element-hq / element-hq/synapse

backfilling missing events when receiving a federation txn blocks all other txns for that room

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A-Federation A-Performance O-Occasional S-Minor T-Defect
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This issue has been migrated from [#1729](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1729).

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so if my hs sends an event to another hs, and it causes that hs to backfill an event over federation from elsewhere, all other events to that hs for that room will block until the backfill completes. this feels wrong

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