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Commit b85d8806 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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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: default avatarChuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
parent 73a3d07c
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