https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42065
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Bug #: 42065
Summary: Filter redundant jobs from the queue
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.21-git
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: JobQueue
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de
Classification: Unclassified
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Under some circumstances, like multiple successive edits to a much used
template, the job queue may get quite full, and many of the jobs will be
redundant: After a template is edited three times during a short period of
time, the affected pages have all to be re-rendered, but only once, not three
times.
For jobs that re-render page content, this can be done using the page_touched
field. When the job is created and scheduled, it should remember the current
value of page_touched. When the job is later executed, it can then first check
whether page_touched is still the same as it was when the job was created. if
not, the job can be canceled and the page is not rendered again.
Consider this scenario:
1: Template T gets edited, page P needs to be updated.
2: Job J1 is scheduled for updating the page
3: J1.page_touched is set to the page's current touch timestamp,
P.page_touched.
4: Template T gets edited again before J1 was executed, page P (still) needs to
be updated.
5: Job J2 is scheduled for updating the page
6: J2.page_touched is set to the page's current touch timestamp,
P.page_touched. This is still the same as J1.page_touched, since we assumed the
page wasn't re-rendered in the mean time.
7: J1 gets executed.
8: J1 checks J1.page_updated against P.page_updated and find it's still the
same.
9: J1 re-renders P. This sets P.page_touched to the current wall clock time.
10: J2 gets executed.
11: J2 checks J2.page_updated against P.page_updated and find it's not the
same.
12: J2 aborts.
This also covers the case that P gets re-rendered for some other reason:
4: P gets edited and re-rendered. This sets P.page_touched to the current wall
clock time.
5,6: nothing
7: J1 gets executed.
8: J1 checks J1.page_updated against P.page_updated and find it's not the same.
9: J1 aborts.
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