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- add fsc entry [2] Submitted by: eadler [1], trhodes [2]
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
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Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2012-01-2012-03.xml,v 1.1 2012/05/07 11:16:47 danger Exp $ -->
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<report>
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<date>
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<month>January-March</month>
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<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between January and March
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2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This
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quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of &os;,
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9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. Our
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release engineering team has been also busy with preparation of the
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8.3-RELEASE, which was publicly announced in April.</p>
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9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January
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2012. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to
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the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of
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the &unix; operating system. Our release engineering team has
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been also busy with preparation of the 8.3-RELEASE, which was
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publicly announced in April.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
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contains 25 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
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<p>The same as before, the outdated contents in the www/ja subtree
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were updated to the latest versions in the English counterpart. The
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updating work of the outdated translations in the www/ja subtree is
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almost completed while the release documents for each release are
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remaining.</p>
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almost complete while the release notes are untranslated.</p>
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<p>During this period, we translated the 9.0R announcement and
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<p>During this period, we translated the 9.0-RELEASE announcement and
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published it in a timely manner. It seems that the Japanese version
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of the release announcement is important for Japanese people as
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this page has frequently been referenced.</p>
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<body>
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<p>IPv6 performance numbers were often seen (significantly) lower
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on &os; when comparing to IPv4. Continuing last years IPv6-only
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on &os; when compared to IPv4. Continuing last years IPv6-only
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kernel efforts this project looked at various reasons for this and
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started fixing some.</p>
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<p>As part of the project a benchmark framework was created that
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could carry out various tests including reboots in between runs and
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gather results reproducibly and without user intervention. It
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gather results reproducibly without user intervention. It
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allows regular benchmarking with minimal configuration and easy
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future extension for more benchmarks.</p>
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carried out. Some of the changes were equally applied to IPv4.</p>
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<p>Performance numbers on physical and loopback interfaces are
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basically on par with IPv4 when using offload support with
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on par with IPv4 when using offload support with
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TCP/IPv6, which is a huge improvement. UDP and non-offload numbers
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on IPv6 have generally improved but are still lower than on IPv4
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and will need future work to catch up with a decade of IPv4
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send path packets per second (pps) numbers however have increased
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beating IPv4 when sending to a local discard device.</p>
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<p>This gets us really close to be able to prefer IPv6 by default
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<p>This gets us really close to being able to prefer IPv6 by default
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without causing loopback performance regressions. For physical
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interfaces, cxgb(4) in HEAD already supports IPv6 TCP offload and
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LRO/v6 support was added. To be able to get more test results on
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<body>
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<p>Recently DTrace in the kernel was improved to be able to load
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kernel modules with static dtrace providers after the dtrace
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modules. This allows now to commit my already useable work in
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progress with linuxulator specific static providers to
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-current.</p>
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modules. This allows me to commit my linuxulator specific
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static provider work to -CURRENT.</p>
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<p>Together with the linuxulator DTrace probes I developed some D
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scripts to check various code paths in the linuxulator. Those
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linuxulator provides.</p>
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<p>As of this writing, I'm in the process of preparing a commit of
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this port (TODO: repocopy by portmgr, add conflicts in other
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linux_base ports, commit the CentOS based one, some cleanup).</p>
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this port.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Repocopy by portmgr.</task>
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<task>Add conflicts in other linux_base ports.</task>
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<task>Commit the CentOS based one.</task>
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<task>Some cleanup.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='kern'>
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<body>
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<p>On behalf of the FreeBSD Project the Release Engineering Team
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was pleased to announce the release of FreeBSD-8.3 on April 18th,
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2012.</p>
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was are pleased to announce the release of the &os;
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8.3-RELEASE on April 18th, 2012.</p>
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<p>With the FreeBSD-8.3 release cycle completed our focus shifts to
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preparing for the FreeBSD-9.1 release. A schedule will be posted
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<p>With the &os; 8.3 release cycle completed our focus shifts to
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preparing for the &os; 9.1-RELEASE. A schedule will be posted
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shortly, with the release target date set for mid-July 2012.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>&os; Services Control</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Tom</given>
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<common>Rhodes</common>
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</name>
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<email>trhodes@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/fsc/" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>After a while of moving and getting a new job, I finally got
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back to this project (also thanks to several submissions by
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Julian Fagir), a new version has been uploaded along with a short
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description page. The current version supports more options, a
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configuration file, and updated rc.d script. It also includes
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manual page updates and an optional debugging mode.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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