This 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. v2: . move all defines to nfsd.h . replace unsigned int nfs4_max_client to int . kick start laundromat in alloc_client when max client reached. . restyle compute of maxreap in nfs4_get_client_reaplist to oneline. . redo enforce of maxreap in nfs4_get_client_reaplist for readability . use bit-wise interger to compute usable memory in nfsd_init_net. . replace NFS4_MAX_CLIENTS_PER_4GB to NFS4_CLIENTS_PER_GB. . use all memory, including high mem, to compute max client. --- Dai Ngo (2): NFSD: keep track of the number of v4 clients in the system NFSD: limit the number of v4 clients to 1024 per 1GB of system memory fs/nfsd/netns.h | 3 +++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 8 ++++++++ fs/nfsd/nfsd.h | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- Dai Ngo