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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2015 22:04:19 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r276933 - in head/release/doc: en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes share/xml
Message-ID:  <201501102204.t0AM4JRI087479@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: gjb
Date: Sat Jan 10 22:04:18 2015
New Revision: 276933
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276933

Log:
  Document r272720, PLPMTUD blackhole detection (RFC 4821).
  Add Limelight Networks to sponsors.ent.
  
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Modified:
  head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
  head/release/doc/share/xml/sponsor.ent

Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Sat Jan 10 22:04:15 2015	(r276932)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Sat Jan 10 22:04:18 2015	(r276933)
@@ -290,6 +290,81 @@
       <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport
 	protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in
 	&os;&nbsp;11 and later releases.</para>
+
+      <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor"
+	sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
+	blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
+	added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default.  New
+	control tunables have been added:</para>
+
+      <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
+	<tgroup cols="2">
+	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+	  <thead>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>Tunable</entry>
+	      <entry>Description</entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </thead>
+
+	  <tbody>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
+	      <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
+		blackhole detection</entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
+	      <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
+	      <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </tbody>
+	</tgroup>
+      </informaltable>
+
+      <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
+
+      <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
+	<tgroup cols="2">
+	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+	  <thead>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>Tunable</entry>
+	      <entry>Description</entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </thead>
+
+	  <tbody>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry>
+	      <entry>Number of times the code was activated to attempt
+		downshifting the <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry>
+	      <entry>Number of times the blackhole
+		<acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to
+		downshift</entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
+	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry>
+	      <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to
+		connect after downshifting the
+		<acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </tbody>
+	</tgroup>
+      </informaltable>
+
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="disks">

Modified: head/release/doc/share/xml/sponsor.ent
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/share/xml/sponsor.ent	Sat Jan 10 22:04:15 2015	(r276932)
+++ head/release/doc/share/xml/sponsor.ent	Sat Jan 10 22:04:18 2015	(r276933)
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 <!ENTITY google		"Google">
 
+<!ENTITY limelight	"Limelight Networks">
 <!ENTITY lsi		"LSI">
 
 <!ENTITY netgate	"Netgate">



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