svn commit: r43505 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 14 15:31:22 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 15:31:21 2014
New Revision: 43505
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43505

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report on the progress of the native iSCSI stack
  
  Submitted by:	trasz

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 15:14:09 2014	(r43504)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 15:31:21 2014	(r43505)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 18 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 19 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1008,4 +1008,41 @@
 	and Mesa, is also planned.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Native iSCSI Stack</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Edward Tomasz</given>
+	  <common>Napierała</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>trasz at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Native%20iSCSI%20target"/>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>iSCSI is a popular block storage protocol.   Under this project,
+	a new, fast, and reliable kernel-based iSCSI initiator (client)
+	and target (server) have been implemented.</p>
+
+      <p>During October to December, the work focused on performance and
+	scalability.   The target and the initiator now spread the load
+	over multiple kernel threads, and the locking is optimized to
+	reduce contention.  This makes better use of multiple processor
+	cores.</p>
+
+      <p>Work to finish iSER support is ongoing.   All those
+	optimizations will be gradually merged to <tt>head</tt> in
+	February, and are expected to merged back to <tt>stable/10</tt>
+	and finally arrive in <tt>10.1-RELEASE</tt>.</p>
+
+      <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
