diff --git a/synapse/storage/databases/state/store.py b/synapse/storage/databases/state/store.py
index 5e85c5c40d9c..f0ca6473ff9a 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/databases/state/store.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/databases/state/store.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def _get_state_group_delta_txn(txn: LoggingTransaction) -> _GetStateGroupDelta:
         )
 
     async def _get_state_groups_from_groups(
-        self, groups: List[int], state_filter: StateFilter
+        self, groups: Sequence[int], state_filter: StateFilter
     ) -> Dict[int, StateMap[str]]:
         """Returns the state groups for a given set of groups from the
         database, filtering on types of state events.
@@ -433,30 +433,23 @@ async def _get_state_for_groups(
         if not incomplete_groups:
             return state
 
-        cache_sequence_nm = self._state_group_cache.sequence
-        cache_sequence_m = self._state_group_members_cache.sequence
-
-        # Help the cache hit ratio by expanding the filter a bit
-        db_state_filter = state_filter.return_expanded()
-
-        group_to_state_dict = await self._get_state_groups_from_groups(
-            list(incomplete_groups), state_filter=db_state_filter
-        )
+        deferred_requests = []
+        for group in incomplete_groups:
+            deferred_requests.append(
+                make_deferred_yieldable(
+                    self._get_state_for_group_using_inflight_cache(group, state_filter)
+                )
+            )
 
-        # Now lets update the caches
-        self._insert_into_cache(
-            group_to_state_dict,
-            db_state_filter,
-            cache_seq_num_members=cache_sequence_m,
-            cache_seq_num_non_members=cache_sequence_nm,
+        # ostd suspicious log context rules
+        results_from_requests = await make_deferred_yieldable(
+            defer.gatherResults(
+                deferred_requests, consumeErrors=False
+            )  # ostd consumeErrors??
         )
 
-        # And finally update the result dict, by filtering out any extra
-        # stuff we pulled out of the database.
-        for group, group_state_dict in group_to_state_dict.items():
-            # We just replace any existing entries, as we will have loaded
-            # everything we need from the database anyway.
-            state[group] = state_filter.filter_state(group_state_dict)
+        for group, group_result in zip(incomplete_groups, results_from_requests):
+            state[group] = group_result
 
         return state