From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: ~800 mountpoint limitation
Date: 14 Oct 2003 12:06:03 -0400
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>>>>> " " == Aaron A Ogden <Ogden> writes:

     > Hello all, This limitation has been confirmed to my
     > satisfaction, I just had a test machine crack at 799
     > mountpoints, so it seems that Chuck's RPC theory may be
     > correct.  Mike Waychison and Eric Werme mentioned that Solaris
     > and HPUX use a multiplexed scheme to reduce the number of ports
     > required for NFS clients, perhaps that is the direction linux
     > NFS/RPC should be heading.

Yes, I already started work on that. In fact a patch already exists on

  http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.5.73/linux-2.5.73-09-xprt.dif

to multiplex all RPC traffic to a given server/port combination
through a single socket.

It's been put on hold though due to a combination of higher priority
interrupts, and now the 2.6.0 code-freeze...

Cheers,
  Trond


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