From 12cc10a4d89b54b93ed4386daf3f2599a0c0d0f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: justin Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:18:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Sephe's contributions --- release36/index.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release36/index.mdwn b/release36/index.mdwn index 1f60e904..06bac147 100644 --- a/release36/index.mdwn +++ b/release36/index.mdwn @@ -100,14 +100,28 @@ For a list of per-commit changes, see the [3.6.0rc tag commit](http://lists.drag * re(4) driver updated, support added for various new chip variants * ecc(4): Support for E3-1200 v2 and E3-1200 V3 memory controllers added * Many improvements in the mxge(4) driver for Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters +Hardware support: +* Add multiple TX queue and RX queue support in bnx(4) +* Add I217 and I218 support in em(4) and emx(4) +* Add I354 support in igb(4) +* Add 8411/8168G/8168EP/8168GU/8411B and 8401/8402/8106 support in re(4) +* Add Ivy Bridge and Haswell support in ecc(4) +* Add multiple TX queue, RX queue, multiple vector MSI-X and polling(4) support for mxge(4) +* Use TSC as cputimer if TSC is MP synchronized +* Add AMD CPUs family > 10h support in ACPI P-State -> ### HAMMER2 +> ### Network changes -* HAMMER2 is in the system but not ready for use. Development of HAMMER2 is ongoing in DragonFly 3.7. +* Add new semantic to SO_REUSEPORT, so this socket option is useful for TCP listen sockets and unicast UDP sockets. This greatly improves TCP accept(2) performance, overall receiving and sending performance. An nginx patch is integrated into dports to support SO_REUSEPORT. +* Greatly improve both blocking and non-blocking connect(4) performance for TCP sockets. +* Improve TSO performance by using 4KB cluster whenever possible on TCP sending path. +* Add byte based limit to IFQ to reduce buffer-bloat on IFQ for TSO. +* IFQ is now by default two level priority queue, improving dual side TCP sending performance. -> ### Userland changes -* Blah blah +> ### HAMMER2 + +* HAMMER2 is in the system but not ready for use. Development of HAMMER2 is ongoing in DragonFly 3.7. > ### Removals -- 2.41.0