From 75d8a7f115be2d5a86046a89343d8b987f39afaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:25:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry on NTB improvements from mav --- .../news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml | 60 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml index f3346afb08..9d93fa6543 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml @@ -619,4 +619,64 @@ TODO file in the root directory of the project. + + + Improvements to Non-Transparent Bridge Subsystem + + + + + Alexander + Motin + + mav@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Non-Transparent Bridges allow creation of memory windows between + different systems, using the regular PCIe links of CPUs as a + transport. During the last quarter, the NTB subsystem gained a + significant set of improvements and fixes:

+ + + +

The code is committed to the &os; head, stable/11 and stable/10 + branches.

+ + + + The project is sponsored by iXsystems, Inc. + + + + Support for the next generation of Intel hardware. + + Support for non-Intel hardware (AMD, PLX, etc.). + + Support for I/OAT and other DMA offloads. + + Creating a more efficient packet transport protocol. + + Creating a greater variety of NTB applications. + +