retry_handler.go

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package aws

import (
	"math"
	"sync"
	"time"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/request"
	"github.com/golang/glog"
)

const (
	decayIntervalSeconds = 20
	decayFraction        = 0.8
	maxDelay             = 60 * time.Second
)

// CrossRequestRetryDelay inserts delays before AWS calls, when we are observing RequestLimitExceeded errors
// Note that we share a CrossRequestRetryDelay across multiple AWS requests; this is a process-wide back-off,
// whereas the aws-sdk-go implements a per-request exponential backoff/retry
type CrossRequestRetryDelay struct {
	backoff Backoff
}

// Create a new CrossRequestRetryDelay
func NewCrossRequestRetryDelay() *CrossRequestRetryDelay {
	c := &CrossRequestRetryDelay{}
	c.backoff.init(decayIntervalSeconds, decayFraction, maxDelay)
	return c
}

// Added to the Sign chain; called before each request
func (c *CrossRequestRetryDelay) BeforeSign(r *request.Request) {
	now := time.Now()
	delay := c.backoff.ComputeDelayForRequest(now)
	if delay > 0 {
		glog.Warningf("Inserting delay before AWS request (%s) to avoid RequestLimitExceeded: %s",
			describeRequest(r), delay.String())
		r.Config.SleepDelay(delay)

		// Avoid clock skew problems
		r.Time = now
	}
}

// Return a user-friendly string describing the request, for use in log messages
func describeRequest(r *request.Request) string {
	service := r.ClientInfo.ServiceName

	name := "?"
	if r.Operation != nil {
		name = r.Operation.Name
	}

	return service + "::" + name
}

// Added to the AfterRetry chain; called after any error
func (c *CrossRequestRetryDelay) AfterRetry(r *request.Request) {
	if r.Error == nil {
		return
	}
	awsError, ok := r.Error.(awserr.Error)
	if !ok {
		return
	}
	if awsError.Code() == "RequestLimitExceeded" {
		c.backoff.ReportError()
		glog.Warningf("Got RequestLimitExceeded error on AWS request (%s)",
			describeRequest(r))
	}
}

// Backoff manages a backoff that varies based on the recently observed failures
type Backoff struct {
	decayIntervalSeconds int64
	decayFraction        float64
	maxDelay             time.Duration

	mutex sync.Mutex

	// We count all requests & the number of requests which hit a
	// RequestLimit.  We only really care about 'recent' requests, so we
	// decay the counts exponentially to bias towards recent values.
	countErrorsRequestLimit float32
	countRequests           float32
	lastDecay               int64
}

func (b *Backoff) init(decayIntervalSeconds int, decayFraction float64, maxDelay time.Duration) {
	b.lastDecay = time.Now().Unix()
	// Bias so that if the first request hits the limit we don't immediately apply the full delay
	b.countRequests = 4
	b.decayIntervalSeconds = int64(decayIntervalSeconds)
	b.decayFraction = decayFraction
	b.maxDelay = maxDelay
}

// Computes the delay required for a request, also updating internal state to count this request
func (b *Backoff) ComputeDelayForRequest(now time.Time) time.Duration {
	b.mutex.Lock()
	defer b.mutex.Unlock()

	// Apply exponential decay to the counters
	timeDeltaSeconds := now.Unix() - b.lastDecay
	if timeDeltaSeconds > b.decayIntervalSeconds {
		intervals := float64(timeDeltaSeconds) / float64(b.decayIntervalSeconds)
		decay := float32(math.Pow(b.decayFraction, intervals))
		b.countErrorsRequestLimit *= decay
		b.countRequests *= decay
		b.lastDecay = now.Unix()
	}

	// Count this request
	b.countRequests += 1.0

	// Compute the failure rate
	errorFraction := float32(0.0)
	if b.countRequests > 0.5 {
		// Avoid tiny residuals & rounding errors
		errorFraction = b.countErrorsRequestLimit / b.countRequests
	}

	// Ignore a low fraction of errors
	// This also allows them to time-out
	if errorFraction < 0.1 {
		return time.Duration(0)
	}

	// Delay by the max delay multiplied by the recent error rate
	// (i.e. we apply a linear delay function)
	// TODO: This is pretty arbitrary
	delay := time.Nanosecond * time.Duration(float32(b.maxDelay.Nanoseconds())*errorFraction)
	// Round down to the nearest second for sanity
	return time.Second * time.Duration(int(delay.Seconds()))
}

// Called when we observe a throttling error
func (b *Backoff) ReportError() {
	b.mutex.Lock()
	defer b.mutex.Unlock()

	b.countErrorsRequestLimit += 1.0
}