From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 11 21:58:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61D4B4A5; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 +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)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D1A81870; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s0BLwm1R067156; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s0BLwmm5067155; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201401112158.s0BLwmm5067155@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43474 - 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-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:48 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Sat Jan 11 21:58:47 2014 New Revision: 43474 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43474 Log: - Grammar tweaks for the 2013Q4 report Submitted by: bjk Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sat Jan 11 12:52:07 2014 (r43473) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sat Jan 11 21:58:47 2014 (r43474) @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@

CBSD is another &os; jail management solution, aimed at combining various features, such as racct(8), - vnet, zfs(8), carp(4), + vnet, zfs(8), carp(4), and hastd(8), into a single tool. This provides a more - comprehensive way for building application servers using + comprehensive way to build application servers using pre-installed jails with a typical set of software, and requires a minimal effort to configure.

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ - We have got three machines for the test cluster. At the + We have three machines for the test cluster. At the moment, only one of them is in use to continuously test amd64 on both head and stable/10. We need to figure out the right level of parallelization to put other machines to @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Port, port, and port more tests to the new test suite. A test suite is worthless if it does not validate stuff. Stay tuned - for a request for help when we have put all basic pieces in + for a request for help once we have put all basic pieces in place and have streamlined the migration process. @@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ second version enhances the board mainly by replacing the AllWinner A10 SoC with an AllWinner A20 which contains 2 ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and 2 Mali-400 GPUs (Mali-400MP2). In the - last few months, the work has continued on their &os; port, and + last few months, work has continued on their &os; port, and some work was done on the EMAC 10/100 Ethernet driver (see - link). The driver now is in a good shape, however the RX side - is very slow and there is need to have external DMA driver that + link). The driver is now in a good shape, however the RX side + is very slow and there is need to have an external DMA driver that can be used in this case.

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ set-top boxes, media players, personal video, and MP3 players. Due to their evolution from the MP3/MP4 player market, most Rockchip ICs feature advanced media decoding logic but lack - integrated cellular radio basebands. Initial support of + integrated cellular radio basebands. Initial support for the Rockchip RK3188 (Quad core Cortex A9) SoC is committed to head. Now &os; runs on Radxa Rock and it supports the following peripherals:

@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@

GPIO

Some work was also done on the initial support of Qualcomm +

Some work was also done on initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC, featuring the Krait CPU, which is considered a "platform" for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices. Krait has many similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15 @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ to CMake. Xfce now also supports Gtk2, Gtk3, and the new WebKitGtk API, available from the 2.x branch, not present in our ports tree at the moment, though. Most of the ports now use - stage directories, only some plugins left to convert.

+ stage directories, with only some plugins left to convert.

We also removed obsolete ports:

@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ adapt better to system memory constraints. Combined with other virtual memory subsystem improvements done in the previous years, it should be safe to actively use uma(9) caches - now. It may be enabled for ZFS to use them for ZIO/ARC via the + now. Their use in ZFS for ZIO/ARC may be enabled via the vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma loader(8) tunable, which is now the default for amd64, where it is recommended. Use of uma(9) caches for LZ4 compression buffers is @@ -537,9 +537,9 @@ serious drawbacks. On systems with many CPUs, these changes doubled the performance in the benchmarks.

Several areas of the NFS server stack (RPC, FHA, DRC) got +

Several areas of the NFS server stack (RPC, FHA, DRC) got a number of fixes and performance optimizations that significantly - improves the performance and reduces the CPU usage in number of + improve performance and reduce the CPU usage in a number of tests. Together with the ZFS memory allocator changes mentioned above, it was possible to reach 200K NFS block read IOPS and 55K SPEC NFS IOPS.

@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ The SPEC NFS test hits lock congestion on several global locks in the file system layer when a quite intensive READDIRPLUS NFS request is received. Fixing this - problem could improve the performance on large systems even + problem could improve performance on large systems even further. @@ -583,13 +583,13 @@

The CAM and GEOM multi-processor scalability improvement project has completed. The corresponding code has been committed to &os; head and recently merged to the - stable/10 branch, it shall appear in + stable/10 branch; it shall appear in 10.1-RELEASE.

As part of this project, cam(4) (ATA/SCSI subsystem) +

As part of this project, cam(4) (the ATA/SCSI subsystem) has received more fine-grained locking for better utilization of - multi-core systems. In addition, locking in geom(4) - (block storage subsystem) has been also polished, and a new + multi-core systems. In addition, the locking in geom(4) + (the block storage subsystem) has been also polished, and a new direct dispatch functionality was implemented to spread the load between multiple threads and processors, and reduce the number of context switches.