Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:44:39 +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: r49555 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201610232344.u9NNidwO024706@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Oct 23 23:44:39 2016 New Revision: 49555 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49555 Log: Add entry on the Elastic Network Adapter from Jakub Palider Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 23:09:10 2016 (r49554) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 23:44:39 2016 (r49555) @@ -793,4 +793,72 @@ <task>Submit remaining fixes and drivers.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>&os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Jan</given> + <common>Medala</common> + </name> + <email>jan@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Jakub</given> + <common>Palider</common> + </name> + <email>jpa@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html">Amazon AWS Documentation of the ENA</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by + Annapurna Labs based on a custom ARMv8 chip. This is a + high-performance networking card that is available to AWS virtual + machines. It introduces enhancements in network utilization + scalability on EC2 machines running various operating systems, in + particular &os;.</p> + + <p>The goal of &os; enablement is to provide top performance and a + wide range of monitoring and management features such as:</p> + + <ul> + <li>multiple queue modes</li> + + <li>various offload functionality</li> + + <li>admin queue</li> + + <li>asynchronous notification</li> + + <li>robust hardware access</li> + + <li>scalable number of MSI-X interrupts</li> + + <li>counters</li> + </ul> + + <p>The current state offers stable driver operation with good + performance on machines running &os; directly on the hardware.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task>Optimize performance for virtualized environments.</task> + + <task>Prepare for submitting the driver as a Phabricator + review.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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