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b4deb24be6 Use a CPU-time budget for test_lock_contention to fix postgres flakiness (#19929)
`test_lock_contention` is a performance-regression canary (#16840): the
pathological behaviour it guards against spent ~30s spinning the CPU, vs
~0.5s when healthy. The 5s wall-clock alarm it used was calibrated on
SQLite, but against PostgreSQL a healthy run already takes 3-4s of
wall-clock time (500 sequential acquire/release cycles, each a real
database round-trip), so any CI load pushed it over the limit.

Add a `cpu_time` mode to `tests/utils.py`'s test_timeout, implemented
with
[`setitimer(ITIMER_PROF)`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#signal.setitimer),
which budgets process CPU time instead of wall-clock time. Time spent
blocked on the database or lost to a loaded CI runner no longer counts,
while a regression to CPU-spinning still trips the alarm mid-spin. A
healthy run costs <1s of CPU on either database engine; the budget is
10s.

This also subsumes the RISC-V wall-clock carve-out from #18430, which is
removed.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 10:40:53 +01:00

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#
# This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3.
#
# Copyright 2023 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
# Copyright (C) 2023 New Vector, Ltd
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
# See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details:
# <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html>.
#
# Originally licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0:
# <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>.
#
# [This file includes modifications made by New Vector Limited]
#
#
from twisted.internet import defer
from twisted.internet.testing import MemoryReactor
from synapse.handlers.worker_lock import WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL
from synapse.server import HomeServer
from synapse.storage.databases.main.lock import (
_LOCK_REAP_INTERVAL,
_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
from synapse.util.clock import Clock
from synapse.util.duration import Duration
from tests import unittest
from tests.replication._base import BaseMultiWorkerStreamTestCase
from tests.utils import test_timeout
class WorkerLockTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
def prepare(
self, reactor: MemoryReactor, clock: Clock, homeserver: HomeServer
) -> None:
self.worker_lock_handler = self.hs.get_worker_locks_handler()
self.store = self.hs.get_datastores().main
def test_wait_for_lock_locally(self) -> None:
"""Test waiting for a lock on a single worker"""
lock1 = self.worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
self.get_success(lock1.__aenter__())
lock2 = self.worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
d2 = defer.ensureDeferred(lock2.__aenter__())
self.assertNoResult(d2)
self.get_success(lock1.__aexit__(None, None, None))
self.get_success(d2)
self.get_success(lock2.__aexit__(None, None, None))
def test_timeouts_for_lock_locally(self) -> None:
"""
Test that we regularly retry to reacquire locks.
This is a regression test to make sure the lock retry time doesn't balloon to a value
so large it can't even be printed reliably anymore.
"""
# Create and acquire the first lock
lock1 = self.worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
self.get_success(lock1.__aenter__())
# Create and try to acquire the second lock
lock2 = self.worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
d2 = defer.ensureDeferred(lock2.__aenter__())
# Make sure we haven't acquired the lock yet (`lock1` still holds it)
self.assertNoResult(d2)
# Advance time by an hour (some duration that would previously cause our timeout
# to balloon if it weren't constrained). Max back-off (saturate)
#
# Note: We use `_pump_by` instead of `pump`/`advance` as the `Lock` has an
# internal background looping call that runs every 30 seconds
# (`_RENEWAL_INTERVAL`) to renew the `Lock` and push it's "drop timeout" value
# further out by 2 minutes (`_LOCK_TIMEOUT`). The `Lock` will prematurely
# drop if this renewal is not allowed to run, which sours the test.
# self.pump(amount=Duration(hours=1))
self._pump_by(amount=Duration(hours=1), by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL)
# Make sure we haven't acquired the `lock2` yet (`lock1` still holds it)
self.assertNoResult(d2)
# Drop the lock without releasing it. If we just normally released the lock
# (`self.get_success(lock1.__aexit__(None, None, None))`), the
# `add_lock_released_callback`/`notify_lock_released` cycle would signal that we
# should re-aquire the lock right away (on the next reactor tick). And we want
# to avoid that as the point of this test is to stress the retry timeout
# interval and `WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL`.
del lock1
# Wait for `lock1` to go stale (it won't be renewed anymore because we deleted
# it just above)
self._pump_by(
amount=_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# Wait just enough time so `lock1` is reaped (found stale and forcefully drops
# the lock its holding)
self._pump_by(
amount=_LOCK_REAP_INTERVAL,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# Wait just enough time so `lock2` tries re-acquiring the lock. Should be no
# longer than our `WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL`.
self._pump_by(
amount=WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# We should now have the lock
self.successResultOf(d2)
def _pump_by(
self,
*,
amount: Duration = Duration(seconds=0),
by: Duration = Duration(seconds=0.1),
) -> None:
"""
Like `self.pump()` but you can specify the time increment to advance with until
you reach the time amount.
Unlike `self.pump()`, this doesn't multiply the time at all.
Args:
amount: The amount of time to advance
by: The time increment in seconds to advance time by until we reach the `amount`
"""
end_time_s = self.reactor.seconds() + amount.as_secs()
while self.reactor.seconds() < end_time_s:
self.reactor.advance(by.as_secs())
def test_lock_contention(self) -> None:
"""Test lock contention when a lot of locks wait on a single worker"""
nb_locks_to_test = 500
# This test is a performance-regression canary: before #16840 taking the
# locks below spent ~30s spinning the CPU, afterwards ~0.5s. We budget
# CPU time rather than wall-clock time so that time spent waiting on
# database round-trips (significant on PostgreSQL) or lost to a loaded
# CI machine doesn't make the test flaky: a healthy run costs well
# under 1s of CPU on either database engine.
with test_timeout(5, cpu_time=True):
d = self._take_locks(nb_locks_to_test)
self.assertEqual(self.get_success(d), nb_locks_to_test)
async def _take_locks(self, nb_locks: int) -> int:
locks = [
self.hs.get_worker_locks_handler().acquire_lock("test_lock", "")
for _ in range(nb_locks)
]
nb_locks_taken = 0
for lock in locks:
async with lock:
nb_locks_taken += 1
return nb_locks_taken
class WorkerLockWorkersTestCase(BaseMultiWorkerStreamTestCase):
def prepare(
self, reactor: MemoryReactor, clock: Clock, homeserver: HomeServer
) -> None:
self.main_worker_lock_handler = self.hs.get_worker_locks_handler()
def test_wait_for_lock_worker(self) -> None:
"""Test waiting for a lock on another worker"""
worker = self.make_worker_hs(
"synapse.app.generic_worker",
extra_config={
"redis": {"enabled": True},
},
)
worker_lock_handler = worker.get_worker_locks_handler()
lock1 = self.main_worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
self.get_success(lock1.__aenter__())
lock2 = worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
d2 = defer.ensureDeferred(lock2.__aenter__())
self.assertNoResult(d2)
self.get_success(lock1.__aexit__(None, None, None))
self.get_success(d2)
self.get_success(lock2.__aexit__(None, None, None))
def test_timeouts_for_lock_worker(self) -> None:
"""
Test that we regularly retry to reacquire locks.
This is a regression test to make sure the lock retry time doesn't balloon to a value
so large it can't even be printed reliably anymore.
"""
worker = self.make_worker_hs(
"synapse.app.generic_worker",
extra_config={
"redis": {"enabled": True},
},
)
worker_lock_handler = worker.get_worker_locks_handler()
# Create and acquire the first lock on the main process
lock1 = self.main_worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
self.get_success(lock1.__aenter__())
# Create and try to acquire the second lock on the worker
lock2 = worker_lock_handler.acquire_lock("name", "key")
d2 = defer.ensureDeferred(lock2.__aenter__())
# Make sure we haven't acquired the lock yet (`lock1` still holds it)
self.assertNoResult(d2)
# Advance time by an hour (some duration that would previously cause our timeout
# to balloon if it weren't constrained). Max back-off (saturate)
#
# Note: We use `_pump_by` instead of `pump`/`advance` as the `Lock` has an
# internal background looping call that runs every 30 seconds
# (`_RENEWAL_INTERVAL`) to renew the `Lock` and push it's "drop timeout" value
# further out by 2 minutes (`_LOCK_TIMEOUT`). The `Lock` will prematurely
# drop if this renewal is not allowed to run, which sours the test.
# self.pump(amount=Duration(hours=1))
self._pump_by(amount=Duration(hours=1), by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL)
# Make sure we haven't acquired the `lock2` yet (`lock1` still holds it)
self.assertNoResult(d2)
# Drop the lock without releasing it. If we just normally released the lock
# (`self.get_success(lock1.__aexit__(None, None, None))`), the
# `add_lock_released_callback`/`notify_lock_released` cycle would signal that we
# should re-aquire the lock right away (on the next reactor tick). And we want
# to avoid that as the point of this test is to stress the retry timeout
# interval and `WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL`.
del lock1
# Wait for `lock1` to go stale (it won't be renewed anymore because we deleted
# it just above)
self._pump_by(
amount=_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# Wait just enough time so `lock1` is reaped (found stale and forcefully drops
# the lock its holding)
self._pump_by(
amount=_LOCK_REAP_INTERVAL,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# Wait just enough time so `lock2` tries re-acquiring the lock. Should be no
# longer than our `WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL`.
self._pump_by(
amount=WORKER_LOCK_MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL,
by=_RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
)
# We should now have the lock
self.successResultOf(d2)
def _pump_by(
self,
*,
amount: Duration = Duration(seconds=0),
by: Duration = Duration(seconds=0.1),
) -> None:
"""
Like `self.pump()` but you can specify the time increment to advance with until
you reach the time amount.
Unlike `self.pump()`, this doesn't multiply the time at all.
Args:
amount: The amount of time to advance
by: The time increment in seconds to advance time by until we reach the `amount`
"""
end_time_s = self.reactor.seconds() + amount.as_secs()
while self.reactor.seconds() < end_time_s:
self.reactor.advance(by.as_secs())