Each transport implementation can now set unique bind, connect,
 reestablishment, and idle timeout values.  These are variables,
 allowing the values to be modified dynamically.  This permits
 exponential backoff of any of these values, for instance.

 As an example, we implement exponential backoff for the connection
 reestablishment timeout.

 Test-plan:
 Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily).  Connectathon
 with UDP and TCP.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Implement a best practice: if the remote end drops our connection, try to
 reconnect using the same port number.  This is important because the NFS
 server's Duplicate Reply Cache often hashes on the source port number.
 If the client reuses the port number when it reconnects, the server's DRC
 will be more effective.

 Based on suggestions by Mike Eisler, Olaf Kirch, and Alexey Kuznetsky.

 Test-plan:
 Destructive testing.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Select an RPC client source port between 650 and 1023 instead of between
 1 and 800.  The old range conflicts with a number of network services.
 Provide sysctls to allow admins to select a different port range.

 Note that this doesn't affect user-level RPC library behavior, which
 still uses 1 to 800.

 Based on a suggestion by Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>.

 Test-plan:
 Repeated mount and unmount.  Destructive testing.  Idle timeouts.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Clean-up:  Move some macros that are specific to the Van Jacobson
 implementation into xprt.c.  Get rid of the cong_wait field in
 rpc_xprt, which is no longer used.  Get rid of xprt_clear_backlog.

 Test-plan:
 Compile with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Get rid of the "xprt->nocong" variable.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss with UDP mounts.
 Look for significant regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 The final place where congestion control state is adjusted is in
 xprt_release, where each request is finally released.  Add a callout
 there to allow transports to perform additional processing when a
 request is about to be released.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for significant
 regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 A new interface that allows transports to adjust their congestion window
 using the Van Jacobson implementation in xprt.c is provided.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for
 significant regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Allow transports to hook the retransmit timer interrupt.  Some transports
 calculate their congestion window here so that a retransmit timeout has
 immediate effect on the congestion window.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for significant
 regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 The next method we abstract is the one that releases a transport,
 allowing another task to have access to the transport.

 Again, one generic version of this is provided for transports that
 don't need the RPC client to perform congestion control, and one
 version is for transports that can use the original Van Jacobson
 implementation in xprt.c.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for
 significant regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 The next several patches introduce an API that allows transports to
 choose whether the RPC client provides congestion control or whether
 the transport itself provides it.

 The first method we abstract is the one that serializes access to the
 RPC transport to prevent the bytes from different requests from mingling
 together.  This method provides proper request serialization and the
 opportunity to prevent new requests from being started because the
 transport is congested.

 The normal situation is for the transport to handle congestion control
 itself.  Although NFS over UDP was first, it has been recognized after
 years of experience that having the transport provide congestion control
 is much better than doing it in the RPC client.  Thus TCP, and probably
 every future transport implementation, will use the default method,
 xprt_lock_write, provided in xprt.c, which does not provide any kind
 of congestion control.  UDP can continue using the xprt.c-provided
 Van Jacobson congestion avoidance implementation.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for significant
 regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Prepare the way to remove the "xprt->nocong" variable by adding a callout
 to the RPC client transport switch API to handle setting RPC retransmit
 timeouts.

 Add a pair of generic helper functions that provide the ability to set a
 simple fixed timeout, or to set a timeout based on the state of a round-
 trip estimator.

 Test-plan:
 Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss.  Look for significant
 regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Now we can fix up the last few places that use the "xprt->stream"
 variable, and get rid of it from the rpc_xprt structure.

 Test-plan:
 Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily).  Connectathon
 with UDP and TCP.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Add a generic mechanism for skipping over transport-specific headers
 when constructing an RPC request.  This removes another "xprt->stream"
 dependency.

 Test-plan:
 Write-intensive workload on a single mount point (try both UDP and
 TCP).
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Split the RPC client's main socket write path into a TCP version and a UDP
 version to eliminate another dependency on the "xprt->stream" variable.

 Compiler optimization removes unneeded code from xs_sendpages, as this
 function is now called with some constant arguments.

 We can now cleanly perform transport protocol-specific return code testing
 and error recovery in each path.

 Test-plan:
 Millions of fsx operations.  Performance characterization such as
 "sio" or "iozone".  Examine oprofile results for any changes before and
 after this patch is applied.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:08:46 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Create separate connection worker functions for managing UDP and TCP
 transport sockets.  This eliminates several dependencies on "xprt->stream".

 Test-plan:
 Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily).  Connectathon with
 v2, v3, and v4.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:08:18 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Split the socket write space callback function into a TCP version and UDP
 version, eliminating one dependence on the "xprt->stream" variable.

 Keep the common pieces of this path in xprt.c so other transports can use
 it too.

 Test-plan:
 Write-intensive workload on a single mount point.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:07:51 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Clean-up: change some comments to reflect the realities of the new RPC
 transport switch mechanism.  Get rid of unused xprt_receive() prototype.

 Also, organize function prototypes in xprt.h by usage and scope.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:07:21 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Clean-up: remove only reference to xprt->pending from the socket transport
 implementation.  This makes a cleaner interface for other transport
 implementations as well.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:06:52 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Clean-up: get rid of a name reference to sockets in the generic parts of the
 RPC client by renaming the sockstate field in the rpc_xprt structure.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:53 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Clean-up: replace a name reference to sockets in the generic parts of the RPC
 client by renaming sock_lock in the rpc_xprt structure.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:00 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Reduce stack utilization of the RPC socket transport's send path.

 A couple of unlikely()s are added to ensure the compiler places the
 tail processing at the end of the csect.

 Test-plan:
 Millions of fsx operations.  Performance characterization such as "sio" or
 "iozone".

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:04:30 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Introduce block header comments and a function naming convention to the
 socket transport implementation.  Provide a debug setting for transports
 that is separate from RPCDBG_XPRT.  Eliminate xprt_default_timeout().

 Provide block comments for exposed interfaces in xprt.c, and eliminate
 the useless obvious comments.

 Convert printk's to dprintk's.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:04:04 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Move the bulk of client-side socket-specific code into a separate source
 file, net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c.

 Test-plan:
 Millions of fsx operations.  Performance characterization such as "sio" or
 "iozone".  Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily, server
 reboots).  Connectathon with v2, v3, and v4.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:38 -0400
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>