From 564fc0cc80e89c31187a94480860637c9b08bd46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wojciech Tyczynski <wojtekt@google.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:45:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Throttle retried requests in client

---
 pkg/client/restclient/request.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/client/restclient/request.go b/pkg/client/restclient/request.go
index 2473a12bf21..afddea093bf 100644
--- a/pkg/client/restclient/request.go
+++ b/pkg/client/restclient/request.go
@@ -795,6 +795,12 @@ func (r *Request) request(fn func(*http.Request, *http.Response)) error {
 		req.Header = r.headers
 
 		r.backoffMgr.Sleep(r.backoffMgr.CalculateBackoff(r.URL()))
+		if retries > 0 {
+			// We are retrying the request that we already send to apiserver
+			// at least once before.
+			// This request should also be throttled with the client-internal throttler.
+			r.tryThrottle()
+		}
 		resp, err := client.Do(req)
 		updateURLMetrics(r, resp, err)
 		if err != nil {