Calling glfs_resolve_base() on the root inode for every resolver invocation is unnecessary and wasteful. Here are the results from running a test program which performs path based operations (creates and deletes 1000 files): Without patch: [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m4.314s user 0m1.923s sys 0m1.144s [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m4.383s user 0m1.940s sys 0m1.177s [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m4.339s user 0m1.863s sys 0m1.129s With patch: [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m3.005s user 0m1.162s sys 0m0.816s [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m3.188s user 0m1.222s sys 0m0.867s [root@blackbox ~]# sync [root@blackbox ~]# time ./a.out 1 real 0m2.999s user 0m1.131s sys 0m0.832s Change-Id: Id160a24f44b4dccfcfce99a6f69ddb8938523cd5 BUG: 953694 Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/6131 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Raghavendra Talur <rtalur@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Raghavendra Bhat <raghavendra@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>