Honor batch timeout correctly in poller, and set default to 0 as it was previously inert

Signed-off-by: Peter Broadhurst <[email protected]>

Author: peterbroadhurst

internal/coreconfig/coreconfig.go

@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ func setDefaults() {
 	viper.SetDefault(string(DownloadRetryFactor), 2.0)
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorFirstEvent), core.SubOptsFirstEventOldest)
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorBatchSize), 200)
-	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorBatchTimeout), "250ms")
+	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorBatchTimeout), "0ms")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorPollTimeout), "30s")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorRewindTimeout), "50ms")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorRewindQueueLength), 10)
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ func setDefaults() {
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventAggregatorRetryMaxDelay), "30s")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventDBEventsBufferSize), 100)
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventDispatcherBufferLength), 5)
-	viper.SetDefault(string(EventDispatcherBatchTimeout), "250ms")
+	viper.SetDefault(string(EventDispatcherBatchTimeout), "0ms")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventDispatcherPollTimeout), "30s")
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventTransportsEnabled), []string{"websockets", "webhooks"})
 	viper.SetDefault(string(EventTransportsDefault), "websockets")

internal/events/event_poller.go

@@ -196,7 +196,12 @@ func (ep *eventPoller) eventLoop() {
 		close(ep.offsetCommitted)
 	}()
 
+	doBatchDelay := false
 	for {
+		if doBatchDelay {
+			ep.waitForBatchTimeout()
+		}
+
 		// Read messages from the DB - in an error condition we retry until success, or a closed context
 		events, err := ep.readPage()
 		if err != nil {
@@ -205,6 +210,15 @@ func (ep *eventPoller) eventLoop() {
 		}
 
 		eventCount := len(events)
+
+		// We might want to wait for the batch to fill - so we delay and re-poll
+		if ep.conf.eventBatchTimeout > 0 && !doBatchDelay && eventCount < ep.conf.eventBatchSize {
+			doBatchDelay = true
+			l.Tracef("Batch delay: detected=%d, batchSize=%d batchTimeout=%s", eventCount, ep.conf.eventBatchSize, ep.conf.eventBatchTimeout)
+			continue
+		}
+		doBatchDelay = false // clear any batch delay for next iteration
+
 		repoll := false
 		if eventCount > 0 {
 			// We process all the events in the page in a single database run group, and
@@ -280,6 +294,16 @@ func (ep *eventPoller) shoulderTap() {
 	}
 }
 
+func (ep *eventPoller) waitForBatchTimeout() {
+	// For throughput optimized environments, we can set an eventBatchingTimeout to allow
+	// dispatching of incomplete batches at a shorter timeout than the
+	// long timeout between polling cycles (at the cost of some dispatch latency)
+	select {
+	case <-time.After(ep.conf.eventBatchTimeout):
+	case <-ep.ctx.Done():
+	}
+}
+
 func (ep *eventPoller) waitForShoulderTapOrPollTimeout(lastEventCount int) bool {
 	l := log.L(ep.ctx)
 	longTimeoutDuration := ep.conf.eventPollTimeout
@@ -289,21 +313,6 @@ func (ep *eventPoller) waitForShoulderTapOrPollTimeout(lastEventCount int) bool
 		return true
 	}
 
-	// For throughput optimized environments, we can set an eventBatchingTimeout to allow
-	// dispatching of incomplete batches at a shorter timeout than the
-	// long timeout between polling cycles (at the cost of some dispatch latency)
-	if ep.conf.eventBatchTimeout > 0 && lastEventCount > 0 {
-		shortTimeout := time.NewTimer(ep.conf.eventBatchTimeout)
-		select {
-		case <-shortTimeout.C:
-			l.Tracef("Woken after batch timeout")
-			return true
-		case <-ep.ctx.Done():
-			l.Debugf("Exiting due to cancelled context")
-			return false
-		}
-	}
-
 	longTimeout := time.NewTimer(longTimeoutDuration)
 	select {
 	case <-longTimeout.C:

internal/events/event_poller_test.go

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func newTestEventPoller(t *testing.T, mdi *databasemocks.Plugin, neh newEventsHa
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	ep = newEventPoller(ctx, mdi, newEventNotifier(ctx, "ut"), &eventPollerConf{
 		eventBatchSize:             10,
-		eventBatchTimeout:          1 * time.Millisecond,
+		eventBatchTimeout:          0, // customized for individual tests that enable this
 		eventPollTimeout:           10 * time.Second,
 		startupOffsetRetryAttempts: 1,
 		retry: retry.Retry{