svn commit: r49552 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 23 22:25:36 2016
New Revision: 49552
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49552
Log:
Add entry on NTB improvements from mav
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 22:02:07 2016 (r49551)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 22:25:36 2016 (r49552)
@@ -619,4 +619,64 @@
TODO file in the root directory of the project.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='proj'>
+ <title>Improvements to Non-Transparent Bridge Subsystem</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Alexander</given>
+ <common>Motin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>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:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>The code was modularized, utilizing &os;'s NewBus interfaces
+ to allow support for different hardware types with different
+ drivers, support for multiple NTB instances in a system,
+ using the <tt>ntb_transport</tt> module for consumers other
+ than <tt>if_ntb</tt>, etc.</li>
+
+ <li>Support for splitting NTB resources between different
+ applications was added, such as doing direct access to some range
+ of remote memory and to a virtual network interface between nodes
+ at the same time, etc.</li>
+
+ <li>The virtual network interface driver gained support for many
+ modern features, such as multiple queues, new locking, etc.</li>
+
+ <li>NTB performance and SMP scalability was improved.</li>
+
+ <li>Multiple workarounds for hardware issues were added.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The code is committed to the &os; head, stable/11 and stable/10
+ branches.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ The project is sponsored by iXsystems, Inc.
+ </sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>Support for the next generation of Intel hardware.</task>
+
+ <task>Support for non-Intel hardware (AMD, PLX, etc.).</task>
+
+ <task>Support for I/OAT and other DMA offloads.</task>
+
+ <task>Creating a more efficient packet transport protocol.</task>
+
+ <task>Creating a greater variety of NTB applications.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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