rework runInteraction in terms of runConnection

... so that we can share the code

synapse/storage/_base.py

@@ -291,33 +291,33 @@ class SQLBaseStore(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def runInteraction(self, desc, func, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Wraps the .runInteraction() method on the underlying db_pool."""
-        current_context = LoggingContext.current_context()
+        """Starts a transaction on the database and runs a given function
 
-        start_time = time.time() * 1000
+        Arguments:
+            desc (str): description of the transaction, for logging and metrics
+            func (func): callback function, which will be called with a
+                database transaction (twisted.enterprise.adbapi.Transaction) as
+                its first argument, followed by `args` and `kwargs`.
+
+            args (list): positional args to pass to `func`
+            kwargs (dict): named args to pass to `func`
+
+        Returns:
+            Deferred: The result of func
+        """
+        current_context = LoggingContext.current_context()
 
         after_callbacks = []
         final_callbacks = []
 
         def inner_func(conn, *args, **kwargs):
-            with LoggingContext("runInteraction") as context:
-                sql_scheduling_timer.inc_by(time.time() * 1000 - start_time)
-
-                if self.database_engine.is_connection_closed(conn):
-                    logger.debug("Reconnecting closed database connection")
-                    conn.reconnect()
-
-                current_context.copy_to(context)
             return self._new_transaction(
                 conn, desc, after_callbacks, final_callbacks, current_context,
                 func, *args, **kwargs
             )
 
         try:
-            with PreserveLoggingContext():
-                result = yield self._db_pool.runWithConnection(
-                    inner_func, *args, **kwargs
-                )
+            result = yield self.runWithConnection(inner_func, *args, **kwargs)
 
             for after_callback, after_args, after_kwargs in after_callbacks:
                 after_callback(*after_args, **after_kwargs)
@@ -329,7 +329,18 @@ class SQLBaseStore(object):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def runWithConnection(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Wraps the .runInteraction() method on the underlying db_pool."""
+        """Wraps the .runWithConnection() method on the underlying db_pool.
+
+        Arguments:
+            func (func): callback function, which will be called with a
+                database connection (twisted.enterprise.adbapi.Connection) as
+                its first argument, followed by `args` and `kwargs`.
+            args (list): positional args to pass to `func`
+            kwargs (dict): named args to pass to `func`
+
+        Returns:
+            Deferred: The result of func
+        """
         current_context = LoggingContext.current_context()
 
         start_time = time.time() * 1000