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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-08-09 15:06:19 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-08-09 15:06:19 -0400
commitcbf1107126af2950623fafdaa5c9df43ab00f046 (patch)
tree101e9a26fc86218f567e5c99aad3ddadfdab2691 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parent80e52aced138bb41b045a8595a87510f27d8d8c5 (diff)
downloadlinux-cbf1107126af2950623fafdaa5c9df43ab00f046.tar.gz
SUNRPC: convert some sysctls into module parameters
Parameters like the minimum reserved port, and the number of slot entries
should really be module parameters rather than sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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index dd1a6d4bb747..2f1820683b69 100644
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@@ -2391,6 +2391,18 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	stifb=		[HW]
 			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
 
+	sunrpc.min_resvport=
+	sunrpc.max_resvport=
+			[NFS,SUNRPC]
+			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
+			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
+			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
+			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
+			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
+			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
+			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
+			maximum port values.
+
 	sunrpc.pool_mode=
 			[NFS]
 			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
@@ -2407,6 +2419,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
 				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
 
+	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
+	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
+			[NFS,SUNRPC]
+			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
+			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
+			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
+			improve throughput, but will also increase the
+			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
+
 	swiotlb=	[IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
 
 	switches=	[HW,M68k]