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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [man]: adding new mount option max_connect
To:     Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com>,
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From:   Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
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On 8/27/21 2:37 PM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> 
> When client discovers trunkable servers, instead of dropping newly
> created trunkable connections, add this connection to the existing
> RPC client.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Committed.... (tag: nfs-utils-2-5-5-rc3)

steved.

> ---
>   utils/mount/nfs.man | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
> index f1b76936..57a693fd 100644
> --- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
> +++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
> @@ -416,6 +416,19 @@ Note that the
>   option may also be used by some pNFS drivers to decide how many
>   connections to set up to the data servers.
>   .TP 1.5i
> +.BR max_connect= n
> +While
> +.BR nconnect
> +option sets a limit on the number of connections that can be established
> +to a given server IP,
> +.BR max_connect
> +option allows the user to specify maximum number of connections to different
> +server IPs that belong to the same NFSv4.1+ server (session trunkable
> +connections) up to a limit of 16. When client discovers that it established
> +a client ID to an already existing server, instead of dropping the newly
> +created network transport, the client will add this new connection to the
> +list of available transports for that RPC client.
> +.TP 1.5i
>   .BR rdirplus " / " nordirplus
>   Selects whether to use NFS v3 or v4 READDIRPLUS requests.
>   If this option is not specified, the NFS client uses READDIRPLUS requests
>