RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI performance optimizations.

From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 21:40:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6905822E; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55AB42683; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s6ELepPX011321; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s6ELepDO011320; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201407142140.s6ELepDO011320@svn.freebsd.org> From: Warren Block Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45294 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014 New Revision: 45294 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45294 Log: Reintroduce intentional informality in the last Python task. Other assorted fixes in the rest of the document, including spelling and titles. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 18:14:52 2014 (r45293) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014 (r45294) @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ - RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI performance optimizations. + RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI Performance Optimizations @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ -

The vt(4) (a.k.a. Newcons) project provides +

The vt(4) (aka Newcons) project provides a replacement for the legacy syscons system console. It brings a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes and broader character set @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ - QEMU bsd-user enabled ports building + QEMU <tt>bsd-user</tt>-Enabled Ports Building @@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see links). - To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC - and let us know their areas of interest! + To get involved, come and say "hi" on IRC and let us know + what you are interested in! @@ -661,26 +661,26 @@

In May, a new release policy was published as well as being presented at the BSDCan developer conference by John Baldwin. - The idea is that each major release branch (eg. 10.x) is - guarranteed to be supported for at least five years, but - individual point releases on each branch (eg. 10.0-RELEASE) + The idea is that each major release branch (for example, 10.X) is + guaranteed to be supported for at least five years, but + individual point releases on each branch, like 10.0-RELEASE, will be issued at regular intervals and only the latest point release will be supported.

Another significant change did not receive approval. When the change to the Bylaws reforming the core team election - process was put to the vote of all &os; developers it failed + process was put to the vote of all &os; developers, it failed to reach a quorum.

June saw the culmination of a long running project to replace - the project's bug tracking system. As of 3rd June the &os; + the project's bug tracking system. As of June 3, the &os; project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system. - All of the history of Gnats PRs has been preserved, so there + All of the history of GNATS PRs has been preserved, so there is no need to re-open old tickets. Work is still going on to replicate some of the integration tweaks that had been applied - to Gnats, but all necessary functionality has been implemented + to GNATS, but all necessary functionality has been implemented and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new - capabilities bought by Bugzilla.

+ capabilities brought by Bugzilla.

An election to select core members for the next two year term of office took place during this period. We would like to @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ The new core team provides continuity with previous core teams: about half are incumbents from the previous team, and several former core team members have returned after a hiatus. - core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and + Core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and one other Foundation staff member, aiding greater coordination at the top level of the project. At the same time the core-secretary role was passed on to a new volunteer.

@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ - &os; host support for OpenStack and OpenContrail. + &os; Host Support for OpenStack and OpenContrail @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ - SDIO driver + SDIO Driver @@ -945,8 +945,8 @@

WiFi driver is able to load a firmware onto the card and initialize it. A rewrite of the MMC stack as a transport - layer for CAM framework is in progress. This will allow to - utilize the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.

+ layer for CAM framework is in progress. This will allow + utilization of the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.

@@ -1016,8 +1016,8 @@ - Running &os; as an application on top of Fiasco.OC - microkernel + Running &os; as an Application on Top of the Fiasco.OC + Microkernel @@ -1042,13 +1042,13 @@ provides a bare minimum of services to the applications running on top of it, unlike traditional kernels that incorporate a complex code like IP stacks and device drivers. - This allows to dramatically decrease the amount of code + This allows a dramatic decrease in the amount of code running in the privileged mode of the CPU, achieving higher security while still providing an acceptable level of performance.

Running an operating system kernel on top of the microkernel - allows to leverage any software that was developed for that + allows leveraging any software that was developed for that operating system. The OS kernel runs in user-mode side-by-side with other microkernel applications such as real-time components. Multiple OSes, each with their userland @@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@

The project aims to create a port of &os; to Fiasco.OC microkernel, which is a high performance L4 microkernel developed by TU Dresden. The existing ports of OpenBSD and - Linux are used as a reference. This will allow to use the + Linux are used as a reference. This will allow the use of unique &os; features like ZFS in L4-based projects.