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 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 the xprt_lock with something more aptly named.  This lock
 single-threads the XID and request slot reservation process.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:26 -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>

 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>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!