Bug ID 682209: Per Request Access Policy subroutine performance down by about 7%

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM, SWG(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1

Opened: Sep 07, 2017

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The performance of the per-request access policy with subroutines, even an empty one (in->out) is down by about 7%.

Impact

Maximum RADIUS TPS is degraded (~7%).

Conditions

All of the following must be true for this issue to be exposed. 1) APM is provisioned. 2) An APM profile is attached to the virtual server. 3) A Per-Request access policy containing a subroutine is attached to the virtual server.

Workaround

No workaround at this time.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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