svn commit: r42081 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jun 28 16:05:28 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Fri Jun 28 16:05:27 2013
New Revision: 42081
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42081

Log:
  - Add an introductory sentence for the multi-threaded pagedaemon entry [1]
  - Fix up some minor mistakes in the Intel IOMMU entry
  - Fix spelling of pkg(8) in the PC-BSD entry
  
  Requested by:	theraven [1]
  Discussed with:	kib [1]

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Fri Jun 28 12:20:00 2013	(r42080)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Fri Jun 28 16:05:27 2013	(r42081)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     <body>
       <p>Progress on moving PC-BSD & TrueOS to a "rolling release"
 	is happening quickly.  We have implemented our own package
-	repository, fully based on PKGNG, which is updated twice
+	repository, fully based on <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, which is updated twice
 	monthly, and are now hosting dedicated
 	<tt>freebsd-update(8)</tt> systems.  In addition to the
 	<tt>9.1-RELEASE</tt> ISO images, we have begun to create a
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@
     </body>
 
     <help>
-      <task>Implements workarounds for chipset errata.</task>
+      <task>Implement workarounds for chipset errata.</task>
 
       <task>Commit to HEAD after additional testing.</task>
 
       <task>Rebalance MSI/MSI-X using interrupt remapping unit, also
-	required for x2APIC use on big machines</task>
+	required for x2APIC use on big machines.</task>
 
       <task>Integrate with the Intel GPU MMU and handle Ironlake and
 	SandyBridge errata for the GFXVTd unit.</task>
@@ -195,12 +195,13 @@
     </links>
 
     <body>
-      <p>Based on a prototype change from Jeff Roberson, per-domain page
-	queues and per-domain pagedaemon working threads have been
-	implemented.  At the moment, the domains coincide with the NUMA
-	proximity domains, but this is not neccessary and could be
-	improved with further separation to allow more parallelism in
-	the pagedaemon.</p>
+      <p>This project aims to improve scalability of the virtual memory
+	subsystem.  Based on a prototype change from Jeff Roberson,
+	per-domain page queues and per-domain pagedaemon working threads
+	have been implemented to enable this.  At the moment, the
+	domains coincide with the NUMA proximity domains, but this is
+	not neccessary and could be improved with further separation to
+	allow more parallelism in the pagedaemon.</p>
 
       <p>The patch is relatively simple, with the most delicate parts
 	being the page laundry and OOM logic, which requires coordination
