[jira] [Created] (SOLR-9706) fetchIndex blocks incoming queries when issued on a replica in SolrCloud

["Erick Erickson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Erick Erickson created SOLR-9706:
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             Summary: fetchIndex blocks incoming queries when issued on a replica in SolrCloud
                 Key: SOLR-9706
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9706
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
      Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
    Affects Versions: 6.3, trunk
            Reporter: Erick Erickson


This is something of an edge case, but it's perfectly possible to issue a fetchIndex command through the core admin API to a replica in SolrCloud. While the fetch is going on, incoming queries are blocked. Then when the fetch completes, all the queued-up queries execute.

In the normal case, this is probably the proper behavior as a fetchIndex during "normal" SolrCloud operation indicates that the replica's index is too far out of date and _shouldn't_ serve queries, this is a special case.

Why would one want to do this? Well, in _extremely_ high indexing throughput situations, the additional time taken for the leader forwarding the query on to a follower is too high. So there is an indexing cluster and a search cluster and an external process that issues a fetchIndex to each replica in the search cluster periodiclally.

What do people think about an "expert" option for fetchIndex that would cause a replica to behave like the old master/slave days and continue serving queries while the fetchindex was going on? Or another solution?

FWIW, here's the stack traces where the blocking is going on (6.3 about). This is not hard to reproduce if you introduce an artificial delay in the fetch command then submit a fetchIndex and try to query.

Blocked query thread(s)
DefaultSolrCoreState.loci(159)
DefaultSolrCoreState.getIndexWriter (104)
SolrCore.openNewSearcher(1781)
SolrCore.getSearcher(1931)
SolrCore.getSearchers(1677)
SolrCore.getSearcher(1577)
SolrQueryRequestBase.getSearcher(115)
QueryComponent.process(308).

The stack trace that releases this is
DefaultSolrCoreState.createMainIndexWriter(240)
DefaultSolrCoreState.changeWriter(203)
DefaultSolrCoreState.openIndexWriter(228) // LOCK RELEASED 2 lines later
IndexFetcher.fetchLatestIndex(493) (approx, I have debugging code in there. It's in the "finally" clause anyway.)
IndexFetcher.fetchLatestIndex(251).



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