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<date>
<month>October-December</month>
<year>2010</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between October and
December 2010. It is the last of the four reports planned for 2010.
The work on the new minor versions of &os;, 7.4 and 8.2, has been
progressing well and they should be released around the end of this
month.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 37 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
between January and March 2011 is April 15th, 2011.</p>
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<description>Projects</description>
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<description>Network Infrastructure</description>
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<description>Architectures</description>
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<category>
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<description>Ports</description>
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<category>
<name>misc</name>
<description>Miscellaneous</description>
</category>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Ethernet Switch Framework</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Luiz</given>
<common>Otavio O. Souza</common>
</name>
<email>loos.br@gmail.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://loos.no-ip.org/rspro/switch-1.diff" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Implementation of a framework for ethernet switch control
(directly connected to the ethernet MAC controller) usually found
on embedded systems. Currently based on ifconfig keywords, adds the
vlan control (filter/pass) on each switch port and adds the
possibility for the management of media state on interfaces with
multiple PHYs.</p>
<p>Currently, the code supports the IP175D (from some mikrotik
routerboards) and AR8316 (from Ubiquiti RSPRO) switches.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Finish the IP175C driver (and maybe IP178x).</task>
<task>Better integration with miibus (rewrite of switchbus).</task>
<task>Fix (some) ifconfig keywords (better keywords, better usage
compatibility).</task>
<task>Export the ports statistics through SNMP (if available on
switch chip).</task>
<task>Add a swctl tool (?) for global settings management.</task>
<task>Write usage examples and the man page information about the
new ifconfig(8) keywords.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Robot Operating System</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>René</given>
<common>Ladan</common>
</name>
<email>rene@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/">ROS website</url>
<url href="ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/ros-freebsd.pdf">
Presentation</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Porting ROS to &os; started in March 2010. In May 2010, it
was possible to build <filename
role="package">devel/ros</filename>
without needing to apply patches, but some more changes were
necessary to be able to write a port for it. Currently this and
several other ports related to ROS are available, most notably
<filename role="package">devel/ros-tutorials</filename>
to get up and running with ROS and
<filename role="package">devel/ros-nxt</filename>
to use LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots with ROS and &os;.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Port the software required for nxt-rviz-plugin, which is part
of devel/ros-nxt but currently excluded from the build.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>&os; 802.11n</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Adrian</given>
<common>Chadd</common>
</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AdrianChadd/AtherosStuff" />
</links>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Net80211 station mode works in 2.4ghz HT/20 mode. HT/40 and
5ghz do not currently work.</li>
<li>Basic 802.11 TX and RX on the AR9160 works, from MCS0 to
MCS15</li>
<li>TX A-MPDU and A-MSDU do not currently implemented - so no
aggregate TX will happen</li>
<li>RX A-MPDU and A-MSDU is implemented and is supposed to work
but does not — this needs to be debugged</li>
<li>802.11n RTS/CTS protection for legacy packets does not
currently work. There is some magic required to fix the TX packet
length. This is in progress.</li>
<li>WPA2 now works - a commit which enabled the hardware
multicast broke AES-CCMP encryption on at least the AR9160.
Further investigation is needed to fix this (and any other
hardware encryption bugs that are lurking.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<title>mdocml Replacing groff For manpage Rendering</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ulrich</given>
<common>Spörlein</common>
</name>
<email>uqs@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/" />
<url href="https://www.spoerlein.net/cgit/cgit.cgi/freebsd.work/log/?h=mdocml" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Kristaps' groff-replacement (only for rendering manual pages) is
already available in NetBSD and OpenBSD, and used to render the
base system manpages for the latter. This project aims to do
similar things for &os;. Since the last status report, mdocml
has grown rudimentary tbl(1) support and a whole lot of bugfixes
have gone in. A groff port has been created and needs some more
testing before it can be committed to the tree. Also the
WITHOUT_GROFF support in base has been fleshed out and is awaiting
review before commit.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Get ru@ to review WITHOUT_GROFF changes.</task>
<task>Get textproc/groff tested and committed.</task>
<task>Push more mdoc fixes into the tree.</task>
<task>Import mandoc(1), switch to catpages for base. Discuss future
of groff in base wrt. share/doc.</task>
<task>Supply necessary ports infrastructure to opt-in to
mandoc(1).</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Port-Sandbox</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marcelo</given>
<common>Araujo</common>
</name>
<email>araujo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.arjmobile.com/Marcelo_Araujo/Blog/Entries/2010/11/22_Port-sandbox.html">
A little bit about</url>
<url href="http://gitorious.org/port-sandbox/port-sandbox/trees/master">
Source</url>
<url href="http://www.arjmobile.com/Marcelo_Araujo/My_Albums/Pages/Port-Sandbox.html">
Screenshots</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Port-Sandbox now works properly and it is able to run by itself
through an embedded web server and bring a lot of information about
the port build process and all dependencies related. Currently
Port-Sandbox is in the final stage and needs only only a few code
changes, more tests and should also be included in the ports
tree.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Change the way how it connects to database, fix it to maintain
a persistent connection.</task>
<task>Remove any kind of internal configuration from source code to
an external file configuration.</task>
<task>Create a Port-Sandbox port with all dependencies related to
it and test it in a clean system.</task>
<task>Create some documentation to let other people to keep
helping Port-Sandbox to grow up.</task>
<task>Finally, release it.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Chromium</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>René</given>
<common>Ladan</common>
</name>
<email>freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.chromium.org/Home">Chromium homepage</url>
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bapt/chrome9-fbsd.png">
Screenshot</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>We are working on updating the Chromium web browser in our ports
to stay up to date with the latest supported release. We currently
have the Chromium 9 beta running, but not all features are fully
implemented and the port still needs some polish before it can be
committed to the Ports Collection. We have also been making
arrangements with Google to merge our work with their upstream,
which should ease the number of features and fixes we have to
maintain for ourselves in the future. Our first release should be
in a few weeks and coincide with the official release of Chromium
9.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat="docs">
<title>The &os; Japanese Documentation Project</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Hiroki</given>
<common>Sato</common>
</name>
<email>hrs@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ryusuke</given>
<common>Suzuki</common>
</name>
<email>ryusuke@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/">Japanese &os; Web
Pages</url>
<url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/">The &os; Japanese
Documentation Project Web Page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Although there is no radical change in this effort since the
last report, the www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook have
constantly been updated. During this period, generating translated
RSS feed for newsflash was started and links to the manual pages
were fixed in the Books and Articles documentation. Some more
progress has been made in the Porter's Handbook and Contributing to
&os; as well.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Further translation of the &os; <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook/">
Handbook</a> and contents of the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org">www.FreeBSD.org</a>
website to the Japanese language.</task>
<task>Pre-/post-commit review of the translation.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<title>The &os; German Documentation Project Status Report</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Johann</given>
<common>Kois</common>
</name>
<email>jkois@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Benedict</given>
<common>Reuschling</common>
</name>
<email>bcr@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://doc.bsdgroup.de">Website of the &os; German
Documentation Project.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The committers to the German Documentation Project managed to
update the German documentation just in time to get the changes
included into the next &os; releases. The website translations
were also kept in sync with the ones on FreeBSD.org.</p>
<p>We tried to re-activate committers who did not contribute for
some time but most of them are currently unable to free up enough
time. We hope to gain fresh contributor blood as we are getting
occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the german
translation.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Submit grammar, spelling or other errors you find in the
german documents and the website.</task>
<task>Translate more articles and other open handbook
sections.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support
for Ethernet in mii(4)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marius</given>
<common>Strobl</common>
</name>
<email>marius@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control" />
</links>
<body>
<p>In r213878 a NetBSD-compatible mii_attach() was added to mii(4)
as an replacement for mii_phy_probe() and subsequently all Ethernet
device drivers in the tree which use this framework were converted
to take advantage of the former. This allowed to considerably clean
up mii(4) as well as the converted MAC and PHY drivers and get rid
of quite a few hacks, amongst others the infamous "EVIL HACK".
However, the main motivation of this change was to allow the
addition of generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control
support to mii(4), which was ported from NetBSD but also enhanced
and fixed quite a bit and committed in r215297. Along with this
bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) as well as brgphy(4),
e1000phy(4) and ip1000phy(4), which previously all implemented
their own flow control support based on mostly undocumented special
media flags separately, were converted to take advantage of the
generic support. At least for CURRENT this means that these drivers
now no longer unconditionally advertise support for flow control
but only do so if flow control was selected as media option. The
reason for implementing the generic flow control support that way
was to allow it to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8) with the
PHY specific default to typically being off in order to protect
from unwanted effects. Subsequently support for flow control based
on the generic support was added to alc(4), fxp(4), cas(4), gem(4),
jme(4), re(4) and xl(4) as well as atphy(4), bmtphy(4), gentbi(4),
inphy(4), jmphy(4), nsgphy(4), nsphyter(4) and rgephy(4). For
several of the remaining Ethernet drivers it also would only
require minor changes to enable flow control support if supported
by the respective MAC. Due to the fact that each implementation
should be thoroughly tested and tuned this was only done for
drivers were hardware was available though.</p>
<p>An example for identifying support for flow control based on the
generic implementation in the dmesg-output for a certain
MAC-PHY-combination would be:</p>
<blockquote>bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Controller, ASIC rev. 0x002003> mem 0
xfe010000-0xfe01ffff,0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff irq 25 at device 2.0 on
pci2
<br />
bge0: CHIP ID 0x00002003; ASIC REV 0x02; CHIP REV 0x20; PCI-X
<br />
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
<br />
brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
<br />
brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto,
<strong>auto-flow</strong>
</blockquote>
<p>or in the output of <kbd>ifconfig -m</kbd> for a given device:</p>
<blockquote>supported media:
<blockquote>media autoselect
<em>mediaopt flowcontrol</em>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>The latter also is what one would use to enable flow control for
such a device, i.e.:</p>
<blockquote>ifconfig bge0 media autoselect mediaopt
flowcontrol</blockquote>
<p>or in order to turn it off again:</p>
<blockquote>ifconfig bge0 media autoselect -mediaopt
flowcontrol</blockquote>
<p>Note that some PHY drivers, currently only rgephy(4) though, also
support enabling flow control support when using manual media
configuration like in the following example:</p>
<blockquote>ifconfig re0 media autoselect mediaopt
full-fuplex,flowcontrol</blockquote>
<p>In CURRENT this can also be further abbreviated (support for this
will eventually be merged back into the supported stable branch(es)
but not be present in 7.4-RELEASE or 8.2-RELEASE) as:</p>
<blockquote>ifconfig re0 media auto mediaopt fdx,flow</blockquote>
<p>For a device which has successfully negotiated flow control support
with its link partner will report it in the output of
<kbd>ifconfig</kbd> along with the available directions like in the
following example:</p>
<blockquote>media: Ethernet autoselect <flowcontrol>
(100baseTX <full-duplex,
<em>flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause</em>>)</blockquote>
<p>Another thing that was introduced with r215297 was generic support
for setting 1000baseT master mode via a media option when using
manual media configuration. Consequently, brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
advantage of this generic support. At least for CURRENT this means
that these drivers now no longer take the link0 parameter for
selecting master mode but the master media option has to be used
instead like in the following example:</p>
<blockquote>ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt
full-duplex,master</blockquote>
<p>Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
drivers supporting 1000baseT.</p>
<p>With the exception of the media option abbreviations all of the
above mentioned changes were merged into 7-STABLE in r215879 and
into 8-STABLE in r215881 respectively. This means that they will be
part of 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE. In order to no break POLA,
unlike as in CURRENT bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4)
were changed to continue to always advertise support of flow
control to their link partners in these stable branches with no way
to turn that off as they also did before with their custom
implementations. Additionally, brgphy(4), ciphy(4), e1000phy(4) as
well as ip1000phy(4) were changed to still also accept the link0
parameter in addition to the master media option for setting master
mode.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>We actually miserably fail to properly document the available
media types and options in manual pages. For example several of the
media lists in manual pages of MAC drivers like bge(4) already were
outdated and with the addition of generic flow control and
1000baseT master mode support these are now even more outdated. Yet
worse is the fact that for MAC drivers which use the mii(4)
framework it is technically just plain wrong to include these lists
in their manual page as the PHY drivers actually are responsible
for handling the media types and options. However, given that the
PHY drivers determine the available media types and options mostly
dynamically at run-time it generally makes no sense to have static
documentation of these in their manual pages (apart from the fact
that we currently have no manual pages for PHY drivers). One good
way out of this should be to replace the media lists in MAC drivers
using mii(4) with just a note to check the output of
<kbd>ifconfig -m</kbd>
to get a list of the media types and options actually supported by
a given device and to add a generic ifmedia(4) manual page which
provides some general background information about media types and
options similar to what NetBSD and OpenBSD also have.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os;/sparc64</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marius</given>
<common>Strobl</common>
</name>
<email>marius@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>CPUTYPE support for sparc64 has been added to CURRENT in
r216820. The three flavors currently supported are
"ultrasparc", "ultrasparc3" and "v9". So it is now possible to
let the compiler produce code optimize for the family of
UltraSPARC-III CPUs by setting CPUTYPE to "ultrasparc3".
Setting it to "ultrasparc" as well as omitting it completely
optimizes for UltraSPARC-I/II family CPUs as before. Support
for generating generic 64-bit V9 code was mainly added for
reference purposes. As it turned out, at least for SPARC64-V
CPUs running code optimized for UltraSPARC-III CPUs does not
perform measurably better than UltraSPARC-I/II one though so
the default is just fine for these. This change was merged into
7-STABLE in r217005 and into 8-STABLE in r217004 respectively,
neither 7.4-RELEASE nor 8.2-RELEASE will include it
though.</p>
<p>Support for a certain feature available with
UltraSPARC-III+ and greater, i.e. with all sun4u CPUs following
the original UltraSPARC-III, has been added to CURRENT in
r216803. The net effect of this change is that we now can use a
kernel TSB and thus a kernel address space of virtually any
size up to the full 64-bit address space on machines equipped
with these CPUs, apart from the fact that 1GB of address space
still takes up 4MB worth of data structures. Before, the
theoretical limit was 16GB due to the fact that the MMUs of
these UltraSPARC CPUs only have 16 lockable TLB slots
(UltraSPARC-I/II have 64 and SPARC64 CPUs again have at least
32), with the actual limit being several GB below that because
we need some of these slots also for mapping the PROM, the
kernel itself and in MP-systems the per-CPU page. Currently,
the kernel TSB and thus the kernel virtual address space is now
always sized one time the physical memory present in these
machines with the plan being to actually allow to it extend
beyond the size of the RAM as this helps especially ZFS. Most
of this is implemented by patching the instructions used to
access the kernel TSB based on the CPU present, so the run-time
overhead of this change is rather low. Once it is also enabled
and successfully tested with SPARC64 CPUs this change will be
merged back into the supported stable branch(es).</p>
<p>Theoretically it should be also possible to use the same
approach for the user TSB, which already is not locked into the
TLB but can cause nested traps. However, for reasons I do not
understand yet, OpenSolaris only does this with SPARC64 CPUs.
On the other hand I think that also using it for the user TSB
and thus avoiding nested traps would get us closer to running
the &os;/sparc64 code on machines equipped with sun4v CPUs,
which only supports trap level 0 and 1, too, so eventually we
could have a single kernel which runs on both sun4u and sun4v
machines (as does Linux and OpenBSD).</p>
<p>Work on adding support for Sun Fire 3800 and similar models
has begun but still is in its early stages.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Webcamd</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Hans Petter</given>
<common>Selasky</common>
</name>
<email>hselasky@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/video4bsd" />
<url href="http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/webcamd/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Webcamd is a small daemon that enables about 1500 different USB
based webcam, DVB and remote control USB devices under the
&os;-8.0 and later operating system. The webcam daemon is
basically an application which is a port of Video4Linux USB drivers
into userspace on &os;. The daemon currently depends on libc,
pthreads, libusb and libcuse4bsd.</p>
<p>During Q3 2010 webcamd got manpages thanks to Dru Lavigne.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>I hope to get a Google summer of code project this year
building the default Linux Kernel 2.6.37+ and allowing use of
relevant Linux USB device drivers under &os;. Webcamd is not a
replacement for native &os; kernel drivers and will only be used
when no existing &os; drivers exist for a given device staying
clear of any GPLv2 issues. If you are a student and/or is
interested in participating in such a project feel free to send an
e-mail to hselasky@FreeBSD.org.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Ports Additions</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Josh</given>
<common>Paetzel</common>
</name>
<email>jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://bigbluebutton.org" />
<url href="http://smb4k.berlios.de/" />
<url href="http://www.freeswitch.org/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Bigbluebutton has joined the list of ready to run applications
in the ports tree. Dru Lavigne has been instrumental on getting it
to run, as well as offering suggestions for improvements to the
port.</p>
<p>smb4k was updated to the latest release version, which requires
kde4. This was enough of a change that a new port was created,
net/smb4k-kde4. the initial port went through a number of quick
changes, including a patch to the source code to fix a &os;
source code submitted by PC-BSD's Kris Moore. This application
greatly eases the task of working with samba shares in a &os;
environment.</p>
<p>Freeswitch is the result of 3 Asterisk developers working on a
VoIP package that fulfills their goals. They have switched away from
a release model to a "just run latest SVN checkout" model. With
the help of Richard Neese and Eric Crist, static snapshots of their
SVN repo have been taken, the port has been modified to use the
newer version, and extensive build and run testing has been
done.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>TRIM support for UFS</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Kirk</given>
<common>McKusick</common>
</name>
<email>mckusick@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Konstantin</given>
<common>Belousov</common>
</name>
<email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>TRIM support for UFS is implemented in HEAD. Potentially, this
may increase the steady speed and longevity of SSDs.</p>
<p>Due to concerns with the speed of TRIM operations on many SSDs,
and not a lot of experience with the real-world behaviour, the
support is off by default, and should be enabled on the
per-filesystem basis.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Non-executable Stacks</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Konstantin</given>
<common>Belousov</common>
</name>
<email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The support for non-executable stacks, using the approach
identical to one used by GNU toolchain and Linux'es, is implemented
for amd64 and PowerPC. The support is already committed to HEAD.
For now, non-executable stacks are turned off by default.</p>
<p>I plan to provide a detailed information to ports@ and switch
the knob after port tree is unfrozed for 7.4/8.2 releases.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>SYSCTL Type Safety</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
<common>Fleming</common>
</name>
<email>mdf@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>I started upstreaming a patch from Isilon that adds
type-checking to the various SYSCTL_FOO and SYSCTL_ADD_FOO macros
for various scalar types, which has turned into quite the
discussion on the src mailing list. The type-checking macros are
committed to sys/sysctl.h but under #if 0.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>As of right now, it looks like I will be rolling a new sysctl
macro for the kernel that detects they type at compile time and
does the Right Thing. Existing uses of the legacy SYSCTL_FOO and
SYSCTL_ADD_FOO for scalar types can be replaced, and will probably
turn into invocations of the new interface via preprocessor
macro.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>BSDInstall</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Nathan</given>
<common>Whitehorn</common>
</name>
<email>nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BSDInstall">BSDInstall Wiki
Page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>BSDInstall is a replacement for the venerable sysinstall
installer. It is designed to be modular and easily extensible,
while being fully scriptable and streamlining the installation
process. It is mostly complete, and installs working systems on
i386, amd64, sparc64, powerpc, and powerpc64, with untested PC98
support.</p>
<p>New Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allows installation onto GPT disks on x86 systems</li>
<li>Can do installations spanning multiple disks</li>
<li>Allows installation into jails</li>
<li>Eases PXE installation</li>
<li>Virtualization friendly: can install from a live system onto
disk images</li>
<li>Works on PowerPC</li>
<li>Streamlined system installation</li>
<li>More flexible scripting</li>
<li>Easily tweakable</li>
<li>All install CDs are live CDs</li>
</ul>
</body>
<help>
<task>Wireless networking configuration wizard.</task>
<task>ZFS installation support.</task>
<task>Itanium disk setup.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os; on the Playstation 3</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Nathan</given>
<common>Whitehorn</common>
</name>
<email>nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>On January 5, support for the Playstation 3 was imported into
&os; 9.0-CURRENT. This port is still somewhat raw (only
netbooting is supported, no access to the SPUs, etc.), but hardware
support should be more fleshed out by the time &os; 9.0 is
released. The port uses the OtherOS mechanism, and so requires a
"fat" console with firmware earlier than 3.21.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>SATA driver.</task>
<task>Sound support.</task>
<task>SPU driver.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>GEOM-based ataraid(4) Replacement — geom_raid</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Motin</common>
</name>
<email>mav@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>M. Warner</given>
<common>Losh</common>
</name>
<email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mav/graid_design.h">General
design description.</url>
<url href="http://svn.FreeBSD.org/viewvc/base/projects/graid/">
Project SVN branch.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>New project started to create GEOM-based replacement for
ataraid(4) — software RAID, that will be obsoleted by
migration to the new CAM-based ATA implementation.</p>
<p>This implementation planned with accent to modular design,
that includes common core and two sets of modules, handling data
transformations (RAID levels) and on-disk metadata formats
specifics. Such design should make further extension easier.</p>
<p>At this moment work focused around RAID0/RAID1 transformations
and Intel metadata format. Module is now able to read, write and
create Intel volumes. Error recovery and rebuild work is now in
progress. Support for other RAID levels and metadata formats,
supported by ataraid(4), planned later.</p>
<p>This project is sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Complete error recovery/rebuild work and stabilize modules
API.</task>
<task>Implement metadata modules for other formats.</task>
<task>Implement transformation modules for other RAID
levels.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os;/EC2</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Colin</given>
<common>Percival</common>
</name>
<email>cperciva@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/">&os;/EC2
status page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; is now able to run on t1.micro instances in the Amazon
EC2 cloud. &os; 9.0 is not very stable, but it seems likely that
&os; 8.2-RELEASE will approach the stability normally expected
of &os;.</p>
<p>A list of available &os; AMIs (EC2 machine images) appears on
the &os;/EC2 status page.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Bring &os; to a wider range of EC2 instance types.</task>
<task>Completely rework the locking in head/sys/i386/xen/pmap.c to
eliminate races and make 9.0-CURRENT stable under
paravirtualization.</task>
<task>Track down several possibly-related problems with scheduling
and timekeeping.</task>
<task>Fix other issues shown on the &os;/EC2 status page.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Portmaster</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Doug</given>
<common>Barton</common>
</name>
<email>dougb@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Portmaster version 3.6.1 is now in the ports tree, and the
emphasis in the last year has been on improving the stability and
performance of existing features, with a few new features sprinkled
in. A lot of work has gone into error handling, both for unexpected
states in the ports system and for user input. For example, all
prompts are now wrapped in code to verify that what was entered was
one of the valid options.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most interesting new element is that for the
features -e, -s, --clean-distfiles, --clean-packages,
--check-depends and --check-port-dbdir you can now specify either
-y or -n to automatically provide the corresponding answer to the
yes/no questions. The -o, -r, and --index-only options have
received major overhauls, and now either work better or at least as
advertised.</p>
<p>There has also been a lot of work put into reducing the memory
footprint, especially in the environment variables that are shared
between the parent and child processes. And for those operating
without a local ports tree (--index-only/--packages-only) all of
the features that <em>can</em>
work without the ports tree now do.</p>
<p>Significant support for the upgrading of operating without a
ports tree was provided by GridFury, LLC. Their support, as well as
the support received from other members of the community continues
to be greatly appreciated.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>There are still interesting features that have been suggested
by users listed on the page above that I have not been able to work
on, but would like to be able to.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>IPv6 and VIMAGE</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bjoern A.</given>
<common>Zeeb</common>
</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca/">NAT64 patches for pf</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>During the last quarter a lot of work was spent on quality time
hunting down and fixing open bugs and races in the network stack,
mostly IPv6, as well as testing and getting virtualized network
stack parts more stable. Tests for the pf(4) firewall update were
started with VIMAGE. In addition Viagenie's NAT64 patch was ported
over.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Ports Collection</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Thomas</given>
<common>Abthorpe</common>
</name>
<email>portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Port</given>
<common>Management Team</common>
</name>
<email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" />
<url href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/portmgr/index.html" />
<url href="http://blogs.FreeBSDish.org/portmgr/" />
<url href="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/" />
<url href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135441496471197" />
<url href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count
still remains at about 1000.</p>
<p>In Q4 we added 2 new committers, took in 2 commit bit for safe
keeping, and welcomed back 4 returning committers.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team bid farewell to Kris Kennaway in
November 2010. Kris was the root of krismail, the mail we all got
from time to time when ports broke on pointyhat. Kris did a lot
of work benchmarking and testing &os; for stability, scalability
and usability.</p>
<p>Mark Linimon has put a lot of effort into refactoring and
refining the code that runs the 'pointyhat' package build
dispatch system. In 2010, the &os; Foundation purchased for
portmgr a pair of new machines, pointyhat-west and
pointyhat-east, to take over from the existing machine. (The
new machines have much greater RAM, CPU, and disk capacity.)
However, to properly utilize them, the existing code needed
to be generalized.</p>
<p>Persistent bugs, and some hardware troubles, have delayed the
rollout far beyond what was originally planned, but there
appears to be light at the end of the tunnel. (And, this time,
it does not appear to be an oncoming train.)</p>
<p>A document entitled "Mentoring Guidelines" as been circulated
among ports developers, and has been greeted with a lot of positive
feedback, and updates have been included. In the short term,
updated copies will be maintained at
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~portmgr/mentor_guidelines.txt.asc.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an
ongoing basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the
ports tree, as well as providing QA runs for major ports updates.
Of note, -exp runs were done for:</p>
<ul>
<li>ade: multiple runs for autotools refactoring</li>
<li>ed: test to replace libgcc.a with libcompiler_rt.a</li>
<li>jiles: test sh(1) against r212508</li>
<li>kde: Qt 4.7.0 update</li>
<li>kde: KDE 4.5.4 updte</li>
<li>kwm: Gnome 2.32 update</li>
<li>ports/144164: ensure package-noinstall target include rc.d
scripts</li>
<li>ports/145598: include etc/devd in mtree</li>
<li>ports/145955: silence make fetch-required-list</li>
<li>ports/147701: perform DESKTOP_ENTRIES sanity check</li>
<li>ports/149657: removal of MD5 checksums</li>
<li>ports/149670: remove checks in _OPTIONSFILE</li>
<li>ports/150303: for INSTALL_LIBS</li>
<li>ports/150337: for PLIST_DIRSTRY</li>
<li>ports/151047: pass CPP to CONFIGURE/MAKE_ENV</li>
<li>ports/151799: fix PLIST_DIRSTRY</li>
<li>ports/151806: remove 2004 legacy hack</li>
<li>ports/152055 and ports/152059: for pear infrastructure</li>
<li>ports/152558: boost update</li>
<li>ports/152626: fix pkg-message display if installed from
package</li>
<li>ports/152964: embed LICENSE name for STDOUT</li>
<li>ports/153018: implement variables in Mozilla
dependencies</li>
<li>ports/153033: fix un-escaped shell metacharacters</li>
<li>ports/153041: clean up ruby plists</li>
<li>ports/153132: autotools cleanup</li>
<li>ports/153318: set PGSQL default to 8.4</li>
</ul>
</body>
<help>
<task>Looking for help fixing <url
link="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/PortsBrokenOnCurrent">ports
broken on CURRENT</url>.</task>
<task>Looking for help with <url
link="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/PortsBrokenOnTier2Architectures">
Tier-2 architectures</url>.</task>
<task>Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing,
committing and closing.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>Bringing up OMAP3</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Warner</given>
<common>Losh</common>
</name>
<email>imp@bsdimp.com</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Mohammed</given>
<common>Farrag</common>
</name>
<email>mfarrag@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~raj/patches/arm/dove_v6.diff">an
old patch for arm</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The attached file is an old patch for ARM. We are developing new
patch and then we are going toward Porting OMAP3.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>Release Engineering Team Status Report</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Release Engineering Team</given>
</name>
<email>re@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The Release Engineering Team reports the joint release of
&os; 7.4 and 8.2 has been delayed slightly but should be
completed within a week or two of the original schedule:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.4R/schedule.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/schedule.html</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Resource Containers</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Edward Tomasz</given>
<common>Napierala</common>
</name>
<email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The goal of this project is to implement resource containers and
a per-jail resource limits mechanism, so that system administrators
can partition resources like memory or CPU between jails and
prevent users from DoS-ing the whole system. Project is close to
completion. One big item that needs to be fixed before releasing a
patch for people to test is %CPU accounting; initial idea of just
using %CPU calculated by the scheduler turned out to be useless.
Implementing it cleanly will also make it easier to support other
similar resources (e.g. writes-per-second) in the future.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat="ports">
<title>&os; as Home Theater PC</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bernhard</given>
<common>Froehlich</common>
</name>
<email>decke@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Juergen</given>
<common>Lock</common>
</name>
<email>nox@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HTPC" />
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; could be a much better platform for a Home Theater PC
than it currently is. We are focusing on improving support for
media center applications. Extending the major ports (MythTV, VDR,
XBMC) and create some documentation to guide interested people.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Improve remote control support in webcamd and with
lirc.</task>
<task>Port more Media Center applications (Enna, me-tv, ...).</task>
<task>Create a small guide on how to build a great &os; Home
Theater PC.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The &os; Foundation Status Report</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org" />
</links>
<body>
<p>We raised $325,000 towards our goal of $350,000 for 2010! This
will allow us to increase our project development and equipment
spending for 2011.</p>
<p>We were proud to be a sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2010, BSDDay
Argentina 2010, MeetBSD California 2010, and NYBSDCon 2010.</p>
<p>Completed the Foundation funded projects: DAHDI Project by Max
Khon and BSNMP Improvements by Shteryana Sotirova.</p>
<p>We kicked off a new project by the University of Melbourne
called Feed-Forward Clock Synchronization Algorithms Project. The
Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for &os; Project by
Swinburne University also officially started.</p>
<p>We continued our work on infrastructure projects to beef up
hardware for package-building, network-testing, etc. This includes
purchasing equipment as well as managing equipment donations.</p>
<p>Stop by and visit with us at FOSDEM (Feb 5-6), SCALE (Feb 26),
AsiaBSDCon (March 17-20), and Indiana Linuxfest (March 26).</p>
<p>Read more about how we supported the project and community by
reading our end-of-year newsletter at: <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/press/2010Dec-newsletter.shtml">
http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/press/2010Dec-newsletter.shtml</a>.</p>
<p>We are fund-raising for 2011 now! Find out more at <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/">
http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>David</given>
<common>Hayes</common>
</name>
<email>dahayes@swin.edu.au</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Lawrence</given>
<common>Stewart</common>
</name>
<email>lastewart@swin.edu.au</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Grenville</given>
<common>Armitage</common>
</name>
<email>garmitage@swin.edu.au</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Rui</given>
<common>Paulo</common>
</name>
<email>rpaulo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bjoern</given>
<common>Zeeb</common>
</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/5cc/" />
<url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/projects.shtml" />
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~lstewart/patches/5cc/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The project is nearing completion, with the following code
already available in the svn head branch:</p>
<ul>
<li>Modular congestion control framework.</li>
<li>Modularised implementations of NewReno, CUBIC and HTCP
congestion control algorithms.</li>
<li>Khelp (Kernel Helper) and Hhook (Helper Hook)
frameworks.</li>
<li>Basic Khelp/Hhook integration with the TCP stack.</li>
</ul>
<p>The ERTT (Enhanced Round Trip Time) Khelp module is days away
from being imported, which will then pave the way for the delay
based congestion control algorithms to follow. Finally, a large
documentation dump will be committed in the form of new and
updated man pages.</p>
<p>We anticipate the project will conclude around the end of
January 2011.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Import the ERTT Khelp module.</task>
<task>Import the VEGAS, HD and CHD delay based congestion control
algorithm modules.</task>
<task>Import the documentation dump for all the code
contributed/developed as part of the project.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical
Evidence (DIFFUSE)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sebastian</given>
<common>Zander</common>
</name>
<email>szander@swin.edu.au</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Grenville</given>
<common>Armitage</common>
</name>
<email>garmitage@swin.edu.au</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/" />
<url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/downloads.html" />
</links>
<body>
<p>
<p>DIFFUSE is a system enabling &os;'s IPFW firewall subsystem
to classify IP traffic based on statistical traffic
properties.</p>
<p>With DIFFUSE, IPFW computes statistics (such as packet lengths
or inter-packet time intervals) for observed flows, and uses ML
(machine learning) techniques to assign flows into classes. In
addition to traditional packet inspection rules, IPFW rules may
now also be expressed in terms of traffic statistics or classes
identified by ML classification. This can be helpful when direct
packet inspection is problematic (perhaps for administrative
reasons, or because port numbers do not reliably identify
applications).</p>
<p>DIFFUSE also enables one instance of IPFW to send flow
information and classes to other IPFW instances, which then can
act on such traffic (e.g. prioritise, accept, deny, etc)
according to its class. This allows for distributed
architectures, where classification at one location in your
network is used to control fire-walling or rate-shaping actions
at other locations.</p>
<p>In December 2010 we released DIFFUSE v0.1, a set of patches
for &os;-CURRENT. It can be downloaded from the project's web
site. The web site also contains a more comprehensive
introduction, including application examples, links to related
work and documentation describing the software design.</p>
<p>We hope to release DIFFUSE v0.2 soon. Keep an eye on the
freebsd-ipfw and freebsd-net mailing lists for project-related
announcements.</p>
</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>gpart Improvements</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Andrey V.</given>
<common>Elsukov</common>
</name>
<email>ae@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>GEOM class PART is the default disk partitioning class since
&os; 8.0. Compared to 8.1 now it does have several new features:
Partition resizing. New "gpart resize" subcommand was implemented
for all partitioning schemes but EBR. GPT recovering. Guid
Partition Table does have redundant metadata and it can be
recovered when some of them is damaged. New "gpart recover"
subcommand was implemented for that purpose. Ability to
backup/restore of partition table. New "gpart backup" and "gpart
restore" subcommands were implemented.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>xz Compression for Packages and Log Files</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Martin</given>
<common>Matuska</common>
</name>
<email>mm@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>Creating and processing xz-compressed packages is now supported
by pkg_create(1), pkg_add(1) and bsdtar(1) in both 9-CURRENT and
8-STABLE. Users can test working with .txz packages by adding
"PKG_SUFX=.txz" into /etc/make.conf.</p>
<p>The ports-mgmt/portupgrade utility supports .txz packages from
version 2.4.8 and a patch for ports-mgmt/portmaster has been
submitted but not yet accepted by the author.</p>
<p>A patch for newsyslog(8) with a rewrite of the use of
compression tools supporting xz compression is under maintainer
review.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Import xz(1) compression support into newsyslog(8).</task>
<task>Add .txz package support to ports-mgmt/portmaster.</task>
<task>Add .txz package support to the &os; port building
cluster (pointyhat).</task>
<task>Test building all packages in .txz format and compare
results with .tbz.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>ZFS pool version 28</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Pawel Jakub</given>
<common>Dawidek</common>
</name>
<email>pjd@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Martin</given>
<common>Matuska</common>
</name>
<email>mm@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-December/010292.html" />
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-December/010321.html" />
</links>
<body>
<p>A new version of the ZFS pool v28 patch was released for
testing, this time for 9-CURRENT and 8-STABLE. Compared to
the previous patch it does include updated boot support,
improved sendfile(2) handling, a compatibility layer with
older ZFS and several other bugfixes.</p>
<p>If there are no major issues we can expect ZFS v28 imported
into the &os;-CURRENT after 8.2 is released.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Import of ZFS v28 into &os;-CURRENT.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>&os; VirtIO Network Driver</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bryan</given>
<common>V.</common>
</name>
<email>deboomerang@gmail.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio" />
<url href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022036.html" />
</links>
<body>
<p>VirtIO is a device framework offered by KVM/Qemu and Virtualbox
to allow guests to achieve better I/O performance. A beta
network driver was made available earlier this month, and work
continues on completing the block device and refinements the
existing network driver.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>TCP SMP scalability project</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Robert</given>
<common>Watson</common>
</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>A long-running TCP SMP scalability project is beginning to wrap
up, with the goal of committing a large outstanding patch to the
&os; 9.x tree in the next month. This work implements a
derivative of Willman, Rixner, and Cox's TCP connection group
model, blended with support for hardware load distribution
features in contemporary NICs (including RSS). Additional
software distribution support can do work redistribution based
on new notions of CPU affinity for individual TCP
connections.</p>
<p>On-going work is refining performance on non-RSS supporting
configurations, and adding APIs to allow socket affinity to be
queried (and where supported) set by applications. These
changes significantly improve network scalability by reducing
global lock contention, encouraging CPU affinity for
connections, and avoiding cache line contention. The goal is
to allow steady-state TCP connections to use only CPU-local
cache lines, with work distributed to all CPUs. Current
performance results are extremely promising.</p>
<p>This project has been sponsored by Juniper Networks.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Allow the hash model to be selected at boot-time or run-time
rather than compile-time; currently "options RSS" enables RSS
support unconditionally — for systems without RSS NICs,
this leads to a small one-time performance penalty at the
creation of each call to bind() or connect().</task>
<task>Add missing socket options to query (and override) default
CPU affinity for connections, which is derived from the active
software or hardware hash model.</task>
<task>Teach the network stack and appropriate NIC drivers to
propagate software-overridden connection affinity to hardware
using new device driver ioctls for managing TCAMs and hardware
hash tables.</task>
<task>Refine software redistribution of work in the event that
there are fewer hardware queues than available CPU threads in
which to process packets; the current prototype is able to do
this with significant performance benefits, but the model
requires refining.</task>
<task>Experiment with (and measure) software work redistribution
at run-time based on RSS bucket rearrangement. This will
require a new event notification to device drivers so that
they can update hardware caches of the network stack's
authoritative table.</task>
<task>Commit.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Bugbusting Team Status Report</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gavin</given>
<common>Atkinson</common>
</name>
<email>gavin@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Mark</given>
<common>Linimon</common>
</name>
<email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Remko</given>
<common>Lodder</common>
</name>
<email>remko@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Volker</given>
<common>Werth</common>
</name>
<email>vwe@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats" />
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BugBusting" />
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The number of non-ports PRs has held relatively steady over
the last three months, with a slightly improved resolution rate
being offset by a slightly increased rate of new arrivals.
Ports PRs have increased slightly in numbers, due in part to
the ports freeze in the lead up to the release of &os; 7.4 and
&os; 8.2. The numbers traditionally drop quickly again once the
freeze is lifted.</p>
<p>In October, Gavin Atkinson and Mark Linimon held a session at
the &os; Developers' Summit at EuroBSDCon, which led to some
productive discussions, and a number of people expressing
interest in becoming more involved with PR triaging and
resolution.</p>
<p>The bugbusting team continue work on trying to make the
contents of the GNATS PR database cleaner, more accessible and
easier for committers to find and resolve PRs, by tagging PRs
to indicate the areas involved, and by ensuring that there is
sufficient info within each PR to resolve each issue.</p>
<p>Reports continue to be produced from the PR database, all of
which can be found from the links above. Committers interested
in custom reports are encouraged to discuss requirements with
bugmeister@ - we are happy to create new reports where needs are
identified.</p>
<p>As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue
is encouraged to do so, the easiest way being to join us on IRC
in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We are always looking for
additional help, whether your interests lie in triaging incoming
PRs, generating patches to resolve existing problems, or simply
helping with the database housekeeping (identifying duplicate
PRs, ones that have already been resolved, etc). This is a
great way of getting more involved with &os;!</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Try to find ways to get more committers helping us with
closing PRs that the team has already analyzed.</task>
<task>Try to get more non-committers involved with the triaging
of PRs as they come in, and generating patches to fix reported
problems.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>&os; Services Control (fsc)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Tom</given>
<common>Rhodes</common>
</name>
<email>trhodes@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/fsc/</links>
<body>
<p>&os; Services Control is a mix of binaries which
integrate into the rc.d system and provide for service
(daemon) monitoring. It knows about signals, pidfiles,
and uses very little resources.</p>
<p>The fscd utilities will be set up as a port and, hopefully,
dropped into the ports collection in the coming weeks. This
will allow easier testing by everyone and it should make
migration into -CURRENT much easier.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>FOSDEM 2011</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marius</given>
<common>Nuennerich</common>
</name>
<email>marius@nuenneri.ch</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Daniel</given>
<common>Seuffert</common>
</name>
<email>ds@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FOSDEM.org" />
</links>
<body>
<p>FOSDEM 2011 will be held from Saturday, February 5th to
Sunday February 6th in Brussels, Belgium. We will have a &os;
booth and a developers room. At the booth there will be
friendly supporters and a &os; Foundation member answering
questions. The devroom will have 6 1-hour long talks about
different topics, technical and social. FOSDEM is one of the
biggest open-source events in Europe. It is completly free and
no registration is required.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Get more people involved as helpers for the booth and the
devroom are still needed. Please contact Daniel or Marius if
you want to help out.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>
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