There are competing specifications around whether a method should be included in a JWT audience or not. For example #4713 specifically excluded the method referencing https://google.aip.dev/auth/4111 whereas GCE IAP requires the full URI https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/authentication-howto.
In order to facilitate both methods, we introduce a new environment variable, namely GRPC_AUDIENCE_IS_FULL_PATH, to allow the method stripping to be disabled. This defaults to the existing behaviour of stripping the method, but can be set to avoid this.
The instructions didn't work, as the build process has changed a bit. It's probably best to just link to the official build instructions to avoid future skew.
Performance benchmarks can be found below. Obviously, a 8 KiB
request/response is tailored to showcase this improvement as this is
where codec buffer reuse shines, but I've run other benchmarks too (like
1-byte requests and responses) and there's no discernable impact on
performance.
We do not allow reuse of buffers when stat handlers or binlogs are
turned on. This is because those two may need access to the data and
payload even after the data has been written to the wire. In such cases,
we never return the data back to the pool.
A buffer reuse threshold of 1 KiB was determined after several
experiments. There's diminished returns when buffer reuse is enabled for
smaller messages (actually, a negative impact).
unary-networkMode_none-bufConn_false-keepalive_false-benchTime_40s-trace_false-latency_0s-kbps_0-MTU_0-maxConcurrentCalls_6-reqSize_8192B-respSize_8192B-compressor_off-channelz_false-preloader_false
Title Before After Percentage
TotalOps 839638 906223 7.93%
SendOps 0 0 NaN%
RecvOps 0 0 NaN%
Bytes/op 103788.29 80592.47 -22.35%
Allocs/op 183.33 189.30 3.27%
ReqT/op 1375662899.20 1484755763.20 7.93%
RespT/op 1375662899.20 1484755763.20 7.93%
50th-Lat 238.746µs 225.019µs -5.75%
90th-Lat 514.253µs 456.439µs -11.24%
99th-Lat 711.083µs 702.466µs -1.21%
Avg-Lat 285.45µs 264.456µs -7.35%