svn commit: r47021 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock
Date: Sun Jul 19 20:40:16 2015
New Revision: 47021
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47021
Log:
Whitespace-only fixes. Spaces added in some places, removed in others,
phlogistons massaged. Any translators paying attention, please ignore.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sun Jul 19 20:27:41 2015 (r47020)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sun Jul 19 20:40:16 2015 (r47021)
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
</ul>
<p>Mathieu Arnold (<tt>mat@</tt>) committed
- <a href=" https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197878">PR197878</a>,
+ <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197878">PR197878</a>,
updating the Xfce section in the Porter's Handbook.</p>
<p>We also follow the unstable releases (available in our
@@ -1091,11 +1091,10 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>A Process-Context Identifier (PCID) is a performance enhancing
- feature of the
- Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) on Intel processors,
- introduced with the Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. It
- allows the TLB to
+ <p>A Process-Context Identifier (PCID) is a
+ performance-enhancing feature of the Translation Lookaside
+ Buffer (TLB) on Intel processors, introduced with the Sandy
+ Bridge micro-architecture. It allows the TLB to
simultaneously cache translation information for several
address spaces, and gives an opportunity for the operating
system context switch code to avoid flushing the TLB upon
@@ -1126,23 +1125,24 @@
<p>The new PCID implementation uses an algorithm described in
the U. Vahalia book "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers". The
algorithm is already used, for example, by the MIPS pmap for
- assigning Address Space Identifiers (ASIDs) to software-managed
- TLB entries. The pmap
- maintains a per-CPU generation count, which is assigned to the
- next unused PCID when the context is activated on CPU. TLB
- invalidation includes resetting the generation count, which
- causes reallocation of the PCID when a context switch is
- performed. As result, the new implementation issues exactly
- the same amount of shootdown IPIs as a pmap which does not
- utilize PCID.</p>
+ assigning Address Space Identifiers (ASIDs) to
+ software-managed TLB entries. The pmap maintains a per-CPU
+ generation count, which is assigned to the next unused PCID
+ when the context is activated on CPU. TLB invalidation
+ includes resetting the generation count, which causes
+ reallocation of the PCID when a context switch is performed.
+ As result, the new implementation issues exactly the same
+ amount of shootdown IPIs as a pmap which does not utilize
+ PCID.</p>
<p>Another change included with the PCID rewrite is a move of
the address space switching code from assembler to C source,
making the algorithm easier to understand and validate.</p>
<p>Measurements done with <tt>hwpmc(4)</tt> on a Haswell machine
- indicated that the new implementation reduced the TLB miss rate by
- up to 10 times, without an increase in TLB shootdown IPIs.</p>
+ indicated that the new implementation reduced the TLB miss
+ rate by up to 10 times, without an increase in TLB shootdown
+ IPIs.</p>
<p>The rewrite was committed to HEAD at r282684.</p>
@@ -1405,9 +1405,9 @@
steam again. The OpenBSM source code repository was migrated
from &os;'s Perforce server to GitHub. We hope this will make
the code more accessible and stimulate outside contributions.
- In addition to the repository migration, automated build testing
- using Travis CI has been enabled, and initial steps towards a
- new test release have been made.</p>
+ In addition to the repository migration, automated build
+ testing using Travis CI has been enabled, and initial steps
+ towards a new test release have been made.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -2571,9 +2571,8 @@
<li>Worked with Colin Percival and Brad Davis on testing
and refining the release build code to support building
- Amazon EC2 images and Vagrant images for Hashicorp Atlas,
- respectively.
- </li>
+ Amazon EC2 images and Vagrant images for Hashicorp
+ Atlas, respectively.</li>
<li>Reworked the &os;/arm build code to provide a
fully-native build infrastructure for the existing
@@ -2583,10 +2582,10 @@
<li>Wrote several additional utilities to reduce human
error in several areas of Release Engineering, including
- producing the filesystem hierarchy used by the FTP mirrors,
- enhancements to the internal build scripts used by Release
- Engineering, and support for automatically uploading and
- publishing virtual machine images.</li>
+ producing the filesystem hierarchy used by the FTP
+ mirrors, enhancements to the internal build scripts used
+ by Release Engineering, and support for automatically
+ uploading and publishing virtual machine images.</li>
<li>While attending BSDCan 2015, Glen worked with several
developers and teams on various items, such as
@@ -2627,7 +2626,8 @@
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Wine">Wine wiki</url>
- <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">Wine on amd64 wiki</url>
+ <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">Wine on amd64
+ wiki</url>
<url href="http://www.winehq.org">Wine homepage</url>
</links>
@@ -2639,11 +2639,12 @@
<ul>
<li>Stable releases: 1.6.2 (1 port revision)</li>
+
<li>Development releases: 1.7.40 through 1.7.46</li>
</ul>
- <p>The <tt>i386-wine-devel</tt> port has packages built for amd64 for
- &os; 8.4, 9.1+, 10.1+ and CURRENT.</p>
+ <p>The <tt>i386-wine-devel</tt> port has packages built for
+ amd64 for &os; 8.4, 9.1+, 10.1+ and CURRENT.</p>
<p>Accomplishments include:</p>
@@ -2654,24 +2655,36 @@
<p>Future development on Wine will focus on:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Add the <tt>getdirentries(2)</tt> patch to the <tt>wine-devel</tt> port.</li>
- <li>Redevelop and upstream the <tt>getdirentries(2)</tt> patch.</li>
- <li>Redevelop and upstream the kernel32 <tt>Makefile</tt> patch.</li>
- <li>Add support to the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port for <tt>pkg</tt> 1.5 (library
- conflicts currently prevent support).</li>
+ <li>Add the <tt>getdirentries(2)</tt> patch to the
+ <tt>wine-devel</tt> port.</li>
+
+ <li>Redevelop and upstream the <tt>getdirentries(2)</tt>
+ patch.</li>
+
+ <li>Redevelop and upstream the kernel32 <tt>Makefile</tt>
+ patch.</li>
+
+ <li>Add support to the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port for
+ <tt>pkg</tt> 1.5 (library conflicts currently prevent
+ support).</li>
+
<li>Add support for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64):
<ul>
- <li>Reduce the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port to just the components
- required for WoW64.</li>
+ <li>Reduce the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port to just the
+ components required for WoW64.</li>
+
<li>Rename the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port to
<tt>wow64</tt>.</li>
- <li>Make the wine ports depend on the wow64 ports when built
- on amd64.</li>
+
+ <li>Make the wine ports depend on the wow64 ports when
+ built on amd64.</li>
+
<li>Investigate and verify the interactions between Wine64
and WoW64.</li>
+
<li>Investigate possible update approaches for the
- wow64 ports (that have to be pre-compiled) and how updating
- with the wine ports will work.</li>
+ wow64 ports (that have to be pre-compiled) and how
+ updating with the wine ports will work.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -2691,7 +2704,8 @@
<task>
<p>&os;/amd64 integration (see the
- <a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">i386-Wine wiki</a>)</p>
+ <a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">i386-Wine
+ wiki</a>)</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -2722,25 +2736,27 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The KDE on &os; team focuses on packaging and making sure that
- the experience of KDE and Qt on &os; is as good as possible.</p>
+ <p>The KDE on &os; team focuses on packaging and making sure
+ that the experience of KDE and Qt on &os; is as good as
+ possible.</p>
- <p>Brad Davis has been working on CMake resulting in an update to
- version 3.2.3 being committed to ports.</p>
+ <p>Brad Davis has been working on CMake resulting in an update
+ to version 3.2.3 being committed to ports.</p>
- <p>Overall, we have updated the following ports in this quarter:</p>
+ <p>Overall, we have updated the following ports in this
+ quarter:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>CMake 3.2.3 (committed to ports)</li>
- <li>Qt 4.8.7 (committed to area51)</li>
- <li>Qt 5.4.1 (refinements committed to ports)</li>
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>CMake 3.2.3 (committed to ports)</li>
+ <li>Qt 4.8.7 (committed to area51)</li>
+ <li>Qt 5.4.1 (refinements committed to ports)</li>
+ </ul>
</body>
<help>
<task>
- <p>Put more effort into the Qt5-related ports: KDE Frameworks 5
- (currently worked on by Tobias Berner) and PyQt 5.</p>
+ <p>Put more effort into the Qt5-related ports: KDE Frameworks
+ 5 (currently worked on by Tobias Berner) and PyQt 5.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
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