3 * Provides of semaphore semantics for restricting the number
4 * of workers that may be concurrently performing the same task.
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25 * When you have many workers (threads/servers) giving service, and a
26 * cached item expensive to produce expires, you may get several workers
27 * doing the job at the same time.
29 * Given enough requests and the item expiring fast (non-cacheable,
30 * lots of edits...) that single work can end up unfairly using most (all)
31 * of the cpu of the pool. This is also known as 'Michael Jackson effect'
32 * since this effect triggered on the english wikipedia on the day Michael
33 * Jackson died, the biographical article got hit with several edits per
34 * minutes and hundreds of read hits.
36 * The PoolCounter provides semaphore semantics for restricting the number
37 * of workers that may be concurrently performing such single task. Only one
38 * key can be locked by any PoolCounter instance of a process, except for keys
39 * that start with "nowait:". However, only 0 timeouts (non-blocking requests)
40 * can be used with "nowait:" keys.
42 * By default PoolCounter_Stub is used, which provides no locking. You
43 * can get a useful one in the PoolCounter extension.
45 abstract class PoolCounter
{
47 const LOCKED
= 1; /* Lock acquired */
48 const RELEASED
= 2; /* Lock released */
49 const DONE
= 3; /* Another worker did the work for you */
51 const ERROR
= -1; /* Indeterminate error */
52 const NOT_LOCKED
= -2; /* Called release() with no lock held */
53 const QUEUE_FULL
= -3; /* There are already maxqueue workers on this lock */
54 const TIMEOUT
= -4; /* Timeout exceeded */
55 const LOCK_HELD
= -5; /* Cannot acquire another lock while you have one lock held */
57 /** @var string All workers with the same key share the lock */
59 /** @var int Maximum number of workers working on tasks with the same key simultaneously */
62 * Maximum number of workers working on this task type, regardless of key.
63 * 0 means unlimited. Max allowed value is 65536.
64 * The way the slot limit is enforced is overzealous - this option should be used with caution.
68 /** @var int If this number of workers are already working/waiting, fail instead of wait */
70 /** @var float Maximum time in seconds to wait for the lock */
74 * @var boolean Whether the key is a "might wait" key
76 private $isMightWaitKey;
78 * @var boolean Whether this process holds a "might wait" lock key
80 private static $acquiredMightWaitKey = 0;
87 protected function __construct( $conf, $type, $key ) {
88 $this->workers
= $conf['workers'];
89 $this->maxqueue
= $conf['maxqueue'];
90 $this->timeout
= $conf['timeout'];
91 if ( isset( $conf['slots'] ) ) {
92 $this->slots
= $conf['slots'];
96 $key = $this->hashKeyIntoSlots( $key, $this->slots
);
99 $this->isMightWaitKey
= !preg_match( '/^nowait:/', $this->key
);
103 * Create a Pool counter. This should only be called from the PoolWorks.
105 * @param string $type
108 * @return PoolCounter
110 public static function factory( $type, $key ) {
111 global $wgPoolCounterConf;
112 if ( !isset( $wgPoolCounterConf[$type] ) ) {
113 return new PoolCounter_Stub
;
115 $conf = $wgPoolCounterConf[$type];
116 $class = $conf['class'];
118 return new $class( $conf, $type, $key );
124 public function getKey() {
129 * I want to do this task and I need to do it myself.
131 * @return Status Value is one of Locked/Error
133 abstract public function acquireForMe();
136 * I want to do this task, but if anyone else does it
137 * instead, it's also fine for me. I will read its cached data.
139 * @return Status Value is one of Locked/Done/Error
141 abstract public function acquireForAnyone();
144 * I have successfully finished my task.
145 * Lets another one grab the lock, and returns the workers
146 * waiting on acquireForAnyone()
148 * @return Status Value is one of Released/NotLocked/Error
150 abstract public function release();
153 * Checks that the lock request is sane.
154 * @return Status - good for sane requests fatal for insane
157 final protected function precheckAcquire() {
158 if ( $this->isMightWaitKey
) {
159 if ( self
::$acquiredMightWaitKey ) {
161 * The poolcounter itself is quite happy to allow you to wait
162 * on another lock while you have a lock you waited on already
163 * but we think that it is unlikely to be a good idea. So we
164 * made it an error. If you are _really_ _really_ sure it is a
165 * good idea then feel free to implement an unsafe flag or
168 return Status
::newFatal( 'poolcounter-usage-error',
169 'You may only aquire a single non-nowait lock.' );
171 } elseif ( $this->timeout
!== 0 ) {
172 return Status
::newFatal( 'poolcounter-usage-error',
173 'Locks starting in nowait: must have 0 timeout.' );
175 return Status
::newGood();
179 * Update any lock tracking information when the lock is acquired
182 final protected function onAcquire() {
183 self
::$acquiredMightWaitKey |
= $this->isMightWaitKey
;
187 * Update any lock tracking information when the lock is released
190 final protected function onRelease() {
191 self
::$acquiredMightWaitKey &= !$this->isMightWaitKey
;
195 * Given a key (any string) and the number of lots, returns a slot number (an integer from
196 * the [0..($slots-1)] range). This is used for a global limit on the number of instances of
197 * a given type that can acquire a lock. The hashing is deterministic so that
198 * PoolCounter::$workers is always an upper limit of how many instances with the same key
199 * can acquire a lock.
201 * @param string $key PoolCounter instance key (any string)
202 * @param int $slots The number of slots (max allowed value is 65536)
205 protected function hashKeyIntoSlots( $key, $slots ) {
206 return hexdec( substr( sha1( $key ), 0, 4 ) ) %
$slots;
210 // @codingStandardsIgnoreStart Squiz.Classes.ValidClassName.NotCamelCaps
211 class PoolCounter_Stub
extends PoolCounter
{
212 // @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
214 public function __construct() {
215 /* No parameters needed */
218 public function acquireForMe() {
219 return Status
::newGood( PoolCounter
::LOCKED
);
222 public function acquireForAnyone() {
223 return Status
::newGood( PoolCounter
::LOCKED
);
226 public function release() {
227 return Status
::newGood( PoolCounter
::RELEASED
);