Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:19:17 +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: r49546 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201610232019.u9NKJHvk045991@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Oct 23 20:19:17 2016 New Revision: 49546 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49546 Log: Add BSD Integration Services for Azure report from Dexuan Cui 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 19:39:35 2016 (r49545) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 23 20:19:17 2016 (r49546) @@ -275,4 +275,79 @@ compiler!</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>&os; on Hyper-V and Azure</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Sepherosa</given> + <common>Ziehau</common> + </name> + <email>sepherosa@gmail.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Hongjiang</given> + <common>Zhang</common> + </name> + <email>honzhan@microsoft.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Dexuan</given> + <common>Cui</common> + </name> + <email>decui@microsoft.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Kylie</given> + <common>Liang</common> + </name> + <email>kyliel@microsoft.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HyperV">&os; Virtual Machines on Microsoft Hyper-V</url> + <url href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531030.aspx">Supported Linux and &os; virtual machines for Hyper-V on Windows</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>This quarter, the Hyper-V storage driver was greatly improved: + its performance was increased by a factor of 1.2-2 by applying + BUS_DMA and UNMAP_IO, enlarging the request queue, and selecting the + outgoing channel with the LUN considered; TRIM/UNMAP was enabled; + and some critical bugs (PRs 209443, 211000, 212998) were fixed so + that disk hot add/remove and VHDX online resizing should work + now.</p> + + <p>The VMBus driver also received attention, with enhancements made for + the handling of device hot add/remove.</p> + + <p> In the Hyper-V network driver, configurable RSS key and dynamic + MTU change are now supported.</p> + + <p>&os; images on Azure continue to be updated — after + publishing the &os; 10.3 VM image on the global Microsoft Azure in + June, Microsoft also published the VM image on the Microsoft Azure + operated by 21Vianet in China in September.</p> + + <p>Patches have been developed to support PCIe pass-through (also + known as Discrete Device Assignment); this feature allows physical + PCIe devices to be passed through to &os; VMs running on Hyper-V + (Windows Server 2016), giving them near-native performance with low + CPU utilization. The patch to enable the feature will be posted for + review soon.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Microsoft + </sponsor> + </project> </report>
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