From f0a043a62213ea3c3f4b50aa1e661ca1b1bad2c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armin Braun <me@obrown.io>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:46:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Stop Executing SLM Policy Transport Action on Snapshot Pool

* Executing SLM policies on the snapshot thread will block until a snapshot finishes if the pool is completely busy executing that snapshot
* Fixes #45594
---
 .../slm/action/TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction.java     | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ilm/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/slm/action/TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/ilm/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/slm/action/TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction.java
index 01b0f209b8924..12d3d62c99f35 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ilm/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/slm/action/TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ilm/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/slm/action/TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction.java
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public TransportExecuteSnapshotLifecycleAction(TransportService transportService
     }
     @Override
     protected String executor() {
-        return ThreadPool.Names.SNAPSHOT;
+        return ThreadPool.Names.GENERIC;
     }
 
     @Override