ChainedFastBackend.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Cache;


/**
 * Defines a backend with a fast and a consistent backend chain.
 *
 * In order to mitigate a network roundtrip for each cache get operation, this
 * cache allows a fast backend to be put in front of a slow(er) backend.
 * Typically the fast backend will be something like APCu, and be bound to a
 * single web node, and will not require a network round trip to fetch a cache
 * item. The fast backend will also typically be inconsistent (will only see
 * changes from one web node). The slower backend will be something like Mysql,
 * Memcached or Redis, and will be used by all web nodes, thus making it
 * consistent, but also require a network round trip for each cache get. The
 * fast backend must however also use a consistent cache tag invalidation, for
 * example by using the cache tag checksum API.
 *
 * In addition to being useful for sites running on multiple web nodes, this
 * backend can also be useful for sites running on a single web node where the
 * fast backend (e.g., APCu) isn't shareable between the web and CLI processes.
 * Single-node configurations that don't have that limitation can just use the
 * fast cache backend directly.
 *
 * We always use the fast backend when reading (get()) entries from cache, but
 * check whether they were created before the last write (set()) to this
 * (chained) cache backend. Those cache entries that were created before the
 * last write are discarded, but we use their cache IDs to then read them from
 * the consistent (slower) cache backend instead; at the same time we update
 * the fast cache backend so that the next read will hit the faster backend
 * again. Hence we can guarantee that the cache entries we return are all
 * up-to-date, and maximally exploit the faster cache backend. This cache
 * backend uses and maintains a "last write timestamp" to determine which cache
 * entries should be discarded.
 *
 * Because this backend will mark all the cache entries in a bin as out-dated
 * for each write to a bin, it is best suited to bins with fewer changes.
 *
 * Note that this is designed specifically for combining a fast inconsistent
 * cache backend with a slower consistent cache back-end. To still function
 * correctly, it needs to do a consistency check (see the "last write timestamp"
 * logic). This contrasts with \Drupal\Core\Cache\BackendChain, which assumes
 * both chained cache backends are consistent, thus a consistency check being
 * pointless.
 *
 * @see \Drupal\Core\Cache\BackendChain
 *
 * @ingroup cache
 */
class ChainedFastBackend implements CacheBackendInterface, CacheTagsInvalidatorInterface {

  /**
   * Cache key prefix for the bin-specific entry to track the last write.
   */
  const LAST_WRITE_TIMESTAMP_PREFIX = 'last_write_timestamp_';

  /**
   * @var string
   */
  protected $bin;

  /**
   * The consistent cache backend.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface
   */
  protected $consistentBackend;

  /**
   * The fast cache backend.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface
   */
  protected $fastBackend;

  /**
   * The time at which the last write to this cache bin happened.
   *
   * @var float
   */
  protected $lastWriteTimestamp;

  /**
   * Constructs a ChainedFastBackend object.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface $consistent_backend
   *   The consistent cache backend.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface $fast_backend
   *   The fast cache backend.
   * @param string $bin
   *   The cache bin for which the object is created.
   */
  public function __construct(CacheBackendInterface $consistent_backend, CacheBackendInterface $fast_backend, $bin) {
    $this->consistentBackend = $consistent_backend;
    $this->fastBackend = $fast_backend;
    $this->bin = 'cache_' . $bin;
    $this->lastWriteTimestamp = NULL;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function get($cid, $allow_invalid = FALSE) {
    $cids = [
      $cid,
    ];
    $cache = $this
      ->getMultiple($cids, $allow_invalid);
    return reset($cache);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function getMultiple(&$cids, $allow_invalid = FALSE) {
    $cids_copy = $cids;
    $cache = [];

    // If we can determine the time at which the last write to the consistent
    // backend occurred (we might not be able to if it has been recently
    // flushed/restarted), then we can use that to validate items from the fast
    // backend, so try to get those first. Otherwise, we can't assume that
    // anything in the fast backend is valid, so don't even bother fetching
    // from there.
    $last_write_timestamp = $this
      ->getLastWriteTimestamp();
    if ($last_write_timestamp) {

      // Items in the fast backend might be invalid based on their timestamp,
      // but we can't check the timestamp prior to getting the item, which
      // includes unserializing it. However, unserializing an invalid item can
      // throw an exception. For example, a __wakeup() implementation that
      // receives object properties containing references to code or data that
      // no longer exists in the application's current state.
      //
      // Unserializing invalid data, whether it throws an exception or not, is
      // a waste of time, but we only incur it while a cache invalidation has
      // not yet finished propagating to all the fast backend instances.
      //
      // Most cache backend implementations should not wrap their internal
      // get() implementations with a try/catch, because they have no reason to
      // assume that their data is invalid, and doing so would mask
      // unserialization errors of valid data. We do so here, only because the
      // fast backend is non-authoritative, and after discarding its
      // exceptions, we proceed to check the consistent (authoritative) backend
      // and allow exceptions from that to bubble up.
      try {
        $items = $this->fastBackend
          ->getMultiple($cids, $allow_invalid);
      } catch (\Exception $e) {
        $cids = $cids_copy;
        $items = [];
      }

      // Even if items were successfully fetched from the fast backend, they
      // are potentially invalid if older than the last time the bin was
      // written to in the consistent backend, so only keep ones that aren't.
      foreach ($items as $item) {
        if ($item->created < $last_write_timestamp) {
          $cids[array_search($item->cid, $cids_copy)] = $item->cid;
        }
        else {
          $cache[$item->cid] = $item;
        }
      }
    }

    // If there were any cache entries that were not available in the fast
    // backend, retrieve them from the consistent backend and store them in the
    // fast one.
    if ($cids) {
      foreach ($this->consistentBackend
        ->getMultiple($cids, $allow_invalid) as $item) {
        $cache[$item->cid] = $item;
        $this->fastBackend
          ->set($item->cid, $item->data, $item->expire, $item->tags);
      }
    }
    return $cache;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function set($cid, $data, $expire = Cache::PERMANENT, array $tags = []) {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->set($cid, $data, $expire, $tags);
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
    $this->fastBackend
      ->set($cid, $data, $expire, $tags);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function setMultiple(array $items) {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->setMultiple($items);
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
    $this->fastBackend
      ->setMultiple($items);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function delete($cid) {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->deleteMultiple([
      $cid,
    ]);
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function deleteMultiple(array $cids) {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->deleteMultiple($cids);
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function deleteAll() {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->deleteAll();
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function invalidate($cid) {
    $this
      ->invalidateMultiple([
      $cid,
    ]);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function invalidateMultiple(array $cids) {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->invalidateMultiple($cids);
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function invalidateTags(array $tags) {
    if ($this->consistentBackend instanceof CacheTagsInvalidatorInterface) {
      $this->consistentBackend
        ->invalidateTags($tags);
    }
    if ($this->fastBackend instanceof CacheTagsInvalidatorInterface) {
      $this->fastBackend
        ->invalidateTags($tags);
    }
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function invalidateAll() {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->invalidateAll();
    $this
      ->markAsOutdated();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function garbageCollection() {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->garbageCollection();
    $this->fastBackend
      ->garbageCollection();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function removeBin() {
    $this->consistentBackend
      ->removeBin();
    $this->fastBackend
      ->removeBin();
  }

  /**
   * @todo Document in https://www.drupal.org/node/2311945.
   */
  public function reset() {
    $this->lastWriteTimestamp = NULL;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the last write timestamp.
   */
  protected function getLastWriteTimestamp() {
    if ($this->lastWriteTimestamp === NULL) {
      $cache = $this->consistentBackend
        ->get(self::LAST_WRITE_TIMESTAMP_PREFIX . $this->bin);
      $this->lastWriteTimestamp = $cache ? $cache->data : 0;
    }
    return $this->lastWriteTimestamp;
  }

  /**
   * Marks the fast cache bin as outdated because of a write.
   */
  protected function markAsOutdated() {

    // Clocks on a single server can drift. Multiple servers may have slightly
    // differing opinions about the current time. Given that, do not assume
    // 'now' on this server is always later than our stored timestamp.
    // Also add 1 millisecond, to ensure that caches written earlier in the same
    // millisecond are invalidated. It is possible that caches will be later in
    // the same millisecond and are then incorrectly invalidated, but that only
    // costs one additional roundtrip to the persistent cache.
    $now = round(microtime(TRUE) + 0.001, 3);
    if ($now > $this
      ->getLastWriteTimestamp()) {
      $this->lastWriteTimestamp = $now;
      $this->consistentBackend
        ->set(self::LAST_WRITE_TIMESTAMP_PREFIX . $this->bin, $this->lastWriteTimestamp);
    }
  }

}