svn commit: r49555 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Oct 23 23:44:41 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 23 23:44:39 2016
New Revision: 49555
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49555

Log:
  Add entry on the Elastic Network Adapter from Jakub Palider

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 23:09:10 2016	(r49554)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 23 23:44:39 2016	(r49555)
@@ -793,4 +793,72 @@
       <task>Submit remaining fixes and drivers.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>&os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Jan</given>
+	  <common>Medala</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jan at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Jakub</given>
+	  <common>Palider</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jpa at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html">Amazon AWS Documentation of the ENA</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by
+	Annapurna Labs based on a custom ARMv8 chip.  This is a
+	high-performance networking card that is available to AWS virtual
+	machines.  It introduces enhancements in network utilization
+	scalability on EC2 machines running 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>various offload functionality</li>
+
+	<li>admin queue</li>
+
+	<li>asynchronous notification</li>
+
+	<li>robust hardware access</li>
+
+	<li>scalable number of MSI-X interrupts</li>
+
+	<li>counters</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>The current state offers stable driver operation with good
+	performance on machines running &os; directly on the hardware.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Optimize performance for virtualized environments.</task>
+
+      <task>Prepare for submitting the driver as a Phabricator
+	review.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
