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- Grammar tweaks for the 2013Q4 report

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<body>
<p>CBSD is another &os; jail management solution, aimed at
combining various features, such as <tt>racct(8)</tt>,
<tt>vnet</tt>, <tt>zfs(8)</tt>, <tt>carp(4)</tt>,
<tt>vnet</tt>, <tt>zfs(8)</tt>, <tt>carp(4)</tt>, and
<tt>hastd(8)</tt>, into a single tool. This provides a more
comprehensive way for building application servers using
comprehensive way to build application servers using
pre-installed jails with a typical set of software, and requires
a minimal effort to configure.</p>
</body>
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</body>
<help>
<task>We have got three machines for the test cluster. At the
<task>We have three machines for the test cluster. At the
moment, only one of them is in use to continuously test amd64 on
both <tt>head</tt> and <tt>stable/10</tt>. We need to figure
out the right level of parallelization to put other machines to
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<task>Port, port, and port more tests to the new test suite. A
test suite is worthless if it does not validate stuff. Stay tuned
for a request for help when we have put all basic pieces in
for a request for help once we have put all basic pieces in
place and have streamlined the migration process.</task>
</help>
</project>
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second version enhances the board mainly by replacing the
AllWinner A10 SoC with an AllWinner A20 which contains 2 ARM
Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and 2 Mali-400 GPUs (Mali-400MP2). In the
last few months, the work has continued on their &os; port, and
last few months, work has continued on their &os; port, and
some work was done on the EMAC 10/100 Ethernet driver (see
link). The driver now is in a good shape, however the RX side
is very slow and there is need to have external DMA driver that
link). The driver is now in a good shape, however the RX side
is very slow and there is need to have an external DMA driver that
can be used in this case.</p>
</body>
</project>
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set-top boxes, media players, personal video, and MP3 players.
Due to their evolution from the MP3/MP4 player market, most
Rockchip ICs feature advanced media decoding logic but lack
integrated cellular radio basebands. Initial support of
integrated cellular radio basebands. Initial support for the
Rockchip RK3188 (Quad core Cortex A9) SoC is committed to
<tt>head</tt>. Now &os; runs on Radxa Rock and it supports
the following peripherals:</p>
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<li>GPIO</li>
</ul>
<p>Some work was also done on the initial support of Qualcomm
<p>Some work was also done on initial support for the Qualcomm
Snapdragon S4 SoC, featuring the Krait CPU, which is considered
a "platform" for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook
devices. Krait has many similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15
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to CMake. Xfce now also supports Gtk2, Gtk3, and the new
WebKitGtk API, available from the 2.x branch, not present in our
ports tree at the moment, though. Most of the ports now use
stage directories, only some plugins left to convert.</p>
stage directories, with only some plugins left to convert.</p>
<p>We also removed obsolete ports:</p>
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adapt better to system memory constraints. Combined with other
virtual memory subsystem improvements done in the previous
years, it should be safe to actively use <tt>uma(9)</tt> caches
now. It may be enabled for ZFS to use them for ZIO/ARC via the
now. Their use in ZFS for ZIO/ARC may be enabled via the
<tt>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</tt> <tt>loader(8)</tt> tunable, which
is now the default for amd64, where it is recommended. Use of
<tt>uma(9)</tt> caches for LZ4 compression buffers is
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serious drawbacks. On systems with many CPUs, these changes
doubled the performance in the benchmarks.</p>
<p>Several areas of the NFS server stack (RPC, FHA, DRC) got
<p>Several areas of the NFS server stack (RPC, FHA, DRC) got a
number of fixes and performance optimizations that significantly
improves the performance and reduces the CPU usage in number of
improve performance and reduce the CPU usage in a number of
tests. Together with the ZFS memory allocator changes mentioned
above, it was possible to reach 200K NFS block read IOPS and 55K
SPEC NFS IOPS.</p>
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<task>The SPEC NFS test hits lock congestion on several global
locks in the file system layer when a quite intensive
<tt>READDIRPLUS</tt> NFS request is received. Fixing this
problem could improve the performance on large systems even
problem could improve performance on large systems even
further.</task>
</help>
</project>
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<p>The CAM and GEOM multi-processor scalability improvement
project has completed. The corresponding code has been committed
to &os; <tt>head</tt> and recently merged to the
<tt>stable/10</tt> branch, it shall appear in
<tt>stable/10</tt> branch; it shall appear in
<tt>10.1-RELEASE</tt>.</p>
<p>As part of this project, <tt>cam(4)</tt> (ATA/SCSI subsystem)
<p>As part of this project, <tt>cam(4)</tt> (the ATA/SCSI subsystem)
has received more fine-grained locking for better utilization of
multi-core systems. In addition, locking in <tt>geom(4)</tt>
(block storage subsystem) has been also polished, and a new
multi-core systems. In addition, the locking in <tt>geom(4)</tt>
(the block storage subsystem) has been also polished, and a new
direct dispatch functionality was implemented to spread the load
between multiple threads and processors, and reduce the number
of context switches.</p>