Kernel

Mike Silberack has posted a patch related to illegal TCP RST attacks.

Now we have RELENG_4_10 branch :-) There are a lot of -CURRENT improvements has been MFC’ed, however, the most important part of -CURRENT, say, KSE and SMPng, will never be MFC’ed because of the architecture change introduced by this.

I’m going on to track down the Pentium 4 HTT issue of FreeBSD. Currently I have setup a tinderbox (hengdm’s workstation because he is not here :-P and it’s the only box which supports HTT) and compiled a SMP kernel on it.

See the original letter here.

As planned before, I am now downloading DragonFlyBSD’s live iso and tend to install it soon.

The SMP case seems to have something wrong with it. My MARCH=p4 and -O optimized kernel often crashes when shutting down on beastieng.frontfree.net. Apparantly this is lock related (we can see the panic strings there not to be outputing atomically, and they just mixed with each other).

Dr. Alan Cox (alc@) has committed several improvements to FreeBSD’s VM implementation, and this brought significant performance gains on 5-CURRENT.

Tim J Robbins (tjr@) has committed a set of utf8-ized versions of currently supported system locales. From the commit log:

Matt Dillon always do things which are amazing and earning our respect!! Today he announced a major change in DragonFly’s build architecture, while this will likely to cause some temporary quakes, we believe that the migration will be finished soon and we will have a much better (say, cleaner than FreeBSD’s approach) DragonFly buildworld path!

Robert today has sent a headsup to current@, claiming that he will merge his changes on p4 to cvs soon.