[PATCH 2/2] post_pw: Store submitted checks locally as well

[Aaron Conole]

Michael Santana <msantana at redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 12:26 PM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jeremy Kerr reports that our PW checks reporting submitted 43000 API calls
>> in just a single day.  That is alarmingly unacceptable.  We can store the
>> URLs we've already submitted and then just skip over any additional
>> processing at least on the PW side.
>>
>> This patch does two things to try and mitigate this issue:
>>
>> 1. Store each patch ID and URL in the series DB to show that we reported
>>    the check.  This means we don't need to poll patchwork for check status
> Yeah, we should have done that from the start. I should have thought
> about this sooner.
>>
>> 2. Store the last modified time of the reports mailing list.  This means
>>    we only poll the mailing list when a new email has surely landed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  post_pw.sh       | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  series_db_lib.sh | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/post_pw.sh b/post_pw.sh
>> index fe2f41c..3e3a493 100755
>> --- a/post_pw.sh
>> +++ b/post_pw.sh
>> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>>  # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
>>  # under the License.
>>
>> +[ -f "$(dirname $0)/series_db_lib.sh" ] && source "$(dirname $0)/series_db_lib.sh" || exit 1
>>  [ -f "${HOME}/.mail_patchwork_sync.rc" ] && source "${HOME}/.mail_patchwork_sync.rc"
>>
>>  # Patchwork instance to update with new reports from mailing list
>> @@ -75,6 +76,13 @@ send_post() {
>>      if [ -z "$context" -o -z "$state" -o -z "$description" -o -z "$patch_id" ]; then
>>          echo "Skpping \"$link\" due to missing context, state, description," \
>>               "or patch_id" 1>&2
>> +        # Just don't want to even bother seeing these "bad" patches as well.
>> +        add_check_scanned_url "$patch_id" "$target_url"
>> +        return 0
>> +    fi
>> +
>> +    if check_id_exists "$patch_id" "$target_url" ; then
>> +        echo "Skipping \"$link\" - already reported." 1>&2
>>          return 0
>>      fi
>>
>> @@ -84,6 +92,7 @@ send_post() {
>>          "$api_url")"
>>      if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>>          echo "Failed to get proper server response on link ${api_url}" 1>&2
>> +        # Don't store these as processed in case the server has a temporary issue.
>>          return 0
>>      fi
>>
>> @@ -95,6 +104,9 @@ send_post() {
>>      jq -e "[.[].target_url] | contains([\"$mail_url\"])" >/dev/null
>>      then
>>          echo "Report ${target_url} already pushed to patchwork. Skipping." 1>&2
>> +        # Somehow this was not stored (for example, first time we apply the tracking
>> +        # feature).  Store it now.
>> +        add_check_scanned_url "$patch_id" "$target_url"
>>          return 0
>>      fi
>>
>> @@ -114,12 +126,31 @@ send_post() {
>>      if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>>          echo -e "Failed to push retults based on report ${link} to the"\
>>                  "patchwork instance ${pw_instance} using the following REST"\
>> -                "API Endpoint ${api_url} with the following data:\n$data\n"
>> +                "API Endpoint ${api_url} with the following data:\n$data\n" 1>&2
>>          return 0
>>      fi
>> +
>> +    add_check_scanned_url "$patch_id" "$target_url"
>>  }
>>
>> +# Collect the date.  NOTE: this needs some accomodate to catch the month change-overs
>>  year_month="$(date +"%Y-%B")"
>> +
>> +# Get the last modified time
>> +report_last_mod=$(curl -A "pw-post" -sSf "${mail_archive}${year_month}/thread.html" | grep Last-Modified)
> please use grep -i. I doubt Last-Modified will ever change. But better
> be on the safe side

Okay.

>> +
>> +mailing_list_save_file=$(echo
>> ".post_pw_${mail_archive}${year_month}" | sed -e "s@/@_ at g" -e
>> "s@:@_ at g" -e "s,@,_,g")
>> +
>> +if [ -e "${HOME}/${mailing_list_save_file}" ]; then
>> +    last_read_date=$(cat "${HOME}/${mailing_list_save_file}")
> wait.... what? Please correct me if I am misunderstanding this
>
> But I dont think that $last_read_date or $mailing_list_save_file ever
> get populated. They are always empty strings/file.
>
> I think you are missing a last_read_date="$report_last_mod" somewhere
> in this code. It might not be in the place that I mentioned below, but
> I am fairly certain you are missing it somewhere

Good catch - my testing was with manually editing the files.

>> +    if [ "$last_read_date" == "$report_last_mod" ]; then
>> +        echo "Last modified times match.  Skipping list parsing."
>> +        exit 0
>> +    fi
> Maybe if we change this if to an else like this
>
> else
>     "$last_read_date"="$report_last_mod"
> fi

Done.

>> +else
>> +    touch "${HOME}/${mailing_list_save_file}"
>> +fi
>> +
>>  reports="$(curl -A "pw-post" -sSf "${mail_archive}${year_month}/thread.html" | \
>>           grep -i 'HREF=' | sed -e 's@[0-9]*<LI><A HREF="@\|@' -e 's@">@\|@')"
>>  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>> @@ -132,3 +163,5 @@ echo "$reports" | while IFS='|' read -r blank link title; do
>>          send_post "${mail_archive}${year_month}/$link"
>>      fi
>>  done
>> +
>> +echo "$last_read_date" > "${HOME}/${mailing_list_save_file}"
>> diff --git a/series_db_lib.sh b/series_db_lib.sh
>> index c5f42e0..0635469 100644
>> --- a/series_db_lib.sh
>> +++ b/series_db_lib.sh
>> @@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ recheck_sync INTEGER
>>  EOF
>>          run_db_command "INSERT INTO series_schema_version(id) values (8);"
>>      fi
>> +
>> +    run_db_command "select * from series_schema_version;" | egrep '^9$' > /dev/null 2>&1
>> +    if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
>> +        sqlite3 ${HOME}/.series-db <<EOF
>> +CREATE TABLE check_id_scanned (
>> +check_patch_id INTEGER,
>> +check_url STRING
>> +)
>> +EOF
>> +        run_db_command "INSERT INTO series_schema_version(id) values (9);"
>> +    fi
>>  }
>>
>>  function series_db_exists() {
>> @@ -468,3 +479,17 @@ function set_recheck_request_state() {
>>
>>      echo "UPDATE recheck_requests set recheck_sync=$recheck_state where patchwork_instance=\"$recheck_instance\" and patchwork_project=\"$recheck_project\" and recheck_requested_by=\"$recheck_requested_by\" and recheck_series=\"$recheck_series\";" | series_db_execute
>>  }
>> +
>> +function add_check_scanned_url() {
>> +    local patch_id="$1"
>> +    local url="$2"
>> +
>> +    echo "INSERT into check_id_scanned (check_patch_id, check_url) values (${patch_id}, \"$url\");" | series_db_execute
>> +}
>> +
>> +function check_id_exists() {
>> +    local patch_id="$1"
>> +    local url="$2"
>> +
>> +    echo "select * from check_id_scanned where check_patch_id=$patch_id and check_url=\"$url\";" | series_db_execute | grep "$url" >/dev/null 2>&1
>> +}
>> --
>> 2.41.0
>>