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authormav <mav@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 09:40:44 +0000
committermav <mav@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 09:40:44 +0000
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parent5026093b21039dfab350b22e24128fd458dc639e (diff)
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Document some CTL improvements.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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@@ -591,10 +591,6 @@
<literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
- <para revision="269298">The maximum number of
- <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has
- been increased from 32 to 128.</para>
-
<para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and
&man.loader.8; tunable,
<literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been
@@ -603,6 +599,36 @@
<literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically
recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment
with the disk geometry.</para>
+
+ <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">CAM Target Layer (CTL)
+ got many impromenets:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Support for UNMAP, WRITE SAME, COMPARE AND WRITE, XCOPY
+ and some other SCSI commands was added to support VMWare VAAI
+ and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para revision="265642">READ/WRITE size limitations were removed
+ by supporting multiple data moves per command.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and
+ multiple worker threads for better SMP scapability.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by several
+ times by disabling some never used functionality.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para revision="269298">The maximum number of
+ <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 128</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para revision="269429">Improved ZVOL integration for better
+ performance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">
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