Description of problem:
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when I do a simultaneous lookups using ls from multiple clients, the time taken to complete the listing by the last client takes about 11 seconds(other clients varying from 0.5sec to 8sec). this is in case of a disperse volume mounted on 4 fuse clients.
However If i disable other-eager-lock, the response time is almost similar and immediate for all 4 clients ie less than 1 second
This is a serious drop in performance given that the root of volume had about only 4 directories to be looked up for.
note that this discussion has been going on for sometime in BZ#1530519
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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3.12.2-8
How reproducible:
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always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an ec volume say 2x(4+2)
2.mount volume on a client and create 4 entries say 4 directories on root
3.now mount volume on another 3 clients
4. from all clients parallelly issue ls
5. now turn of other-eager-lock and re-issue ls parallelly
Actual results:
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while with step 5 the response by all clients is similar and less than a second,
with step4 the response time for the last client is as huge as 11sec
Workaround:
Turn off other-eager lock by default
There is a patch which sends lock contention notification to clients.
It will solve the performance issue cause by others.eager-lock enabled.
Closing this bug now.