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<updated>2014-03-14T02:58:48Z</updated>
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<title>Remove IPX support.</title>
<updated>2014-03-14T02:58:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2014-03-14T02:58:48Z</published>
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IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.

Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
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<title>The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare</title>
<updated>2013-10-26T17:58:36Z</updated>
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<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2013-10-26T17:58:36Z</published>
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to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by:	Netflix
Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.
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<entry>
<title>Add const qualifier to the dst parameter of the ifnet if_output method.</title>
<updated>2013-04-26T12:50:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2013-04-26T12:50:32Z</published>
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<entry>
<title>  Mechanically substitute flags from historic mbuf allocator with</title>
<updated>2012-12-05T08:04:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2012-12-05T08:04:20Z</published>
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malloc(9) flags within sys.

Exceptions:

- sys/contrib not touched
- sys/mbuf.h edited manually
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<title>Mechanically remove the last stray remains of spl* calls from net*/*.</title>
<updated>2012-10-18T13:57:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Oppermann</name>
<email>andre@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2012-10-18T13:57:24Z</published>
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They have been Noop's for a long time now.
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<title>Add new tunable 'net.link.ifqmaxlen' to set default send interface</title>
<updated>2010-05-03T07:32:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Sobolev</name>
<email>sobomax@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2010-05-03T07:32:50Z</published>
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queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.

MFC after:	1 month
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<entry>
<title>Take a step towards removing if_watchdog/if_timer.  Don't explicitly set</title>
<updated>2009-11-06T14:55:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Baldwin</name>
<email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2009-11-06T14:55:01Z</published>
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if_watchdog/if_timer to NULL/0 when initializing an ifnet.  if_alloc()
sets those members to NULL/0 already.
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<title>Rather than using IFNET_RLOCK() when iterating over (and modifying) the</title>
<updated>2009-08-23T21:00:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Watson</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2009-08-23T21:00:21Z</published>
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ifnet list during if_ef load, directly acquire the ifnet_sxlock
exclusively.  That way when if_alloc() recurses the lock, it's a write
recursion rather than a read-&gt;write recursion.

This code structure is arguably a bug, so add a comment indicating that
this is the case.  Post-8.0, we should fix this, but this commit
resolves panic-on-load for if_ef.

Discussed with:	bz, julian
Reported by:	phk
MFC after:	3 days
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<entry>
<title>Merge the remainder of kern_vimage.c and vimage.h into vnet.c and</title>
<updated>2009-08-01T19:26:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Watson</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2009-08-01T19:26:27Z</published>
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vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks.  Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.

Reviewed by:	bz
Approved by:	re (vimage blanket)
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<entry>
<title>Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator</title>
<updated>2009-07-14T22:48:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Watson</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2009-07-14T22:48:30Z</published>
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(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator.  Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...).  This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.

Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack.  Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory.  Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.

Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy.  Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address.  When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.

This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.

Portions submitted by:  bz
Reviewed by:            bz, zec
Discussed with:         gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by:           peter
Approved by:            re (kensmith)
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