Michael Garski created SOLR-4909:
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Summary: Solr and IndexReader Re-opening
Key: SOLR-4909
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4909
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: replication (java), search
Affects Versions: 4.3
Reporter: Michael Garski
Fix For: 5.0, 4.4
I've been experimenting with caching filter data per segment in Solr using a
CachingWrapperFilter & FilteredQuery within a custom query parser (as suggested
by [[email protected]] in SOLR-3763) and encountered situations where the value
of getCoreCacheKey() on the AtomicReader for each segment can change for a
given segment on disk when the searcher is reopened. As CachingWrapperFilter
uses the value of the segment's getCoreCacheKey() as the key in the cache,
there are situations where the data cached on that segment is not reused when
the segment on disk is still part of the index. This affects the Lucene field
cache and field value caches as well as they are cached per segment.
When Solr first starts it opens the searcher's underlying DirectoryReader in
StandardIndexReaderFactory.newReader by calling DirectoryReader.open(indexDir,
termInfosIndexDivisor), and the reader is subsequently reopened in
SolrCore.openNewSearcher by calling
DirectoryReader.openIfChanged(currentReader, writer.get(), true). The act of
reopening the reader with the writer when it was first opened without a writer
results in the value of getCoreCacheKey() changing on each of the segments even
though some of the segments have not changed. Depending on the role of the Solr
server, this has different effects:
* On a SolrCloud node or free-standing index and search server the segment
cache is invalidated during the first DirectoryReader reopen - subsequent
reopens use the same IndexWriter instance and as such the value of
getCoreCacheKey() on each segment does not change so the cache is retained.
* For a master-slave replication set up the segment cache invalidation occurs
on the slave during every replication as the index is reopened using a new
IndexWriter instance which results in the value of getCoreCacheKey() changing
on each segment when the DirectoryReader is reopened using a different
IndexWriter instance.
I can think of a few approaches to alter the re-opening behavior to allow reuse
of segment level caches in both cases, and I'd like to get some input on other
ideas before digging in:
* To change the cloud node/standalone first commit issue it might be possible
to create the UpdateHandler and IndexWriter before the DirectoryReader, and use
the writer to open the reader. There is a comment in the SolrCore constructor
by [[email protected]] that the searcher should be opened before the update
handler so that may not be an acceptable approach.
* To change the behavior of a slave in a replication set up, one solution would
be to not open a writer from the SnapPuller when the new index is retrieved if
the core is enabled as a slave only. The writer is needed on a server
configured as a master & slave that is functioning as a replication repeater so
downstream slaves can see the changes in the index and retrieve them.
I'll attach a unit test that demonstrates the behavior of reopening the
DirectoryReader and it's effects on the value of getCoreCacheKey. My assumption
is that the behavior of Lucene during the various reader reopen operations is
correct and that the changes are necessary on the Solr side of things.
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