In a repository which has indexing enabled, when a node is being updated and only has property changes, the current code will reindex all the node's children. This is a bug which, once fixed, should (significantly) improve performance in this scenario because the only case when after a node update the children of this node should be reindexed is when the path of the parent node has changed. In all other cases the children should never the "touched" .
This is a critical performance improvement which should be part of the first DV rollup patch.
Randall Hauch <rhauch> updated the status of jira MODE-2124 to Closed
Horia confirmed fixed for CR2 - setting to requires_doc_text- accordingly.