svn commit: r49546 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Oct 23 20:19:19 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 23 20:19:17 2016
New Revision: 49546
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49546

Log:
  Add BSD Integration Services for Azure report from Dexuan Cui

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 19:39:35 2016	(r49545)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 20:19:17 2016	(r49546)
@@ -275,4 +275,79 @@
 	compiler!</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>&os; on Hyper-V and Azure</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Sepherosa</given>
+	  <common>Ziehau</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>sepherosa at gmail.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Hongjiang</given>
+	  <common>Zhang</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>honzhan at microsoft.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Dexuan</given>
+	  <common>Cui</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>decui at microsoft.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Kylie</given>
+	  <common>Liang</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>kyliel at microsoft.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HyperV">&os; Virtual Machines on Microsoft Hyper-V</url>
+      <url href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531030.aspx">Supported Linux and &os; virtual machines for Hyper-V on Windows</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This quarter, the Hyper-V storage driver was greatly improved:
+	its performance was increased by a factor of 1.2-2 by applying
+	BUS_DMA and UNMAP_IO, enlarging the request queue, and selecting the
+	outgoing channel with the LUN considered;  TRIM/UNMAP was enabled;
+	and some critical bugs (PRs 209443, 211000, 212998) were fixed so
+	that disk hot add/remove and VHDX online resizing should work
+	now.</p>
+
+      <p>The VMBus driver also received attention, with enhancements made for
+	the handling of device hot add/remove.</p>
+
+      <p> In the Hyper-V network driver, configurable RSS key and dynamic
+	MTU change are now supported.</p>
+
+      <p>&os; images on Azure continue to be updated — after
+	publishing the &os; 10.3 VM image on the global Microsoft Azure in
+	June, Microsoft also published the VM image on the Microsoft Azure
+	operated by 21Vianet in China in September.</p>
+
+      <p>Patches have been developed to support PCIe pass-through (also
+	known as Discrete Device Assignment); this feature allows physical
+	PCIe devices to be passed through to &os; VMs running on Hyper-V
+	(Windows Server 2016), giving them near-native performance with low
+	CPU utilization.  The patch to enable the feature will be posted for
+	review soon.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Microsoft
+    </sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
