Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:25:05 +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: r43273 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201312022025.rB2KP5Gf060528@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Mon Dec 2 20:25:05 2013 New Revision: 43273 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43273 Log: - Further minor tweaks Submitted by: wblock Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-09-devsummit.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-09-devsummit.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-09-devsummit.xml Mon Dec 2 09:58:41 2013 (r43272) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-09-devsummit.xml Mon Dec 2 20:25:05 2013 (r43273) @@ -521,22 +521,21 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/ </links> <body> - <p>First, André Oppermann gave a status report on his current work - on the interface between the network stack and the drivers. He - is planning to publish a formal documentation on the - stack-driver boundary and split the <tt>ifnet</tt> structure - into separate, stack- and driver-owned section, finally all - drivers will be adjusted to this new world order, and call for - feedback will be posted to the respective mailing lists. This - change is being implemented in the <tt>projects/ifq</tt> - Subversion branch, supervised by Ed Maste on behalf of the &os; - Foundation as sponsor. In addition to that, André is close to - complete his TCP-AO work, and also working on moving the IPsec - code into a <tt>pfil(9)</tt>-based kernel module. Besides that, - Gleb Smirnoff came up with the problem of implementing a - lightweight reference counting to avoid dangling pointers and - Alexander Chernikov started a discussion on the routing - performance.</p> + <p>André Oppermann gave a status report on his current work on the + interface between the network stack and the drivers. He is + planning to publish a formal documentation on the stack-driver + boundary and split the <tt>ifnet</tt> structure into separate, + stack- and driver-owned sections. All drivers will be adjusted + to this new world order, and a call for feedback will be posted + to the respective mailing lists. This change is being + implemented in the <tt>projects/ifq</tt> Subversion branch, + supervised by Ed Maste on behalf of the &os; Foundation as + sponsor. André is close to completing his TCP-AO work, and + working on moving the IPsec code into a <tt>pfil(9)</tt>-based + kernel module. Gleb Smirnoff came up with the problem of + implementing a lightweight reference counting to avoid dangling + pointers, and Alexander Chernikov started a discussion on the + routing performance.</p> <p>Another highlight of the networking stack working group was the discussion on testing, where everybody agreed that developers @@ -545,8 +544,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/ and Alexander Chernikov (from Yandex) have already shown interest in this effort, while the Netflix staff (Lawrence Stewart, Adrian Chadd, and Scott Long) confirmed that they have - access to TCP-heavy production workload. On a related note, it - was added that Netflix is looking to host developer summits + access to a TCP-heavy production workload. On a related note, + it was added that Netflix is looking to host developer summits focused on networking in Los Gatos, California, on a semi-regular basis.</p> </body> @@ -742,7 +741,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/ <p>We had a long discussion about removing support for old-style binary packages now that we have <tt>pkg(8)</tt>. Staying compatible with - <tt>pkg_install(1)</tt> hinders the introduction of new features, e.g. + <tt>pkg_install(1)</tt> hinders the introduction of new features, e.g., sub-packages mentioned above. We cannot really add those new features as the old tools will not support them and we cannot expect ports to work with two different package formats at the same time. We
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