Mention RDRAND and Xen PVHVM. Add a revision number for 4TB RAM support on amd64.

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Craig Rodrigues 2013-12-23 08:22:08 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
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amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
<para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
<para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
@ -177,6 +177,11 @@
scheduler is now the default process scheduler
in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for
the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number
generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs,
accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
<para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be
&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
OpenBSD.</para>
<para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now
part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">