elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #5319 by kimchy (2014-03-03 15:01:03+00:00)
Title: Force merges to not happen when indexing a doc / flush

Today, even though our merge policy doesn't return new merge specs on SEGMENT_FLUSH, merge on the scheduler is still called on flush time, and can cause merges to stall indexing during merges. Both for the concurrent merge scheduler (the default) and the serial merge scheduler. This behavior become worse when throttling kicks in (today at 20mb per sec).

In order to solve it (outside of Lucene for now), we wrap the merge scheduler with an EnableMergeScheduler, where, on the thread level, using a thread local, the call to merge can be enabled/disabled.

A Merges helper class is added where all explicit merges operations should go through. If the scheduler is the enabled one, it will enable merges before calling the relevant explicit method call. In order to make sure Merges is the only class that calls the explicit merge calls, the IW variant of them is added to the forbidden APIs list.