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From: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
To: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] manpage: Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:47:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200129154703.6204-1-steved@redhat.com> (raw)

From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option on the 'nfs' generic
manpage.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
---
 utils/mount/nfs.man | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
index 6ba9cef..84462cd 100644
--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -369,6 +369,23 @@ using an automounter (refer to
 .BR automount (8)
 for details).
 .TP 1.5i
+.BR nconnect= n
+When using a connection oriented protocol such as TCP, it may
+sometimes be advantageous to set up multiple connections between
+the client and server. For instance, if your clients and/or servers
+are equipped with multiple network interface cards (NICs), using multiple
+connections to spread the load may improve overall performance.
+In such cases, the
+.BR nconnect
+option allows the user to specify the number of connections
+that should be established between the client and server up to
+a limit of 16.
+.IP
+Note that the
+.BR nconnect
+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 rdirplus " / " nordirplus
 Selects whether to use NFS v3 or v4 READDIRPLUS requests.
 If this option is not specified, the NFS client uses READDIRPLUS requests
-- 
2.21.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-29 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-29 15:47 Steve Dickson [this message]
2020-01-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] manpage: Add a description of the 'softreval' / 'nosoftreval' mount option Steve Dickson
2020-02-07 16:08   ` Steve Dickson
2020-02-03 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] manpage: Add a description of the 'nconnect' " Olga Kornievskaia
2020-02-04 16:46   ` Steve Dickson
2020-02-04 17:13     ` Trond Myklebust
2020-02-04 17:22       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2020-02-04 17:36         ` Trond Myklebust
2020-02-07 16:08 ` Steve Dickson

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