These patches prepare the way for demand-based adjustment of the number of server threads. They primarily remove some places there the configured thread count is used to configure other things. With these in place only two more patches are needed to have demand based thread count. The details of how to configure this need to be discussed to ensure we have considered all perspectives, and I would rather than happen in the context of two patches, not in the context of 8. So I'm sending these first in the hope that will land with minimal fuss. Once they do land I'll send the remainder (which you have already seen) and will look forward to a fruitful discussion. Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 1/6] SUNRPC: move nrthreads counting to start/stop threads. [PATCH 2/6] nfsd: return hard failure for OP_SETCLIENTID when there [PATCH 3/6] nfs: dynamically adjust per-client DRC slot limits. [PATCH 4/6] nfsd: don't use sv_nrthreads in connection limiting [PATCH 5/6] sunrpc: remove all connection limit configuration [PATCH 6/6] sunrpc: introduce possibility that requested number of
