub(super) statekeyshort_cache: Mutex<LruCache<(EventType, String), u64>>,
@@ -3204,7 +3206,64 @@ impl Rooms {
     }
 
     #[tracing::instrument(skip(self))]
-    pub fn auth_chain_cache(&self) -> std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, LruCache<Vec<u64>, HashSet<u64>>> {
+    pub fn get_auth_chain_from_cache<'a>(
-        self.auth_chain_cache.lock().unwrap()
+        &'a self,
+        key: &[u64],
+    ) -> Result<Option<Arc<HashSet<u64>>>> {
+        // Check RAM cache
+        if let Some(result) = self.auth_chain_cache.lock().unwrap().get_mut(key) {
+            return Ok(Some(Arc::clone(result)));
+        }
+
+        // Check DB cache
+        if key.len() == 1 {
+            if let Some(chain) =
+                self.shorteventid_authchain
+                    .get(&key[0].to_be_bytes())?
+                    .map(|chain| {
+                        chain
+                            .chunks_exact(size_of::<u64>())
+                            .map(|chunk| {
+                                utils::u64_from_bytes(chunk).expect("byte length is correct")
+                            })
+                            .collect()
+                    })
+            {
+                let chain = Arc::new(chain);
+
+                // Cache in RAM
+                self.auth_chain_cache
+                    .lock()
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .insert(vec![key[0]], Arc::clone(&chain));
+
+                return Ok(Some(chain));
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(None)
+    }
+
+    #[tracing::instrument(skip(self))]
+    pub fn cache_auth_chain(&self, key: Vec<u64>, chain: Arc<HashSet<u64>>) -> Result<()> {
+        // Persist in db
+        if key.len() == 1 {
+            self.shorteventid_authchain.insert(
+                &key[0].to_be_bytes(),
+                &chain
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|s| s.to_be_bytes().to_vec())
+                    .flatten()
+                    .collect::<Vec<u8>>(),
+            )?;
+        }
+
+        // Cache in RAM
+        self.auth_chain_cache
+            .lock()
+            .unwrap()
+            .insert(key.clone(), chain);
+
+        Ok(())
     }
 }

src/server_server.rs

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ use ruma::{
     ServerSigningKeyId, UserId,
 };
 use std::{
-    collections::{btree_map, hash_map, BTreeMap, HashMap, HashSet},
+    collections::{btree_map, hash_map, BTreeMap, BTreeSet, HashMap, HashSet},
     convert::{TryFrom, TryInto},
     fmt::Debug,
     future::Future,
@@ -1975,44 +1975,85 @@ fn get_auth_chain(
     starting_events: Vec<EventId>,
     db: &Database,
 ) -> Result<impl Iterator<Item = EventId> + '_> {
-    let mut full_auth_chain = HashSet::new();
+    const NUM_BUCKETS: usize = 50;
 
-    const NUM_BUCKETS: usize = 100;
+    let mut buckets = vec![BTreeSet::new(); NUM_BUCKETS];
-
-    let mut buckets = vec![HashSet::new(); NUM_BUCKETS];
 
     for id in starting_events {
-        let short = db.rooms.get_or_create_shorteventid(&id, &db.globals)?;
+        if let Some(pdu) = db.rooms.get_pdu(&id)? {
-        let bucket_id = (short % NUM_BUCKETS as u64) as usize;
+            for auth_event in &pdu.auth_events {
-        buckets[bucket_id].insert((short, id));
+                let short = db
+                    .rooms
+                    .get_or_create_shorteventid(&auth_event, &db.globals)?;
+                let bucket_id = (short % NUM_BUCKETS as u64) as usize;
+                buckets[bucket_id].insert((short, auth_event.clone()));
+            }
+        }
     }
 
-    let mut cache = db.rooms.auth_chain_cache();
+    let mut full_auth_chain = HashSet::new();
 
+    let mut hits = 0;
+    let mut misses = 0;
     for chunk in buckets {
-        let chunk_key = chunk.iter().map(|(short, _)| short).copied().collect();
+        if chunk.is_empty() {
-        if let Some(cached) = cache.get_mut(&chunk_key) {
-            full_auth_chain.extend(cached.iter().cloned());
             continue;
         }
 
+        // The code below will only get the auth chains, not the events in the chunk. So let's add
+        // them first
+        full_auth_chain.extend(chunk.iter().map(|(id, _)| id));
+
+        let chunk_key = chunk
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(short, _)| short)
+            .copied()
+            .collect::<Vec<u64>>();
+        if let Some(cached) = db.rooms.get_auth_chain_from_cache(&chunk_key)? {
+            hits += 1;
+            full_auth_chain.extend(cached.iter().cloned());
+            continue;
+        }
+        misses += 1;
+
         let mut chunk_cache = HashSet::new();
+        let mut hits2 = 0;
+        let mut misses2 = 0;
         for (sevent_id, event_id) in chunk {
-            if let Some(cached) = cache.get_mut(&[sevent_id][..]) {
+            if let Some(cached) = db.rooms.get_auth_chain_from_cache(&[sevent_id])? {
+                hits2 += 1;
                 chunk_cache.extend(cached.iter().cloned());
             } else {
-                drop(cache);
+                misses2 += 1;
-                let auth_chain = get_auth_chain_inner(&event_id, db)?;
+                let auth_chain = Arc::new(get_auth_chain_inner(&event_id, db)?);
-                cache = db.rooms.auth_chain_cache();
+                db.rooms
-                cache.insert(vec![sevent_id], auth_chain.clone());
+                    .cache_auth_chain(vec![sevent_id], Arc::clone(&auth_chain))?;
-                chunk_cache.extend(auth_chain);
+                println!(
+                    "cache missed event {} with auth chain len {}",
+                    event_id,
+                    auth_chain.len()
+                );
+                chunk_cache.extend(auth_chain.iter());
             };
         }
-        cache.insert(chunk_key, chunk_cache.clone());
+        println!(
-        full_auth_chain.extend(chunk_cache);
+            "chunk missed with len {}, event hits2: {}, misses2: {}",
+            chunk_cache.len(),
+            hits2,
+            misses2
+        );
+        let chunk_cache = Arc::new(chunk_cache);
+        db.rooms
+            .cache_auth_chain(chunk_key, Arc::clone(&chunk_cache))?;
+        full_auth_chain.extend(chunk_cache.iter());
     }
 
-    drop(cache);
+    println!(
+        "total: {}, chunk hits: {}, misses: {}",
+        full_auth_chain.len(),
+        hits,
+        misses
+    );
 
     Ok(full_auth_chain
         .into_iter()