* A rare HAMMER bug was found and fixed, and this was also MFC'd
to the 2.6.x branch.
The bug is related to HAMMER going a bit overboard on its use
of cluster_read(), creating a situation where buffers with
overlapping address spaces in the data zone could sometimes
be created.
The bug would normally result in an occassional DATA CRC error
in the reblocker or in the filesystem, required a umount/remount
to clear up. Typically no on-media corruption occurs. However,
there might have been other unknown (but rare) side effects to the
bug so an upgrade is recommended.
In addition, the HEAD branch now proactively asserts that no
overlapping buffer is created.
Remaining enhancements are only in the HEAD branch
* The HEAD branch now does a lot better on the stress2 stress testing
suite (/usr/src/test/stress/stress2). Currently only the tcp test
still creates resource exhaustion issues with default
net.inet.tcp.{send,recv}space values. With lowered values stress2
survives an overnight run.
- A per-user file descriptor limit has been added as a sysctl.
kern.maxfilesperuser.
- The per-user file descriptor and process limits have been reduced
somewhat, primarily to prevent pipe(2)'s from blowing out KVA
on i386 boxes.
* Some serious kernel memory leaks have been fixed, particularly
related to PTYs.
- Memory leaks fixed
- Numerous panics related to PTY and devfs operation have been
fixed.
* Alex Hornung's LVM/DM work in the HEAD branch has gone through
several rounds of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and
testing. Both the crypt target and the stripe target have seen
significant work.
This infrastructure is looking like a nice solid addition to
DragonFly!
- The stripe target is no longer limited to just two drives.
- Several resource exhaustion deadlocks have been fixed.
- Significant testing with HAMMER on a crypt + stripe x 5
setup has been completed without generating any errors.
- No soft-raid features have been ported or implemented yet.
* The cluster read-ahead code has been tuned to do a better job
with a DM stripe target (tested with strip x 5 drives).
* Samuel J. Greear's select/poll/kqueue work has gone through
numerous revisions and is a lot more stable now.
* PF has been updated to OpenBSD 4.1 (upgrading to OpenBSD-current
is being discussed), and has also gone through a few bug-fixing
passes since its import.
* The wifi/wlan code has gone through a few rounds of bug fixes
as well, including a fix for kernel memory corruption related
to bringing a wlan interface up or down.
That's the basics for the last month or so. Our next release will
be in mid-September, and hopefully a few more goodies will get in
before then.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
