Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:05:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42081 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201306281605.r5SG5RCw009415@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Fri Jun 28 16:05:27 2013 New Revision: 42081 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42081 Log: - Add an introductory sentence for the multi-threaded pagedaemon entry [1] - Fix up some minor mistakes in the Intel IOMMU entry - Fix spelling of pkg(8) in the PC-BSD entry Requested by: theraven [1] Discussed with: kib [1] Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Fri Jun 28 12:20:00 2013 (r42080) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Fri Jun 28 16:05:27 2013 (r42081) @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ <body> <p>Progress on moving PC-BSD & TrueOS to a "rolling release" is happening quickly. We have implemented our own package - repository, fully based on PKGNG, which is updated twice + repository, fully based on <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, which is updated twice monthly, and are now hosting dedicated <tt>freebsd-update(8)</tt> systems. In addition to the <tt>9.1-RELEASE</tt> ISO images, we have begun to create a @@ -161,12 +161,12 @@ </body> <help> - <task>Implements workarounds for chipset errata.</task> + <task>Implement workarounds for chipset errata.</task> <task>Commit to HEAD after additional testing.</task> <task>Rebalance MSI/MSI-X using interrupt remapping unit, also - required for x2APIC use on big machines</task> + required for x2APIC use on big machines.</task> <task>Integrate with the Intel GPU MMU and handle Ironlake and SandyBridge errata for the GFXVTd unit.</task> @@ -195,12 +195,13 @@ </links> <body> - <p>Based on a prototype change from Jeff Roberson, per-domain page - queues and per-domain pagedaemon working threads have been - implemented. At the moment, the domains coincide with the NUMA - proximity domains, but this is not neccessary and could be - improved with further separation to allow more parallelism in - the pagedaemon.</p> + <p>This project aims to improve scalability of the virtual memory + subsystem. Based on a prototype change from Jeff Roberson, + per-domain page queues and per-domain pagedaemon working threads + have been implemented to enable this. At the moment, the + domains coincide with the NUMA proximity domains, but this is + not neccessary and could be improved with further separation to + allow more parallelism in the pagedaemon.</p> <p>The patch is relatively simple, with the most delicate parts being the page laundry and OOM logic, which requires coordination
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