DragonFly 4.0 released!

[Justin Sherrill]

(limiting to users@)

http://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/06/27/14275.html

pf, originating from OpenBSD, is single-threaded.  This can - in some
situations - hurt performance.  Matthew Dillon made pf able to make use of
multiple processors, which can - in some situations - help performance.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:09 PM, bycn82 <bycn82 at gmail.com> wrote:

> *thanks for the hard work, well done! the lagg is really what I want :)*
>
> *By the way, in the "Packet Filter" section,*
> *The pf firewall is now able to work in a concurrent manner on many CPUs.*
> *But what does it mean? Anyone can help to explain this? what is the
> benefit to have a PF which can concurrently manner on multiple CPUs? thanks
> in advanced. It interested me.*
>
> *And also the LWKT is interesting for me, I am new here :)*
>
> *Regards,*
> *bycn82*
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Justin Sherrill <
> justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>
>> DragonFly 4.0 has been released, and should be available at your nearest
>> mirror.
>>
>> Release page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/
>>
>> Download page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
>>
>> There's no 32-bit version for this release; support for it is being
>> dropped.  This should affect a very small number of systems, as 64-bit
>> processors are plentiful now.
>>
>> The release page has the details, but this release will be especially
>> useful for anyone with radeon/i915 chipsets.  Those users will now enjoy
>> hardware video acceleration and 3D support.
>>
>
>
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