svn commit: r49063 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Jul 7 15:33:09 UTC 2016

Author: dru
Date: Thu Jul  7 15:33:08 2016
New Revision: 49063
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49063

Log:
  Add Azure status report submitted by decui at microsoft.com.
  
  Reviewed by: wblock
  Sponsored by: iXsystems

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml	Thu Jul  7 15:08:15 2016	(r49062)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml	Thu Jul  7 15:33:08 2016	(r49063)
@@ -598,4 +598,86 @@
 	IPv6.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>FreeBSD 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">FreeBSD Virtual Machines on Microsoft Hyper-V</url>
+      <url href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531030.aspx">Supported Linux and FreeBSD virtual machines for Hyper-V on Windows</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>During BSDCan 2016, Microsoft <a
+	  href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/freebsd-now-available-in-azure-marketplace/">announced</a>
+	the global availability of FreeBSD 10.3 images in Azure.
+	There are many FreeBSD-based Azure virtual appliances in the
+	Azure Marketplace, including Citrix Systems' NetScaler and
+	Netgate's pfSense.  Microsoft also made an in-depth technical
+	presentation to introduce how the performance of the Hyper-V
+	network device driver was optimized to reach full line rate on
+	10Gb networks and achieved decent performance on 40Gb
+	networks.  The slides and video from the presentation are
+	available from the <a
+	  href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/681.en.html">BSDCan website</a>.</p>
+
+      <p>Microsoft continues to strive to further optimize the
+	performance of Hyper-V network and storage device drivers.
+	Work is ongoing to replace the internal data structure in the
+	LRO kernel API from a singly-linked list to a double-linked
+	list, to speed up the LRO lookup by hash table, and to compare
+	the performance with <tt>tcp_lro_queue_mbuf()</tt>.</p>
+
+      <p>The handling of SCSI inquiry in the Hyper-V storage driver is
+	enhanced to make sure disk hotplug and <tt>smartctl(8)</tt>
+	work reliably.  Refer to <a
+	  href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210425">PR 210425</a>
+	and <a
+	  href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209443">PR 209443</a>
+	for details.</p>
+
+      <p>BIS test cases are available on GitHub for <a
+	  href="https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/Test-BIS">Hyper-V</a>
+	and for <a
+	  href="https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/azure-freebsd-automation">Azure</a>.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Microsoft
+    </sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
