nfs: probe for LOCALIO when v3 client reconnects to server

Re-enabling NFSv3 LOCALIO is made more complex (than NFSv4) because v3
is stateless.  As such, the hueristic used to identify a LOCALIO probe
point is more adhoc by nature: if/when NFSv3 client IO begins to
complete again in terms of normal RPC-based NFSv3 server IO, attempt
nfs_local_probe_async().

Care is taken to throttle the frequency of nfs_local_probe_async(),
otherwise there could be a flood of repeat calls to
nfs_local_probe_async().

The throttle is admin controlled using a new module parameter for
nfsv3, e.g.:
  echo 512 > /sys/module/nfsv3/parameters/nfs3_localio_probe_throttle

Probe for NFSv3 LOCALIO every N IO requests (512 in this case). Must
be power-of-2, defaults to 0 (probing disabled).

On systems that expect to use LOCALIO with NFSv3 the admin should
configure the 'nfs3_localio_probe_throttle' module parameter.

This commit backfills module parameter documentation in localio.rst

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>

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