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authorgjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 21:25:30 +0000
committergjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 21:25:30 +0000
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FDP style nits.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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@@ -547,24 +547,27 @@
two listening sockets bound to the same port has been
fixed.</para>
- <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which is a
- base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that significantly
- improved its performance and <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
+ <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which
+ is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that
+ significantly improved its performance and
+ <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
- <para>New kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator code took many
- fixes and performance optimizations.</para>
+ <para>New kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator code took
+ many fixes and performance optimizations.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O direct dispatch.
- When safety requirements are met, it allows to avoid passing
- I/O requests to GEOM <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, executing them directly
- in the caller context. That allows to avoid CPU bottlenecks in
- <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, plus avoid several context switches per I/O.
- </para>
+ &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O
+ direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it
+ allows to avoid passing I/O requests to GEOM
+ <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread,
+ executing them directly in the caller context. That allows
+ to avoid CPU bottlenecks in
+ <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads,
+ plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para>
<para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
&man.geom.4; RAID driver has been
@@ -574,9 +577,8 @@
&man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support
finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue.
Combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch that allows to
- reduce lock congestion and improve <acronym>SMP</acronym> scalability of the
- SCSI/ATA stack.
- </para>
+ reduce lock congestion and improve <acronym>SMP</acronym>
+ scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para>
<para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8;
<literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to
@@ -585,13 +587,15 @@
<para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been
updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
- <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been
- updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
+ <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has
+ been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
<para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has
been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para>
- <para revision="264732">Support for <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para>
+ <para revision="264732">Support for
+ <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8;
+ <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para>
<para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus
adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para>
@@ -601,35 +605,35 @@
providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
controllers.</para>
- <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property <literal>volmode</literal>
- and &man.sysctl.8; <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been
- added to allow switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different ways of
- exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>,
+ <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property
+ <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8;
+ <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow
+ switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different
+ ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>,
<literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para>
<para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
- &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
- providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
- &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
- To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
- <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
- <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
+ &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for
+ LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will
+ attach to the controller, by default. To enable
+ &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal>
+ to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
&man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
<note>
- <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and
- the &os; version of
- <application>MegaCLI</application> and
+ <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os;
+ version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and
<application>StorCli</application> do not work with
&man.mrsas.4;.</para>
</note>
- <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation
- in &man.geom.8; <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para>
+ <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of
+ <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8;
+ <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para>
- <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8;
- utility now has a <literal>-o</literal> option, to
- display "other" operatins (e.g. <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>).</para>
+ <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has
+ a <literal>-o</literal> option, to display "other" operatins
+ (e.g. <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>).</para>
<para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para>
@@ -638,8 +642,9 @@
updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para>
<para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been added
- to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> driver.</para>
+ sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been
+ added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal>
+ driver.</para>
<para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
&man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of
@@ -654,15 +659,15 @@
it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its
components have been replaced.</para>
- <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been
- added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
+ <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has
+ been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
<para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
- <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option
- is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as
- a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para>
+ <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal>
+ option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel
+ or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para>
<para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8;
<literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to
@@ -689,33 +694,40 @@
recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment
with the disk geometry.</para>
- <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to the
- CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para>
+ <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to
+ the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, <literal>XCOPY</literal>
- and some other SCSI commands was added to support VMWare VAAI
- and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration.</para>
+ <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE
+ SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>,
+ <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands
+ was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX
+ storage acceleration.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para revision="265642"><literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size limitations were removed
- by supporting multiple data moves per command.</para>
+ <para revision="265642">The
+ <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> 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 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
+ multiple worker threads for better
+ <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by several
- times by disabling some never used functionality.</para>
+ <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>
+ <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to
+ 128</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> integration for better
- performance.</para>
+ <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal>
+ integration for better performance.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -724,10 +736,10 @@
<title>File Systems</title>
<para revision="260338">The
- <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has been
- re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, this can
- easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU usage in
- half. It was originally disabled due to memory and
+ <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has
+ been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM,
+ this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU
+ usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and
<acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which
should be resolved due to several change in the VM
subsystem.</para>
@@ -1244,9 +1256,9 @@
(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
- unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as a part of an
- official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility
- requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
+ unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
+ a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8;
+ utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
connectivity.</para>
<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
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