svn commit: r218377 -
releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 6 16:21:21 UTC 2011
Author: hrs
Date: Sun Feb 6 16:21:21 2011
New Revision: 218377
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218377
Log:
Add more relnotes items for 8.2R:
CTLFLAG_RDTUNize vm.kmem_size*,
debug.{kdb.stop_cpus,trace_on_panic}, kern.sync_on_panic,
pxeboot(8) NFSv3 by default,
bge(4) UDP checksum offloading bug tunable,
bge(4) DMA bounce buffer handling improvement,
sis(4) works on all supported platforms, WoL on DP8315,
padding bug tunable,
xl(4) WoL support,
ipfw(4) netgraph + one_pass issue fixed,
ipfw(4) ngtee action changed,
pf(4) + TSO issue fixed,
ahci(4) device reset timeout 10->15 seconds,
ata(4) serverworks K2 SATA detection fixed,
kenv boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen added,
more ZFS changes,
gpart(8) better /dev/ prefix handling in command line,
hastd(8) SIGHUP/SIGINT/SIGTERM handling,
libarchive LZMA support,
pax(1) off-by-one in ustar filename fixed,
tftp(1) and tfptd(8) overhaul, and
tzdata2010m.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Modified:
releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Feb 6 14:17:08 2011 (r218376)
+++ releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Feb 6 16:21:21 2011 (r218377)
@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@
displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs
node name and struct cdev address.</para>
+ <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following sysctl
+ variables are also now loader tunables:
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>,
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size_max</varname>, and
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size_min</varname>,
+ <varname>debug.kdb.stop_cpus</varname>,
+ <varname>debug.trace_on_panic</varname>, and
+ <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>.</para>
+
<para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has
been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of
allocated memories over a longer time. For more details, see
@@ -194,7 +203,8 @@
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS
+ version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
@@ -233,12 +243,29 @@
the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms.
The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para>
+ <para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports
+ flow control.</para>
+
<para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
prevents TSO in BCM57780 from working has been
fixed.</para>
- <para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports
- flow control.</para>
+ <para revision="213109">UDP checksum offloading in the
+ &man.bge.4; driver has been disabled by default. This is
+ because Broadcom controllers have a bug which can generate
+ UDP datagrams with checksum value <literal>0</literal>
+ when TX UDP checksum offloading is enabled. The checksum
+ offloading can be enabled by using the following loader
+ tunable:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.forced_udpcsum</programlisting>
+
+ <para revision="213593">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver
+ which can lead poor performance on a system with RAM
+ larger than 4GB has been fixed. The cause was that all of
+ Broadcom controllers except for BCM5755 and later has 4GB
+ boundary DMA bug and the inefficient use of bounce
+ buffer.</para>
<para revision="212275">The &man.bwi.4; driver, which supports
Broadcom BCM430* and BCM431* family Wireless Ethernet
@@ -302,8 +329,8 @@
<para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4;
driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
- <para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WOL
- (Wake On Lan) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL
+ (Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para>
<para revision="212039">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports a
device hint to change a way of register access. Although
@@ -318,8 +345,24 @@
<para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
- <para revision="212468">Some stability issues in
- the &man.sis.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver
+ now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and
+ performance issues have also been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213637">The &man.sis.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN) on NS DP8315 controller.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213626">A tunable
+ <varname>dev.sis.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.manual_pad</varname>
+ for the &man.sis.4; driver has been added. This controls
+ whether padding with 0x00 for short frames by software,
+ not the controller. The reason why this tunable has been
+ added is that NS DP83815/DP83816 pads them with 0xff
+ though RFC 1042 specifies it should be 0x00. The tunable
+ is disabled by default, which means padding with 0xff is
+ used because padding with 0x00 by software needs extra CPU
+ cycles. Setting a non-zero value enables the software
+ padding.</para>
<para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports a
device hint to change a way of register access. Although
@@ -336,6 +379,11 @@
The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using
<option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8;
utility.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213120">The &man.xl.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN). Note that not all controllers support
+ this functionality and some need an additional remote
+ wakeup cable.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -345,6 +393,15 @@
<para revision="209783">The &man.altq.4; support is now provided
as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para>
+ <para revision="212738">A bug in the &man.ipfw.4; packet
+ filter subsystem has been fixed. The syctl variable
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass</varname> did not work for
+ <literal>netgraph</literal> action.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212742">A <literal>ngtee</literal> action in
+ the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed.
+ It no longer accepts a packet.</para>
+
<para revision="209691">IPsec flow distribution has been
improved for more parallel processing.</para>
@@ -371,6 +428,10 @@
interface is now destroyed and recreated when the network
interface is moved to another vnet.</para>
+ <para revision="212905">An ICMP unreachable problem in the
+ &man.pf.4; packet filter subsystem when TSO support is
+ enabled has been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="211538">A TCP bandwidth delay product window
limiting algorithm by a &man.sysctl.8; variable
<varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable</varname> is now
@@ -406,6 +467,10 @@
and PMP support on VIA VT8251 because they are unreliable
under load.</para>
+ <para revision="211718">The &man.ahci.4; driver now uses 15
+ seconds for device reset timeout instead of 10 seconds
+ because some devices needs 10-12 seconds to spin up.</para>
+
<para revision="210836">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver
has been updated to version 1.20.00.17.</para>
@@ -424,6 +489,10 @@
<varname>hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin</varname> is
enabled.</para>
+ <para revision="213291">A device detection of Serverworls K2
+ SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been
+ improved.</para>
+
<para revision="210376">The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports
larger I/O sizes which the device and &man.CAM.4; subsystem
can support. This was limited to 64KB, and the number of
@@ -438,6 +507,13 @@
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
+ <para revision="212716">The &os; NFS client now supports a
+ kernel environment variable
+ <varname>boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen</varname>. This lets the
+ diskless root file system on boot to use NFS version 3 and
+ the spedified file handle length. If this variable is not
+ set, NFS version 2 is used.</para>
+
<para revision="212668">The ZFS on-disk format has been updated
to version 15.</para>
@@ -447,37 +523,46 @@
related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6826241, 6869229, 6918420,
and 6917066.</para>
- <para>The default value of
+ <para revision="212672">Performance improvements for the ZFS
+ have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include cachin of
+ ACL permission checks, faster handling of &man.stat.2;,
+ mitigation of mutex lock contention. The related
+ OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6802734, 6844861, 6848431, 6775100,
+ 6827779, 6857433, 6860318, 6865875, 6867395, 6868276, and
+ 6870564.</para>
+
+ <para revision="210541">The default value of
<varname>vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending</varname> has been
decreased from 35 to 10 (OpenSolaris Bug ID is 6891731) to
improve latency.</para>
- <para>Bugs in the ZFS subsystem has been fixed. The
- OpenSolaris Bug IDs are: 6798878, 6809683, 6794570, 6844069,
- 6788152, 6843235, 6857012, 6870564, 6836714, 6836714,
- 6870564, 6857012, 6843235, 6788152, 6844069, 6794570,
- 6809683, 6798878, 6950219, 6953403, 6951024, 6809340,
- 6755435, 6748436, 6740164, 6769612, 6757430, 6542860,
- 6761100, 6774886, 6737463, 6765294, 6572357, 6572376,
- 6328632, 6739487, 6767129, 6747698, 6745863, 6722540,
- 6759999, 6758107, 6776548, 6761406, 6770866, 6674216,
- 6621164, 6635482, 6595194, 6722991, 6396518, 6713916,
- 6739553, 6784104, 6784108, 6788830, 6791064, 6791066,
- 6791071, 6792134, 6792884, 6798384, 6551866, 6504953,
- 6702206, 6780491, 6747596, 6801507, 6633095, 6775697,
- 6790687, 6791101, 6800942, 6582163, 6804954, 6800184,
- 6803822, 6789318, 6790345, 6797109, 6797118, 6803343,
- 6815893, 6809691, 6790064, 6604992, 6810367, 6807765,
- 6821169, 6821170, 6824006, 6792139, 6794830, 6824062,
- 6816124, 6818183, 6710376, 6501037, 6827260, 6815592,
- 6759986, 6774713, 6717022, 6799895, 6826466, 6826468,
- 6826469, 6826470, 6826471, 6826472, 6833711, 6764124,
- 6830237, 6833162, 6824968, 6834217, 6596237, 6623978,
- 6801810, 6586537, 6836768, 6838062, 6794136, 6776104,
- 6664765, 6841321, 6843069, 6847229, 6838344, 6844900,
- 6857012, 6848242, 6856634, 6861983, 6862984, 6696858,
- 6696858, 6882227, 6880764, 6793430, 6822816, 6892298,
- 6807339, 6906110, 6906946, 6898245, and 6833999.</para>
+ <para>Various bugs in the ZFS subsystem have been fixed. The
+ related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are: 6328632, 6396518, 6501037,
+ 6504953, 6542860, 6551866, 6572357, 6572376, 6582163,
+ 6586537, 6595194, 6596237, 6604992, 6621164, 6623978,
+ 6633095, 6635482, 6664765, 6674216, 6696858, 6696858,
+ 6702206, 6710376, 6713916, 6717022, 6722540, 6722991,
+ 6737463, 6739487, 6739553, 6740164, 6745863, 6747596,
+ 6747698, 6748436, 6755435, 6757430, 6758107, 6759986,
+ 6759999, 6761100, 6761406, 6764124, 6765294, 6767129,
+ 6769612, 6770866, 6774713, 6774886, 6775697, 6776104,
+ 6776548, 6780491, 6784104, 6784108, 6788152, 6788152,
+ 6788830, 6789318, 6790064, 6790345, 6790687, 6791064,
+ 6791066, 6791071, 6791101, 6792134, 6792139, 6792884,
+ 6793430, 6794136, 6794570, 6794570, 6794830, 6797109,
+ 6797118, 6798384, 6798878, 6798878, 6799895, 6800184,
+ 6800942, 6801507, 6801810, 6803343, 6803822, 6804954,
+ 6807339, 6807765, 6809340, 6809683, 6809683, 6809691,
+ 6810367, 6815592, 6815893, 6816124, 6818183, 6821169,
+ 6821170, 6822816, 6824006, 6824062, 6824968, 6826466,
+ 6826468, 6826469, 6826470, 6826471, 6826472, 6827260,
+ 6830237, 6833162, 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714,
+ 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843069,
+ 6843235, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229,
+ 6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6857012, 6857012, 6861983,
+ 6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227,
+ 6892298, 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219,
+ 6951024, and 6953403.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -522,6 +607,16 @@
<command>resize</command> command to resize partitions for all
schemes but EBR.</para>
+ <para revision="213661">The &man.gpart.8; utility now handles
+ given geom/provider names with and without
+ <filename>/dev/</filename> prefix.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports
+ <literal>SIGHUP</literal> for reloading the configuration
+ file. When <literal>SIGTERM</literal> or
+ <literal>SIGINT</literal> is received, the worker processes
+ terminate.</para>
+
<para revision="212144">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now check an
invalid CIDR subnet notation more strictly. It wrongly
accepted <literal>10.0.0.1/10.0.0.1</literal> as
@@ -531,11 +626,19 @@
sequences and reverse ranges in the &man.jot.1; utility have
been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="213667">The <filename>libarchive</filename> and
+ &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
+ chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para>
+
<para revision="211699">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
an <option>-S <replaceable>pidfile</replaceable></option>
option to override the default &man.syslogd.8; PID
file.</para>
+ <para revision="212848">An off-by-one error in the &man.pax.1;
+ utility when ustar file name is too long has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="209912">The &man.pkill.1; utility now supports
an <option>-l</option> option which the &man.kill.1; utility
does.</para>
@@ -581,6 +684,10 @@
<literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal and reports the specified
sleep time and the remaining time.</para>
+ <para revision="213036,213038">The &man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8;
+ utilities have been improved for better interoperability and
+ they now supports RFC 1350, 2347, 2348, 2349, and 3617.</para>
+
<para revision="210566">The &man.uname.1; utility now supports an
<option>-o</option> flag as a synonym for the
<option>-s</option> flag for compatibility with other
@@ -637,7 +744,7 @@
version 8.14.4.</para>
-->
<para>The timezone database has been updated to the
- <application>tzdata2010l</application> release.</para>
+ <application>tzdata2010m</application> release.</para>
</sect2>
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