Fork post-snapshot-delete cleanup off master thread

docs/changelog/122047.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pr: 122047
+summary: Fork post-snapshot-delete cleanup off master thread
+area: Snapshot/Restore
+type: bug
+issues: []

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/RepositoryData.java

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotInfo;
 import org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotState;
 import org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotsService;
+import org.elasticsearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
 
@@ -377,6 +378,7 @@ private static boolean isIndexToUpdateAfterRemovingSnapshots(
      * @return map of index to index metadata blob id to delete
      */
     public Map<IndexId, Collection<String>> indexMetaDataToRemoveAfterRemovingSnapshots(Collection<SnapshotId> snapshotIds) {
+        assert ThreadPool.assertCurrentThreadPool(ThreadPool.Names.SNAPSHOT);
         Iterator<IndexId> indicesForSnapshot = indicesToUpdateAfterRemovingSnapshot(snapshotIds);
         final Set<String> allRemainingIdentifiers = indexMetaDataGenerations.lookup.entrySet()
             .stream()

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/BlobStoreRepository.java

@@ -1134,14 +1134,20 @@ private void runWithUniqueShardMetadataNaming(ActionListener<RepositoryData> rep
                     );
                 })
 
-                .<RepositoryData>andThen((l, newRepositoryData) -> {
-                    l.onResponse(newRepositoryData);
-                    // Once we have updated the repository, run the unreferenced blobs cleanup in parallel to shard-level snapshot deletion
-                    try (var refs = new RefCountingRunnable(onCompletion)) {
-                        cleanupUnlinkedRootAndIndicesBlobs(newRepositoryData, refs.acquireListener());
-                        cleanupUnlinkedShardLevelBlobs(refs.acquireListener());
+                .<RepositoryData>andThen(
+                    // writeIndexGen finishes on master-service thread so must fork here.
+                    snapshotExecutor,
+                    threadPool.getThreadContext(),
+                    (l, newRepositoryData) -> {
+                        l.onResponse(newRepositoryData);
+                        // Once we have updated the repository, run the unreferenced blobs cleanup in parallel to shard-level snapshot
+                        // deletion
+                        try (var refs = new RefCountingRunnable(onCompletion)) {
+                            cleanupUnlinkedRootAndIndicesBlobs(newRepositoryData, refs.acquireListener());
+                            cleanupUnlinkedShardLevelBlobs(refs.acquireListener());
+                        }
                     }
-                })
+                )
 
                 .addListener(repositoryDataUpdateListener);
         }