Shikhar Bhushan created LUCENE-5299:
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Summary: Refactor Collector API for parallelism
Key: LUCENE-5299
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5299
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Shikhar Bhushan
h2. Motivation
We should be able to scale-up better with Solr/Lucene by utilizing multiple CPU
cores, and not have to resort to scaling-out by sharding (with all the
associated distributed system pitfalls) when the index size does not warrant it.
Presently, IndexSearcher has an optional constructor arg for an
ExecutorService, which gets used for searching in parallel for call paths where
one of the TopDocCollector's is created internally. The per-atomic-reader
search happens in parallel and then the TopDocs/TopFieldDocs results are merged
with locking around the merge bit.
However there are some problems with this approach:
* If arbitary Collector args come into play, we can't parallelize. Note that
even if ultimately results are going to a TopDocCollector it may be wrapped
inside e.g. a EarlyTerminatingCollector or TimeLimitingCollector or both.
* The special-casing with parallelism baked on top does not scale, there are
many Collector's that could potentially lend themselves to parallelism, and
special-casing means the parallelization has to be re-implemented if a
different permutation of collectors is to be used.
h2. Proposal
A refactoring of collectors that allows for parallelization at the level of the
collection protocol.
Some requirements that should guide the implementation:
* easy migration path for collectors that need to remain serial
* the parallelization should be composable (when collectors wrap other
collectors)
* allow collectors to pick the optimal solution (e.g. there might be memory
tradeoffs to be made) by advising the collector about whether a search will be
parallelized, so that the serial use-case is not penalized.
* encourage use of non-blocking constructs and lock-free parallelism, blocking
is not advisable for the hot-spot of a search, besides wasting pooled threads.
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