Description of problem:
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**The intent of opening this BZ is to compare metadata performance on gNFS and Ganesha v3 mounts,and to reduce the magnitude of difference between the two. **

Metadata performance is comparatively slower on Ganesha v3 mounts than gNFS,under the exact same workload and environment.

Details in comments.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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nfs-ganesha-2.4.0-2.el7rhgs.x86_64
glusterfs-ganesha-3.8.4-2.el7rhgs.x86_64

How reproducible:
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100%

Steps to Reproduce:
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Run smallfile in a distributed multithreaded way from 1/4 clients : 

python /small-files/smallfile/smallfile_cli.py --operation ls-l  --threads 8  --file-size 64 --files 10000 --top /gluster-mount --host-set "`echo $CLIENT | tr ' ' ','`"

Actual results:
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There is a difference in IOPS (almost 30% in some cases) between gNFS and Ganesha v3 under the same workload. 

Expected results:
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The difference between the two should be not be as pronounced as is being seen atm.

Additional info:
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Vol Type  : 2*2,Dist Rep
Client and Server OS : RHEL 7

Server Profiles will be updated once https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381353 is fixed.