diff --git a/src/main/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeight.java b/src/main/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeight.java
index d24075aa5..c166be3c2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeight.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeight.java
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ public Scorer scorer(LeafReaderContext context) throws IOException {
          * . Hence, if filtered results are less than K and filter query is present we should shift to exact search.
          * This improves the recall.
          */
-        if (filterWeight != null && canDoExactSearch(filterIdsArray.length, getTotalDocsInSegment(context))) {
+        if (filterWeight != null && canDoExactSearch(filterIdsArray.length)) {
             docIdsToScoreMap.putAll(doExactSearch(context, filterIdsArray));
         } else {
             Map<Integer, Float> annResults = doANNSearch(context, filterIdsArray);
@@ -380,10 +380,9 @@ private SpaceType getSpaceType(final FieldInfo fieldInfo) {
         );
     }
 
-    private boolean canDoExactSearch(final int filterIdsCount, final int searchableDocs) {
+    private boolean canDoExactSearch(final int filterIdsCount) {
         log.debug(
-            "Info for doing exact search Live Docs: {}, filterIdsLength : {}, Threshold value: {}",
-            searchableDocs,
+            "Info for doing exact search filterIdsLength : {}, Threshold value: {}",
             filterIdsCount,
             KNNSettings.getFilteredExactSearchThreshold(knnQuery.getIndexName())
         );
@@ -420,12 +419,4 @@ private boolean isExactSearchThresholdSettingSet(int filterThresholdValue) {
     private boolean canDoExactSearchAfterANNSearch(final int filterIdsCount, final int annResultCount) {
         return filterWeight != null && filterIdsCount >= knnQuery.getK() && knnQuery.getK() > annResultCount;
     }
-
-    private int getTotalDocsInSegment(final LeafReaderContext context) {
-        // This means that there is no deleted documents, hence the live docs bitset is null
-        if (context.reader().getLiveDocs() == null) {
-            return context.reader().maxDoc();
-        }
-        return context.reader().getLiveDocs().length();
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeightTests.java b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeightTests.java
index 628bdf091..ba6675d3d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeightTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/knn/index/query/KNNWeightTests.java
@@ -425,7 +425,6 @@ public void testANNWithFilterQuery_whenExactSearch_thenSuccess() {
         final Bits liveDocsBits = mock(Bits.class);
         when(reader.getLiveDocs()).thenReturn(liveDocsBits);
         when(liveDocsBits.get(filterDocId)).thenReturn(true);
-        when(liveDocsBits.length()).thenReturn(1000);
 
         final KNNWeight knnWeight = new KNNWeight(query, 0.0f, filterQueryWeight);
         final Map<String, String> attributesMap = ImmutableMap.of(KNN_ENGINE, KNNEngine.FAISS.getName(), SPACE_TYPE, SpaceType.L2.name());
@@ -476,7 +475,6 @@ public void testANNWithFilterQuery_whenExactSearchAndThresholdComputations_thenS
         final Bits liveDocsBits = mock(Bits.class);
         when(reader.getLiveDocs()).thenReturn(liveDocsBits);
         when(liveDocsBits.get(filterDocId)).thenReturn(true);
-        when(liveDocsBits.length()).thenReturn(1000);
 
         final KNNWeight knnWeight = new KNNWeight(query, 0.0f, filterQueryWeight);
         final Map<String, String> attributesMap = ImmutableMap.of(KNN_ENGINE, KNNEngine.FAISS.getName(), SPACE_TYPE, SpaceType.L2.name());