From 89e1ad644fcdd4a1f71e2cdb13b13846b669c97a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mav Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:40:44 +0000 Subject: Document some CTL improvements. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 3d90207..c95edbe 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -591,10 +591,6 @@ disklabel64 partitioning scheme has been added to &man.gpart.8;. - The maximum number of - SCSI ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has - been increased from 32 to 128. - A new &man.sysctl.8; and &man.loader.8; tunable, kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs has been @@ -603,6 +599,36 @@ GEOM_PART_MBR will automatically recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment with the disk geometry. + + CAM Target Layer (CTL) + got many impromenets: + + + 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. + + + READ/WRITE size limitations were removed + by supporting multiple data moves per command. + + + Finer-grained per-LUN locking and + multiple worker threads for better SMP scapability. + + + Memory consumption reduced by several + times by disabling some never used functionality. + + + The maximum number of + SCSI ports increased from 32 to 128 + + + Improved ZVOL integration for better + performance. + + -- cgit v1.1