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    • Benjamin Lee's avatar
      don't return extra member count or e2ee device updates from sync · 9eb0784f
      Benjamin Lee authored and 🥺's avatar 🥺 committed
      Previously, we were returning redundant member count updates or encrypted
      device updates from the /sync endpoint in some cases. The extra member
      count updates are spec-compliant, but unnecessary, while the extra
      encrypted device updates violate the spec.
      
      The refactor necessary to fix this bug is also necessary to support
      filtering on state events in sync.
      
      Details:
      
      Joined room incremental sync needs to examine state events for four
      purposes:
      
       1. determining whether we need to return an update to room member counts
       2. determining the set of left/joined devices for encrypted rooms
          (returned in `device_lists`)
       3. returning state events to the client (in `rooms.joined.*.state`)
       4. tracking which member events we have sent to the client, so they can
          be omitted on future requests when lazy-loading is enabled.
      
      The state events that we need to examine for the first two cases is member
      events in the delta between `since` and the end of `timeline`. For the
      second two cases, we need the delta between `since` and the start of
      `timeline`, plus contextual member events for any senders that occur in
      `timeline`. The second list is subject to filtering, while the first is
      not.
      
      Before this change, we were using the same set of state events that we are
      returning to the client (cases 3/4) to do the analysis for cases 1/2.
      In a compliant implementation, this would result in us missing some
      relevant member events in 1/2 in addition to seeing redundant member
      events. In current conduwuit this is not the case because the set of
      events that we return to the client is always a superset of the set that
      is needed for cases 1/2. This is because we don't support filtering, and
      we have an existing bug[1] where we are returning the delta between
      `since` and the end of `timeline` rather than the start.
      
      [1]: https://github.com/girlbossceo/conduwuit/issues/361
      
      Fixing this is necessary to implement filtering because otherwise
      we would start missing some member events for member count or encrypted
      device updates if the relevant member events are rejected by the filter.
      This would be much worse than our current behavior.
      9eb0784f
  22. May 17, 2024
    • Benjamin Lee's avatar
      remove sync response cache · 8bffcfe8
      Benjamin Lee authored and 🥺's avatar 🥺 committed
      This cache can serve invalid responses, and has an extremely low hit
      rate.
      
      It serves invalid responses because because it's only keyed off
      the `since` parameter, but many of the other request parameters also
      affect the response or it's side effects. This will become worse once we
      implement filtering, because there will be a wider space of parameters
      with different responses. This problem is fixable, but not worth it
      because of the low hit rate.
      
      The low hit rate is because normal clients will always issue the next
      sync request with `since` set to the `prev_batch` value of the previous
      response. The only time we expect to see multiple requests with the same
      `since` is when the response is empty, but we don't cache empty
      responses.
      
      This was confirmed experimentally by logging cache hits and misses over
      15 minutes with a wide variety of clients. This test was run on
      matrix.computer.surgery, which has only a few active users, but a
      large volume of sync traffic from many rooms. Over the test period, we
      had 3 hits and 5309 misses. All hits occurred in the first minute, so I
      suspect that they had something to do with client recovery from an
      offline state. The clients that were connected during the test are:
      
       - element web
       - schildichat web
       - iamb
       - gomuks
       - nheko
       - fractal
       - fluffychat web
       - fluffychat android
       - cinny web
       - element android
       - element X android
      
      Fixes: #336
      8bffcfe8
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