Document some CTL improvements.

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<literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
<para revision="269298">The maximum number of
<acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has
been increased from 32 to 128.</para>
<para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and
&man.loader.8; tunable,
<literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been
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<literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically
recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment
with the disk geometry.</para>
<para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">CAM Target Layer (CTL)
got many impromenets:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Support for UNMAP, WRITE SAME, COMPARE AND WRITE, XCOPY
and some other SCSI commands was added to support VMWare VAAI
and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="265642">READ/WRITE size limitations were removed
by supporting multiple data moves per command.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and
multiple worker threads for better SMP scapability.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by several
times by disabling some never used functionality.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="269298">The maximum number of
<acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 128</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="269429">Improved ZVOL integration for better
performance.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">