Introduce batched query execution and data-node side reduce

docs/changelog/121885.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pr: 121885
+summary: Introduce batched query execution and data-node side reduce
+area: Search
+type: enhancement
+issues: []

qa/smoke-test-http/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/http/SearchErrorTraceIT.java

@@ -14,12 +14,15 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.MultiSearchRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Request;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.CollectionUtils;
 import org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.ErrorTraceHelper;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.builder.SearchSourceBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.transport.MockTransportService;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentType;
+import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -40,6 +43,13 @@ protected Collection<Class<? extends Plugin>> nodePlugins() {
     @Before
     public void setupMessageListener() {
         hasStackTrace = ErrorTraceHelper.setupErrorTraceListener(internalCluster());
+        // TODO: make this test work with batched query execution by enhancing ErrorTraceHelper.setupErrorTraceListener
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().put(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey(), false));
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void resetSettings() {
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().putNull(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey()));
     }
 
     private void setupIndexWithDocs() {

rest-api-spec/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search/120_batch_reduce_size.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 setup:
+  - skip:
+      awaits_fix: "TODO fix this test, the response with batched execution is not deterministic enough for the available matchers"
+
   - do:
       indices.create:
           index: test_1
@@ -48,7 +51,6 @@ setup:
         batched_reduce_size: 2
         body: { "size" : 0, "aggs" : { "str_terms" : { "terms" : { "field" : "str" } } } }
 
-  - match: { num_reduce_phases: 4 }
   - match: { hits.total: 3 }
   - length: { aggregations.str_terms.buckets: 2 }
   - match: { aggregations.str_terms.buckets.0.key: "abc" }

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/action/IndicesRequestIT.java

@@ -562,11 +562,8 @@ public void testSearchQueryThenFetch() throws Exception {
         );
 
         clearInterceptedActions();
-        assertIndicesSubset(
-            Arrays.asList(searchRequest.indices()),
-            SearchTransportService.QUERY_ACTION_NAME,
-            SearchTransportService.FETCH_ID_ACTION_NAME
-        );
+        assertIndicesSubset(Arrays.asList(searchRequest.indices()), true, SearchTransportService.QUERY_ACTION_NAME);
+        assertIndicesSubset(Arrays.asList(searchRequest.indices()), SearchTransportService.FETCH_ID_ACTION_NAME);
     }
 
     public void testSearchDfsQueryThenFetch() throws Exception {
@@ -619,10 +616,6 @@ private static void assertIndicesSubset(List<String> indices, String... actions)
         assertIndicesSubset(indices, false, actions);
     }
 
-    private static void assertIndicesSubsetOptionalRequests(List<String> indices, String... actions) {
-        assertIndicesSubset(indices, true, actions);
-    }
-
     private static void assertIndicesSubset(List<String> indices, boolean optional, String... actions) {
         // indices returned by each bulk shard request need to be a subset of the original indices
         for (String action : actions) {

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/tasks/TasksIT.java

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
 import org.elasticsearch.persistent.PersistentTasksCustomMetadata;
 import org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.builder.SearchSourceBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.tasks.RemovedTaskListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.tasks.Task;
@@ -352,6 +353,8 @@ public void testTransportBulkTasks() {
     }
 
     public void testSearchTaskDescriptions() {
+        // TODO: enhance this test to also check the tasks created by batched query execution
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().put(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey(), false));
         registerTaskManagerListeners(TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name());  // main task
         registerTaskManagerListeners(TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name() + "[*]");  // shard task
         createIndex("test");
@@ -398,7 +401,7 @@ public void testSearchTaskDescriptions() {
             // assert that all task descriptions have non-zero length
             assertThat(taskInfo.description().length(), greaterThan(0));
         }
-
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().putNull(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey()));
     }
 
     public void testSearchTaskHeaderLimit() {

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportSearchIT.java

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestStatus;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.DocValueFormat;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchHit;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AbstractAggregationBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregationBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregationExecutionContext;
@@ -446,6 +447,7 @@ public void testSearchIdle() throws Exception {
     }
 
     public void testCircuitBreakerReduceFail() throws Exception {
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().put(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey(), false));
         int numShards = randomIntBetween(1, 10);
         indexSomeDocs("test", numShards, numShards * 3);
 
@@ -519,7 +521,9 @@ public void onFailure(Exception exc) {
             }
             assertBusy(() -> assertThat(requestBreakerUsed(), equalTo(0L)));
         } finally {
-            updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().putNull("indices.breaker.request.limit"));
+            updateClusterSettings(
+                Settings.builder().putNull("indices.breaker.request.limit").putNull(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey())
+            );
         }
     }
 

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchCancellationIT.java

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportSearchAction;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportSearchScrollAction;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.TimeValue;
 import org.elasticsearch.script.Script;
 import org.elasticsearch.script.ScriptType;
@@ -239,6 +240,8 @@ public void testCancelMultiSearch() throws Exception {
     }
 
     public void testCancelFailedSearchWhenPartialResultDisallowed() throws Exception {
+        // TODO: make this test compatible with batched execution, currently the exceptions are slightly different with batched
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().put(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey(), false));
         // Have at least two nodes so that we have parallel execution of two request guaranteed even if max concurrent requests per node
         // are limited to 1
         internalCluster().ensureAtLeastNumDataNodes(2);

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/bucket/TermsDocCountErrorIT.java

@@ -13,12 +13,15 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetadata;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.Aggregator.SubAggCollectionMode;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.BucketOrder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.Terms;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.Terms.Bucket;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.TermsAggregatorFactory.ExecutionMode;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESIntegTestCase;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -50,6 +53,18 @@ public static String randomExecutionHint() {
 
     private static int numRoutingValues;
 
+    @Before
+    public void disableBatchedExecution() {
+        // TODO: it's practically impossible to get a 100% deterministic test with batched execution unfortunately, adjust this test to
+        // still do something useful with batched execution (i.e. use somewhat relaxed assertions)
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().put(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey(), false));
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void resetSettings() {
+        updateClusterSettings(Settings.builder().putNull(SearchService.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE.getKey()));
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void setupSuiteScopeCluster() throws Exception {
         assertAcked(indicesAdmin().prepareCreate("idx").setMapping(STRING_FIELD_NAME, "type=keyword").get());

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersions.java

@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ static TransportVersion def(int id) {
     public static final TransportVersion PROJECT_ID_IN_SNAPSHOT = def(9_040_0_00);
     public static final TransportVersion INDEX_STATS_AND_METADATA_INCLUDE_PEAK_WRITE_LOAD = def(9_041_0_00);
     public static final TransportVersion REPOSITORIES_METADATA_AS_PROJECT_CUSTOM = def(9_042_0_00);
+    public static final TransportVersion BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION = def(9_043_0_00);
 
     /*
      * STOP! READ THIS FIRST! No, really,

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java

@@ -64,33 +64,33 @@
  * distributed frequencies
  */
 abstract class AbstractSearchAsyncAction<Result extends SearchPhaseResult> extends SearchPhase {
-    private static final float DEFAULT_INDEX_BOOST = 1.0f;
+    protected static final float DEFAULT_INDEX_BOOST = 1.0f;
     private final Logger logger;
     private final NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry;
-    private final SearchTransportService searchTransportService;
+    protected final SearchTransportService searchTransportService;
     private final Executor executor;
     private final ActionListener<SearchResponse> listener;
-    private final SearchRequest request;
+    protected final SearchRequest request;
 
     /**
      * Used by subclasses to resolve node ids to DiscoveryNodes.
      **/
     private final BiFunction<String, String, Transport.Connection> nodeIdToConnection;
-    private final SearchTask task;
+    protected final SearchTask task;
     protected final SearchPhaseResults<Result> results;
     private final long clusterStateVersion;
     private final TransportVersion minTransportVersion;
-    private final Map<String, AliasFilter> aliasFilter;
-    private final Map<String, Float> concreteIndexBoosts;
+    protected final Map<String, AliasFilter> aliasFilter;
+    protected final Map<String, Float> concreteIndexBoosts;
     private final SetOnce<AtomicArray<ShardSearchFailure>> shardFailures = new SetOnce<>();
     private final Object shardFailuresMutex = new Object();
     private final AtomicBoolean hasShardResponse = new AtomicBoolean(false);
     private final AtomicInteger successfulOps;
-    private final SearchTimeProvider timeProvider;
+    protected final SearchTimeProvider timeProvider;
     private final SearchResponse.Clusters clusters;
 
     protected final List<SearchShardIterator> shardsIts;
-    private final SearchShardIterator[] shardIterators;
+    protected final SearchShardIterator[] shardIterators;
     private final AtomicInteger outstandingShards;
     private final int maxConcurrentRequestsPerNode;
     private final Map<String, PendingExecutions> pendingExecutionsPerNode = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
@@ -230,10 +230,17 @@ protected final void run() {
             onPhaseDone();
             return;
         }
+        if (shardsIts.isEmpty()) {
+            return;
+        }
         final Map<SearchShardIterator, Integer> shardIndexMap = Maps.newHashMapWithExpectedSize(shardIterators.length);
         for (int i = 0; i < shardIterators.length; i++) {
             shardIndexMap.put(shardIterators[i], i);
         }
+        doRun(shardIndexMap);
+    }
+
+    protected void doRun(Map<SearchShardIterator, Integer> shardIndexMap) {
         doCheckNoMissingShards(getName(), request, shardsIts);
         for (int i = 0; i < shardsIts.size(); i++) {
             final SearchShardIterator shardRoutings = shardsIts.get(i);
@@ -249,7 +256,7 @@ protected final void run() {
         }
     }
 
-    private void performPhaseOnShard(final int shardIndex, final SearchShardIterator shardIt, final SearchShardTarget shard) {
+    protected final void performPhaseOnShard(final int shardIndex, final SearchShardIterator shardIt, final SearchShardTarget shard) {
         if (throttleConcurrentRequests) {
             var pendingExecutions = pendingExecutionsPerNode.computeIfAbsent(
                 shard.getNodeId(),
@@ -289,7 +296,7 @@ public void onFailure(Exception e) {
         executePhaseOnShard(shardIt, connection, shardListener);
     }
 
-    private void failOnUnavailable(int shardIndex, SearchShardIterator shardIt) {
+    protected final void failOnUnavailable(int shardIndex, SearchShardIterator shardIt) {
         SearchShardTarget unassignedShard = new SearchShardTarget(null, shardIt.shardId(), shardIt.getClusterAlias());
         onShardFailure(shardIndex, unassignedShard, shardIt, new NoShardAvailableActionException(shardIt.shardId()));
     }
@@ -396,7 +403,7 @@ private ShardSearchFailure[] buildShardFailures() {
         return failures;
     }
 
-    private void onShardFailure(final int shardIndex, SearchShardTarget shard, final SearchShardIterator shardIt, Exception e) {
+    protected final void onShardFailure(final int shardIndex, SearchShardTarget shard, final SearchShardIterator shardIt, Exception e) {
         // we always add the shard failure for a specific shard instance
         // we do make sure to clean it on a successful response from a shard
         onShardFailure(shardIndex, shard, e);

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/CanMatchPreFilterSearchPhase.java

@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ public void onFailure(Exception e) {
         }
     }
 
-    private record SendingTarget(@Nullable String clusterAlias, @Nullable String nodeId) {}
+    public record SendingTarget(@Nullable String clusterAlias, @Nullable String nodeId) {}
 
     private CanMatchNodeRequest createCanMatchRequest(Map.Entry<SendingTarget, List<SearchShardIterator>> entry) {
         final SearchShardIterator first = entry.getValue().get(0);