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/* Implementation of EXPIRE (keys with fixed time to live).
 *
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2016, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
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#include "server.h"

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Incremental collection of expired keys.
 *
 * When keys are accessed they are expired on-access. However we need a
 * mechanism in order to ensure keys are eventually removed when expired even
 * if no access is performed on them.
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* Helper function for the activeExpireCycle() function.
 * This function will try to expire the key that is stored in the hash table
 * entry 'de' of the 'expires' hash table of a Redis database.
 *
 * If the key is found to be expired, it is removed from the database and
 * 1 is returned. Otherwise no operation is performed and 0 is returned.
 *
 * When a key is expired, server.stat_expiredkeys is incremented.
 *
 * The parameter 'now' is the current time in milliseconds as is passed
 * to the function to avoid too many gettimeofday() syscalls. */
int activeExpireCycleTryExpire(redisDb *db, dictEntry *de, long long now) {
    long long t = dictGetSignedIntegerVal(de);
    if (now > t) {
        sds key = dictGetKey(de);
        robj *keyobj = createStringObject(key,sdslen(key));

        propagateExpire(db,keyobj,server.lazyfree_lazy_expire);
        if (server.lazyfree_lazy_expire)
            dbAsyncDelete(db,keyobj);
        else
            dbSyncDelete(db,keyobj);
        notifyKeyspaceEvent(NOTIFY_EXPIRED,
            "expired",keyobj,db->id);
        decrRefCount(keyobj);
        server.stat_expiredkeys++;
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

/* Try to expire a few timed out keys. The algorithm used is adaptive and
 * will use few CPU cycles if there are few expiring keys, otherwise
 * it will get more aggressive to avoid that too much memory is used by
 * keys that can be removed from the keyspace.
 *
 * No more than CRON_DBS_PER_CALL databases are tested at every
 * iteration.
 *
 * This kind of call is used when Redis detects that timelimit_exit is
 * true, so there is more work to do, and we do it more incrementally from
 * the beforeSleep() function of the event loop.
 *
 * Expire cycle type:
 *
 * If type is ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST the function will try to run a
 * "fast" expire cycle that takes no longer than EXPIRE_FAST_CYCLE_DURATION
 * microseconds, and is not repeated again before the same amount of time.
 *
 * If type is ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW, that normal expire cycle is
 * executed, where the time limit is a percentage of the REDIS_HZ period
 * as specified by the REDIS_EXPIRELOOKUPS_TIME_PERC define. */

void activeExpireCycle(int type) {
    /* This function has some global state in order to continue the work
     * incrementally across calls. */
    static unsigned int current_db = 0; /* Last DB tested. */
    static int timelimit_exit = 0;      /* Time limit hit in previous call? */
    static long long last_fast_cycle = 0; /* When last fast cycle ran. */

    int j, iteration = 0;
    int dbs_per_call = CRON_DBS_PER_CALL;
    long long start = ustime(), timelimit;

    if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST) {
        /* Don't start a fast cycle if the previous cycle did not exited
         * for time limt. Also don't repeat a fast cycle for the same period
         * as the fast cycle total duration itself. */
        if (!timelimit_exit) return;
        if (start < last_fast_cycle + ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION*2) return;
        last_fast_cycle = start;
    }

    /* We usually should test CRON_DBS_PER_CALL per iteration, with
     * two exceptions:
     *
     * 1) Don't test more DBs than we have.
     * 2) If last time we hit the time limit, we want to scan all DBs
     * in this iteration, as there is work to do in some DB and we don't want
     * expired keys to use memory for too much time. */
    if (dbs_per_call > server.dbnum || timelimit_exit)
        dbs_per_call = server.dbnum;

    /* We can use at max ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC percentage of CPU time
     * per iteration. Since this function gets called with a frequency of
     * server.hz times per second, the following is the max amount of
     * microseconds we can spend in this function. */
    timelimit = 1000000*ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC/server.hz/100;
    timelimit_exit = 0;
    if (timelimit <= 0) timelimit = 1;

    if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST)
        timelimit = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION; /* in microseconds. */

    for (j = 0; j < dbs_per_call; j++) {
        int expired;
        redisDb *db = server.db+(current_db % server.dbnum);

        /* Increment the DB now so we are sure if we run out of time
         * in the current DB we'll restart from the next. This allows to
         * distribute the time evenly across DBs. */
        current_db++;

        /* Continue to expire if at the end of the cycle more than 25%
         * of the keys were expired. */
        do {
            unsigned long num, slots;
            long long now, ttl_sum;
            int ttl_samples;

            /* If there is nothing to expire try next DB ASAP. */
            if ((num = dictSize(db->expires)) == 0) {
                db->avg_ttl = 0;
                break;
            }
            slots = dictSlots(db->expires);
            now = mstime();

            /* When there are less than 1% filled slots getting random
             * keys is expensive, so stop here waiting for better times...
             * The dictionary will be resized asap. */
            if (num && slots > DICT_HT_INITIAL_SIZE &&
                (num*100/slots < 1)) break;

            /* The main collection cycle. Sample random keys among keys
             * with an expire set, checking for expired ones. */
            expired = 0;
            ttl_sum = 0;
            ttl_samples = 0;

            if (num > ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP)
                num = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP;

            while (num--) {
                dictEntry *de;
                long long ttl;

                if ((de = dictGetRandomKey(db->expires)) == NULL) break;
                ttl = dictGetSignedIntegerVal(de)-now;
                if (activeExpireCycleTryExpire(db,de,now)) expired++;
                if (ttl > 0) {
                    /* We want the average TTL of keys yet not expired. */
                    ttl_sum += ttl;
                    ttl_samples++;
                }
            }

            /* Update the average TTL stats for this database. */
            if (ttl_samples) {
                long long avg_ttl = ttl_sum/ttl_samples;

                /* Do a simple running average with a few samples.
                 * We just use the current estimate with a weight of 2%
                 * and the previous estimate with a weight of 98%. */
                if (db->avg_ttl == 0) db->avg_ttl = avg_ttl;
                db->avg_ttl = (db->avg_ttl/50)*49 + (avg_ttl/50);
            }

            /* We can't block forever here even if there are many keys to
             * expire. So after a given amount of milliseconds return to the
             * caller waiting for the other active expire cycle. */
            iteration++;
            if ((iteration & 0xf) == 0) { /* check once every 16 iterations. */
                long long elapsed = ustime()-start;

                latencyAddSampleIfNeeded("expire-cycle",elapsed/1000);
                if (elapsed > timelimit) timelimit_exit = 1;
            }
            if (timelimit_exit) return;
            /* We don't repeat the cycle if there are less than 25% of keys
             * found expired in the current DB. */
        } while (expired > ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP/4);
    }
}

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Expires Commands
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* This is the generic command implementation for EXPIRE, PEXPIRE, EXPIREAT
 * and PEXPIREAT. Because the commad second argument may be relative or absolute
 * the "basetime" argument is used to signal what the base time is (either 0
 * for *AT variants of the command, or the current time for relative expires).
 *
 * unit is either UNIT_SECONDS or UNIT_MILLISECONDS, and is only used for
 * the argv[2] parameter. The basetime is always specified in milliseconds. */
void expireGenericCommand(client *c, long long basetime, int unit) {
    robj *key = c->argv[1], *param = c->argv[2];
    long long when; /* unix time in milliseconds when the key will expire. */

    if (getLongLongFromObjectOrReply(c, param, &when, NULL) != C_OK)
        return;

    if (unit == UNIT_SECONDS) when *= 1000;
    when += basetime;

    /* No key, return zero. */
    if (lookupKeyWrite(c->db,key) == NULL) {
        addReply(c,shared.czero);
        return;
    }

    /* EXPIRE with negative TTL, or EXPIREAT with a timestamp into the past
     * should never be executed as a DEL when load the AOF or in the context
     * of a slave instance.
     *
     * Instead we take the other branch of the IF statement setting an expire
     * (possibly in the past) and wait for an explicit DEL from the master. */
    if (when <= mstime() && !server.loading && !server.masterhost) {
        robj *aux;

        int deleted = server.lazyfree_lazy_expire ? dbAsyncDelete(c->db,key) :
                                                    dbSyncDelete(c->db,key);
        serverAssertWithInfo(c,key,deleted);
        server.dirty++;

        /* Replicate/AOF this as an explicit DEL or UNLINK. */
        aux = server.lazyfree_lazy_expire ? shared.unlink : shared.del;
        rewriteClientCommandVector(c,2,aux,key);
        signalModifiedKey(c->db,key);
        notifyKeyspaceEvent(NOTIFY_GENERIC,"del",key,c->db->id);
        addReply(c, shared.cone);
        return;
    } else {
        setExpire(c->db,key,when);
        addReply(c,shared.cone);
        signalModifiedKey(c->db,key);
        notifyKeyspaceEvent(NOTIFY_GENERIC,"expire",key,c->db->id);
        server.dirty++;
        return;
    }
}

/* EXPIRE key seconds */
void expireCommand(client *c) {
    expireGenericCommand(c,mstime(),UNIT_SECONDS);
}

/* EXPIREAT key time */
void expireatCommand(client *c) {
    expireGenericCommand(c,0,UNIT_SECONDS);
}

/* PEXPIRE key milliseconds */
void pexpireCommand(client *c) {
    expireGenericCommand(c,mstime(),UNIT_MILLISECONDS);
}

/* PEXPIREAT key ms_time */
void pexpireatCommand(client *c) {
    expireGenericCommand(c,0,UNIT_MILLISECONDS);
}

/* Implements TTL and PTTL */
void ttlGenericCommand(client *c, int output_ms) {
    long long expire, ttl = -1;

    /* If the key does not exist at all, return -2 */
    if (lookupKeyReadWithFlags(c->db,c->argv[1],LOOKUP_NOTOUCH) == NULL) {
        addReplyLongLong(c,-2);
        return;
    }
    /* The key exists. Return -1 if it has no expire, or the actual
     * TTL value otherwise. */
    expire = getExpire(c->db,c->argv[1]);
    if (expire != -1) {
        ttl = expire-mstime();
        if (ttl < 0) ttl = 0;
    }
    if (ttl == -1) {
        addReplyLongLong(c,-1);
    } else {
        addReplyLongLong(c,output_ms ? ttl : ((ttl+500)/1000));
    }
}

/* TTL key */
void ttlCommand(client *c) {
    ttlGenericCommand(c, 0);
}

/* PTTL key */
void pttlCommand(client *c) {
    ttlGenericCommand(c, 1);
}

/* PERSIST key */
void persistCommand(client *c) {
    dictEntry *de;

    de = dictFind(c->db->dict,c->argv[1]->ptr);
    if (de == NULL) {
        addReply(c,shared.czero);
    } else {
        if (removeExpire(c->db,c->argv[1])) {
            addReply(c,shared.cone);
            server.dirty++;
        } else {
            addReply(c,shared.czero);
        }
    }
}

/* TOUCH key1 [key2 key3 ... keyN] */
void touchCommand(client *c) {
    int touched = 0;
    for (int j = 1; j < c->argc; j++)
        if (lookupKeyRead(c->db,c->argv[j]) != NULL) touched++;
    addReplyLongLong(c,touched);
}