svn commit: r49063 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Dru Lavigne <[email protected]>
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Author: dru Date: Thu Jul 7 15:33:08 2016 New Revision: 49063 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49063 Log: Add Azure status report submitted by [email protected]. Reviewed by: wblock Sponsored by: iXsystems Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Thu Jul 7 15:08:15 2016 (r49062) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Thu Jul 7 15:33:08 2016 (r49063) @@ -598,4 +598,86 @@ IPv6.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>FreeBSD on Hyper-V and Azure</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Sepherosa</given> + <common>Ziehau</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Hongjiang</given> + <common>Zhang</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Dexuan</given> + <common>Cui</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Kylie</given> + <common>Liang</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD Virtual Machines on Microsoft Hyper-V</url> + <url href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531030.aspx">Supported Linux and FreeBSD virtual machines for Hyper-V on Windows</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>During BSDCan 2016, Microsoft <a + href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/freebsd-now-available-in-azure-marketplace/">announced</a> + 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 <a + href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/681.en.html">BSDCan website</a>.</p> + + <p>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 <tt>tcp_lro_queue_mbuf()</tt>.</p> + + <p>The handling of SCSI inquiry in the Hyper-V storage driver is + enhanced to make sure disk hotplug and <tt>smartctl(8)</tt> + work reliably. Refer to <a + href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210425">PR 210425</a> + and <a + href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209443">PR 209443</a> + for details.</p> + + <p>BIS test cases are available on GitHub for <a + href="https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/Test-BIS">Hyper-V</a> + and for <a + href="https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/azure-freebsd-automation">Azure</a>.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Microsoft + </sponsor> + </project> </report> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"