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author | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-09-23 03:28:15 +0000 |
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committer | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-09-23 03:28:15 +0000 |
commit | 2e3b9062da3e9280834f2ddee3d3985f15386fd7 (patch) | |
tree | 03ce872093dd2af84e104c4ac3d5eece0850078a | |
parent | 6999ea811c2215a51a84e8cc8ef14cf50c0e70b5 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-2e3b9062da3e9280834f2ddee3d3985f15386fd7.zip FreeBSD-src-2e3b9062da3e9280834f2ddee3d3985f15386fd7.tar.gz |
Mention some of Justin's changes.
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diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp index 14e6ee7..bdcbd14 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp @@ -130,7 +130,25 @@ which filesystems can rely on for the canonical stuff. Vnode freelist handling has been hauled over. Vnodes are only on the freelist if nobody care about them. -The kernel provides assistance to getcwd() if possible. +The kernel provides assistance to getcwd() from data stored in the name +cache if possible. + +An interrupt driven configuration hook mechanism has been implemented. +This allows drivers to postpone part of their configuration until after +interrupts are fully enabled. This speeds booting because busy-waiting +is avoided for things like sub device probing (eg: SCSI bus probes). + +The timeout(9) system in the kernel has been overhauled. This gives +O(1) insertion and removal of callouts and an O(hash chain length) +amount of work to be performed in softclock. The original paper is at: + http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/research/timer/ + +Changes in driver buffer queuing to deal with ordered transactions. This +is intended for sequencing data and metadata writes in the filesystem code +once fully supported. + +EISA Shared interrupts are now supported, working with the framework +originally for supporting PCI shared interrupts. SECURITY CHANGES: |