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Introduction

This is a draft of the July–September 2015 status report. Please check back after it is finalized, and an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing list.

This report covers &os;-related projects between July and September 2015. This is the third of four reports planned for 2015.

The third quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for the &os; project and community. [...]

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!

The deadline for submissions covering the period from October to December 2015 is January 7, 2016.

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team &os; Team Reports proj Projects kern Kernel arch Architectures bin Userland Programs ports Ports doc Documentation misc Miscellaneous ioat(4) driver import Jim Harris jimharris@FreeBSD.org Conrad Meyer cem@FreeBSD.org Wikipedia article on IOAT Commit importing ioat(4)

A new driver, ioat(4), was added to the tree. ioat(4) supports Intel's I/O Acceleration Technology devices which are found on some Intel server systems.

These devices are DMA offload engines, which can accelerate some I/O-heavy applications by offloading memory copies from the main CPU to the I/OAT unit. This acceleration is not transparent; applications must be adapted to take advantage of the hardware.

Some I/OAT models support more advanced copying modes, like XOR; these modes are not yet supported in the ioat(4) driver.

Intel Corporation + EMC / Isilon Storage Division

Further testing, especially on a range of device models other than BDXDE (looking for volunteers here).

Support for the more advanced copy modes.

+ + + + + + IPSEC Upgrades + + + + + George + Neville-Neil + + gnn@FreeBSD.org + + + + + John-Mark + Gurney + + jmg@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ermal + Luçi + + eri@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

IPSEC is now enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel + configuration, and work is proceeding to speed things up in various + ways. The latest changes are the addition, by &a.jmg;, &a.eri;, and + &a.gnn;, of AES modes both in hardware and in software. Part of this + work also includes more benchmarks undertaken using Conductor in the + netperf project. Results have been reported at BSDCan and vBSDCon + with more to come at EuroBSD and BSDBrasil. +

+ + + + Netgate + + + + FreeBSD Foundation + + + + +

Performance improvements and other tweaks are ongoing.