Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:29:55 +0000 From: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: Humanoid-Human <Humanoid-Human@users.noreply.github.com> Subject: git: 9439d4da98 - main - Status/2026Q1/kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc: Add report Message-ID: <69e11c93.3384c.753db17a@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=9439d4da98027e3040f2d067225f6f9ec024c938 commit 9439d4da98027e3040f2d067225f6f9ec024c938 Author: Humanoid-Human <Humanoid-Human@users.noreply.github.com> AuthorDate: 2026-04-06 20:09:18 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-16 17:29:31 +0000 Status/2026Q1/kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc: Add report Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/650 --- .../kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..35c9e16dcb --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/kbench-maint-pkgdist.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +=== Kernel Benchmark, MAINTAINERS, and pkgdist + +Links: + + +link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[Kernel benchmark writeup] URL: https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[] + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[MAINTAINERS srcmgr thread] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[] + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[MAINTAINERS pull request] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[] + +link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/pull/1[pkg to distribution set converter] URL: https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/pull/1[] + +Contact: Trevor Xu <trevorxu5@gmail.com> + +My work this term was split between three projects. + +==== Kernel Benchmark + +I ran several benchmarks of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (default installation), and FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT with kernel debugging disabled. +The purpose of this work was to provide proper measurements of the performance impacts of kernel debug tooling. +I found that the default installation of 16.0-CURRENT (i.e. with debug) was significantly slower than 15.0-RELEASE, particularly in areas such as memory allocation. +On the other hand, 16.0-CURRENT when configured correctly had performance comparable to 15.0-RELEASE in every test I ran. +A link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[full writeup] is available. + +==== MAINTAINERS Modernization + +Based on the info from the link:https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[srcmgr thread], I made a layout for a UCL file that would store maintainers and paths to watch, as a replacement for the current MAINTAINERS file. +I then wrote a flua script that reads this file and can output CODEOWNERS for GitHub or Forgejo, get the maintainers for a particular path, get paths for a particular maintainer, etc. +The pull request can be found link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[here]. + +==== pkg to Distribution Set Converter + +Currently working on writing a shell script that can convert a pkgbase package set into a distribution set. +This would help facilitate the transition to pkgbase.home | help
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