s patch series enforces a limit on the number of v4 clients allowed in the system. With Courteous server support there are potentially a lots courtesy clients exist in the system that use up memory resource preventing them to be used by other components in the system. Also without a limit on the number of clients, the number of clients can grow to a very large number even for system with small memory configuration eventually render the system into an unusable state. --- Dai Ngo (2): NFSD: keep track of the number of v4 clients in the system NFSD: limit the number of v4 clients to 4096 per 4GB of system memory fs/nfsd/netns.h | 3 +++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- Dai Ngo