svn commit: r50436 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jul 3 00:32:09 2017
New Revision: 50436
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50436
Log:
Add 2017Q2 Annapurna Labs ENA entry from Michał Krawczyk
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Sun Jul 2 21:49:30 2017 (r50435)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Mon Jul 3 00:32:09 2017 (r50436)
@@ -545,4 +545,76 @@
somewhat easier.</p>
</body>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='kern'>
+ <title>&os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Marcin</given>
+ <common>Wojtas</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Michał</given>
+ <common>Krawczyk</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html">Enhanced Networking Guide</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by
+ Annapurna Labs and is based on a custom ARMv8 chip. This is a
+ high performance networking card available in AWS offering.
+ It introduces enhancements in network utilization scalability
+ on EC2 machines under control of various operating systems, in
+ particular &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>The goal of &os; enablement is to provide top performance and
+ a wide range of monitoring and management features such
+ as:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>multiple queue modes</li>
+
+ <li>hardware offloads (rx and tx checksum)</li>
+
+ <li>admin queue</li>
+
+ <li>asynchronous notifications</li>
+
+ <li>robust hardware access</li>
+
+ <li>a scalable number of MSI-X vectors</li>
+
+ <li>hardware counters</li>
+
+ <li>watchdog mechanism</li>
+
+ <li>LRO</li>
+
+ <li>RSS</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The driver is now available in kernel source tree since
+ r318647.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company</sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>Add RSS configuration from userspace (sysctls).</task>
+
+ <task>Add support for LLQ mechanisms.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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