From: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 05:40:49 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: SUNRPC: select privileged port numbers at random
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~861^2~51
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b85d88068444ae5dcb1639bcef770ccbf085dd4e;p=pandora-kernel.git

SUNRPC: select privileged port numbers at random

Make the RPC client select privileged ephemeral source ports at
random.  This improves DRC behavior on the server by using the
same port when reconnecting for the same mount point, but using
a different port for fresh mounts.

The Linux TCP implementation already does this for nonprivileged
ports.  Note that TCP sockets in TIME_WAIT will prevent quick reuse
of a random ephemeral port number by leaving the port INUSE until
the connection transitions out of TIME_WAIT.

Test plan:
Connectathon against every known server implementation using multiple
mount points.  Locking especially.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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