element-hq / element-hq/synapse

If an event takes ages to persist it blocks other events from being notified

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Description

This issue has been migrated from [#16633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16633).

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This is because we assign a stream ordering fairly early on, and we block notifying `/sync` streams / replication / etc about later events until the slow event has finished persisting.

One mitigation could be to assign a stream ordering as late as possible inside the transaction, to minimise the number of queries that could block future events.

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