archive jobs in single worker thread

cmd/cc-backend/main.go

@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ func main() {
 		server.Shutdown(context.Background())
 
 		// Then, wait for any async archivings still pending...
-		api.OngoingArchivings.Wait()
+		api.JobRepository.WaitForArchiving()
 	}()
 
 	if config.Keys.StopJobsExceedingWalltime > 0 {

internal/api/rest.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ package api
 
 import (
 	"bufio"
-	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/auth"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/graph"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/graph/model"
-	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/metricdata"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/repository"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/pkg/archive"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/pkg/log"
@@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ type RestApi struct {
 	Resolver          *graph.Resolver
 	Authentication    *auth.Authentication
 	MachineStateDir   string
-	OngoingArchivings sync.WaitGroup
 	RepositoryMutex   sync.Mutex
 }
 
@@ -721,34 +718,8 @@ func (api *RestApi) checkAndHandleStopJob(rw http.ResponseWriter, job *schema.Jo
 		return
 	}
 
-	// We need to start a new goroutine as this functions needs to return
+	// Trigger async archiving
-	// for the response to be flushed to the client.
+	api.JobRepository.TriggerArchiving(job)
-	api.OngoingArchivings.Add(1) // So that a shutdown does not interrupt this goroutine.
-	go func() {
-		defer api.OngoingArchivings.Done()
-
-		if _, err := api.JobRepository.FetchMetadata(job); err != nil {
-			log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
-			api.JobRepository.UpdateMonitoringStatus(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingFailed)
-			return
-		}
-
-		// metricdata.ArchiveJob will fetch all the data from a MetricDataRepository and create meta.json/data.json files
-		jobMeta, err := metricdata.ArchiveJob(job, context.Background())
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
-			api.JobRepository.UpdateMonitoringStatus(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingFailed)
-			return
-		}
-
-		// Update the jobs database entry one last time:
-		if err := api.JobRepository.Archive(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingSuccessful, jobMeta.Statistics); err != nil {
-			log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
-			return
-		}
-
-		log.Printf("archiving job (dbid: %d) successful", job.ID)
-	}()
 }
 
 // func (api *RestApi) importJob(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

internal/repository/job.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/auth"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/graph/model"
+	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/internal/metricdata"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/pkg/log"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/pkg/lrucache"
 	"github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-backend/pkg/schema"
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ type JobRepository struct {
 
 	stmtCache *sq.StmtCache
 	cache     *lrucache.Cache
+
+	archiveChannel chan *schema.Job
+	archivePending sync.WaitGroup
 }
 
 func GetJobRepository() *JobRepository {
@@ -43,7 +47,10 @@ func GetJobRepository() *JobRepository {
 			DB:        db.DB,
 			stmtCache: sq.NewStmtCache(db.DB),
 			cache:     lrucache.New(1024 * 1024),
+			archiveChannel: make(chan *schema.Job, 128),
 		}
+		// start archiving worker
+		go jobRepoInstance.archivingWorker()
 	})
 
 	return jobRepoInstance
@@ -326,7 +333,7 @@ func (r *JobRepository) UpdateMonitoringStatus(job int64, monitoringStatus int32
 }
 
 // Stop updates the job with the database id jobId using the provided arguments.
-func (r *JobRepository) Archive(
+func (r *JobRepository) MarkArchived(
 	jobId int64,
 	monitoringStatus int32,
 	metricStats map[string]schema.JobStatistics) error {
@@ -358,6 +365,56 @@ func (r *JobRepository) Archive(
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Archiving worker thread
+func (r *JobRepository) archivingWorker(){
+	for {
+		select {
+		case job, ok := <- r.archiveChannel:
+			if !ok {
+				break
+			}
+			// not using meta data, called to load JobMeta into Cache?
+			// will fail if job meta not in repository
+			if _, err := r.FetchMetadata(job); err != nil {
+				log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
+				r.UpdateMonitoringStatus(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingFailed)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			// metricdata.ArchiveJob will fetch all the data from a MetricDataRepository and push into configured archive backend
+			// TODO: Maybe use context with cancel/timeout here
+			jobMeta, err := metricdata.ArchiveJob(job, context.Background())
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
+				r.UpdateMonitoringStatus(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingFailed)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			// Update the jobs database entry one last time:
+			if err := r.MarkArchived(job.ID, schema.MonitoringStatusArchivingSuccessful, jobMeta.Statistics); err != nil {
+				log.Errorf("archiving job (dbid: %d) failed: %s", job.ID, err.Error())
+				continue
+			}
+
+			log.Printf("archiving job (dbid: %d) successful", job.ID)
+			r.archivePending.Done()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Trigger async archiving
+func (r *JobRepository) TriggerArchiving(job *schema.Job){
+	r.archivePending.Add(1)
+	r.archiveChannel <- job
+}
+
+// Wait for background thread to finish pending archiving operations
+func (r *JobRepository) WaitForArchiving(){
+	// close channel and wait for worker to process remaining jobs
+	close(r.archiveChannel)
+	r.archivePending.Wait()
+}
+
 var ErrNotFound = errors.New("no such job or user")
 
 // FindJobOrUser returns a job database ID or a username if a job or user machtes the search term.