From 200ba2f608c8350b4b90b92b2021832968f23869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dru Lavigne Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:33:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add Azure status report submitted by decui@microsoft.com. Reviewed by: wblock Sponsored by: iXsystems --- .../news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml | 82 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml index 8b38c652dd..b913b93dff 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml @@ -598,4 +598,86 @@ IPv6.

+ + + FreeBSD on Hyper-V and Azure + + + + + Sepherosa + Ziehau + + sepherosa@gmail.com + + + + + Hongjiang + Zhang + + honzhan@microsoft.com + + + + + Dexuan + Cui + + decui@microsoft.com + + + + + Kylie + Liang + + kyliel@microsoft.com + + + + + FreeBSD Virtual Machines on Microsoft Hyper-V + Supported Linux and FreeBSD virtual machines for Hyper-V on Windows + + + +

During BSDCan 2016, Microsoft announced + the global availability of FreeBSD 10.3 images in Azure. + There are many FreeBSD-based Azure virtual appliances in the + Azure Marketplace, including Citrix Systems' NetScaler and + Netgate's pfSense. Microsoft also made an in-depth technical + presentation to introduce how the performance of the Hyper-V + network device driver was optimized to reach full line rate on + 10Gb networks and achieved decent performance on 40Gb + networks. The slides and video from the presentation are + available from the BSDCan website.

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Microsoft continues to strive to further optimize the + performance of Hyper-V network and storage device drivers. + Work is ongoing to replace the internal data structure in the + LRO kernel API from a singly-linked list to a double-linked + list, to speed up the LRO lookup by hash table, and to compare + the performance with tcp_lro_queue_mbuf().

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The handling of SCSI inquiry in the Hyper-V storage driver is + enhanced to make sure disk hotplug and smartctl(8) + work reliably. Refer to PR 210425 + and PR 209443 + for details.

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BIS test cases are available on GitHub for Hyper-V + and for Azure.

+ + + + Microsoft + +