Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 21:50:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47984 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601092150.u09Losjm037854@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Jan 9 21:50:54 2016 New Revision: 47984 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47984 Log: Add entry on Chelsio iSCSI hardware offload from np Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 21:30:57 2016 (r47983) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 21:50:54 2016 (r47984) @@ -1186,4 +1186,63 @@ <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Chelsio iSCSI Offload Driver (Initiator and Target)</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Navdeep</given> + <common>Parhar</common> + </name> + <email>navdeep@chelsio.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/292740">Commit Adding Hardware Acceleration Support</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>A new driver, <tt>cxgbei</tt>, that enables hardware + accelerated iSCSI with Chelsio's T5- and T4-based offload-capable + cards, has been committed to HEAD. Both Initiator and Target are + supported. The wire traffic is standard iSCSI (SCSI over TCP as + per RFC 3720, etc.) so an Initiator/Target using this driver will + interoperate with all other standards-compliant + implementations.</p> + + <p>Hardware assistance provided by the T5 and T4 ASICs includes:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Complete TCP processing.</li> + + <li>iSCSI PDU identification and extraction from the byte + oriented TCP stream.</li> + + <li>Header and/or data digest generation and + verification.</li> + + <li>Zero copy support for both transmit and receive.</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Chelsio Communications + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>The <tt>cxgbei(4)</tt> man page is missing but will be + committed shortly.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>The driver is in advanced stage QA and will see some + bugfixes and performance enhancements in the very near future. + MFC is possible as soon as the QA cycle completes.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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