[Bugs] [Bug 1231366] New: NFS Authentication Performance Improvements

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231366

            Bug ID: 1231366
           Summary: NFS Authentication Performance Improvements
           Product: GlusterFS
           Version: 3.7.1
         Component: nfs
          Assignee: bugs at gluster.org
          Reporter: sshreyas at fb.com
                CC: bugs at gluster.org, gluster-bugs at redhat.com



Description of problem:
When file operations are sent to the NFS server, authorized filehandles are
cached
using the exportid, mountid, gfid and host as the key to the cache. This meant
that any file OR directory will always fail on the *first* fop to that
filehandle since the
cache used the gfid as part of the key to the cache. However, if an export is
authorized, this effectively means that ALL subdirectories and files in the
export directory are authorized per the permissions of the export. This results
slow times to walking a directory structure over an NFS mount.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.7.1


How reproducible: Turn on authentication, make a large netgroups file and walk
the directory


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a large netgroups file, create an export and assign the netgroup to
that export
2. GDB and break on is_nfs_fh_cached, and you'll see many cache misses
3. Walk the filesystem and notice slower than expected performance

Actual results: Many misses in the auth cache, resulting in slower walks of the
filesystem


Expected results: More hits in the auth cache, resulting in faster walks of the
filesystem.


Additional info:

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.
You are the assignee for the bug.