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NeilBrown eccbbc7c00 nfsd: don't use sv_nrthreads in connection limiting calculations.
The heuristic for limiting the number of incoming connections to nfsd
currently uses sv_nrthreads - allowing more connections if more threads
were configured.

A future patch will allow number of threads to grow dynamically so that
there will be no need to configure sv_nrthreads.  So we need a different
solution for limiting connections.

It isn't clear what problem is solved by limiting connections (as
mentioned in a code comment) but the most likely problem is a connection
storm - many connections that are not doing productive work.  These will
be closed after about 6 minutes already but it might help to slow down a
storm.

This patch adds a per-connection flag XPT_PEER_VALID which indicates
that the peer has presented a filehandle for which it has some sort of
access.  i.e the peer is known to be trusted in some way.  We now only
count connections which have NOT been determined to be valid.  There
should be relative few of these at any given time.

If the number of non-validated peer exceed a limit - currently 64 - we
close the oldest non-validated peer to avoid having too many of these
useless connections.

Note that this patch significantly changes the meaning of the various
configuration parameters for "max connections".  The next patch will
remove all of these.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.