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>

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index e4f09f58d58c..4f9418cbf8c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct svc_serv {
 	unsigned int		sv_xdrsize;	/* XDR buffer size */
 	struct list_head	sv_permsocks;	/* all permanent sockets */
 	struct list_head	sv_tempsocks;	/* all temporary sockets */
-	int			sv_tmpcnt;	/* count of temporary sockets */
+	int			sv_tmpcnt;	/* count of temporary "valid" sockets */
 	struct timer_list	sv_temptimer;	/* timer for aging temporary sockets */
 
 	char *			sv_name;	/* service name */
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
index 0981e35a9fed..7064ebbd550b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
@@ -99,8 +99,24 @@ enum {
 	XPT_HANDSHAKE,		/* xprt requests a handshake */
 	XPT_TLS_SESSION,	/* transport-layer security established */
 	XPT_PEER_AUTH,		/* peer has been authenticated */
+	XPT_PEER_VALID,		/* peer has presented a filehandle that
+				 * it has access to.  It is NOT counted
+				 * in ->sv_tmpcnt.
+				 */
 };
 
+static inline void svc_xprt_set_valid(struct svc_xprt *xpt)
+{
+	if (test_bit(XPT_TEMP, &xpt->xpt_flags) &&
+	    !test_and_set_bit(XPT_PEER_VALID, &xpt->xpt_flags)) {
+		struct svc_serv *serv = xpt->xpt_server;
+
+		spin_lock(&serv->sv_lock);
+		serv->sv_tmpcnt -= 1;
+		spin_unlock(&serv->sv_lock);
+	}
+}
+
 static inline void unregister_xpt_user(struct svc_xprt *xpt, struct svc_xpt_user *u)
 {
 	spin_lock(&xpt->xpt_lock);