diff --git a/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/application_search.rb b/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/application_search.rb
index 8495dc1827c132a69a6b6f2701d65e21816c8fd0..16aac6923448fb15df50423dc1f8b76036f283ab 100644
--- a/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/application_search.rb
+++ b/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/application_search.rb
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ module ApplicationSearch
 
       # Since we can't have multiple types in ES6, but want to be able to use JOINs, we must declare all our
       # fields together instead of per model
-      mappings do
+      mappings dynamic: 'strict' do
         ### Shared fields
         indexes :id, type: :integer
         indexes :created_at, type: :date
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ module ApplicationSearch
             indexes :time, type: :date, format: :basic_date_time_no_millis
           end
 
-          indexes :commiter do
+          indexes :committer do
             indexes :name, type: :text, index_options: 'offsets'
             indexes :email, type: :text, index_options: 'offsets'
             indexes :time, type: :date, format: :basic_date_time_no_millis
diff --git a/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/repositories_search.rb b/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/repositories_search.rb
index d03a2ba55b293571da247f079ce874d0724d7467..7806d9d65b82f32899535d907257ba43ecb035b3 100644
--- a/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/repositories_search.rb
+++ b/ee/app/models/concerns/elastic/repositories_search.rb
@@ -57,22 +57,37 @@ def find_commits_by_message_with_elastic(query, page: 1, per_page: 20, options:
 
         # Avoid one SELECT per result by loading all projects into a hash
         project_ids = response.map {|result| result["_source"]["commit"]["rid"] }.uniq
-        projects = Project.where(id: project_ids).index_by(&:id)
+        projects = Project.includes(:route).where(id: project_ids).index_by(&:id)
 
-        # n + 1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3454
-        commits = Gitlab::GitalyClient.allow_n_plus_1_calls do
-          response.map do |result|
-            sha = result["_source"]["commit"]["sha"]
-            project_id = result["_source"]["commit"]["rid"].to_i
-
-            projects[project_id].try(:commit, sha)
-          end
-        end.compact
+        commits = response.map do |result|
+          project_id = result["_source"]["commit"]["rid"].to_i
+          project = projects[project_id]
+          raw_commit = Gitlab::Git::Commit.new(
+            project.repository.raw,
+            prepare_commit(result['_source']['commit']),
+            lazy_load_parents: true
+          )
+          Commit.new(raw_commit, project)
+        end
 
         # Before "map" we had a paginated array so we need to recover it
         offset = per_page * ((page || 1) - 1)
         Kaminari.paginate_array(commits, total_count: response.total_count, limit: per_page, offset: offset)
       end
+
+      def prepare_commit(raw_commit_hash)
+        {
+          id: raw_commit_hash['sha'],
+          message: raw_commit_hash['message'],
+          parent_ids: nil,
+          author_name: raw_commit_hash['author']['name'],
+          author_email: raw_commit_hash['author']['email'],
+          authored_date: Time.parse(raw_commit_hash['author']['time']).utc,
+          committer_name: raw_commit_hash['committer']['name'],
+          committer_email: raw_commit_hash['committer']['email'],
+          committed_date: Time.parse(raw_commit_hash['committer']['time']).utc
+        }
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/ee/changelogs/unreleased/avoid_es_loading_commits.yml b/ee/changelogs/unreleased/avoid_es_loading_commits.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf5ca79e5d7a1b8e1d1e4105e2bd45765bcdeec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ee/changelogs/unreleased/avoid_es_loading_commits.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Avoid a Gitaly N+1 when loading commits for Elasticsearch search results
+merge_request: 9760
+author:
+type: performance
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/git/commit.rb b/lib/gitlab/git/commit.rb
index e5bbd500e9833a6c2489ed6cdfeb68260b6b3119..88ff9fbceb40be08cf15bde92a5a59e42de72c53 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/git/commit.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/git/commit.rb
@@ -184,11 +184,12 @@ def get_messages(repository, commit_ids)
         end
       end
 
-      def initialize(repository, raw_commit, head = nil)
+      def initialize(repository, raw_commit, head = nil, lazy_load_parents: false)
         raise "Nil as raw commit passed" unless raw_commit
 
         @repository = repository
         @head = head
+        @lazy_load_parents = lazy_load_parents
 
         init_commit(raw_commit)
       end
@@ -225,6 +226,12 @@ def different_committer?
         author_name != committer_name || author_email != committer_email
       end
 
+      def parent_ids
+        return @parent_ids unless @lazy_load_parents
+
+        @parent_ids ||= @repository.commit(id).parent_ids
+      end
+
       def parent_id
         parent_ids.first
       end