• 201511VendorDevSummit
• HaveNeedWant

Have/Need/Want 3 November 2015

Have

• wormhole (Matt O.)
• rocket/slack client (Matt O.)
• SATA error counters (Ravi)
• I/O Scheduler (Warner)
• UFS I/O error recovery (Benno/Warner)
• async sendfile with inline TLS (Scott L.)
• netmap vmxnet (Adrian)
• PV SCSI for VMWare (Benno)
• launchd (Kip)
• Mach IPC (Kip)
• runtime EFI smbios extraction (Warner)

Need

• Motherboard firmware tools (native)
• MAC address save (original) (Ravi/Panasas)
• cross endian UFS (sson) (have?)
  • Kernel (have)
  • user tools (want)
• makefs manifest (brooks)
• build clang less (bdrewery)
• non-boot pkg install (peter)
  • chroot as me / disable suid
• makefs FAT (all) (emaste)
• ExFAT (ff)
• spdx attribution files (ff)
  • how to avoid stale?
• assignment template (gnn)
• non-raw disks in bhyve (marcel)
• EFS SMBIOS (ambrisko)
• two hog partitions in mkimg (imp)
• external toolchain in 10 (specifically last clang)
  • makebits (MFC)
  • patches…
• gdb
  • gdb server (facebook’s ds2)
• back pressure to storage I/O
  • from storage objects up to VM pages (scott/warner)
• multiqueue for storage (scott/justin)

WANT

• dd on steroids (adrian)
  • TRIM sparse areas
• logical volume manager (adrian)
• less friction out of the box (a.k.a., 'sane defaults') (gjb)
  • less tuning required (e.g. see calomel.org for nicely done system settings and user hints)
  • presettings for server/enterprise
  • more auto-tuning
  • MINIMAL kernel
  • /usr/local
  • vendor-ports documentation (Bdrewery)
  • bsd.ports.local.mk
• network stack backpressure
• crash dump over LAN
• can’t savecore from (4k-n)
• bhyve pxe boot
• pre-alloc large chunks of RAM
  • config.mem from DPDK
• dedicated cpus
  • more timer / IRQs more easily
• USB device wiring
  • deterministic ordering of usb devices when attached (or a way to control that behavior)
• ethtool-like (adrian)
  • cloudflare netmap
  • VLAN on vf
• start SMP earlier (more MSI-X)
• BIG-LITTLE
  • ISA-compatible heterogeneous compute
  • scheduling
  • power/thermal constraints
• sparsify the middle of a file (targeted truncate aka trim for files)
• vmsplice
• vimage
• multiple simultaneous network stacks (work in process)
• ethernet proper support for jumbo frames
  • fail more gracefully
  • more optimally-performant ring sizing
  • graceful fallback to smaller clusters
  • best practices implemented in a model driver
  • checksum offload support for netmap
  • KNI driver for DPDK
• trim zfs (aka ‘real’ trim) - better zfs support for trim
  • panic if destroy TRIMS 1 large range due to dead man timer
  • C++ support for ztfs tools
• large memory system support (berman)
• better KLO/CTF integration
  • load SUNW?
• kload
• Machine readable DTrace output (gnn)
• Increase MNAMELEN (max length of a mount point), breaks ABI (already done in projects/ino64, just needs sync/polish/review)