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From 3ff6fad27d2cd0772a40ddb65694ce04f3da83bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:42:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] manpage: Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option

Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option on the 'nfs' generic
manpage.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
---
 utils/mount/nfs.man |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -373,6 +373,23 @@ using an automounter (refer to
 .BR automount (8)
 for details).
 .TP 1.5i
+.BR nconnect= n
+When using a connection oriented protocol such as TCP, it may
+sometimes be advantageous to set up multiple connections between
+the client and server. For instance, if your clients and/or servers
+are equipped with multiple network interface cards (NICs), using multiple
+connections to spread the load may improve overall performance.
+In such cases, the
+.BR nconnect
+option allows the user to specify the number of connections
+that should be established between the client and server up to
+a limit of 16.
+.IP
+Note that the
+.BR nconnect
+option may also be used by some pNFS drivers to decide how many
+connections to set up to the data servers.
+.TP 1.5i
 .BR rdirplus " / " nordirplus
 Selects whether to use NFS v3 or v4 READDIRPLUS requests.
 If this option is not specified, the NFS client uses READDIRPLUS requests

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