diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 94305a6e8490..4008bdb94dea 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -120,6 +120,16 @@ Kernel Changes + Raspberry PI support has been added. + Refer to these setup instructions + and quick start + guide. + + The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform + TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the + amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% + of the system time on i/o intensive workloads. + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. @@ -292,6 +302,13 @@ for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and IP over Infiniband (ipoib). + &man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for + high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS + rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing. + With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with + minimal packet sizes. For more information, see: + Netmap Project. + @@ -338,6 +355,11 @@ The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 from Highpoint. + &man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support. + NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of + PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, + see nvmexpress.org. +