//! One Automerge sync with a peer, from a reset to the next. //! //! Automerge's sync state (`automerge::sync::State`) is private to this module: the //! rest of the node generates, receives and inspects through `SyncSession`'s methods. //! The workarounds for its assumption of reliable delivery (resending after a timeout, //! forgetting what was sent when the peer still needs it) live here with it, so an //! Automerge upgrade that changes the state touches this file only. use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering}; use std::time::Duration; use automerge::sync::{self, SyncDoc}; use automerge::{AutoCommit, AutomergeError}; use tokio::time::Instant; use tracing::debug; use crate::backoff::Backoff; use crate::swarm::throughput::SyncBytes; /// A sync message being handed to our transport (for Mycelium: the HTTP request is in /// progress). #[derive(Clone)] pub(crate) struct Sending { /// Changes it carries for the first time; taken back if the send fails. pub(crate) sent: Vec, /// A sync pass was requested meanwhile. Once this one is handed over, the peer must /// be enqueued again so the deferred changes go out. pub(crate) regenerate: bool, } /// Session IDs, unique within the process. static NEXT_SESSION: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1); /// First wait before generating again after our transport refused a message; doubles /// while it keeps refusing. const SEND_RETRY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(500); const SEND_RETRY_MAX: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30); /// One Automerge sync with a peer, from a reset to the next. Everything a reset must /// forget lives here, so a reset replaces it whole and can't miss a field. #[derive(Clone)] pub(crate) struct SyncSession { /// Tells this session from the one a reset puts in its place (`NEXT_SESSION`). id: u64, state: sync::State, /// A message being handed to our transport. pub(crate) sending: Option, /// After our transport refused a message: no new one before this. The refused one is /// not kept; the next one is generated afresh and carries everything pending. pub(crate) retry_at: Option, /// The wait after the next refusal. pub(crate) send_backoff: Backoff, /// We offered the peer a delta instead of a message too large to send /// (`withdraw_for_delta`): no more messages until it answers, or the answer is /// overdue (then the offer goes out again). pub(crate) delta_offered: bool, /// What the last `generate` changed in the sync state besides the hashes sent: the /// heads it last sent, and whether it had answered yet. Restored when the message is /// withdrawn for a delta: otherwise Automerge believes the peer heard our heads, and /// once the peer has the delta and says its heads are ours, never answers it, so the /// peer never learns our heads (a joining node then never finishes its initial /// sync). before_generate: (Vec, bool), /// The answer we expect to our last sync message(s), if any. pub(crate) reply: Option, /// How long to wait for it; doubles while answers stay out. pub(crate) reply_backoff: Backoff, } /// Sync messages we sent and expect an answer to. Automerge assumes reliable delivery: /// a lost message leaves both sides waiting (`in_flight`), and changes it carried are /// never sent again (`sent_hashes`). We resend after a timeout instead. #[derive(Clone, Debug)] pub(crate) struct SyncReplyWait { pub(crate) deadline: Instant, /// When the first of the unanswered messages was generated, and the sync bytes /// exchanged with the peer by then (`swarm::throughput`). pub(crate) started: (Instant, SyncBytes), /// Changes first sent in the unanswered messages. pub(crate) sent: Vec, } impl SyncSession { /// `reply_backoff`: waits for sync answers (`Timing::sync_reply_backoff`). pub(crate) fn new(reply_backoff: Backoff) -> Self { Self { id: NEXT_SESSION.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed), state: sync::State::new(), sending: None, retry_at: None, send_backoff: Backoff::new(SEND_RETRY, SEND_RETRY_MAX), delta_offered: false, before_generate: (Vec::new(), false), reply: None, reply_backoff, } } /// Whether the peer said anything in this session yet (its heads are known). pub(crate) fn has_opened(&self) -> bool { self.state.their_heads.is_some() } /// The next sync message for the peer from `doc`, if there is anything to say. A /// message is marked as being handed over (`sending`), and an answer to it is /// expected, unless the peer's heads are ours already: it has everything, and /// Automerge answers only when it has something to say, so waiting for an answer /// would only end in a pointless resend. `bytes`: the sync bytes exchanged with the /// peer so far (`swarm::throughput`). pub(crate) fn generate( &mut self, doc: &mut AutoCommit, now: Instant, bytes: SyncBytes, ) -> Option { let sent_before = self.state.sent_hashes.clone(); self.before_generate = ( self.state.last_sent_heads.clone(), self.state.have_responded, ); let message = doc.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut self.state); let in_step = self.state.their_heads.as_ref() == Some(&doc.get_heads()); let sent: Vec<_> = self .state .sent_hashes .difference(&sent_before) .copied() .collect(); if in_step { self.reply_settled(); } else if message.is_some() { self.expect_reply(sent.clone(), now, bytes); } if message.is_some() { // Marked together with the generation, so no second message is generated // while this one is handed over. self.sending = Some(Sending { sent, regenerate: false, }); } message } /// Applies a sync message from the peer to `doc`. Doesn't settle the awaited /// answer: the caller measures the exchange first (`reply`). pub(crate) fn receive( &mut self, doc: &mut AutoCommit, message: sync::Message, ) -> Result<(), AutomergeError> { self.delta_offered = false; doc.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut self.state, message) } /// The message just generated is too large to send in one piece: take back what it /// carried, as if it had never been generated, and offer a delta instead. The /// message being handed over becomes the offer (it carries nothing); the answer is /// still awaited, and if it doesn't come, the offer is made again. Returns the /// peer's heads as far as we know them: where the delta starts. pub(crate) fn withdraw_for_delta(&mut self) -> Vec { if let Some(sending) = &mut self.sending { let sent = std::mem::take(&mut sending.sent); for hash in &sent { self.state.sent_hashes.remove(hash); } if let Some(wait) = &mut self.reply { wait.sent.retain(|hash| !sent.contains(hash)); } } self.state.in_flight = false; (self.state.last_sent_heads, self.state.have_responded) = self.before_generate.clone(); self.delta_offered = true; self.state.their_heads.clone().unwrap_or_default() } /// Whether `doc` holds everything the peer had when it last told us its heads: they /// are known, not empty (empty heads are "contained" in every document, so they /// prove nothing), and all in `doc`. pub(crate) fn have_all_theirs(&self, doc: &mut AutoCommit) -> bool { self.state.their_heads.as_ref().is_some_and(|heads| { !heads.is_empty() && heads .iter() .all(|head| doc.get_change_by_hash(head).is_some()) }) } /// The peer has heads we lack (its keepalive said so): ask for what they need, /// even though Automerge thinks a message is still in flight. pub(crate) fn pull_from(&mut self, heads: Vec) { self.state.their_heads = Some(heads); self.state.in_flight = false; } /// Automerge never resends a change it believes the peer has received /// (`sent_hashes`). If the message carrying it was lost while later ones arrive, the /// peer keeps asking for it (`need`, from the heads we advertise) and we keep not /// sending it: a livelock the reply timeout can't see (answers keep coming) and the /// keepalive heal can't either (sync never goes idle). So when the peer needs a /// change we think it has, what we think it has is wrong: forget all of it, and the /// next message carries everything its bloom filter lacks. (A reordered message can /// make that send a change twice; cheap.) Call after `receive`. pub(crate) fn resend_if_needed(&mut self, peer: &str) { let Some(need) = &self.state.their_need else { return; }; if need .iter() .any(|hash| self.state.sent_hashes.contains(hash)) { debug!( peer = %peer, sent = self.state.sent_hashes.len(), "Peer needs changes we had sent; forgetting what was sent" ); self.state.sent_hashes.clear(); } if answer_for_everything_since_shared(&mut self.state) { debug!( peer = %peer, need = self.state.their_need.as_ref().map_or(0, Vec::len), "Peer lacks the changes ours build on; sending everything since what we share" ); } } /// For the simulator's dump: the peer's heads as Automerge knows them, and whether /// it thinks a message is in flight. #[cfg(test)] pub(crate) fn automerge_view(&self) -> (Option<&[automerge::ChangeHash]>, bool) { (self.state.their_heads.as_deref(), self.state.in_flight) } /// Whether we leave the first message of this session to the peer. /// /// After a reset, both sides usually open at once, and the openings cross. Between /// peers that share history that costs nothing. But a peer with an empty document /// answers our opening with empty heads, which Automerge takes for "lost /// everything", so the whole document would go out a second time. So a ready node /// never opens towards a peer that isn't ready (one that is still catching up); that /// peer opens itself. pub(crate) fn leave_opening(&self, we_ready: bool, peer_ready: Option) -> bool { self.state.their_heads.is_none() && we_ready && peer_ready == Some(false) } /// Which session this is: a message generated from it reports its send's outcome /// with this (`send_succeeded`, `send_failed`). pub(crate) fn id(&self) -> u64 { self.id } /// Our transport took the message generated from session `session`. Returns whether /// to generate again: a pass was requested while it was handed over, or a reset /// replaced the session meanwhile (any pass requested then was lost with the old /// session, and the new one hasn't necessarily opened yet). pub(crate) fn send_succeeded(&mut self, session: u64) -> bool { if session != self.id { return true; } self.retry_at = None; self.send_backoff.reset(); self.sending .take() .is_some_and(|sending| sending.regenerate) } /// Our transport refused the message: as far as the peer is concerned, it was never /// sent. Takes back its changes (they go out with the next message), clears /// `in_flight`, and returns how long to wait before generating again. None if a reset /// already discarded what was being sent (the message came from another `session`). pub(crate) fn send_failed(&mut self, session: u64, now: Instant) -> Option { if session != self.id { return None; } let sending = self.sending.take()?; for hash in &sending.sent { self.state.sent_hashes.remove(hash); } if let Some(wait) = &mut self.reply { wait.sent.retain(|hash| !sending.sent.contains(hash)); } self.state.in_flight = false; let delay = self.send_backoff.next(); self.retry_at = Some(now + delay); Some(delay) } /// A sync message went out; `sent` are the changes it carried for the first time. /// `bytes` are the sync bytes exchanged with the peer before it. pub(crate) fn expect_reply( &mut self, sent: Vec, now: Instant, bytes: SyncBytes, ) { match &mut self.reply { // Still waiting for an earlier one: keep its deadline, remember these too. Some(wait) => wait.sent.extend(sent), None => { self.reply = Some(SyncReplyWait { deadline: now + self.reply_backoff.current(), started: (now, bytes), sent, }); } } } /// No answer is due any more: the peer answered, or keepalives show both documents /// are the same. pub(crate) fn reply_settled(&mut self) { self.reply = None; self.reply_backoff.reset(); } /// If the answer is overdue: forgets that the unanswered changes were sent and that /// a message is in flight, so the next sync pass sends them again. Returns how many /// changes that concerns. pub(super) fn take_overdue_reply(&mut self, now: Instant) -> Option { if self.reply.as_ref().is_none_or(|wait| now < wait.deadline) { return None; } let wait = self.reply.take()?; for hash in &wait.sent { self.state.sent_hashes.remove(hash); } self.state.in_flight = false; self.delta_offered = false; self.reply_backoff.grow(); Some(wait.sent.len()) } } /// A peer that got a change of ours without the changes it builds on (they were lost, /// a later one arrived) asks for those it lacks, and while it does, Automerge leaves /// out what it has (its bloom filter: `have` waits until all it needs is in our heads). /// Without a `have`, Automerge sends exactly what was asked for, and the peer, finding /// each change's own predecessors missing in turn, asks again: one round trip per /// missing change, hundreds after a short outage. So answer as if it had said it has /// nothing since the heads we share: everything since then goes in one message (a /// delta when large: `swarm::sync`), and what it had already only twice. Returns /// whether it did. Call after receiving. fn answer_for_everything_since_shared(state: &mut sync::State) -> bool { let asks_without_saying = state.their_have.as_ref().is_some_and(Vec::is_empty) && state .their_need .as_ref() .is_some_and(|need| !need.is_empty()); if !asks_without_saying { return false; } state.their_have = Some(vec![sync::Have { last_sync: state.shared_heads.clone(), bloom: sync::BloomFilter::default(), }]); // What we sent since may be what was lost. state.sent_hashes.clear(); true } #[cfg(test)] mod tests { use super::*; /// After a loss, the changes the peer lacks go in one message, not one per round /// trip (`answer_for_everything_since_shared`). #[test] fn missing_predecessors_go_at_once() { use automerge::transaction::Transactable; let mut a = AutoCommit::new(); let mut b = AutoCommit::new(); let (mut at_a, mut at_b) = (sync::State::new(), sync::State::new()); a.put(automerge::ROOT, "early", 1).unwrap(); // Until in step. for _ in 0..10 { let to_b = a.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_a); let to_a = b.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_b); if to_b.is_none() && to_a.is_none() { break; } if let Some(m) = to_b { b.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut at_b, m).unwrap(); } if let Some(m) = to_a { a.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut at_a, m).unwrap(); } } assert_eq!(a.get_heads(), b.get_heads()); // Five changes, whose message is lost; then a sixth, which arrives alone. for i in 0..5 { a.put(automerge::ROOT, format!("lost{i}"), i).unwrap(); a.commit(); } let _lost = a.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_a).unwrap(); a.put(automerge::ROOT, "last", 6).unwrap(); a.commit(); at_a.in_flight = false; // As after our reply timeout. let last = a.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_a).unwrap(); assert_eq!(last.changes.len(), 1); b.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut at_b, last).unwrap(); // b asks for the fifth, saying nothing of what it has. let ask = b.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_b).unwrap(); assert!(ask.have.is_empty() && ask.need.len() == 1); a.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut at_a, ask).unwrap(); assert!(answer_for_everything_since_shared(&mut at_a)); // All since the shared heads, in one message (here the whole document: more // than a third of it is missing). let answer = a.sync().generate_sync_message(&mut at_a).unwrap(); b.sync().receive_sync_message(&mut at_b, answer).unwrap(); assert_eq!(b.get_heads(), a.get_heads()); // A message with what it has is left alone. assert!(!answer_for_everything_since_shared(&mut at_b)); } fn session() -> SyncSession { SyncSession::new(Backoff::new( Duration::from_secs(1), Duration::from_secs(30), )) } fn sending() -> Option { Some(Sending { sent: Vec::new(), regenerate: false, }) } #[test] fn a_send_from_a_replaced_session_leaves_the_new_one_alone() { let old = session(); let mut new = session(); new.sending = sending(); // A reset discarded the old session while its message was handed over: the // new one's own message stays, and the peer is synced again. assert!(new.send_succeeded(old.id())); assert!(new.sending.is_some()); assert_eq!(new.send_failed(old.id(), Instant::now()), None); assert!(new.sending.is_some()); assert_eq!(new.retry_at, None); // Its own outcome still applies. assert!(!new.send_succeeded(new.id())); assert!(new.sending.is_none()); } /// A message too large to send is taken back: the peer, after the offer and an /// overdue answer, gets the same changes in the next message. #[test] fn withdrawing_for_a_delta_keeps_the_changes_for_later() { use automerge::{ROOT, transaction::Transactable}; // 16 KiB of hex, about 8 KiB of information: Automerge compresses what it sends // (a peer with nothing gets the document saved), so this stays above 4 KB. let mut rng = crate::testrand::Rng::new(1); let big: String = (0..1024) .map(|_| format!("{:016x}", rng.next_u64())) .collect(); let mut ours = AutoCommit::new(); ours.put(ROOT, "big", big).unwrap(); ours.commit(); let mut theirs = AutoCommit::new(); let (mut a, mut b) = (session(), session()); let now = Instant::now(); let bytes = SyncBytes::default(); // a opens, b answers with its (empty) heads, then a sends the changes. let opening = a.generate(&mut ours, now, bytes).unwrap(); a.send_succeeded(a.id()); b.receive(&mut theirs, opening).unwrap(); let answer = b.generate(&mut theirs, now, bytes).unwrap(); b.send_succeeded(b.id()); a.receive(&mut ours, answer).unwrap(); let carrying = a.generate(&mut ours, now, bytes).unwrap(); let carried = carrying.clone().encode().len(); assert!(carried > 4_000, "the changes took {carried} bytes"); let from = a.withdraw_for_delta(); assert!(from.is_empty()); assert!(a.delta_offered); assert!(!a.send_succeeded(a.id())); // No answer to the offer: it lapses, and the changes go out again. assert!( a.take_overdue_reply(now + Duration::from_secs(3600)) .is_some() ); assert!(!a.delta_offered); let again = a.generate(&mut ours, now, bytes).unwrap(); let carried_again = again.encode().len(); assert!(carried_again > 4_000, "sent again in {carried_again} bytes"); } /// A joining node opens, the answer is too large and becomes a delta, the node gets /// the delta and says so: the answer to that carries our heads, so the node knows it /// has everything (`have_all_theirs`). #[test] fn after_a_delta_the_peer_learns_our_heads() { use automerge::{ROOT, transaction::Transactable}; let mut rng = crate::testrand::Rng::new(2); let big: String = (0..1024) .map(|_| format!("{:016x}", rng.next_u64())) .collect(); let mut ours = AutoCommit::new(); ours.put(ROOT, "big", big).unwrap(); ours.commit(); let mut theirs = AutoCommit::new(); let (mut a, mut b) = (session(), session()); let now = Instant::now(); let bytes = SyncBytes::default(); // b (joining) opens; a's answer would carry everything: withdrawn for a delta. let opening = b.generate(&mut theirs, now, bytes).unwrap(); b.send_succeeded(b.id()); a.receive(&mut ours, opening).unwrap(); assert!(a.generate(&mut ours, now, bytes).is_some()); a.withdraw_for_delta(); a.send_succeeded(a.id()); // b loads the delta and tells a its heads, which are a's now. theirs.merge(&mut ours.clone()).unwrap(); assert!( !b.have_all_theirs(&mut theirs), "b hasn't heard a's heads yet" ); let after_delta = b.generate(&mut theirs, now, bytes).unwrap(); b.send_succeeded(b.id()); a.receive(&mut ours, after_delta).unwrap(); let answer = a .generate(&mut ours, now, bytes) .expect("a answers with its heads"); b.receive(&mut theirs, answer).unwrap(); assert!(b.have_all_theirs(&mut theirs)); } }