Deadlocks caused by cleanupQueue() and claimJob()/updateJob() running at the same time
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>On a production site if I have two runners both processing the same queues I hit deadlocks.</p>
<pre> Executing: /var/www/html/vendor/bin/drush advancedqueue:queue:process entity_usage_custom_views --timeout=20 --uri=REDACTED [1088.15 sec, 14.75 MB]<br>> <br>> In ExceptionHandler.php line 96:<br>> <br>> SQLSTATE[40001]: Serialization failure: 1213 Deadlock found when trying to <br>> get lock; try restarting transaction: UPDATE "advancedqueue" SET "payload"= <br>> :db_update_placeholder_0, "state"=:db_update_placeholder_1, "message"=:db_u <br>> pdate_placeholder_2, "num_retries"=:db_update_placeholder_3, "available"=:d <br>> b_update_placeholder_4, "processed"=:db_update_placeholder_5, "expires"=:db <br>> _update_placeholder_6 <br>> WHERE "job_id" = :db_condition_placeholder_0; Array <br>> ( <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_0] => {"entity_type":"media","entity_id":2468} <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_1] => success <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_2] => <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_3] => 0 <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_4] => 1787741344 <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_5] => 1787741580 <br>> [:db_update_placeholder_6] => 0 <br>> [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 237422 <br>> ) <br>> <br>> <br>> In PdoTrait.php line 109:<br>> <br>> SQLSTATE[40001]: Serialization failure: 1213 Deadlock found when trying to <br>> get lock; try restarting transaction </pre><h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>This occurs because we call cleanupQueue a lot and this updates lots of rows using the secondary index and claim and update use the primary index to grab a single row.</p>
<p>The fix is to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Scope cleanup to the current queue: add ->condition('queue_id', $this->queueId) to the cleanupQueue() update. Cuts cross-queue contention entirely (the biggest win, one line).</li>
<li>Replace the range UPDATE with select-ids-then-update-by-PK: SELECT job_id FROM {advancedqueue} WHERE queue_id = :qid AND expires <> 0 AND expires < :now ORDER BY job_id ASC, then UPDATE ... WHERE job_id IN (:ids). This swaps secondary-index gap locks for primary-key row locks — the same lock type claimJob()/updateJob() already take — and locking in ascending job_id order gives all code paths a consistent global lock order, which is the standard deadlock-avoidance technique.</li>
<li>Retry on deadlock: wrap the cleanup update (and claimJob()'s claim update) in a small retry loop that catches \Drupal\Core\Database\DatabaseExceptionWrapper, checks for SQLSTATE 40001, and retries a few times with jitter. Deadlocks can't be fully eliminated under arbitrary concurrency — MySQL always picks a victim to roll back — so the app must be able to retry that victim.
</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
<p>Implement and test.</p>
<h3 id="summary-ui-changes">User interface changes</h3>
<h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3>
<h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3>
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