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[Alan Pevec <1302611@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: neutron/havana
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: neutron/havana
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: neutron/havana
    Milestone: None => 2013.2.4

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Title:
  policy.init called too many time for each API request

Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service):
  Fix Released
Status in neutron havana series:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  policy.init() checks whether the rule cache is populated and valid,
  and if not reloads the policy cache from the policy.json file.

  As the current code runs init() each time a policy is checked or enforced, list operations will call init() several times (*)
  If policy.json is updated while a response is being generated, this will lead to a situation where some item are processed according to the old policies, and other according to the new ones, which would be wrong.

  Also, init() checks the last update time of the policy file, and
  repeating this check multiple time is wasteful.

  A simple solution would be to explicitly call policy.init from
  api.v2.base.Controller in order to ensure the method is called only
  once per API request.


  (*) a  GET /ports operation returning 1600 ports calls policy.init()
  9606 times

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