SUNRPC: Add svc_serv_maxthreads() to report the thread ceiling

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A pooled RPC service sizes its threads dynamically, growing and
shrinking each pool between its minimum and maximum bounds as load
varies.  The count of running threads therefore reflects recent
demand, not the service's capacity.  A consumer that sizes a data
structure against the concurrency the service can sustain -- NFSD's
NFSv4 session slot tables, for one -- needs that stable ceiling, and
computing it means summing sp_nrthrmax across every pool.

Add svc_serv_maxthreads() so the summation, and its dependence
on the layout of struct svc_serv and struct svc_pool, stays within
sunrpc. The read is lock-free: pool maxima change only when a service
is reconfigured, a path callers already serialize against startup and
shutdown, so a racing reader observes at worst a transient value. This
is acceptable for the sizing heuristics that will consume it.

nfsd_nrthreads() already sums sp_nrthrmax across pools by hand; convert
it to svc_serv_maxthreads(), giving the new export an in-tree consumer
and removing a copy of the dependence on svc_serv internals.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@hammerspace.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-nfsd-slot-growth-clamp-v1-1-7b966700df0b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>

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fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c

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net/sunrpc/svc.c

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