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| author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-26 14:03:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-26 14:03:52 +0000 |
| commit | 03a76b348d5c40577852dd73f4e22d0c0b391b1c (patch) | |
| tree | 061c53734d78908fa2030c88139cbb49396f1802 | |
| parent | 575826f18309c3cddc321fe7bc536b0add26af28 (diff) | |
Notes
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 38 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index ad0f32cd0269..1f91711f5646 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -216,6 +216,18 @@ to 3.6GB. Note that the ceiling as a fraction of the kernel map size rather than an absolute quantity.</para> + <para>The &man.kld.4; now supports installing 32-bit system + call to the &os; system call translation layer from kernel + modules.</para> + + <para>The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now + supports installing 32-bit system calls for + <literal>VFS_AIO</literal>.</para> + + <para>The &man.ktr.4; now supports a new KTR tracepoint in the + <literal>KTR_CALLOUT</literal> class to note when a callout + routine finishes executing.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -248,6 +260,20 @@ information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and perform CPU firmware updates.</para> + <para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports a + <varname>hw.est.msr_info</varname> loader tunable. When + this set to <literal>1</literal>, it attempts to build a + simple list containing just the high and low frequencies if + it cannot obtain a frequency list from either ACPI or the + static tables. This is disabled by default.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386">CPU frequency change notifiers are now + disabled when the TSC is P-state invariant. Also, a new + loader tunable + <varname>kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc</varname> has been + added to force this behavior by setting it to + non-zero.</para> + <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -337,7 +363,13 @@ <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para></para> + <para>The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in + &man.VFS.9; subsystem has been improved. This is disabled + by default. Setting a sysctl variable + <varname>vfs.lookup_shared</varname> to <literal>1</literal> + enables it for better performance. Note that the + <literal>LOOKUP_SHARED</literal> equivalent to the sysctl + variable kernel option has been removed.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -373,6 +405,10 @@ <screen>&prompt.user; netstat -m -N foo</screen> + <para>A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. The + <option>-ss</option> now works in the icmp6 section as + expected.</para> + <para>The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a new mode named as <literal>hiadaptive</literal> for AC-powered |
