diff --git a/src/core/searcher.rs b/src/core/searcher.rs
index dc54da871..3bc359a78 100644
--- a/src/core/searcher.rs
+++ b/src/core/searcher.rs
@@ -188,10 +188,11 @@ impl Searcher {
 
         let futures = groups
             .into_iter()
-            .map(|((segment_ord, _cache_key), doc_ids)| {
+            .map(|((segment_ord, cache_key), doc_ids)| {
                 // Each group fetches documents from exactly one block and
                 // therefore gets an independent block cache of size one.
-                let store_reader = self.inner.store_readers[segment_ord as usize].fork_cache(1);
+                let store_reader =
+                    self.inner.store_readers[segment_ord as usize].fork_cache(1, &[cache_key]);
 
                 async move {
                     let mut docs = Vec::new();
diff --git a/src/store/reader.rs b/src/store/reader.rs
index 0c0de9c12..cf3e13663 100644
--- a/src/store/reader.rs
+++ b/src/store/reader.rs
@@ -148,15 +148,26 @@ impl StoreReader {
     }
 
     /// Clones the given store reader with an independent block cache of the given size.
+    ///
+    /// `cache_keys` is used to seed the forked cache from the current cache
+    /// if some blocks are already available.
     #[cfg(feature = "quickwit")]
-    pub(crate) fn fork_cache(&self, cache_num_blocks: usize) -> Self {
-        Self {
+    pub(crate) fn fork_cache(&self, cache_num_blocks: usize, cache_keys: &[CacheKey]) -> Self {
+        let forked = Self {
             decompressor: self.decompressor,
             data: self.data.clone(),
             cache: BlockCache::new(cache_num_blocks),
             skip_index: Arc::clone(&self.skip_index),
             space_usage: self.space_usage.clone(),
+        };
+
+        for &CacheKey(pos) in cache_keys {
+            if let Some(block) = self.cache.get_from_cache(pos) {
+                forked.cache.put_into_cache(pos, block);
+            }
         }
+
+        forked
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn block_checkpoints(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = Checkpoint> + '_ {