nfs.man: adding new mount option max_connect (bz 2106848)

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Resolves: bz2106848

nfs-utils-2.5.4-nfsman-maxconnect.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+commit 28deb4f398363e4e75ea41ff0fe604b11f6ee91a
+Author: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
+Date:   Tue Sep 21 13:00:12 2021 -0400
+
+    nfs.man: adding new mount option max_connect
+    
+    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>
+    Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
+
+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

nfs-utils.spec

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Patch004: nfs-utils-2.5.4-mount-nov2.patch
 Patch005: nfs-utils-2.5.4-gssd-debug-msg.patch
 Patch006: nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcctl.patch
 
+#
+# RHEL9.1
+#
+Patch007: nfs-utils-2.5.4-nfsman-maxconnect.patch
+
 Patch100: nfs-utils-1.2.1-statdpath-man.patch
 Patch101: nfs-utils-1.2.1-exp-subtree-warn-off.patch
 Patch102: nfs-utils-1.2.5-idmap-errmsg.patch
@@ -454,6 +459,9 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/*/nfsiostat.8.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jul 13 2022 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 2.5.4-11
+- nfs.man: adding new mount option max_connect (bz 2106848)
+
 * Mon Feb 28 2022 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 2.5.4-10
 - Added the rpcctl command (bz 2059245)