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-rw-r--r--synapse/logging/context.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/logging/context.py b/synapse/logging/context.py
index 9f484ce59e..6747f29e6a 100644
--- a/synapse/logging/context.py
+++ b/synapse/logging/context.py
@@ -627,8 +627,10 @@ def make_deferred_yieldable(deferred):
     (This is more-or-less the opposite operation to run_in_background.)
     """
     if inspect.isawaitable(deferred):
-        # If we're given a coroutine we need to convert it to a deferred so that
-        # we can attach callbacks (and not immediately return).
+        # If we're given a coroutine we convert it to a deferred so that we
+        # run it and find out if it immediately finishes, it it does then we
+        # don't need to fiddle with log contexts at all and can return
+        # immediately.
         deferred = defer.ensureDeferred(deferred)
 
     if not isinstance(deferred, defer.Deferred):