Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py b/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py

index 979545d613..fd491b9359 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/transaction_queue.py
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ from synapse.metrics import (
     sent_edus_counter,
     sent_transactions_counter,
 )
-from synapse.util import PreserveLoggingContext, logcontext
+from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process
+from synapse.util import logcontext
 from synapse.util.metrics import measure_func
 from synapse.util.retryutils import NotRetryingDestination, get_retry_limiter
 
@@ -165,10 +166,11 @@ class TransactionQueue(object):
         if self._is_processing:
             return
 
-        # fire off a processing loop in the background. It's likely it will
-        # outlast the current request, so run it in the sentinel logcontext.
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            self._process_event_queue_loop()
+        # fire off a processing loop in the background
+        run_as_background_process(
+            "process_transaction_queue",
+            self._process_event_queue_loop,
+        )
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _process_event_queue_loop(self):