svn commit: r50436 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Jul 3 00:32:10 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jul  3 00:32:09 2017
New Revision: 50436
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50436

Log:
  Add 2017Q2 Annapurna Labs ENA entry from Michał Krawczyk

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Sun Jul  2 21:49:30 2017	(r50435)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Mon Jul  3 00:32:09 2017	(r50436)
@@ -545,4 +545,76 @@
 	somewhat easier.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>&os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Marcin</given>
+	  <common>Wojtas</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mw at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Michał</given>
+	  <common>Krawczyk</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mk at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html">Enhanced Networking Guide</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by
+	Annapurna Labs and is based on a custom ARMv8 chip.  This is a
+	high performance networking card available in AWS offering.
+	It introduces enhancements in network utilization scalability
+	on EC2 machines under control of various operating systems, in
+	particular &os;.</p>
+
+      <p>The goal of &os; enablement is to provide top performance and
+	a wide range of monitoring and management features such
+	as:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>multiple queue modes</li>
+
+	<li>hardware offloads (rx and tx checksum)</li>
+
+	<li>admin queue</li>
+
+	<li>asynchronous notifications</li>
+
+	<li>robust hardware access</li>
+
+	<li>a scalable number of MSI-X vectors</li>
+
+	<li>hardware counters</li>
+
+	<li>watchdog mechanism</li>
+
+	<li>LRO</li>
+
+	<li>RSS</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>The driver is now available in kernel source tree since
+	r318647.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company</sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Add RSS configuration from userspace (sysctls).</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for LLQ mechanisms.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
