Use bulk-byte-copy when merging term vectors
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Key: LUCENE-1120
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1120
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Index
Reporter: Michael McCandless
Assignee: Michael McCandless
Priority: Minor
Indexing all of Wikipedia, with term vectors on, under the YourKit
profiler, shows that 26% of the time (!!) was spent merging the
vectors. This was without offsets & positions, which would make
matters even worse.
Depressingly, merging, even with ConcurrentMergeScheduler, cannot in
fact keep up with the flushing of new segments in this test, and this
is on a strong IO system (Mac Pro with 4 drive RAID 0 array, 4 CPU
cores).
So, just like Robert's idea to merge stored fields with bulk copying
whenever the field name->number mapping is "congruent" (LUCENE-1043),
we can do the same with term vectors.
It's a little trickier because the term vectors format doesn't quite
make it easy to bulk-copy because it doesn't directly encode the
offset into the tvf file.
I worked out a patch that changes the tvx format slightly, by storing
the absolute position in the tvf file for the start of each document
into the tvx file, just like it does for tvd now. This adds an extra
8 bytes (long) in the tvx file, per document.
Then, I removed a vLong (the first "position" stored inside the tvd
file), which makes tvd contents fully position independent (so you can
just copy the bytes).
This adds up to 7 bytes per document (less for larger indices) that
have term vectors enabled, but I think this small increase in index
size is acceptable for the gains in indexing performance?
With this change, the time spent merging term vectors dropped from 26%
to 3%. Of course, this only applies if your documents are "regular".
I think in the future we could have Lucene try hard to assign the same
field number for a given field name, if it had been seen before in the
index...
Merging terms now dominates the merge cost (~20% over overall time
building the Wikipedia index).
I also beefed up TestBackwardsCompatibility unit test: test a non-CFS
and a CFS of versions 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 index formats, and added some
term vector fields to these indices.
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