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Linus Torvalds f35d170615 NFSD 6.6 Release Notes
I'm thrilled to announce that the Linux in-kernel NFS server now
 offers NFSv4 write delegations. A write delegation enables a client
 to cache data and metadata for a single file more aggressively,
 reducing network round trips and server workload. Many thanks to Dai
 Ngo for contributing this facility, and to Jeff Layton and Neil
 Brown for reviewing and testing it.
 
 This release also sees the removal of all support for DES- and
 triple-DES-based Kerberos encryption types in the kernel's SunRPC
 implementation. These encryption types have been deprecated by the
 Internet community for years and are considered insecure. This
 change affects both the in-kernel NFS client and server.
 
 The server's UDP and TCP socket transports have now fully adopted
 David Howells' new bio_vec iterator so that no more than one
 sendmsg() call is needed to transmit each RPC message. In
 particular, this helps kTLS optimize record boundaries when sending
 RPC-with-TLS replies, and it takes the server a baby step closer to
 handling file I/O via folios.
 
 We've begun work on overhauling the SunRPC thread scheduler to
 remove a costly linked-list walk when looking for an idle RPC
 service thread to wake. The pre-requisites are included in this
 release. Thanks to Neil Brown for his ongoing work on this
 improvement.
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Merge tag 'nfsd-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux

Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
 "I'm thrilled to announce that the Linux in-kernel NFS server now
  offers NFSv4 write delegations. A write delegation enables a client to
  cache data and metadata for a single file more aggressively, reducing
  network round trips and server workload. Many thanks to Dai Ngo for
  contributing this facility, and to Jeff Layton and Neil Brown for
  reviewing and testing it.

  This release also sees the removal of all support for DES- and
  triple-DES-based Kerberos encryption types in the kernel's SunRPC
  implementation. These encryption types have been deprecated by the
  Internet community for years and are considered insecure. This change
  affects both the in-kernel NFS client and server.

  The server's UDP and TCP socket transports have now fully adopted
  David Howells' new bio_vec iterator so that no more than one sendmsg()
  call is needed to transmit each RPC message. In particular, this helps
  kTLS optimize record boundaries when sending RPC-with-TLS replies, and
  it takes the server a baby step closer to handling file I/O via
  folios.

  We've begun work on overhauling the SunRPC thread scheduler to remove
  a costly linked-list walk when looking for an idle RPC service thread
  to wake. The pre-requisites are included in this release. Thanks to
  Neil Brown for his ongoing work on this improvement"

* tag 'nfsd-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (56 commits)
  Documentation: Add missing documentation for EXPORT_OP flags
  SUNRPC: Remove unused declaration rpc_modcount()
  SUNRPC: Remove unused declarations
  NFSD: da_addr_body field missing in some GETDEVICEINFO replies
  SUNRPC: Remove return value of svc_pool_wake_idle_thread()
  SUNRPC: make rqst_should_sleep() idempotent()
  SUNRPC: Clean up svc_set_num_threads
  SUNRPC: Count ingress RPC messages per svc_pool
  SUNRPC: Deduplicate thread wake-up code
  SUNRPC: Move trace_svc_xprt_enqueue
  SUNRPC: Add enum svc_auth_status
  SUNRPC: change svc_xprt::xpt_flags bits to enum
  SUNRPC: change svc_rqst::rq_flags bits to enum
  SUNRPC: change svc_pool::sp_flags bits to enum
  SUNRPC: change cache_head.flags bits to enum
  SUNRPC: remove timeout arg from svc_recv()
  SUNRPC: change svc_recv() to return void.
  SUNRPC: call svc_process() from svc_recv().
  nfsd: separate nfsd_last_thread() from nfsd_put()
  nfsd: Simplify code around svc_exit_thread() call in nfsd()
  ...
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