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authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-02 14:53:28 +0000
committerhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-02 14:53:28 +0000
commitb93d36449d6fde60fa737733dba9c068e761cfa4 (patch)
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parentf3b63523834c22169a1f74b2c2429b08a7736ee5 (diff)
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New release notes:
hwpmc(4) and pmcstat(8) profiling support for dynamically-loaded objects, and pmcstat(8) network logging support added[1]. Fix incorrect entries: gmirror/graid3 uses parallel I/O request for synchronization now. The parallel I/O request itself has been already supported[2]. Spotted by: jkoshy[1] and pjd[2]
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml11
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml11
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index b15cf31..053508d 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -194,6 +194,12 @@
The sysctl variable <varname>debug.gdbcons</varname> can be
used to turn on/off this functionality.</para>
+ <para>&man.hwpmc.4; and &man.pmcstat.8; now support profiling
+ of dynamically loaded kernel modules and
+ <function>dlopen()</function>'ed shared objects.
+ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
+ to a remote host.</para>
+
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
@@ -671,7 +677,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
- classes now support parallel I/O request handling. New sysctl variables
+ classes now use parallel I/O request for synchronization
+ to improve the performance. New sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests</varname> and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.sync_requests</varname>
define how many parallel I/O requests should be used.
@@ -680,7 +687,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.reqs_per_sync</varname>, and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec</varname>
- have been removed.</para>
+ are deprecated and have been removed.</para>
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index b15cf31..053508d 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -194,6 +194,12 @@
The sysctl variable <varname>debug.gdbcons</varname> can be
used to turn on/off this functionality.</para>
+ <para>&man.hwpmc.4; and &man.pmcstat.8; now support profiling
+ of dynamically loaded kernel modules and
+ <function>dlopen()</function>'ed shared objects.
+ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
+ to a remote host.</para>
+
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
@@ -671,7 +677,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
- classes now support parallel I/O request handling. New sysctl variables
+ classes now use parallel I/O request for synchronization
+ to improve the performance. New sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests</varname> and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.sync_requests</varname>
define how many parallel I/O requests should be used.
@@ -680,7 +687,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.reqs_per_sync</varname>, and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec</varname>
- have been removed.</para>
+ are deprecated and have been removed.</para>
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
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