Session Trunking for NFS available in RHEL-8


This Article is taken from Is NFS session trunking available in RHEL?

Session trunking, whereby one can have multiple TCP connections to the same NFS server with the same IP address is provided by nconnect. This feature is available in RHEL 8

RHSA-2020:4431 for the package(s) kernel-4.18.0-240.el8 or later.
RHBA-2020:4530 for the package(s) nfs-utils-2.3.3-35.el8 libnfsidmap-2.3.3-35.el8 or later.

You can configure on the client side up to 16 connection

[root@nfs-client ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.2:/nfs-share /nfs-share -o nosharecache,nconnect=16

You can see by using the command

[root@nfs-client ~]# cat /proc/self/mountstats
......
......
RPC iostats version: 1.1  p/v: 100003/4 (nfs)
    xprt:   tcp 991 0 2 0 39 13 13 0 13 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 798 0 2 0 39 6 6 0 6 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 768 0 2 0 39 6 6 0 6 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 1013 0 2 0 39 4 4 0 4 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 828 0 2 0 39 4 4 0 4 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 702 0 2 0 39 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 783 0 2 0 39 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0
    xprt:   tcp 858 0 2 0 39 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0
.....

Someone recorded multiple performance increase when used on Pure Storage acting as a NFS Server. at Use nconnect to effortlessly increase NFS performance

Pix Taken from Use nconnect to effortlessly increase NFS performance

References:

  1. Is NFS session trunking available in RHEL?
  2. Use nconnect to effortlessly increase NFS performance
  3. Explanation of NFS mount options: nconnect=, nosharetransport, sharetransport=

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