onload-8.1.1
------------

Add support for:
 - recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 6.4)

Bug fixes:

ON-14479: return exclusivity status in ef_vi_filter_query
ON-14817: avoid reporting error when huge page allocation interrupted
ON-14844: avert rare negative congestion window in delegated sends
ON-15084: fix missing compat to support kernel.org kernels 6.2 and 6.3
ON-15086: allow installation of multiple multicast filters on X3
ON-15102: fix X3 MAC+VLAN filters
ON-15104: avoid falling back to shared net driver queue for exclusive filter
ON-15105: ensure exact HW filter can be installed for exclusive queues
ON-15108: fix propagation of flags with special filter types
ON-15115: avoid trying to attach to an RxQ with kernel block filters on X3


onload-8.1.0.15
---------------

Update sfc net driver to v5.3.14.1019

Add support for:
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2
 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
 - recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 6.3)
 - Debian 12 "Bookworm"

Remove support for:
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 - 8.3
 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 - SP3
 - Debian 10 "Buster"

Features:

 ON-9348: support SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID(_TCP)
ON-14349: support MAC filters on X3 where available
ON-14466: add HAVE_EFCT=0|1 to require or exclude support for X3 driver
ON-14479: add ef_filter_set_dest() API to control exclusive use of X3 queues
ON-14521: extend tx_timestamping example to process rx while awaiting tx tstamps
ON-14602: determine X3 resource limits and capabilities at runtime
ON-14617: deprecate EF_CHALLENGE_ACK_LIMIT in favour of EF_INVALID_ACK_RATELIMIT
ON-14658: extract sub-ns extension from trailer timestamps
ON-14799: provide transmit warming support in ef_vi for X3
ON-14801: extend trader sim example to support X3
ON-14923: trim core dump size to avoid dumping unused X3 buffers

Bug fixes:

    #122: udp_recv: return real length if MSG_TRUNC is set in flags
ON-13557: improve reporting on values of EF_CP_SYNRECV_MAX and EF_MAX_ENDPOINTS
ON-14072: comprehensively fix onload_tcpdump signal handling
ON-14165: fix resolution of X3 dependencies especially on Debian
ON-14171: fix segfaults accelerating IPv6 traffic on X3
ON-14434: fix resolution of vm pages avoiding kernel fault
ON-14528: fix jumbled stackdump output in some cases
ON-14572: flush Rx queue more proactively, avoiding hanging reference at unload
ON-14576: fix onload exit handlers to avoid hang affecting library destructors
ON-14578: avoid unloading drivers when uninstalling dkms package
ON-14590: ensure dup2/dup3 interrupts blocking operations
ON-14613: fix incorrect return code propagation for close()
ON-14623: fix error managing large numbers of packet buffers leading to panic
ON-14629: avoid potential misordering with EF_WODA_SINGLE_INTERFACE=1
ON-14655: fix discarding of X3 CTPIO transmissions for underflow poison
ON-14679: report VI allocator allocation failure when given no VIs
ON-14802: fix crash due to 32-bit overflow if one VI attached to >4 X3 Rx queues
ON-14803: align Rx queue dimensions between X3 driver and Onload
ON-14874: limit SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF to INT_MAX/2


onload-8.0.2.51
---------------

Add support for:
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1
 - recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 5.18)
 - gcc-12 compiler

Features:

ON-14496: add receive_set_discards to control which traffic is discarded

Bugs fixed:

ON-11315: avoid benign errors about failure to send synthetic uevent
ON-14118: X3522: avoid consuming Tx resources when not needed
ON-14420: X3522: fix onload_stackump vi_stats failure
ON-14441: fix onload_tcpdump shutdown on SIGKILL
ON-14450: fix segfault during CTPIO
ON-14454: avoid potential hang on app startup on RHEL7


onload-8.0.1.39
---------------

Update sfc net driver to v5.3.13.1006

Remove support for:
 - Canonical Ubuntu Server 21.10

Add support for:
 - Alveo™ XtremeScale™ X3522 low latency network adapter
 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
 - recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 5.17)

Bugs fixed:

ON-13611: fix races causing fd table corruption due to resolver operations
ON-14228: discard jumbo fragments properly, fixing payload length reports < 0
ON-14256: support differing site and platform python versions on RHEL
ON-14270: install python modules to correct location on debian based distros
ON-14292: restore onload_ext so to a major version number of 1
ON-14308: restore binary compatibility for ef_vi apps built with onload < 8.0.0
ON-14311: avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies for onload_version.h
ON-14374: fix RPM packaging to allow TCPDirct to be installed with DKMS Onload
ON-13692: fix stackdump environment output with multiple stacks
ON-13984: log pid on sock_create() error
ON-14072: fix restart of onload_tcpdump after unclean exit


onload-8.0.0.34
---------------

Update sfc net driver to v5.3.12.1023

Remove support for:
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
 - Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04
 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
 - Debian 9 "Stretch"

Add support for:
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
 - Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS 22.04
 - Canonical Ubuntu Server 21.10
 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
 - recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 5.15)
 - gcc 11.2

Features:

ON-6883: accept EF_CLUSTER_SIZE of 0 to ignore the cluster
ON-10897: add TCP zero-copy receive capability
ON-10993: add IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS, _TRANSPARENT and _MTU_DISCOVER socket options
ON-10993: add IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT and _RECVTCLASS socket options
ON-11401: increase support up to 30 interfaces
ON-11706: tune onload throughput
ON-11870: add support for multicast loopback in efsend_pio
ON-12051: add IGMP group join option to efsink
ON-12240: remove sfc_affinity module; sfc_affinity_config uses resource driver
ON-12407: license ef_vi, control plane and user-modifiable files as BSD-2-Clause
ON-12499: dual license headers needed to use ef_vi
ON-13632: update scripts to Python 3
ON-13949: add SRPM option to install libonload with setuid root
ON-13991: optimise X2 CTPIO write causing excessive early WC flushes on Ice Lake
SCTT-956: ship onload_cplane as source code rather than binary
SCTT-1019: separate TCPDirect from Onload

Bugs fixed:

ON-5029: avoid negative counter values in onload_stackdump
ON-8261: include HW_TX_TIMESTAMPING flag in capabilities API
ON-9170: rework SO_REUSEPORT to work with port 0
ON-9952: track IPv6 path MTU properly
ON-10045/ON-12106: handle fragmented IPv6 UDP datagrams
ON-10813: avoid ENODEV binding to IPv6 link-local address
ON-11152: avoid using failed ARP entry for a new connection
ON-11327: support kernel configs with ip rule support
ON-11360: fix close of listener with loopback socket on acceptq
ON-11367: do not build BPF kernel components in non-BPF builds
ON-11496: make epoll_wait timing more accurate in combination with spinning
ON-11894: set SO_ERROR on UDP deferred ARP failure
ON-11906: avoid premature exit from WODA
ON-11919: do not send UDP packet via OS when unbound
ON-12140: fix possible crash on UDP handover
ON-12328: prefer socket's source ip as packet source address
ON-12583: avoid potential crash on packet allocation failure
ON-12694: fix IPv6 wildcard filtering
ON-12742: really intercept terminating SIGINT
ON-13355/ON-13358: fix call traces on rare resource allocation failures
ON-13454: really set EF_TCP_URG_MODE=ignore by default
ON-13611: fix race causing fd table corruption and application crash
ON-13912: onload_stackdump -z stacks crashed
ON-13997: fix forward table for >16384 entries
ON-14097: avoid unnecessary large atomic kmalloc in buffer table programming
ON-14141: fix case where the log fd could be closed by the app


onload-7.1.3.202
----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.14.1002

Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
Support Debian 11
Support gcc 11

Bug fixes:

ON-12771: fix rx hw timestamps for IPv6
ON-12390: avoid undefined access resulting in segfault in ci_udp_recvmsg
ON-12585/ON-13611: fix race causing fd table corruption and application crash
ON-13056: apply IPTOS_RT_MASK to TOS in hash computation
ON-13122: increase stack name length to 26 characters to accomodate 32-bit PIDs
ON-13329: don't fail control plane startup if /var is not present.
ON-13338: ignore TCP URG flag by default
ON-13350: fixes for kernels without namespaces or without RETPOLINE
ON-13380: Cap EF_CTPIO_MAX_FRAME_LEN to avoid assertion failure
ON-13381: TCPDirect: fix corruption in OVERLAPPED receive
ON-13385: TCPDirect: fix data corruption when mixing vlan and non-vlan traffic
ON-13466: intercept deadly signals including cases that affected onload_tcpdump
ON-13474: fix close behaviours to avoid hang when /dev/onload unavailable
ON-13486: fix close behaviours preventing onloading of ssh on some systems
ON-13498: fix assertion on rx of packet incorrectly marked as bad-checksum
ON-13515: add sigaction() to basic syscall list, fixing hangs with ksh
ON-13594: avoid disrecommended use of in_atomic() within driver
ON-13627: install kernel modules into debian binary package
ON-13657: make setting of text-valued options effective in extensions interface
ON-13683: intercept all signal() functions (#53)
ON-13723: fix interaction between retransmits and delegated sends
ON-13786/ON13901: forbid interception of SIGONLOAD
ON-13818: fix race freeing dshm such as when dumping stack during exit
ON-13829: fix memory leak when out-of-order overlapped packet arrives
ON-13899: update MSS on every ipcache update for a TCP connection
ON-13902: cp_server parameters: use constants first


onload-7.1.2.141
----------------

Support recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 5.12)
Support recent Linux distributions: RHEL 8.4

Features:

ON-12852: add EF_EVENT_TYPE_RESET notification for hardware restarts
ON-13014: create cplane_track_xdp module option

Bug fixes:

ON-12676: fix high latency when spinning with XDP enabled
ON-12840: TCPDirect: fix various duplicate ACK cases
ON-12903: TCPDirect: remove potential for TCP seq number corruption on transmit
ON-12920: ensure that negative window is not infinity
ON-12966: TCPDirect: fix TCP receive window calculation
ON-13003: recover from a lost non-timeout interrupt
ON-13061: TCPDirect: rely on snd_lbb rather than snd_nxt to improve reliability
ON-13147: fix server crash on creating fd when allocation fails
ON-13186: TCPDirect: fix recv buf corruption when many unread segments coalesced
ON-13290: fix EF_SIGNALS_NOPOSTPONE for RT signals (#29)
ON-13305: TCPDirect: start RTO timer from zf_delegated_send_complete()
ON-13385: TCPDirect: fix data corruption when mixining vlan and non-vlan traffic


onload-7.1.1.75
---------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.12.1008

Support recent kernel.org kernel versions (up to 5.9)
Support recent GCC compilers (up to 10)
Support recent Linux distributions:
  RHEL 7.9, 8.3
  SLES15 sp2
Remove support for:
  RHEL 6.8, 7.5, 8.0
  SLES15 base
  Ubuntu LTS 16.04
  kernel.org kernel versions 3.10-4.3

Features:

ON-12532: add option to control how sends are combined in packets
ON-12688: allow restricted features also on secondary group match (egid)

Bug fixes:

ON-11555: TCPDirect: support SSM with unspecified source port
ON-12017/ON-12476/ON-12790: fix various timeout calculations in latency profile
ON-12062: replace close() with ci_sys_close() in libonload init
ON-12123: remove unnecessary Onload dependency in ef_vi
ON-12267: fix several cases where XDP rx processing got bypassed
ON-12346: default to not installing onload as setuid.
ON-12421: fix occasional ENOMEM when re-adding new socket to epoll mode 2 set
ON-12471: TCPDirect: ensure low-latency firmware mode always recognised
ON-12511: TCPDirect: ensure delegated send has buffer to complete at preparation
ON-12543: avoid string function usage that looks unsafe to tools
ON-12566/ON-12598: fix rare issues affecting Nginx Onload profile
ON-12597/ON-12644: TCPDirect: multiple fixes in timestamp handling
ON-12736: fix allocation failure manifesting in ci_tcp_helper_more_bufs()
ON-12737: avoid unnecessary control plane lookups, leading to jitter
ON-12839: avoid unnecessary window updates, appearing as duplicate ACKs to peer
ON-12903: TCPDirect: ensure out-of-order segments prompt duplicate ACKs


onload-7.1.0.265
----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.6.1004

Add system-level interface blacklisting
Enable TCPDirect applications to process incoming packet data during receipt
Support for TCPDirect on 'full-featured' firmware
Use running kernel implementation of XDP for Onload XDP support
Add orm_json_lib to assist the development of user tooling

Support recent Linux kernel versions (up to 5.5)
Support recent GCC compilers (up to 9.3)
Support recent Linux distributions:
  RHEL 7.8, 8.1, 8.2
  Ubuntu 20.04
  SLES12 sp5
Deprecate RHEL 7.4

Known issues:

SF-123478-KI/ON-6887: TCPDirect: avoid bind failure when app onload-accelerated

Enhancements:

ON-10663: add "--version" option to onload_cp_server
ON-11132: improve "no response to route request" warning
ON-11221: add cplane_use_prefsrc_as_local to accelerate preferred source IPs
ON-11219/ON-11417: intercept __poll_chk() and fcntl64
ON-11823: add EF_UDP_CONNECT_HANDOVER=2 option to force handover on connect

Bugs fixed:

ON-7482/ON-11203: do not try to use a dead cp_server
ON-8919: Don't report EF_VI_xXQ_SIZE as unrecognised
ON-9171: TCPDirect: use bogomips to determine CPU speed for AMD compatibility
ON-10564: Prevent udevd modifying the permissions of our /dev files
ON-10696: avoid segfault with zf_stackdump when specifying bad stack.
ON-11196/ON-11199: fix memory leaks
ON-11227: explicitly reject per-process options in onload_stack_opt_set_int()
ON-11255: make systemd vs initscript decision at RPM installation time
ON-11408: TCPDirect: improve handling of default attribute values
ON-11418: fix memory mapping issue on AMD processors
ON-11715: fix SO_REUSEPORT when onloadfs device number is big
ON-11784: fix UDP packet drop when ARP failed avoiding possible crash
ON-11810: onload_iptables: treat IP without netmask as /32 not /0
ON-11825: ensure onload.ko loads at boot on RHEL6
ON-11859: avoid race condition leading to panic on creation of a shared stack
ON-11907: handle insufficient large pages correctly, avoiding panic


onload-7.0.0.176
----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.4.1003

Add support for IPv6 acceleration
Add support for Equal Cost Multipath routing
Add support for external timestamps received in packet trailers
Add support for some eXpress Data Path filtering features
Add support for IPVLANs
Install the Onload control plane as a non-root user by default

Support recent Linux kernel versions (up to 5.2)
Support recent Linux distributions (RHEL 7.7, RHEL8.1, Ubuntu 19.04, Debian 10)

Remove support for Debian 8

SF-122792-KI/bug62297: avoid hang at app startup with jemalloc
SF-122793-KI/bug87598: fix possible Tx timestamp corruption if completion occurs after ACK

task37255: enable generation of debuginfo RPMS with --define "debuginfo true"
task61330: add CTPIO to sample trader apps and a cut-through receive example
task69709: enable onload_stackdump lots, dump commands for orphan stacks
task70031: add onload_stackdump vi_info command to display low level VI information
task79510: use endpoint packet reserve feature in WAN profiles
task82743: remove initscript; provide moduled-load.d file
task82876: add onload_stackdump config command to dump CI_CFG_* build options
task83747: add EF_INVALID_ACK_RATELIMIT option
task84118: allocate contiguous memory for descriptors in queues
task84260: speed up onload_stackdump and orm_json
task84389: add address and port filtering to onload_stackdump and orm_json
task84860: allow socket caching with shared local ports
task85385: TCPDirect: improve warming with CTPIO
task86032: add EF_POLL_IN_KERNEL option only to poll event queue in kernel
task86984: create non-root cplane user on installation from package
task87734: add efrink* examples of shared-memory receive (same traffic to multiple consumers)
task87780: let sfcaffinity_config configure NUMA-local cores first for IRQs
SLB-53/SLB-54/SLB-66/SLB-67/SLB-68: add profiles for HAProxy, NGINX, nettyio and redis

bug44995: avoid complaining about unaccessible stacks not requested of onload_stackdump
bug56276: fix bind following a bind on UDP socket resulting in filter removal
bug59700: avoid updating ARP for multicast routes
bug76743: fix list corruption in scalable passive mode with stack sharing/multi-threading
bug80452: update onload_stackdump netstat to show sockets in SYN_RECV state
bug82882: fix sfcaffinity_config check not to treat rss_cpus=1 as an error
bug83463: Detect administrative link up/down for bonding
bug83474: fix onload_install --listfiles
bug83869: fix onload_stackdump crash on rmmod onload
bug84214: fix counting of sock_orphans statistic
bug84221: fix address resolution when no gateway required, avoiding send via OS
bug85138: fix building on Linux >= 4.15 when namespaces disabled
bug86762: fix SO_LINGER=0 in unusual TCP states
bug87474: lookup IP_TRANSPARENT routes in input rather than output context
bug87633: avoid segfault when zf_stackdump run with unknown command or option
bug87958: fix possible Tx of UDP packets on wrong intf after Rx on same socket
bug88147: fix possible memory leaks on forking
bug88174: avoid reporting non-zero Rx timestamps on X2 adapters when timestamp absent
bug88596: don't hand over UDP sockets without filters if EF_UDP_CONNECT_HANDOVER=0


openonload-201811-u1
--------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.3.1011

Allow cplane_server to be run by non-root users
Improve Onload UDP latency for blocking receives

Support recent Linux kernel versions (up to 5.0)
Support recent Linux distributions (RHEL 8.0, Ubuntu 19.04)

Deprecate RHEL 6.7 and RHEL 7.3
Deprecate Ubuntu 18.10

SF-121200-KI/bug85104: Failure of SolarCapture with RSS and ef_vi RSS vport filters
SF-121410-KI/bug84071: Control plane reports 'Integrity failure' after no active slaves seen in active-backup bond
SF-121416-KI/bug84181: Failover of TCPDirect active-backup bond does not occur
SF-122145-KI/bug85169: Onload sends multicast traffic via gateway instead of to multicast Ethernet address
SF-122146-KI/bug85261: Possible crash in cplane when many routes or rules added
SF-122147-KI/bug86244: Onload may accelerate connections on bonds with blacklisted slaves
SF-122448-KI/bug88066: Memory leak in Onload control plane server

bug45205: use errno EMFILE when exceeding EF_MAX_ENDPOINTS on socket/pipe alloc
bug56725: fix possible hang waiting for packet buffers
bug76743: fix list corruption in scalable passive mode with stack sharing/multi-threading
bug78598: fix handling of IPv6 sockets in Onload extensions API and JNI interface
bug79971: improve TCP timer handling performance further
bug80732: handle home stack being set during onload_ordered_epoll_wait()
bug81680: fix incorrect ARP update in fwd table resulting in rare non-acceleration
bug83143: preallocate RSS transparent active & shared ephemeral ports, avoiding warning
bug83515: fix incorrect populating of msg_controllen in recvmsg
bug83524: handle case where NIC is not ready for application key checking.
bug83712: improve filtering to remove an undocumented limit on local addresses
bug83740: fix handover with setsockopt(SOL_IPV6)
bug83795: fix assertion on passive accept with EF_FORCE_TCP_NODELAY=1
bug83856: print all defined socket flags in onload_stackdump
bug83989: fix libc analysis on systems with $TMP mounted noexec and where libc < 2.10
bug84055: fix sending via OS on RT kernels, avoiding deadlock
bug84105: fix TCPDirect to link with librt explicitly (required for RHEL6)
bug84225: fix event count when rolling back attempt to receive TCP packet ahead of event
bug84311: fix setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE) for TCP listening sockets with non-SFC interfaces
bug84786: fix check for stacks in onload_tool, avoiding killing cp_server when stacks present
bug84808: avoid potential socket leak on failure to expand active wild pool
bug84907: don't send RST when closing a TIME-WAIT socket with SO_LINGER=0
bug84926: fix compatibility for get_user_pages() change in Linux 4.4.(>=168)
bug85121: avoid relying on bash extensions in Onload profiles
bug85406: fix incorrect reporting of signal number in core dump on RHEL6
bug85453: cplane: avoid walking past the end of the interfaces table when full
bug85545: fix potential spurious events when changing home stack (EF_UL_EPOLL=3)
bug85753: TCPDirect: correct handling of incoming SYN with a bad src address
bug85904: reinstate use of weak-modules script
bug85909: fix occasional failure to start control plane server on boot
bug85967: TCPDirect: fail graciously when SYN-ACK needs unavailable interface
bug86225: avoid getpid() syscall in endpoint caching
bug86242: fix pacing of last CTPIO block, reducing failure rate
bug86489: pass IP-fragmented packets to kernel
bug86499: ensure zft_pkt_report->start is reported correctly for accepted zockets
bug86637: avoid special handling of zero checksum for TCP sockets
bug86839: fix cp_server logging to use the correct PID
bug87055: TCPDirect: fix handling of stack names at maximum length (20 characters)
bug87117: fix occasional tv_nsec value of 1000000000 in software timestamps
bug87126: avoid rare misroute/latency spike in short window after route/rule/src-addr change
bug87556: take PCIe domain into account when checking for NIC match
bug87563: rate limit messages when cplane can't find LLAP entry


openonload-201811
-----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.15.0.1012

Add support for bonding in TCPDirect
Add support for transmit timestamps in TCPDirect
Preview support for AArch64, the ARM 64-bit architecture
Improve Onload TCP performance in lossy network environments
Improve Onload TCP latency for blocking receives
New and updated Onload profiles for NGINX, HAProxy and Node.js

Support for new Solarflare adapters X2541 and X2542
Support for recent Linux kernel versions (up to 4.19)
Support for recent Linux distributions (RHEL 6.10, Ubuntu 18.10, SLES 15)

Deprecate AMD architectures prior to Zen
Deprecate 5000-series and 6000-series adapters
Deprecate SLES 11 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

task69030: zfsink example reports local port number if not specified
task58517: support getsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE)
task69894: support source-specific multicast in TCPDirect
task74732: extend and improve stats descriptions in onload_stackdump
task75138: add creation time to stackdump output
task79664: add lowest_free_pkts statistic
task79926: new tail loss probe implementation, enabled by EF_TAIL_DROP_PROBE
task79958: reinstate datagram callbacks without support for filtering
task79988: fix onload_tcpdump timestamp accuracy
task79990: fix unduly small onload_tcpdump ring size limit and improve performance
task80004: count number of packets missed by onload_tcpdump in stackdump
task80030: implement cp_server --affinity <64-bit mask>
task80076: support Limited Transmit (RFC 3042), controlled by EF_TCP_EARLY_RETRANSMIT stack option
task80123: support Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), controlled by EF_TCP_EARLY_RETRANSMIT stack option
task80411: increment IP ID field in TCP segments (allows GRO on old kernels)

SF-120852-KI/bug80441: Interoperability issue between MacOS stack peer and an Onload stack peer can result in data corruption
SF-120923-KI/bug81874: Data corruption when receiving scattered packets with RX batching
SF-121076-KI/bug79902: vm_op_nopage() failed messages observed in kernel logs when using onload
SF-121123-KI/bug79517: Incorrect transmit timestamps can be reported for transmit-only ef_vi applications
SF-121132-KI/bug80440: Onload TCP characteristics affected by shortened timer periods
SF-121136-KI/bug82114: The default Onload forwarding table is small
SF-121200-KI/bug80271: Failure of SolarCapture with RSS and ef_vi RSS vport filters
SF-121203-KI/bug80246: Onload control plane can fail to handle interface renaming
SF-121204-KI/bug80538: Onload can miss failover of interfaces in LACP bond
SF-121205-KI/bug80532: Occasional send latency in the order of 30 microseconds
SF-121206-KI/bug80833: Onload drops transmit packets when sending to many multicast groups
SF-121211-KI/bug81454: Onload stack sharing using EF_SHARE_WITH=-1 does not work correctly
SF-121234-KI/bug77419: Application hang with kernel trace showing oo_timesync_wait_for_cpu_khz_to_stabilize
SF-121283-KI/bug83129/bug83155: Incorrect receive timestamps can be reported occasionally by Onload, TCPDirect and ef_vi

bug22926: improve socket reuse by connect()
bug33044: use MAP_POPULATE for non lazily-allocated resources where beneficial
bug34353: allow onload_stackdump doc with loaded drivers
bug35981/bug81082: apply workaround for 7000-series datapath lockup at ef_vi level
bug38556/bug79834: fixes to SACK implementation
bug40912: getsockopt() and setsockopt() reflect the fact that IP_MULTICAST_ALL is fixed to 0
bug51866: fix to delete orphaned stacks with TIME_WAIT sockets when free VIs exhausted
bug56537: validate optval on setsockopt()
bug58185/bug60057: fix zc_send(tcp sock in !sync state)
bug66006: TCPDirect to use its own tx req id instead of one supplied by ef_vi
bug67336: fix dracut -f --kver onload_install failure on RHEL 6
bug67438: check EF_USE_HUGE_PAGES setting before carrying out other huge pages checks
bug67711: TCPDirect to count RX discard events
bug68596: onload_install suceeds without unnecessary dependencies unless --require-optional-targets specified
bug69502: delegated send: honour SO_SNDBUF limitation for send window
bug70056: do not try to send negative-sized datagram
bug70394: fix calculation of maximum tcp_adv_win_scale value to use
bug70873: add zf_reactor_perform_attr() to take a user-specified reactor_spin_count
bug72033: options to improve rate of efforward application
bug73219: basic support for IP options
bug74477: fix building with CI_CFG_PIO off
bug75645: empower user with CAP_NET_RAW when necessary to trigger ARP via OS
bug75709: report timer initialisation failure in release builds
bug75781: fix 500us latency receiving SYNACKACK from an epoll-using application in non-interrupt-driven blocking mode
bug75781: pick a correctly-affinitized IRQ for an application using clustering
bug76434: add public API to change logging location
bug77423: guard onload library initialisation against thread races
bug77607: modify zf_version() to return the version string
bug78119: disable unnecessary pid map generation for tcpdump, speeding up startup
bug78559: fix case where signal received while waiting for cplane startup
bug78566: fix spurious 'No space in ephemeral port table' failure.
bug78683: update openonload.spec file to run dracut
bug78948: fix TCPDirect to track which incoming sequence numbers have been acked
bug79067: check for FORCE_EV_MERGING capability before using it
bug79183: ensure that cp_server is usable before syncing with it
bug79189: fix build without CI_CFG_PIO and with CI_CFG_CTPIO
bug79229: add onload_install options to skip initramfs and TCPDirect
bug79272: fix memory leaks when unmapping stacks from processes
bug79356: fix build without CONFIG_NAMESPACES
bug79460: remove dependency on jansson for orm_json
bug79548: packet buffer allocation: add early check for limit
bug79631: fix cplane for nested namespaces
bug79669: fix missing MAC address when resolving route under a ScaleOutOnload license
bug79678: fix network interface reference count zeroing at allocation time
bug79688: reset UL-only ep-to-fd mapping at handover
bug79697: increment no_match_in_active_wild stat instead of injecting to kernel pointlessly
bug79733: add tcp_connect_* stats for different failure cases
bug79765: add various cplane stats to mibdump
bug79808: use stdout instead of syslog for onload_mibdump internal
bug79817: fix clustering on 6000- and 5000-series NICs.
bug79830: fix sequencing of potentially-deferred send and shutdown
bug79915/bug80157: fix sleep-spin epoll_wait() timeouts to match configuration
bug79929: support TIME_WAIT assassination; turn it on by default
bug79962: fix rare crash closing a listening socket in scalable passive mode with socket caching
bug79964: reply with empty ACK to SYN in LAST-ACK state
bug79966: avoid unnecessary checking of FIN flag in SYN-SENT state
bug79971: rework scheduling of timers to improve TCP retransmission behaviour
bug79989: onload_tcpdump: fix assertion fail on restart with debug build
bug80033: ensure early errors in cp_server startup get logged
bug80054: improve policy on setting PSH flag
bug80206: avoid removing record for teaming slaves that become inactive
bug80237: add zf_stack_has_pending_events() to TCPDirect for UDP
bug80265: on stack allocation in TCPDirect do not leak VI on fw variant mismatch
bug80287: onload_tcpdump: fix broken dump of large packet payload
bug80288: fix HW timestamp with shared-stack UDP multicast replication
bug80357: improve sequence number interop when reusing TIME_WAIT; new stack options tune ISN selection policy and new ISN cache
bug80373: fix UDP Path MTU discovery
bug80384: when bond state changes, update fwd entries instead of removing
bug80389: fix early RTO timeouts and broken tail-drop probes
bug80448: do not scale window while in SYN-SENT
bug80517/bug80557/bug80850: Improve duplicate ACK processing
bug80585: fix failure in some circumstance to retrieve timestamp from queue, avoiding crash
bug80600: do not split a segment with paylen==MSS that also has a FIN
bug80624: fix loss of non-blocking sync state for sockets after trip through socket cache
bug80670: ignore RST packets with bad timestamps in SYN-RECV
bug80713: fix RX sniff filter removal via ef_vi_filter_del
bug80765: add option to ignore urgent flag in received packets and count such packets
bug80765: avoid infinite loop in recv() when receiving SYN mid-connection
bug80857: fix fast delegated sends to be done when possible, avoiding assertion failure
bug80912: limit advertised MSS when setsockopt(TCP_MAXSEG) applied.
bug80929: fix TCPDirect delegated send to respect setting of max_delegated_wnd over 0xffff
bug80958/bug80959/bug80960/bug80961/bug81107/bug82076: fix 'urgent data' processing defects
bug81023: onload_move_fd: handle out-of-packets condition
bug81035: fix error in atomic counter implementation, avoiding rare lock-up
bug81039: fix decision to prime interrupts at user level and report in statistic
bug81256: avoid corrupting O_CLOEXEC flag on fcntl(F_GETFD)
bug81272: keep trying to resolve an ARP entry that has become stale
bug81374: fix Onload sends and receives of more than 2GiB, avoiding SIGSEGV
bug81423: avoid SIGFPE in rare case when write occurs close to RST receipt
bug81455: interpret and report TX alternatives resources correctly on X2 NICs
bug81502: do not enter COOLING after RTO-triggered retransmit
bug81503: zf_delegated_send_complete(): set TCP PUSH flag for the last segment
bug81534: fix assertion when receiving scattered packets in high-throughput mode
bug81574: fix cause of error when trying to release unsent buffers after onload_zc_send() failure
bug81699: onload_stackdump: fix kernel assertion in oof_socket_dump_w_lp()
bug81703: on fd alloc failure restore ORPHAN aflag correctly
bug81749: fix memory corruption in splice()
bug81775: add interception for syscall() libc function
bug81778: improve memreg-order; fix TCPDirect MCDI RX errors with 1 GB huge pages
bug81787: improve TCP slow-start behaviour and don't consider retransmissions in RTT estimates
bug81878: validate length of user-provided interface name
bug81906: do not reopen TIME_WAIT connection for non-TCP_LISTEN sockets
bug82089: accept FIN + RST from macOS
bug82139/82372: don't update peer timestamp on receipt of invalid ACKs
bug82140: allow SYNACK-ACK without timestamp option
bug82308: fix TCPDirect to disable CTPIO when so configured
bug82327: rate-limit messages about corrupted packets
bug82408: implement expected behaviour for TCP recv(MSG_TRUNC), ignoring destination buffer
bug82423: avoid packet leak and re-send FIN after initially failing to allocate packet for it
bug82448: fix value reported by zft_send_space() when the send window is small
bug83101: avoid infinite loop in signal handling when SA_ONESHOT used
bug83198: reduce thread stack requirement in userspace


openonload-201805-u1
--------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.14

SF-120489-KI/bug80195: Fix PIO data corruption in ef_vi or TCPDirect when writing and transmitting on different CPUs.


openonload-201805
-----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.13 to support X2-based adapters

Add support for X2 adapters
Add support for CTPIO low latency send mechanism
Add support in TCPDirect for transmit path warming
Add support in TCPDirect for hardware receive timestamps
Add support in TCPDirect for stacks to be created without PIO
Extend Onload's support for scalable filters and shared local ports
Extend Onload's clustering to support hot restart of clusters (e.g. with nginx)
Accelerate scalable sockets bound to non-SFC addresses: oof_use_all_local_ip_addresses module option
Allow a socket to be a member of multiple epoll sets
Add sleep-spin mode for epoll_wait to reduce CPU usage when idle: EF_SLEEP_SPIN_USEC
Add support for SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE
Add new profiles for nginx-type workloads and Scale-Out preview
Add latency-best profile to use cut-through PIO
Add EF_PREALLOC_PACKETS to allocate all packets during stack creation
Add preview of delegated send API for TCPDirect

task65669: Support EF_CLUSTER_SIZE=1.
task74619: Add ef_vi checksumming utility functions.
task75513: Add Nginx reverse proxy Onload profile
task75676: Extend EF_CLUSTER_RESTART to allow new cluster of different size.
task75917: add stackdump --nopids to avoid long execution time if many processes
task76067: Avoid dropping and retaking stack lock in epoll3.
task76952: Implement EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_PORTS_PER_IP.
task77608: improve Onload Remote Monitor to return useful sets of stats

SF-119927-KI/bug78199/bug77253: fix segfault when closing Onloaded socket on KPTI kernels
SF-119131-KI/bug74749: avoid failure to sync control plane after many stacks created

bug44574: onload_stackdump: fix garbage output when dumping large orphaned stacks.
bug69035: ensure CORKed packets get sent once restriction on sending is lifted
bug70594: increase CI_CFG_TCP_(RCV|SND)_MAX to the normal Linux values
bug71087: fix potential race in ci_udp_recvmsg_common()
bug71425: allow TCPDirect to measure time on AMD processors
bug71448: correctly handle same IP address assigned to both SFC and non-SFC interfaces
bug72030: add EF_TCP_MIN_CWND to control how low congestion window can fall
bug72030: add ONLOAD_DELEGATED_SEND_RC_NOCWIN to delegated send API
bug72500: ensure flushes properly completed to avoid use-after-free warning
bug73756: improve EF_SYNC_CPLANE_AT_CREATE option
bug74139: avoid crash when doing loopback connect to disappearing stack.
bug74193: fix module-load on kernels that don't export __put_task_struct.
bug74299: do not automatically run onload_cp_server on startup if grace_timeout=0
bug74377: fix build with GNU libc 2.26
bug74418: accept TCP segments with missing TSO field to avoid unexpected retransmissions/duplicate ACKs
bug74439: fix race in deciding if VLAN-over-VLAN interface is acceleratable
bug74477: fix build when CI_CFG_PIO=0
bug74594: onload_tool: Don't warn about absent /proc/driver/onload/stacks.
bug74629: ensure connecting stack is unlocked on failure to create loopback listener.
bug74630: avoid leaking stack reference when encountering non-TCP acceptq member.
bug74635: fix problems on error path in efab_tcp_drop_from_acceptq.
bug74670: bug73871: avoid lock ordering violation in ci_tcp_rcvbuf_unabuse()
bug74837: correctly deal with route refresh and ARP resolution on some configurations
bug74875: increment tcp_active_opens stat for non-blocking connection attempts
bug74921: epoll_pwait(): always spin when asked to
bug74926: rate limit messages about "pkt handover failed"
bug74941: ensure that confirmed ARP entry does not go to STALE
bug74973: correctly detect change in MTU on bonded interfaces
bug75009: provide EF_PERIODIC_TIMER_CPU option to configure pinning of periodic work
bug75096: don't overwrite src addr when asking control plane to resolve a route
bug75246: with EF_TCP_SERVER_LOOPBACK=2 fake up a connection if client has gone to avoid getting stuck
bug75264: add ARP confirmation statistics to control plane
bug75264: improve speed of updating state when confirming ARP to avoid unnecessary ioctls
bug75486: fix fd leak in onload_fuser script.
bug75508: initialize Onload stack reference counter on all paths to avoid stack leak
bug75535: ensure proper LACP failover when remote end is down
bug75578: speed up moving sockets between stacks
bug75625: ci_netif_pkt_wait: reap sockets even if no events to find packets
bug75625: fix handling of dropped stack lock when connecting over loopback to avoid stuck stack
bug75644: fix build and driver unload when CONFIG_NAMESPACES is not defined.
bug75648: fix crash when overflowing acceptq and out of synrecv buffers.
bug75653: correctly handling window scaling in SYN packets
bug75751: fix handling of ICMP Too Big with len=0
bug75783: fix efab_terminate_find_all_stacks() to follow RCU rules
bug76101: fix handling of spaces in variables set with onload_set in profiles.
bug76157: do not reply with ACK to unacceptable ACK to avoid ACK storm
bug76233: handle_rx_listen: do not try to answer to loopback if traffic received from non-loopback
bug76263: avoid deadlock when handing over a socket with SO_LINGER on RHEL6
bug76302: fix send-via-os to use proper if index for policy routing
bug76445: fix crash when main netns cp_server attempts to notify non-ready cp_server of other netns
bug76482: fix ef_pd_alloc handling of buffer space needed for getpwuid_r()
bug76627: allow onload_tool to do driver reload even if orphan/zombie stacks present
bug76629: allow disabling per socket passive ep cache using EF_PER_SOCKET_CACHE_MAX=0
bug76666: don't start control plane if /dev/sfc_char can not be opened yet
bug76752: avoid use of invalid timeout and potential hang in WODA.
bug76867: allow local loopback within clustered stack
bug76878: improve errno handling in ci_tcp_connect()
bug77067: fix syncing socket options to kernel socket when in network namespace
bug77121: remove 2.6 from linux mmake driver build target name to avoid confusion with more modern kernel versions
bug77126: return error if syscall table not found to prevent driver load and avoid subsequent crash
bug77141: speed up ci_tcp_connect_find_local_peer() when netif filter present
bug77146: fix loop if TCPDirect send is longer than 64KB
bug77283: drop IP-fragmented TCP packets in scalable modes, avoids stream corruption
bug77368: add new stackdump "stacks" command to produce the default no-arg behaviour
bug77450: handle EF_EVENT_TYPE_RX_MULTI_DISCARD in onload for high-throughput modes
bug77461: improve error message on unrecognised ioctl.
bug77643: fix onload_stackdump watch_stats mixing up stats
bug77667: fix handling of multicast membership when handing over on join.
bug77710: allow transport_config_opt.h path to be overridden on make command line to provide different set of build time defaults
bug77712: improve TCPDirect handling of out of order packets partially overlapping received data
bug77743: fail driver init on global workqueue allocation failure to avoid subsequent crash
bug77801: fix errno handling when EF_MCAST_JOIN_HANDOVER set to get correct behaviour
bug77879: add "onload_stackdump -z netstat" to get netstat-like output for orphan stacks
bug77888: avoid crash with concurrent bind() and close() on clustered socket
bug77949: improve coredump signal handling to release all stack locks
bug77957: reduce log level for UDP socket create error
bug77977: display ready_lists and process PIDs in stackdump netif
bug77986: fix epoll behaviour on handover to avoid getting stuck in epoll_wait()
bug78141: allow multiple cached FDs per cached endpoint
bug78243: treat ESRCH the same as ENOENT in stackdump when searching processes to avoid unexpected error
bug78297: drop NO_MULTICAST flag when resolving route before join so EF_FORCE_SEND_MULTICAST does not affect receive
bug78368: fix socket reference counts to avoid failure in buffer leak checks
bug78410: in SYNRECV state, make promoted socket ready when receiving ACK with data
bug78462: fix race in socket status ready mask to avoid stuck waiting application
bug78482: handle race between OS event and removal from epoll3, avoids assertion in debug build
bug78567: Remove unused --fwd_req_max option from onload_cp_server
bug78628: take netif lock in case of deferred work contention to avoid reordering of TCP stream
bug78640: improve errno handling when stack is unlocked and processes deferred work
bug78734: when doing user-level epoll poll non-accelerated sockets fairly, avoids starvation of some sockets
bug78831: wpdated onload spec file to run depmod in all cases
bug78868: fix broken efch ioctls for 32bit applications
bug78956: don't defer SIGILL signal
bug79117: initialize rcv_wnd_right_edge_sent for TCP loopback, avoids assertions in debug build
bug79120: don't crash when removing an IP address used by a cached socket.
bug79135: preserve O_NONBLOCK flag after attaching FD from socket cache to avoid blocking when non-blocking was requested
bug79149: fix errno handling in citp_tcp_setsockopt()
bug79149: fix error path in citp_tcp_ep_acquire_fd() caller
bug79283: avoid kernel data leak to UL in oo_op_route_resolve()


openonload-201710-u1.1
----------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.12.2.1014

Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 4.16) and those using CONFIG_RETPOLINE


openonload-201710-u1
--------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.12.2.1006

Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 4.14.11)


openonload-201710
-----------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.12.1.1016

Add support for ScaleOut Onload NICs
Add support for multiple namespaces
Add support for MACVLAN interfaces
Add support for policy routing (replacing EF_TCP_LISTEN_REPLIES_BACK)
Improve support for Onload in Docker containers
Add support for TCPDirect in Docker containers
Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 4.13)
Rework Onload's control plane to avoid non-GPL taint of kernel modules
Rework Onload's bonding support to avoid polling files in /proc
Rework Onload's black-listing and white-listing of interfaces

task41754: add support for IP_MULTICAST_IF option for struct ip_mreq
task43267: add ef_vi functions for warming PIO transmit path
task45737: add example ef_vi app for receiving jumbo frames
task51485: add nanosecond pcap-ns format support into onload_tcpdump
task52751: allow acceleration of up to 16 interfaces when configured
task53051: include details in efsend sample app for how to achieve high throughput
task60244: add vlan support to efsend sample application
task62742: support for per-stack toggling of TCP header timestamp option: EF_TCP_TSOPT_MODE
task64641: add option EF_PD_MCAST_LOOP to ef_send example
task65597: add onload_stackdump vi_stats command to report no_desc drops (and others)
task65597: rename select_primes to muxer_primes in stackdump
task65597: add more details of timestamping state to stackdump output
task66897: provide per-socket packet count for TCP sockets in stackdump
task67177: allow gdb to access Onload's shared memory mappings
task67689: allow TCPDirect TCP alternatives API callers to calculate their buffer requirements accurately
task67745: allow pauses between sends in eftsloop sample application
task68015: add zf_attr_get_* functions to TCPDirect API to read attribute values
task68726: add meta-option to extension API (ONLOAD_SPIN_MIMIC_EF_POLL) to mimic EF_POLL_USEC
task69697: improve packet rate achievable with ef_vi sample applications
task69900: add zero-copy API sample code: tests/onload/extensions/zc_udp_recv.c
task70734: add test app to demonstrate ef_vi PIO warming: efsend_pio_warm
task70952: add zfdelegated_client benchmark - TCPDirect equivalent to efdelegated_client
task72554: Small speedups for efforward_packed
task73181: add support for gcc-7
task73219: include IP stats and discard counts in stackdump lots, improve formatting

bug47538: report failure from 'onload_install --nobuild' if there is no build directory
bug50141: check onload version when opening onload driver handle
bug51146: fix potential deadlock due to inconsistent fdtable and epoll lock ordering
bug53979: clarify onload_delegated_send extension API return codes
bug54427: fix F_SETPIPE_SZ to return EBUSY if too many buffers are busy
bug55414: add per stack counter handover_accept like per socket counter n_os
bug59268: correct acceleration behaviour of team with non-acceleratable interface as slave
bug59520: ensure onload_ordered_epoll_wait() unblocks if epoll_ctl() is called
bug59819: don't ignore keepalive EF_ variables
bug60256: don't send unacceptable RST packet when receiving on closed socket
bug62342: do not install filters on NICs which the stack has no VIs on (e.g. packed stream NICs)
bug62756: do not warn on installing MAC+PROTO filter if got PROTO filter instead
bug63194: fix potential segfault when calling onload_ordered_epoll_wait() from several threads
bug63300: avoid log messages when handing over UDP packets to kernel due to no ARP
bug64707: include details of -p option in onload usage information
bug64738, bug68473: reduce long-running tasks with stack lock held to avoid EBUSY from operations that need stack lock
bug64785: get correct kernel version in dkms scripts when building for a different kernel to the running one
bug64792: fix receiving 0 byte UDP datagram via OS using zero copy API
bug65065: fix ef_vi_receive_set_discards() to correctly use the supplied masks
bug65842: address various issues in openonload spec file
bug66195: correctly use module_mutex to avoid race causing list corruption on module load/unload
bug66287: fix filter assertion failure and software filter leak with EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_FILTERS
bug66508: reject negative alt_count and zero alt_buf_size in TCPDirect TCP alternatives API
bug66537: avoid caching of IPv6 sockets
bug66581: fix assertion failure during endpoint move: flush pending atomic operations before moving endpoint
bug66652: fix assertion failure during stack free: do not free endpoint before its filters are removed
bug66721: fix crashes with EF_CLUSTER_RESTART
bug66829: onload_tcpdump: add --no-match option to dump unmatched traffic only
bug66886: fix '<func> falls through to next function' warnings on RHEL 7.3
bug66920: fix crash when handling packets with invalid lengths and checksums
bug67043: do not send RST when aborting SYN-SENT connection in TCPDirect
bug67159: fix handling of packets with errors with EF_VI_RX_EVENT_MERGE
bug67181: return -EAGAIN rather than 0 if onload_recvmsg_kernel() called when nothing to do
bug67185: check msg_iovlen is valid before doing MSG_WARM zc_send()
bug67225: fix memory leak in epoll mode 1 - free eitems when close(e_fd)
bug67327: print a message when starting TCPDirect if not using low-latency firmware
bug67330: increment pio_pkts counter when templated send uses PIO
bug67356: return error in proper format from send(MSG_WARM) if message too large
bug67530: disable EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_PORTS for loopback-only stacks
bug67580: don't complain when receiving ACK packets in TCP TIME_WAIT state
bug67633: fix counting of time-wait state loopback sockets when orphaning stack
bug67658: add extension to control filter install for UDP unicast (onload_socket_unicast_nonaccel())
bug67708: before installing filters clear pending NON_ATOMIC jobs to avoid assertion failures
bug67839: correct stackdump threads reporting of priority
bug67851: bug67853: set EPOLLRDHUP when reaching CLOSING state in TCPDirect
bug67853: handle FIN with zero window and non-empty sendq in TCPDirect
bug67905: fix potential deadlock in ci_tcp_connect()
bug67929: make onload robust to non-monotonic clocks
bug67988: onload_zc_recv(): fix crash when callback modifies args
bug68091: updated onload spec file to avoid installing weak-updates symlinks for all kernels present
bug68217: unlock stack before failing on packet-map failure to avoid stuck stack when stack sharing
bug68405: allow the congestion window to reduce below the amount of unacked data in TCPDirect
bug68426: make fcntl(F_[SG]ETPIPE_SZ) retuns value consistent with Linux
bug68473, bug68838: scalable passive: socket stays scalable with so_reuseport and cluster_ignore
bug68502: do not renege on advertised TCP window when SO_RCVBUF is reduced
bug68504: fix regression where ef_pio_alloc() was incompatible with older drivers
bug68754: don't warn in debug build about mismatched UDP packet if stack has scalable filter
bug68800: avoid hang on dup2 onto new stack fd after exec
bug68838: allow moving SO_REUSEPORT sockets when cluster_ignore is set
bug68937: avoid installing sw/hw filters for removed ip adresses
bug69172: update stack frc before delivering UDP loopback to get accurate timestamps
bug69175: correctly handle hw TX timestamping when NIC is reset to avoid gap in TCP stream timestamps
bug69408: avoid long wait for TCP hw TX timestamps if app calls recvmsg(MSG_ERRQUEUE) in tight loop
bug69633: split packet in send queue if receive window too small for whole segment to avoid unnecessary wait
bug69675: ef_vi: Fix bad assert that fires when RX EV merge limit is increased
bug69676: fix overflow in packet count reported by efsink and efsink_packed
bug69782: ef_vi: Fix failure to handle RX event merging limit of 15
bug69827: ef_vi: Fix packed stream when on VI linked to separate EVQ
bug69841: use static with inline in function declarations to help avoid compiler warnings
bug69848: postpone handling of out-of-order packets when rxq is not fully processed to avoid assertion in TCPDirect
bug70243: make type cast match function return type in ef_packet_stream_packet_*()
bug70426: avoid memory leak on cluster allocation failure
bug70515: improve nested epoll caveat for EF_EPOLL_CTL_FAST documentation
bug70553: avoid possible send on closed TCP connection race
bug70575: fix multiple onload_iptables rule parsing issues
bug70638: document error returns from ef_vi_transmit_alt_alloc()
bug70651: efpio and efpingpong could ignore events that came after first RX event in each poll
bug70681: reduce likelihood of exceeding maximum onload_iptables rule length
bug70682: use spin_lock_bh() in oo_timesync_update() to avoid lockdep warnings
bug70905: clarify ef_vi_transmit_push() documentation
bug71053: use syscalls for sendmmsg()/recvmmsg() when passing to kernel instead of dlsym
bug71134: ensure TCPDirect zockets and handles are freed the right way: fixes leak of packet buffer
bug71360: provide correct fdtable lock status when dropping fdi ref, avoids potential deadlock
bug71376: TCPDirect: log sending failures at trace level
bug71435: TCPDirect: fix buffer size passed to inet_ntop
bug71447: TCPDirect: set initial ssthresh = 0xffff as per RFC5681
bug71451: Avoid deadlock when calling citp_fdtable_lookup_noprobe with fdtable lock
bug71512: TCPDirect: finish route lookup before constructing packet headers to get correct VLAN
bug71515: TCPDirect: don't use a multicast address as source address
bug71682: fix handling of single char options in timestamping sample code to avoid app segfault
bug71727: epoll3: fix unkillable processes following kill -9 of another process with shared stack
bug71783: fix handling of bind with listen and EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_PORTS
bug71809: fix handling of bind with handover and EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_PORTS
bug72036: fix crash in TXQ-purge workitem when stack allocation fails
bug72065: do not warn about EF_LOG_TIMESTAMPS, it is a known valid option
bug72147: fix dropping of loopback sockets in acceptq when stack destroyed to avoid leak
bug72279: improve errors reported from ef_vi_transmit_alt_alloc
bug72388: correctly handle VLANs in onload_tcpdump
bug72669: fix behaviour when calling epoll_wait with a bad epoll file descriptor
bug72773: fix removing sockets from epoll set when epoll fd is closed
bug73121: fix use-after-free error when unloading resource driver
bug73274: correctly spread traffic between ports in LACP bonds.
bug73334, bug62342: fix crash when installing drop filter with clustering
bug73493: fix 'deallocating None' crashes in solar_clusterd
bug73582: fix fdi refcounting in reuseport clustering to allow stack to close after fork
bug73726: avoid long timeout on shutdown of blocking socket in connect()
bug73855: avoid firmware assertion when changing DROP filters
bug73869: install correct filters on down hardware ports for reuseport clustering
bug73871: fix crash with EF_TCP_RCVBUF_STRICT when reaping TCP receive queue
bug74264: count failures to send due to control plane tables being full
bug74569: fix crash in onload_ordered_epoll_wait() with concurrent UDP receive


openonload-201606-u1.3
----------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.10.7.1001

Support for recent Linux kernel versions (4.11)
Support for recent Linux distributions (RHEL 6.9, Debian 9, Ubuntu 17.04)

SF-117344-KI/bug66544: fix MSG_WARM behaviour when called on different socket but same stack as send()
SF-118285-KI/bug66847: check fget() result in epoll calls to avoid NULL dereference
SF-117911-KI/bug67477: retain original security context after allocating packet buffers
SF-117847-KI/bug68310: improve TCP_CORK behaviour when option is removed with fragmented send queue
SF-117847-KI/bug68640: ensure setting TCP_NODELAY while TCP_CORK in use results in flush of pending packet
SF-118230-KI/bug68653: avoid crash in onload_iptables
SF-118033-KI/bug69492: fix leak of syn-recv socket state and state corruption when failing to allocate internal state
SF-118296-KI/bug69764: fix detection and handling of non-Ethernet interfaces, e.g. IP tunnels.
SF-118224-KI/bug70468: fix close() trampolining with kernel built with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
SF-118106-KI/bug70825: fix TCP RTT estimation with ONLOAD_MSG_WARM and no TCP timestamp option
SF-118231-KI/bug71078: avoid possible deadlock between fd handover, setsockopt, and UDP send without bind()
SF-118229-KI/bug71157: TCPDirect could send 1 byte beyond advertised receiver's window
SF-118299-KI:bug71526: correctly detect bonding failure for multicast over VLAN-over-bond interface
bug67748: report error correctly if ONLOAD_MSG_WARM used after connection is broken


openonload-201606-u1.2
----------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.10.4.1005

Support for recent Linux kernel versions (4.9, 4.10)

SF-117768-KI/bug65337: ignore changes when time jumps forward during CPU speed estimate
SF-117352-KI/bug65469: avoid spurious retransmits when ods_complete() called after ACK received
SF-117777-KI/bug66777: prevent potential crashes with concurrent UDP receive-queue access.
SF-117771-KI/bug67072: fix race condition causing potential deadlock in oo_rwlock_lock_write()
SF-117796-KI/bug67325: prevent kernel panic if NIC reset occurs for partially-initialised Onload stack
SF-117813-KI/bug68405: fix MCDI TX errors with large sends on lossy connections with TCPDirect
SF-117770-KI/bug68763: send fast retransmits in response to duplicate acknowledgements in TCPDirect
SF-117704-KI/bug68933: fix close-trampolining on 4.6 and later kernels
SF-117774-KI/bug69206: detect LACP bond active slaves correctly on recent kernels
bug64298: Respect EF_ONLOAD_FD_BASE for re-probed netifs


openonload-201606-u1.1
----------------------

task67184: Improved TCPDirect latency by ~50ns on dual-socket systems

SF-117521-KI/bug66871: fix crash caused by failure to complete TCPDirect stack allocation
SF-117522-KI/bug67797: fix socket and/or packet corruption with templated sends API on 8000-series NICs
SF-117525-KI/bug67676: accelerate multicast traffic even when interface is brought up before Onload discovers it
SF-117526-KI/bug67002: don't accelerate traffic for an IP address that has been removed from an interface


openonload-201606-u1
--------------------

Update sfc net driver to v4.10.0.1011
	
Add TCPDirect library and API
Support for recent gcc versions (6.1)
Support for recent Linux kernel versions (4.8)

task61897: improve TCP active-open latency: see EF_TCP_SHARED_LOCAL_PORTS.
task65068: add single interface mode to WODA: see EF_WODA_SINGLE_INTERFACE
task64925: report resources for TX alternatives in ef_vi capabilities API
task63419: add onload_socket_nonaccel extension API to create non-accelerated socket
task62869: add JNI bindings for WODA

SF-116522-KI/bug63307: fix RTT calculation without TCP timestamps when loss is occurring.
SF-117038-KI/bug64298: avoid using low fds for onload internals to fix fd clash with java.

bug62973: show CLOSED TCP sockets in onload_stackdump and OnloadRemoteMonitor.
bug62104: avoid storm of wakeup events resulting in "MCDI request was completed without an event"
bug63384: bug62973: Fix EINVAL on listen(); shutdown(); listen();
bug61421: add SIGFPE to the list of signals we do not intercept by default
bug51442: fix bashism in onload_tool script
bug63134: OnloadRemoteMonitor - add option to select a single stack by name
bug62994: handover TCP listen socket if Onload iptables prevents acceleration.
bug62994: handover socket during TCP connect() if Onload iptables blocks filters
bug34753: improve handling of EF_PREFAULT_PACKETS - only error if can't reach EF_MAX_PACKETS
bug60745: improve onload_stackdump help output for filters
bug63136: OnloadRemoteMonitor: add ability to retrieve EF_* settings
bug63134: OnloadRemoteMonitor: add option to select a single stack by name 
bug63723: handle inconsistent cplane state without assertion
bug63799: fix timestamp output and decode sync flags in efsend_timestamping.c example app
bug63763: add onload_cplane with weak-modules in RPM spec file
bug63322: improve WODA behaviour (return faster) with EF_UL_EPOLL=3.
bug63982: fix build with gcc 6.1: undefined reference to ____ilog2_NaN.
bug63319: fix recvmmsg() with zero timeout failing to return data.
bug63745: try to load sfc_aoe module if installed
bug64249: avoid leaking stacks that were destroyed before application termination.
bug61373: onload_install changed to update an existing initrd using dracut --force
bug64486: fix trampoline code to work without KALLSYMS_ALL
bug63986: tell filter code to avoid blacklisted hwports
bug63986: add /proc/driver/onload/filter_*
bug64221: add /proc/driver/onload_cplane/hwport2ifindex
bug64680: task59983: Fix panic when passing fds through PF_UNIX sockets.
bug64732: when handling SO_REUSEPORT bind, only unlock socket if it was locked
bug64435: add EF_LOG_THREAD environment to include thread id in log messages
bug64853: fix hexdump option in efrss sample, was printing all zeros
bug64889: don't generate warnings about unexpected MCDI events for MCDI_EVENT_CODE_AOE (0x18)
bug63563: OnloadRemoteMonitor - output integer values using signed/unsigned format
bug57881: provide example of how to use OnloadRemoteMonitor with collectd to record stats
bug63562: OnloadRemoteMonitor - adjust output formats for special fields e.g. IP addresses
bug63774: disable huge pages if incorrect hugepage size configured and avoid kernel crash
bug65144: Onload: with EPOLLET, return all events or nothing, fixes reporting when level-triggered events present
bug49599: avoid stack-locked assertion when freeing SW filters in stack dtor.
bug65497: Add extra logging for odd failure cases in libstack_mappings_init
bug63562: OnloadRemoteMonitor - ci_ifid_t displays as signed
bug64971: OnloadRemoteMonitor - provide finer-grained control of output
bug65774: fix packed stream buffer sizes returned by capabilities API
bug65067: ensure we periodically poll while spinning in WODA to process stack in timely fashion.
bug63768: install orm_json and orm_webserver on 64-bit systems
bug63914: fix sfcaffinity_config for interfaces with ethX-ptp irq channels
bug66047: fix kernel panic when calling ef_pio_unlink_vi() twice.
bug66190: fix memory leak in memreg_rm_alloc()
bug66155: initialize sb_aflags in ci_active_wild_state_init() to avoid assertion on close of reuseport socket
bug64746: permit EPOLL_CTL_DEL with invalid pointer for event structure
bug65026: correctly initialise EF_ACCEPT_INHERIT_NONBLOCK
bug66477: use dev_base_lock instead of rtnl to protect for_each_netdev(), makes teaming work on RHEL7.3
bug66612: fix crash allocating stack when low on memory


openonload-201606
-----------------

Update bundled sfc net driver to v4.8.2.1004

Add support for Solarflare Flareon Ultra 8500 NICs
Add support for recent kernel versions, OS distributions and gcc compiler versions
Add ef_vi "transmit alternatives" API
Add ef_vi capabilities API to allow runtime discovery of available features
Rework ef_vi sample applications and add new eflatency benchmark
Separate distribution of sfc_aoe kernel module from Onload

SF-116299-KI/bug59638: ensure filters are freed before endpoint is freed
SF-116030-KI/bug60602: Bug57274: fix multicast delivery to >2 receivers
bug1068: add route metric support
bug25461: add option for TCP to reply back on interface packets received on (basic source-based routing)
bug43435: fix rare kernel panic during onload module reload
bug45791: display interface name when timestamping failure message raised
bug50671: fix ef_memreg_alloc() with len=4GiB or larger.
bug51688: Add support for RX event batching to ef_vi and onload
bug52168: report whether hardware clock is in-sync via stackdump
bug53985: force TCP recv() to return 0 if properly shut down
bug54583: fixing search for syscall table for PPC Linux >= 3.8
bug54583: support for PowerPC ABIv2
bug55303: ensure sigaction sa_flags match Linux behaviour
bug55565: OnloadRemoteMonitor API update. Change from struct_type to variable name & less verbose output for array of struct
bug56347: Avoid crash when creating VIs while VFs passed through to VM.
bug56799: simplify onload_tcpdump for multi-buffer packets
bug57017: ensure TCP RTT is calculated properly during connect()
bug57088: make lock implementation for EF_FDS_MT_SAFE=0 faster
bug57094: set recvmsg() msg_flags field correctly, e.g. when non-zero on entry
Bug57143: allow ef_vi users to request receive event merging
bug57772: fix race between fdtable_busy_clear / fdtable_busy_wait interlocking
bug57881: add HTTP server for Onload Remote Monitor
bug57881: add onload_version to orm_json output
bug57881: add option to request subset of data from Onload Remote Monitor
bug58224: allow onload_fd_stat to have 'stat' as NULL
bug58241: fix initial TCP window for loopback connections
Bug58251: fix handling of bitfields in remote monitor to avoid assertion on struct size
bug58274: make the set of errors that trigger RX_DISCARD events configurable
bug58441: avoid outputting errors on ENOSYS from MC_CMD_WORKAROUND.
bug58510: rate limit reset stack log messge
bug58547: decrease loglevel LOG_U->LOG_TR after unexpected TCP shutdown
bug58558: wake up TCP loopback peer socket from send_ack()
bug58694: fix setsockopt(SO_TIMEO) with active socket cache
bug58737: limit TCP send buffer by SO_SNDBUF*1.5 instead of *3
bug58850: disable LOG_DU (dump unexpected packets) by default
bug58981: avoid small memory leak in JNI FdStat function.
bug59349: use correct stackname after setting NOCHANGE stack and restoring
bug59442: add ability supply batch IPs/subnets to a map via an onload_fe command.
bug59506: add support for IPv6 filters in ef_vi
bug59609: efab_file_move_to_alien_stack() lock scheme improvement to fix race conditions
bug59639: fix return value for connect() when using scalable filters with socket caching and loopback.
bug59671: add MSG_ONEPKT flag to receive data up to a packet boundary
bug59702: fix filter manager replication/vlan capable flags after interface down/up cycle
bug59762: bug 59591: remove incorrect debug assertion when tcp socket starts to listen
bug59855: flush pending driverlink calls at hot-unplug to ensure they complete before removal.
Bug59875: fix NULL pointer deref after 'oo_nic_add: NOT registering ifindex (too many)' message
bug59879: make sigaction error message more verbose
bug59955: provide mechanism to query per-thread spin settings
bug60058: fix use-after-free slub debug warning in emergency-flush list.
bug60159: fix assertion in ci_netif_filter_insert when socket caching and loopback sockets used
bug60274: avoid hang while accepting socket via kernel using O_NONBLOCK.
bug60421: avoid printing warning if tty ioctls are used on onload epoll fd.
bug60471: bug 58248: defer stack destructor in more contexts where it can't run
bug60757: Add tools and options to debug time taken to add and remove filters
bug60783: Avoid performance degradation of WODA with large numbers of sockets.
bug60795: Avoid crash on stack allocation failure during NIC reset.
Bug60876: avoid process stuck in oo_timesync_wait_for_cpu_khz_to_stabilize
bug60916: fix kernel crash in efab_thr_release() if workqueue allocation failed
bug61083: Fix FD table locking hang.
bug61097: show POLLOUT event when non-blocking connect fails
bug61178: use a mutex in efsink to protect printing from different threads
Bug61218: avoid kernel panic unloading drivers after 'NOT registering ifindex (too many)' message
bug61255: don't do ci_sys_close under fdtable lock to avoid debug assertion and potential deadlock
bug61255: pass EMFILE to user if open() fails
bug61275: check for destroyed epoll set on socket handover to avoid segfault
bug61314: make driver robust, and warn, if new endpoint with filters present
Bug61373: Fix failure to update initramfs after onload_install
Bug61387: EF10 NICs do not support 4K TXQ sizes, so do not list them as supported
bug61721: avoid trying to free a PIO buffer if already unlinked due to NIC reset handling
bug61928: make return values for onload_delegated_send_* consistent when run with/without Onload
Bug62067,Bug50705: avoid eventq overflow warning when EF_TXQ_SIZE > 512 on Siena NICs
bug62370: correct free and used packet buffer counts in onload_stackdump
bug62377: set RSS context flags for MC_CMD_RSS_CONTEXT command correctly, avoids EINVAL MCDI error
Bug62453: licence JNI wrapper with BSD not GPL
bug62468: avoid -fstack-protector when executing library, fixes segfault on Ubuntu 16.04
bug62589: fix RPM spec file conflict with python-libs package
bug62720: Fix EALREADY on ef_vi EVQ-init with timestamps.
SF-116521-KI/bug63317: fix memory leak in ef_vi statistics API


openonload-201509-u1
--------------------

Update sfc net driver to version v4_5_1_1037
Update AOE driver to version v4_7_0_1033
	
task58695: Build on recent Linux kernels 
task54288: Improve accuracy of hardware TX timestamps
task47708: Add option (EF_TCP_RCVBUF_MODE=1) to auto-tune receive buffer size per socket. 
task57121: Improve delegated send sample code.
task58575: Improve PIO latency with frames whose size is not multiple of qword
task59096: Allow instance of VI within set or cluster to be specified
task59096: Allow efsink to run without specifying a stream
task52430: Experimental support for PowerPC little-endian.
task52430: Optimisations for Power8 systems. 
task57340: Use symmetric RSS hash.  Affects ef_vi, SolarCapture.  See Release Notes

SF-115347-KI/bug57612: fix handling of fragmented unicast UDP with scalable filters mode
	
bug56596: add onload_stackdump counter syn_drop_no_return_route
bug56799: add wmb in oo_tcpdump_dump_pkt to avoid potential packet leak in onload_tcpdump
bug57106: handle failure to allocate a special RSS mode by falling back to default.
bug56948, bug57052: fixes EALREADY on EVQ_INIT when stressing stack creation
bug57119: add stack_locks_deferred counter to stackdump
bug56652: avoid endpoint wakeups from driverlink context on RT kernels
bug56919: allow reuse of socket from cache from different PID in some cases
bug42928: increment mm_hash->ref under write lock only, avoids "mmap del of NULL" warning
bug57017: correctly calculate initial TCP RTT during connect()
bug57407: avoid race on re-use of accelerated fd as non-accelerated.
bug53260: make Onload's behaviour for SO_LINGER more closely match Linux's
bug53525: improve messages for ef_vi MCDI TX/RX error events
bug57128: fix assertion in efab_tcp_helper_reuseport_bind() when interrupt driven
bug57683: make ef_pio_unlink_vi unmap the PIO region so PIO can be allocated again
bug57274: ensure unicast UDP packet is only delivered to a single socket
bug57728: correctly initialize citp_dup2_lock at start of day
bug57983: fix memory leak and handling of disappearing stack in WODA
bug58079: improve WODA latency scaling with large numbers of sockets in the set.
bug58086: don't segfault when delegated send API called with bad fd
bug57197: improve checking of arguments supplied to the ef_vi API (e.g. size of vi set)
bug58115: add kernel refcount values to stackdump output
bug58050: prevent EBUSY after repeatedly creating a stack with packet prefault
bug58217: fix rtnl lock assertions seen during bond failover in debug build
bug58217: Prevent flood of 'Not accelerating bond' messages.
bug57796: fix assertion in UDP debug build when poll is needed during epoll()
bug57631: correctly count keepalive probes when orphaning TCP socket to avoid assertion
bug58115: drop stack refcount if loop connection fails because of backlog to avoid zombie stack
bug58562: fix NULL deref and memory leak in error path in control plane initialisation
bug58580: avoid NULL deref if pkt allocation failed when replying to TCP SYN
bug58614: fix bad assertion in bonding debug build
bug57953: Avoid segfault when running with TX timestamping and SW multicast loopback
bug58295: Prevent packet remap errors on one NIC from stalling entire stack
bug58545: Prevent interrupt storm after packet remap failure
bug58643: Don't post packets to a NIC if we failed to remap them
bug58747: Avoid EALREADY on MCDI_CMD_FINI_(RX|TX|EV)Q after remap failure or hotplug
bug58709: Apply timestamp corrections to h/w timestamps reported by Onload
bug58622: Fix TX timestamp correction obtained from NIC.  Was too small
bug58274: remove check which could falsely flag some non-IP packets as bad FCS
bug57740: fix filter confusion caused by hardware port down and up in single handler
bug58510: limit rate of some error messages to avoid overwhelming serial log
bug58753: purge btb_clear_mask field and all asserts with it
bug59103: Return informative errors when failing to allocate VI from set.
bug59103: Fix broken handling of VI set instance range check
bug58370: Avoid memory corruption at hotplug
bug59104: Avoid infinite loop on RHEL7.2 reading bonding sysfs files
bug58989: prevent Onload traffic reaching kernel stack on bond failover/hotplug
bug59149: reserve space for timesync events when rx hw timestamping to avoid evq overflow
bug53985: force TCP recv() to return 0 if properly shut down
bug59176: drop stack lock when spinning in write(pipe_fd, ...)
bug58558: fix sendfile() hang on realtime kernels
bug59265: fix race between reset and hotplug causing leak of TX/RX queues
bug59265: avoid MC assertions during repeated hotplug events
bug59206: don't warn about PIO alloc failure when hardware is absent
bug59277: fix CI_CFG_MAX_INTERFACES=1 + TCP loopback stack
bug57953: fix seg fault when TX timestamped packet also delivered via sw loopback
bug59573: bug55063: Fix onload_iptables rules on VLANs and bonds
bug59425: during hot unplug free VIs of stacks under construction/destruction
bug59345: allocate vi resources even for downed interfaces to improve bond behaviour
bug59362: fix flush timeouts after hotplug
bug55063: avoid naming collisions in /proc/driver/sfc_resource
bug58248: fix Ubuntu warning "sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename onload-wq"
bug55799: improve warning message about EF_TCP_SYNRECV_MAX


openonload-201509
-----------------

Add support for recent Linux versions including 4.1, 4.2
Update sfc net driver to version v4_5_1_1026 (see enclosed ReleaseNotes-sfc)

task8595: Implement ef_vi_set_free()
task50720: Add support for Stratus ftServer fault tolerant systems
task44377: Add --report to onload_iptables to show current rules.
task40201: Add onload_iptables --treat_as_outgoing to allow import of OUTPUT rules
task50968: Add support for new Linux teaming module
task47081: Add sample code to demonstrate VPORT switching
task48078: Stackdump details about which NUMA node interesting events occurred on.
task47505: Add EF_TCP_CONNECT_SPIN to control spinning in connect()
task50479: Recycle packet buffers in sets to avoid performance degrading over time
task52626: Add EF_TCP_SYNRECV_MAX to limit number of buffers used for TCP SYN RECV state connections
task50705: Add initial support for separate UDP receive queue
task53668: Add anonymise_stackdump.py tool
task53715: Add support for IP_TRANSPARENT socket option
task8595:  Add epoll3 ready list id to socket information in stackdump
task51259: Scalable filter for active open
task53915: Add support for passively opened sockets using MAC filter.
task54521: Add TCP protocol to hardware rx timestamping sample.
task52052: Add mem_drop flag to TCP sockets in onload_stackdump to report memory drops
task53857: Add support for IP-proto and ethertype filters to ef_vi.
task51262: Active endpoint caching
task52071: Implement onload_get_tcp_info extension function
task52339: Implement Linux-style TX timestamping: SO_SELECT_ERR_QUEUE, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID
task47708: Add option to auto-tune TCP send buffer size per socket. Enable with EF_TCP_SNDBUF_MODE=2
task55965: add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_CMSG support.
task52339: Implement SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY (as found in linux>=4.0).
task56363: increase number of supported NIC ports from 6 to 8
task54288: Apply correction to TX timestamp to reflect latency to wire

SF-114668-KI/bug49989: honour NAPI budget when polling in a timer event, avoids "MCDI request was completed without an event"

bug51463: respect i_prefix install path when solar_clusterd built from srpm
bug51221: update onload_iptables to skip reject-with directive
bug45475: fix timestamping example code to build on older kernels
bug51741: improve sfcaffinity_config output to show core and channel mappings
bug50320: respect NAPI budget for Onload events, avoids "self-detected stall on CPU"
bug51932: do not be fussy about which CPU for interrupt if running out of VIs
bug50827: prevent socket joining multicast group if error adding filter
bug52236: remove the onload_set_recv_filter() functionality
bug50648: fix kernel crash during UDP socket handover
bug51146: fix deadlock between fdtable and epoll locks
bug53000: fix RST sending code match Linux behaviour (no ACK flag set)
bug52678: improve SO_LINGER socket option and its interaction with timeouts
bug53684: ensure packets sent at stack destruction time make it onto wire
bug49932: PPC: ef_vi_alloc_from_pd underestimated required eventq size
bug49932: increase default eventq capacity to accomodate timesync events
bug53101: fix packet leak in oo_raw_send()
bug53444: fix ef_vi_eventq_poll() returning fewer events than it could
bug53885: fix sys_read(udp_sock) when data arrived via OS causing kernel panic
bug50081: don't warn about "unknown option" for EF_LOG_FILE
bug53986: fix SRPM spec file when kernel devel packages are present
bug54307: fix zero length MSG_WARM send causing segfault
bug54077: fix crash when deleting bond slave corrupts bonding user table
bug54547: fix thread safety issues in efrss test/example application
bug53101: free loopback sockets at stack destruction
bug53979: fix errno-related issues in delegated send. Now returns -1 with errno set.
bug54662: remove spurious interface appearing in mib-hwport file
bug49651: correctly handle optlen value in getsockopt(TCP_INFO)
bug49650: add latest statistics to getsockopt(TCP_INFO)
bug54650: fix packet leak in IP-fragmented UDP send
bug54682: make dup2 and netif lock ordering consistent to avoid deadlock
bug54682: correct netif / fdtable lock order and check netif list valid
bug54764: fix packet leak when UDP packet is sent (unaccelerated) via OS
bug53101: fix packet leak in TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT paths
bug54808: fix atagram length returned by recvmsg for 32-bit app with TX timestamp
bug54689: do not block non-blocking socket in UDP send if unable to alloc packet
bug54689: avoid stuck stack due to no packets posted to rxq in critical memory pressure
bug54741: extend EF_TCP_SEND_NONBLOCK_NO_PACKETS_MODE to cover connect()
bug45979: fix kernel panic when very large MTU (9200) configured
bug54657: ensure interrupts are primed before dropping into kernel for epoll_wait()
bug54708: wire-order delivery: handle stacks which have not received anything
bug54793: correctly accelerate IP interfaces with /31 netmask
bug54924: return useful error from ef_pio_alloc when hw or module incapable
bug54968: correctly handle SO_RCVTIMEO with 0 value (was affecting SO_SNDTIMEO).
bug54920: fix send buffer size checks when MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST is set
bug54891: return POLLERR if TX timestamp queue is non-empty
bug55166: fix case where datagram sending via system write() is interrupted by signal
bug55178: correctly handle TX timestamps when send queue is overfilled.
bug54352: update openonload.spec file to support kernel-mft-* packages
bug52744: add ioctl SIOCGHWTSTAMP/SIOCSHWTSTAMP support
bug53101: fix packet leak in onload_move_fd()
bug55344: fix sending of packets via syscall when route changes (was returning EAFNOSUPPORT)
bug54650: fix packet leak caused by non-atomic change of some n_*_pkt counters
bug55267: fix ARP reinforcement from syn-recv socket state to avoid frequent sending via OS
bug55468: check ONLOAD_SOF_TIMESTAMPING_STREAM flag instead of assuming set
bug54658: don't print reap list by default in stackdump, could become corrupted and get stuck
bug48303: use dracut as alternative to update_initramfs in onload_install on RHEL7
bug55449: fix citp_udp_ordered_data() + indirect packet
bug55472: UDP TX timestamps: return full packet with Ethernet header
bug55580: correctly detect active bond slave changing on RHEL 6.7
bug55657: multiple fixes for onload_move_fd() causing sockets to timeout
bug55599: fix errno value when ICMP is received during connection attempt
bug55448: fix local address detection
bug53749: use /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_orphan_retries in Onload
bug53175: return POLLRDHUP event when socket was shut down for read
bug55617: add support for ONLOAD_DONT_ACCELERATE in JNI wrapper
bug53840: templated sends: set advertised window correctly
bug55396: support SocketChannel in JNI wrapper
bug55396: support MoveFd in JNI wrapper
bug55981: fix lock inversion in ci_tcp_listen() introduced in 201502-u1
bug55265: implement OO_OS_STATUS_ERR flag: errqueue was ignored after getsockopt(SO_ERROR)
bug55357: make Onload match Linux's meaning of tcpi_probes TCP_INFO field
bug56003: fix efsink test app time sync flag reporting
bug56102: Fix crash when sharing stack after "ethtool -t"
task8595: make environment parsing heed EF_LOG.
bug56153: rework os_pollwait_register() to avoid potential deadlock
bug56191: Fix iommu grouping before attaching to domains: function probe failed on Linux 4.2
bug56091: fix tx_timestamping example code: reset msg_controllen
bug56284: improve description of EF_TCP_{RCV,SND}BUF_ESTABLISHED_DEFAULT
bug56288: don't ignore setting of EF_TCP_(RCV|SND)BUF_ESTABLISHED_DEFAULT
bug55964: fix ee_info value reported in TX timestamp cmsg extended error
bug56385: properly enqueue multi-buffered packet to TX timestamp queue; was truncated after ~1800 bytes
bug56275: ef_vi: take TX capacity into account when allocating packed stream credit.
bug56358: Fix efrecv example code to handle multiple events in a single poll.
bug56411: use rx_channel_count to allow more interrupts to be used when rss_cpus set
bug56168: SUSE: call schedule() between dma_unmap and vfree; avoids "bad page state"
bug56383: avoid TX push on multi-buffered packets, avoids fw corruption of packet
bug56417: fix filter leak and EEXIST return from oof filter code
bug52733: fix n_async_pkts counter when unrolling MSG_WARM with zc_send (previously incremented for each call)
bug56855: bug48930: postpone atomic work when processing interface updates.


openonload-201502-u3
--------------------
 
Update net driver (v4.5.1.1020)
 
task55114: add compatibility for RHEL 6.7


openonload-201502-u2
--------------------

Update net driver (v4.5.1.1010)

Add support for Debian 8, Ubuntu 15.04

task52607: Add support for SO_PROTOCOL
task52813: Linux-4.0 compatibility
task43979: Add support for Debian packaging.
	
SF-114423-KI/bug49906: Fix packet corruption with templated sends and ef_vi PIO.
SF-114381-KI/bug43434: Fix EF_NAME accepting longer names than onload_set_stackname()
SF-114425-KI/bug52613: Avoid system lockup when using delegated sends API and SACK packets

bug53545: fix onload not distributing traffic over lacp bond with vlan
bug53600: bug53558: intercept __poll_chk on libc >=2.19 (Debian 8, Ubuntu 14.10)
bug53527: Fix stack overrun in efdelegated_server example app
bug53453: Correctly handle an epoll ctl on OS fd when postpone limit has been reached
bug53101: Fix reset of non-accepted loopback connection when stack is destroyed
bug53101: Fix packet leak in tcpdump
bug50399: Update eftap to send pkts with multicast loopback RX support
bug53052: Fixes for CI_CFG_DETAILED_CHECKS=1 debug code
bug50399: Fix support for transmit hardware loopback in ef_vi (NB: API change)
bug53011: Purge CI_CFG_REQUIRE_SOCKADDR_FAM build time option
bug42886: Enable tcpdump logging of packets where hardware marked them as to discard
bug51175: Avoid fd leak when closing listening sockets with socket caching.
bug51547: Reduce size and reorder fields in ci_tcp_state for better packing.
bug52409: Fix cluster+TCP loopback combination incapacitating network interface.
bug52750: Fix panic when white/blacklist module parameter has no value.
bug52750: Fix overriding of white/blacklist parameters from modprobe config.
bug52882: Show the correct index of a VI in onload_stackdump.
bug51749: Fix kernel panic when SO_REUSEPORT socket bound to non-SF interface
bug52804: Updated onload_stackdump to display correct output for nics=
bug49906: Enforce PIO packets must be 64-byte-aligned.
bug52799: delegated send: use ipcache under the stack lock only
bug52613: bug48435: improve TX wakeup to wake blocked sender appropriately
bug52613: Fix delegated send ACK handling to avoid adding to retrans queue when already acked
bug52613: Fix retransmission of invalid packet with delegated sends.
bug52613: Fix ordering of packets when mixing normal and delegated sends.
bug52613: Cope with window having shrunk behind in flight right edge in delegated send
bug52699: Fix race condition (kernel panic) between vf_callback and vf_callback_kill
bug45182: Remove unused ef_vi flag: EF_FILTER_FLAG_REPLACE and co.
bug48384: Match Onload behaviour to Linux when TCP_QUICKACK set to 0
bug52611: Add stats for free/used aux buffers
bug52611,bug52655: Fix leak of aux buffers (syn-receive state)
bug51756: Fix TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT socket option implementation
bug50648: bug52474: Fix fop_(read|write)_passthrough file operation
bug50648: Handle listen blocking mode when using CITP_PASSTHROUGH_FD
bug50648: Fix fdtable lock/unlock on some handover paths
bug52497: bug50648: Enable trampoline for alien and handover fd
bug52109: Fix EPOLLONESHOT epoll_wait() followed by select() giving wrong return code
bug37690: Build fix for CI_CFG_PKTS_AS_HUGE_PAGES=0
bug50968: Remove correct row from control plane table when slave removed from bond
bug43453: Support cluster and hw multicast loopback combination


openonload-201502-u1
--------------------

Update net driver (v4.4.1.1021)

bug44482: Add 'provides' statements for sfc-kmod-symvers to onload spec file.
bug46981: Make onload build tolerate missing libjansson dependencies
bug47081: add vport switching example for efpingpong sample
bug51961: Fix error preserving file ownership when extracting Onload tarball as root
bug51827: fix onload_delegated_send_prepare when called on a non-onload-fd
bug50793: Don't inline citp_waitable_wake_not_in_poll
bug51175: Avoid panic when closing listening sockets with socket caching
bug51530: do not update initramfs in onload_install when just asked to list files
bug51463: fix solarclusterd build error when creating RPM as non-root
bug51465: fix date in RPM spec file to avoid rpmbuild complaints
bug51360: warn user about unsupported combination of spin+epoll0
bug51479: correctly handle epoll_wait with timeout=-1 and EF_UL_EPOLL=3
bug51442: fix bashism in onload_tool and other scripts
bug51301: add onload_remote_monitor dependencies to spec file
bug50655: fix simultaneous listen() and recv(), was causing assertion
bug51242: fix EF_UL_EPOLL=3 behaviour when epoll set changes during epoll_wait()
bug51242: fix handling of return code when enabling EF_UL_EPOLL=3
bug51324: do not report SA_SIGINFO when it is unset
bug52045: fix epoll_ordered_wait to restart if repoll returns 0
bug50746: initialise hash to correctly distribute traffic over LACP bond


openonload-201502
-----------------

Update net driver (v4.4.1.1017)
Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 3.19)
Add official support for Ubuntu (12.04, 14.04, 14.10) and Debian (6, 7)
Add initial preview of Onload Filter Engine
Add VF and multi-PF capabilities to Onload on EF10 hardware
Add support for Docker containers
Add passive-open endpoint caching to increase achievable connection rate
Add onload --profile=safe to make Onload replicate Linux behaviour as closely as possible
Add white and black lists to allow user to select which interfaces are accelerated
Improve scalability of accelerated epoll modes
Support switching packets in the NIC between VIs
Add experimental service to export stackdump-like statistics in JSON format over network
Add new TCP "delegated sends" API 
Add ef_vi API to programatically query drop/error counters for each VI

Update some ef_vi samples to use ef_pd_alloc_by_name so they can use clustering
Fix minor bug in calculation of UDP socket q_max statistic.
task8595: Added ef_vi_receive_set_buffer_len()
task41722: Change onload_stackdump -z to output to stdout instead of syslog
task44092: improve TCP loopback to handle out of window data
task41989: choose IRQ on current core by default
task46656: Add sample packed stream ef_vi apps efsink_packed, efforward_packed
task47559: convert pipes to use packet buffers instead of socket buffers for data
task48269: Add and use ef_vi_transmit_copy_pio() to reduce PIO send latency
bug37972: replace tasklets and internal workqueues with Linux workqueues
bug42023: increase CI_CFG_NETIF_MAX_ENDPOINTS_MAX to 2^21
bug43337: handle case when EF_UL_EPOLL=1 spinning on set with no Onload fds
bug41922: support >4GB ef_memreg allocations
bug44568: update msg_name and msg_namelen in recvfrom() even if length was 0
bug44568: fix UDP recvmsg() via OS: copy msg_name with correct length
bug44665: Support IPC namespaces and explicit huge page allocations working together
bug40412: add onload_stack_opt_get_int() API call
bug44732: add spinning statistics to stackdump
bug44257: fix page size handling in ef_memreg_alloc() on PPC64 to avoid corruption 
bug41975: add basic SO_BUSY_POLL support
bug1684: correctly handle handover sockets in dup, fork, epoll
bug41166: fix stack save and restore for ONLOAD_DONT_ACCELERATE
bug45917: Avoid potential crash after a closed fd is removed from the epoll set.
bug45910: add EF_TCP_SEND_NONBLOCK_NO_PACKETS_MODE to control onload blocking on non-blocking send
bug45802: fix setsockopt(SO_REUSEPORT) to return -1 and set errno correctly
bug46245: prevent use of packet state after packet has been sent
bug46022: Segfault during send() of UDP datagram when HW RX timestamps are enabled
bug46334: handle adding fd to two epoll sets followed by handover
bug46654: Fix possible ef_vi misreport of CRC_BAD as CSUM_BAD on EF10 adapters
bug43885: onload_stackdump reports PIDs attached to stacks	
bug45091: handle buffer table set failures during reset.
bug45162: postpone NIC reset processing to avoid scheduling in atomic
bug46447: do not expect ef10_mcdi_rpc to work under reset: avoids assertion
bug46493: fix error path causing hung kernel task if NIC reset during stack creation
bug45166: remove assert which fires due to race at NIC reset
bug45163: improve packet mapping to NIC under reset
bug46130: allow Onload /dev files to be accessed after chroot
bug46282: Avoid TCP retransmit timeout falling below specified minimum
bug46783: fix incorrect assert in citp_sock_fcntl_os_sock()
bug46821: fix accept() errno when interrupted by sighandler with shutdown()
bug46212: Fix software-filter handling when connecting UDP multicast sockets
bug34462: fix TCP RTO calculations in some corner cases
bug46934: protect against syn flood: ci_tcp_synrecv_send() always gets non-NULL pkt
bug47011: increase listening fd timer frequency to make syn-ack retrans less bursty
bug46973: Handle failure to allocate new citp_sock_fdi on accept()
bug47059: allow sendfile to make progress when small send buffer used
bug47064: fix TCP behaviour with small window close to mss
bug47112: give Onload same behaviour as Linux for negative backlog, ie. listen(sock, -1)
bug47177: EF_RETRANSMIT_THRESHOLD[_SYN] was being ignored.
bug39052: admit other flags in ACK of SYNACK during syncookie processing
bug47027: more detail in stackdump about PIO allocation
bug47341: Add missing unlock on UDP socket create failure with EF_FDTABLE_STRICT
bug47372: ensure stack is unlocked after sending a message that is too big
bug56776: expose onload workqueues via /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/
bug20561: interrupt accept if the fd is closed under feet by signal
bug30185: use new Linux 3.4 poll API
bug45935: intercept __sendmmsg system call to cope with libc calling it directly
bug44192: improve behaviour when accept() fails due to lack of endpoint buffers
bug47267: calculate TCP window scale factor based on the real SO_RCVBUF value
bug47199: timeout TCP connection stuck in FIN_WAIT1 due to close() with zero window
bug47249: fix software filter table to allow >64K endpoints
bug39799: import local routes with non-32 bit net masks
bug47007: implement EF_TCP_RCVBUF_STRICT=1 mode.
bug47197: set EF_TCP_SNDBUF_MODE=1 by default
bug34581: add EF_SELECT_FAST_USEC, EF_SELECT_NONBLOCK_FAST_USEC to mirror poll equivalents 
bug46535: count packets from timestamp queue in SO_SNDBUF to avoid using all buffers
bug41453: install headers and library needed for ef_vi app development
bug47579: reap more buffers from receive queue when we can to reduce buffer use
bug45243: Allow stack creation on setups where not all SFC NICs support Onload.
bug47528: Add support for EF10 VFs to onload
bug47614: use fstat64 instead of fstat to allow opening large file with 32-bit UL
bug46651: do not TX timestamp TCP packets without data (SYN, FIN).
bug45749: fail gracefully (no kernel panic) if active open from clustered socket
bug47901: Fix potential crash when SO_REUSEPORT bind on OS that does not do SO_REUSEPORT
bug47703: Fix panic when SO_REUSEPORT bind to multiple addresses/ports
bug47704: return EADDRINUSE rather than EPERM when SO_REUSEPORT used between UIDs
bug48002: set msg_controllen to zero if not returning cmsg or error from recvmsg()
bug48073: improve recvmmsg performance by removing unnecessary check
bug48103: fix packet length calculation for FIN with TX timestamp
bug47569: Avoid kernel panic if EF_MAX_PACKETS set to negative value
bug48274: initialize error_flags when sharing a stack
bug48304: unlock fdtable when close() hangs because of SO_LINGER
bug43800: prevent loop in ci_udp_sendmsg_send() if shared state corrupted
bug48416: fix potential deadlock in sendfile()
bug48179: update hash used in filter table to improve spreading with lots of connections
bug32215: properly check for space in send queue when doing zc_send
bug44858: return -1 (with errno=EINTR) from citp_epoll_ordered_wait() on signal
bug38207: improve fairness of EF_FDS_MT_SAFE=0 locking mechanism between readers and writers
bug48598: fix potential deadlock when bond is brought up
bug48762: return errno=EAGAIN instead of EPERM when non-blocking UDP send fails
bug48599: don't do full copy for templated send on VLAN interface
bug47476: fix EF_FDTABLE_STRICT=1 mode for accelerated TCP loopback and epoll
bug47426: do not ignore filter errors when EF_NO_FAIL=0
bug47491: fix filter error "laddr=XXX not local" causing no acceleration
bug49289: fix source IP using SO_BINDTODEVICE on intf with multiple IP addresses
bug49445: fix warning on enabling timestamping with single interface up
bug49471: remove verbose log message from ef_vi software event processing
bug49739: increase EF_MIN_FREE_PACKETS to 32 bits
bug48701: fix interrupt allocation with EF_PD_VF (EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=3)
bug49547: set ACK flag when dropping TCP connection with RST and undelivered data
bug49697: improve accuracy of timeout calculations in epoll_wait
bug49722: fix signal handling to allowing killing onloaded process when run out of fds
bug50027: correctly handle more than one profile specified to onload command
bug38605: improve accuracy of epoll/poll/select spinning timeout duration 
bug50600: fix deadlock due to EF_*_FORCE_REUSEPORT=1 not releasing os_sock
bug47359: fix loop in bonding work item on recent kernels - do not set SIGPENDING flag
bug50539: reduce async packet count when unused zc_alloc buffers are released
bug50827: roll back OS socket if IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP failed to add filter
bug43962: Ameliorate race causing "file exists" errors on onload_tool reload on RHEL7 Siena VFs
bug50386: fix onload_tcpdump packet length when stripping VLAN tag
bug51189: avoid segfault parsing invalid filter spec in ef_vi test apps
bug45182: Fix behaviour when unicast-all/multicast-all filter installed multiple times
SF-114094-KI/bug48294: fix error path in oo_bufpage_huge_alloc() to avoid put_page kernel panic
SF-114095-KI/bug47204: fix kernel panic when using ef_memreg to allocate 2G region
SF-114096-KI/bug48247: fix kernel panic with EF_CLUSTER_SIZE>=32
SF-113950-KI/bug49565: Fix PIO send corruption due to memory ordering issue

	
openonload-201405-u2
--------------------

Updated net driver to build on recent kernels (v4.1.2.1003b)
SF-113792-KI/Bug49194: ef_vi avoid registering wrong pages when ef_memreg_alloc() page sizes vary
SF-113764-KI/Bug48491: do not leak memory when querying status of LACP bond


openonload-201405-u1
--------------------

Updated net driver (v4.1.2.1003)
Add support for SIOCOUTQ/SIOCOUTQNSD
Add support for transmit port sniff filters
Add EF_CLUSTER_IGNORE option to ignore SO_REUSEPORT and disable clusters
Add ef_vi API to allow user to block (e.g. poll()) on a file descriptor: ef_vi_prime()
Add ef_vi API to retrieve interface name: ef_pd_interface_name()
Add support for packed stream firmware mode
Add SO_REUSEADDR support for TCP clients sharing a stack

bug42276: improve building and installing on Debian and Ubuntu systems
bug43406: fix ef_eventq_wait() returning prematurely
bug42034: fix compile issue when CONFIG_SFC_RESOURCE_VF is not defined
bug44302: fix cross compiling for RT kernel failing due to kernel-devel pkg
bug44092: improve TCP window handling for accelerated loopback path
bug44412: fix tx timestamp kernel backtrace on packets handled in kernel
bug43337: allow blocking in epoll_wait() on set with no accelerated fds
bug44257: ensure type of CI_PAGE_MASK can mask a pointer on PPC64
bug44257: fix ef_memreg_alloc() to work on PPC
bug44473: require CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to install MISMATCH MULTICAST VLAN filter
bug44401: fix interrupt-driven throughput performance regression
bug44467: build fix for linux-3.14-rt
bug44518: improve handling of small TCP windows with window scaling
bug42193: handle TCP state changes on zero-window probe, avoids sockets stuck in CLOSING
bug43972: fix kernel panic during aggresive stack creation
bug44360: prevent ef_vi app from removing sniff filter it does not own
bug43269: fix "solar_clusterd -u" - was failing silently
bug44693: fix concurrent callers of ef_pd_alloc_by_name() resulting in seg fault
bug44719: set solar_clusterd process name so it can be killed using pkill
bug44612: fix debug build kernel panic due to modifying flags without lock
bug44888: ensure Onload sends data immediately following window update
bug44543: fix bind() fails with EEXIST instead of EADDRINUSE when SO_REUSEPORT is enabled
bug41722: change onload_stackdump -z to output to stdout instead of syslog
bug42058: prevent small memory leak in onload_stackname_restore
bug44852,bug44491: fix MCDI timeouts when allocating buffers under heavy interrupt load
bug44852: set EF_FREE_PACKETS_LOW_WATERMARK=rxq_size/2 by default
bug44943: fix bind() to bogus IP address with SO_REUSEPORT would return ENOSYS
bug44269: fix filter leak and kernel panic when using SO_REUSEPORT and app restarts
bug44548: fix SO_REUSEPORT panic when bound socket closes without calling listen or connect
bug42819: fix too many PIDs sharing stack causing "onload_stackdump lots" to seg fault
bug42350: fix ef_eventq_poll() to return SW events generated by ef_eventq_put()
bug44494: fix EF_PREFAULT_PACKET option not working when SO_REUSEPORT is used
bug43824: do not spin for sub-millisecond timeouts to poll(), select(), etc
bug45001: remove all:vid filter support from ef_vi.
bug45127: return correct errno when out of sockets for SOCK_DGRAM socket() call
bug44280: fix error path for pipe() when out of endpoints, avoids seg fault
bug44717: fix seg fault when "onload_stackdump get_opt" called with no options
bug45273: improve errno returned when PTP license is missing
bug45390: return zero timestamp on error in ef_vi_receive_get_timestamp*()
bug41166: fix onload_stackname_restore() when stackname set to ONLOAD_DONT_ACCELERATE
bug45389: fix debug build assertion on Falcon hardware after EVQ counter wraps
bug45208: fix solar_clusterd may not always exit when signaled


openonload-201405
-----------------

Update net driver and firmware (4.1.0.6734)
Add AOE driver
Add support for SFN7142 (40G) NICs
Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to Linux 3.14)
Add support for recent enterprise distributions (RHEL7)
Add support for recent compiler versions (gcc-4.8)
Add SO_REUSEPORT application clustering
Add support for transmit timestamping (SO_TIMESTAMPING, TCP and UDP)
Add wire-order delivery extension API
Add onload_move_fd() extension API
Add support for multicast hardware loopback
Add coded examples for extension API in src/tests/onload/
Add SYN cookie implementation to Onload TCP stack
	
bug39598: fix 32-bit app on 64 bit kernel Power PC assertion failure
bug37972: fix initialization for static work_structs to only happen once
bug40081: use new Linux MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST flag to speed up TCP sendfile
bug40027: don't leak time-wait and fin-wait-2 sockets when killing orphan stack
bug40957: correctly handle timestamp events when event processing is delayed
bug34927: don't report erroneous bad stack message when using stackdump -z
bug41686: don't dereference NULL pointer in TCP recv for non-TCP/unknown fd
bug41688: don't leak memory in onload_fd_check_msg_warm()
bug41687: don't check tcp header fields in the case recipient is known bad
bug42281: remove sfc_tune module; use "intel_idle.max_cstate=0 idle=poll" instead
bug42246: fix debug build assertions in UDP checksum validation
bug42246: properly check all lengths (eth,ip,udp) of bad incoming packets
bug42011: improve handling of SO_BINDTODEVICE multiple interfaces on same subnet
bug42489: free resources in ef_memreg_free() that ef_memreg_alloc() allocates
bug42634: fix abort event handling: invalid descriptor ids could be seen in ef_vi
bug41907: show stack name in onload_stackdump output even if no PIDs to display
bug42668: remove spurious fallback warning when allocating RSS set of size 1.
bug42777: fix issue causing timestamps to possibly lose sync.
bug42276: improve build and installation on Debian and Ubuntu 
bug42745: avoid system hang on realtime kernels caused by softirq MCDI deadlock
bug41129: improve chances of stacks choosing different IP ID ranges
bug42907: correctly report EF_LOG default in onload_stackdump lots output
bug24806: add netstat-style output to onload_stackdump
bug43392: don't increment tcp_out_segs onload_stackdump counter for MSG_WARM
bug43521: make onload_msg_template_update() respect O_NONBLOCK flag
bug39578: reinforce ARP entry when new data is ACKed, even if not pure ACK.
bug43754: fix bonding intf not accelerated on 3.13 kernels, restart sysfs read.
bug43884: fix bonding filename buffer length calculation.
bug43900: fix theoretical data reordering when repriming EF_INT_DRIVEN=1 stack
bug43896: disable PIO on 32 bit systems
bug35506: improve warning when running stackdump prior to loading drivers
bug43451: count all reasons unlock_slow is happening in onload_stackdump output
bug43753: fix lockup closing endpoints in wrong context on real-time kernels


openonload-201310-u2
--------------------

Updated net driver and firmware (v4_0_2_6645)

task39845: add solar_clusterd for SolarCapturePro application clustering
task41317: introduce separate block kernel unicast and multicast filters
task37488: add ability to control Onload log verbosity using EF_LOG
task41567: add phys_mod_gid module option to sfc_char
task41905: allow use of VFs in ef_vi even when not root
task8595:  Improve onload_stackdump TCP socket stats (add tx_defer and rx_isn)

bug39578: Improve ARP confirmation where virtual MAC addresses are in use
bug41219: Fix unmapping incorrect memory in ef_vi_free()
bug41165: squash log for EOPNOTSUPP in efch_resource_alloc
bug41304: fix netif_tcp_helper_mmap error path to undo PIO mapping when failure
bug39592: use ci_sys_read to avoid inline failure during build with gcc 4.7
bug41391: raise default TX push threshold to improve latency when firmware batches
bug41193: keep VF state per nic to allow mix of new and old NICs using VFs to work
bug41351: do not allow allocating extra VIs when non-power-of-2 VI set requested
bug41627: fix compilation error in JNI wrapper
bug40844: sync control plane state with kernel when stack is first created
bug41152: forbid socket move for tcp loopback and handover when in epoll set
bug41751: fix problems with application of fcntl() to OS socket
bug41830: RHEL7 beta kernel compatibility build fixes
bug41542: Avoid bogus unused function build warning on non-smp kernels
bug39111: protect against bad values for EF_TCP_INITIAL_CWND (when cwnd < mss)

openonload-201310-u1
--------------------

Updated net driver (v4_0_2_6628) and firmware (v4_0_1_6624)
Add support for RHEL6 update 5

task33976: Support overlapping PIO sends (both templated and not).
task17899: Support empty stackname to onload_set_stackname()
task39134: Add ef_filter_spec_set_{unicast,multicast}_mismatch()
task40066: Implement UDP sendfile (via OS)
task33976: Improvements to templated sends
task36587: onload iptables support for VLANs on EF10
task39338: support additional filter types needed for SolarCapture Pro
task40139: support license challenge needed for SolarCapture Pro
task40573: allow use of variable size RSS sets on EF10
task40019: Add onload_fd_check_feature() to extensions API
task39340: Initial support for allocating VIs from a set to get load spreading
task39156: add ef_filter_spec_set_block_kernel() at ef_vi layer

bug40764: Fix packet length in onload_tcpdump when VLAN header is removed
bug40884: Use 64 bits timeout value in select()
bug40951: Fix leak of pd when allocate_pio() returns an error
bug39156: Restore correct operation of multicast/unicast-all filters on EF10
bug40825: Fix kernel panic when efab_add_mm_ref() fails with ENOMEM
bug40749: Fix theoretical issue pushing improper descriptor with doorbell
bug40571: Improve time conversion in getsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT)
bug40199: Return >1k of data when accessing onload iptables /proc files
bug39052: Forbid TCP MSS < 64 to avoid problems with hostile stacks
bug39549: Fix JNI wrapper's use of onload_fd_stat() to cope with fd_stat failure
bug40526: Fix assertion firing when tmpl_alloc() fails to allocate pio
cleanup: Improve performance of sfcaffinity_config and sfcirqaffinity
bug40452: Fix efrm_vi_q_alloc() failing causing kernel panic
bug40357: Fix kernel panic when ef_vi_alloc_from_set() fails
cleanup:  Fix error code returned by ef_vi_transmit_pio() when not supported.
cleanup:  Fix memory leak when NIC compatibility check failed in ef_vi
bug40277: Report correct errno even if OO_EPOLL1_IOC_ADD_STACK ioctl called
bug40215: Fix 32bit UL on 64bit kernel cmsg issue on Linux >= 3.10 
bug40169: Fix corruption of TX DMA overflow queue by ONLOAD_MSG_WARM
bug39858: prime all stacks before going to sleep in epoll to avoid long delays
bug40077: Don't try and remove filters with spinlock held on ef_vi app exit
bug40081: cope with Linux >= 3.3 internal API change for f_op->sendpage
bug39531: request event merging on EF10 to improve throughput at high pkt rates
bug39531: Allow control of threshold for tx push (EF_TX_PUSH_THRESHOLD)
cleanup:  Build fixes for C++ compilers.
bug39536: Use 32 bit dma_id on EF10 to allow EF_MAX_PACKETS > 64K
bug39834: Avoid pipe getting stuck in read when trying to send big buffer
bug39990: Don't enable event queue DOS protection on NIC reset
bug37217: Avoid outstanding flush events on real-time kernels
bug37217: Fix memory leak when dealing with outstanding flush events
bug39897: Fix 3.4.6 kernel panic using MAP_HUGETLB and ef_memreg_alloc
bug39874: Fix header contamination in memreg.h (don't include ci/efhw/common.h)
bug39821: Fix state corruption when MSG_WARM is used together with PIO.


openonload-201310
-----------------

Updated sfc net driver and firmware to v4_0_0_6585.
Add support for SFN7122F (Torino).
Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 3.11).
Add support for recent enterprise distributions.
Include efpio test application for measuring latency of ef_vi layer with PIO.
Add MSG_WARM TCP send feature.
Add JNI wrapper for onload extensions API.
Add support for SO_TIMESTAMP on TCP sockets.

task35946: Accept rx_usr_buf_size that is not larger than expected.
task24106: Added extension API to set onload stack options at runtime.
task31321: Added extension API to save and restore current stack name.
task19643: Added dup3() support.
task32188: Added option EF_TCP_SNDBUF_MODE to limit pkt bufs used on transmit.
task35980: Added ef_vi_receive_prefix_len() and ef_vi_receive_buffer_len().
task33560: Improved onload_stackdump 'processes', 'threads' and 'env' output.
task32790: Add EF_VFORK_MODE option to solve vfork()/java problems.
task38715: Improved the efrm_filter_insert() interface.
task38715: Add option to allocate any VI from an efrm_vi_set or ef_vi_set.

bug39673: Use netdev notifier to update iptables when interface name is changed
bug39681: fix zero-copy receive from OS to correctly set iov_len
bug39569: fix compilation warnings and problems with gcc-4.8
bug38389: increase range of values that EF_TCP_BACKLOG_MAX can be set to
bug38304: implement EF_RETRANSMIT_THRESHOLD_SYNACK
bug38900: Fix Onload RPM build on Oracle Server distro.
task8595: Fix return code from some invalid uses of dup2() and dup3().
task8595: Fix bug in oo_trusted_lock_drop().
bug38422: Fix interaction between shutdown() and MSG_CORK
bug38425: Fix leak of socket buffer when out of fds in accept().
bug38142: Avoid double-lock of fd table 
bug37962: Fix EF_TCP_BACKLOG_MAX usage
bug37995: Fix sfcaffinity_config when bonded interfaces present
bug38053: Use #!/bin/bash for libc_compat.sh
bug34768: Kill bogus warnings about unexpected flush events.	
bug36102: Return proper errno when ioctl(FIOASYNC) fails
bug36693: Silence spurious warning about smp_processor_id() in sfc_affinity
bug37998: Fix vi_set (RSS) in ef_vi using filters
bug34708: Make efrss filtering capability more flexible
bug37899, bug23309: Fix EPOLLET and EPOLLONESHOT issues
bug37946: Use Linux workqueue as per-stack workqueue
bug37908: Detect sendmmsg presence via standard "nm $libc_path"
bug36102: Make FASYNC code work with OS socket properly
bug37608: bug36582: fix SA_ONESHOT support to use in-kernel copy
bug36095: F_SETFL should be propogated to OS
bug37611: Ensure consistent ordering of event and interrupt delivery by hardware
bug37637: Detach iommu domain when unbinding from PCI VF
bug37722: Destroy huge page packet set from workqueue
bug36095: Check ci_sys_fcntl(F_SETFL) return code
bug37232: Remove init and python scripts when uninstalling
bug36582: Keep in-kernel copy of signal states
bug35341: Move all per-stack postponed jobs into per-stack workqueue
bug34301: Fix race condition in efab_vi_rm_eventq_wait()
cleanup:  SLES11 uses obsolete F_OWNER_GID instead of F_OWNER_PGRP, cope with that
bug37380: Do not complain about RTAX_REORDERING
bug37336, bug36181: fix UDP FIONREAD calculation
bug37412, bug36181: fix UDP receive queue accounting
bug37300: Downgrade MSS limit message if we've also logged a statistic count for it
bug36402: Avoid probing sockets before they're fully initialised
bug36402: Don't set fdtable entry to unknown until after we've closed fd.
bug36683: Fix assertion failures in onload_zc_send, onload_zc_alloc_buf
bug36181: Improve tcpdump for loopback packets: set zero mac addresses
bug37210: Prevent shmem access problems when stack is shared
bug37208: Fix onload_tcpdump detach from wedged stack
bug36181: Pass bad packets to onload_tcpdump
bug36228: Drop postponed file references from workqueue
bug34790: Properly retransmit SYN-ACK if it was lost
bug36641: Use new iommu API for linux >=3.3
bug34383: improve UDP PMTU discovery on kernels >= 3.6
bug34617: Fix delayed free of sockets stuck in the non-atomic queue
bug34383: fix crash in pmtu when net interface goes down
bug38750: build fix with CI_CFG_MMAP_EACH_PKTSET=0
bug38750: build fix with CI_CFG_PKTS_AS_HUGE_PAGES=0
bug37217: avoid long task duration of "flush complete" event handling
bug38511: Fixes spurious unlock on fd table
bug38649: avoid double-free of packets race when dropping UDP receive queue
bug37471: Fix stack receiving multiple copies of single packet for multicast on VLANs
bug36712: Fix multicast acceleration/replication
bug34448: Fix possible race condition between epoll and handover.
bug37090: Increase max number of stacks handled in process termination code.
bug36558: Shut down ep->fasync_queue at handover.
bug36139: gcc 4.7 build fix.
cleanup:  Suppress unwanted IFA_CACHEINFO messages.
cleanup:  Fix installation of sfcaffinity.py for Debian based distros.
bug35662: Fix connection getting stuck when SO_RCVBUF is very small.
bug35926: Add support for F_SETOWN_EX/F_GETOWN_EX.
bug35907, bug35662: don't decrease receive buffer if already less than MSS.
bug35662: Get rid of lower limit on SO_RCVBUF.
bug30266: Fix dropped O_NONBLOCK when socket in epoll set handed to kernel.
bug30266: Ignore local cached routes to fix loopback acceleration.
bug34222: Fix kernel warning provoked when stack fails to initialise.
bug33004: Fix bug handling IP_MTU_DISCOVER socket option.
bug34124: Fix bug using EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1 with IOMMU and multiple NICs.
bug30031: Respect EF_SHARE_WITH when accelerating TCP loopback.
bug27621: Fix error returned by unknown ioctl() on recent kernel versions.
bug33820: Fix kernel memory leak in Onload control plane.
bug33817: Fix IP length field in ICMP packets sent by Onload.
bug33654: Do not postpone SIGPROF signal by default.
bug33494: Fix race between stack creation and NIC reset.
bug32168: Fix TCP recv() blocking behaviour when reading to buffer of length 0.
bug33198: Update TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT to match recent Linux behaviour.
bug21474: Added option EF_FORCE_TCP_NODELAY to force TCP_NODELAY option on.
bug32488: Keep calling oo_timesync_update till cpu_khz is stablized.
bug32281: Added option EF_FREE_PACKETS_LOW_WATERMARK.
bug31766: Improve handling of siginfo_t when postponing signals.


openonload-201210-u2
--------------------

Updated sfc net driver to v3_3_0_6309
Add ptp to modprobe'd modules when loading net driver.
Add support for recent Linux kernels (up to 3.9)

bug37783: fix counting error in async packets counter for onload_stackdump
bug34571: Handle EF_DONT_ACCELERATE + EF_NO_FAIL=0 in pipe().
bug37610: EF_EPOLL_CTL_FAST=1: check if fd was reused before postponing epoll_ctl.
task8595: Reorder code to avoid having to defer drop of file reference.
bug36423: fix compatibility issues with sigaction on linux-3.9 kernels.
bug36423: Remove re-definition of sigaction32.
bug37129: Initialise epoll blocking flag on create.
bug37129: allow EEXIST when handing over fd to OS epoll set.
bug37187: Fix ef_vi_alloc* not returning q_ids.
bug36665: Fix 32-bit app on 64-bit kernel due to citp_opts misalignment.
bug36697: Reduce open fds in Onload tools by calling closedir.
bug36423: Fix linux-3.9 kernel compilation.
bug35968: Store memory mapping sizes as unsigned values to double usuable sizes.
task28435: Fixes to get working in-tree build again.
bug36170: Fix double lock_kernel use. 
bug35910: Fix EF_UL_EPOLL=1 when EF_EPOLL_CTL_FAST=1 and no accelerated fds.
bug34910: Only use tx push if exactly one descriptor.
bug35028: Remove __devinit usage from Onload drivers (linux-3.8 compatibility).
task17899: Repond sensibly if a bad interface is passed to efsink.
task8595: Fix caller of oo_os_sock_get_from_ep() not checking return value
bug35232: Avoid leaking fds in linux-3.7 kernels.
bug33759: Fix sock_map_fd/sock_alloc_file implementation for linux-3.7.
bug34730: Replaced deprecated file check operator in onload_tool for Ubuntu.
bug35119: Fix ef_vi receive of jumbo frames.
bug34467: Add missing read barrier when waiting for dup2 newfd to close.
bug34466: Fix bug in dup() in case that the syscall fails.
          Fix "sfcaffinity_config auto" when sfc_ib driver is loaded.
          Ignore copyright header when making ef_vi api hash.


openonload-201210-u1
--------------------

Updated sfc net driver to v3_3_0_6246.
task32441: stackdump: Add count of TCP sends via kernel due to no mac.
task33571: Added EF_SIGNALS_NOPOSTPONE option to control signals intercepted.
task32571: Support for AOE (FPGA NICs).
task20738: Added support for IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP etc.

bug32440: Fix handling of firewall MAC rules.
bug31498: Fix return value from sendmmsg() in error case.
bug32839: Fix leak of epoll file descriptor.
bug33072: Fix leak of pipe file descriptor.
bug32957: bug32960: Fix handling of bad parameters to pipe() and pipe2().
bug33042: Fix EF_PREFAULT_PACKETS on some versions of gcc.
bug33144: Allocate more random initial sequence numbers for TCP.
bug33133: Fix bug causing RTT estimates to not be updated.
bug32511: Handle iommu_attach_device failure in efrm_pci_vf_probe.
bug30511: Do not remove HW filters when SW filter table fills.
bug33311: Fix handling of SA_RESETHAND (SA_ONESHOT).
bug33405: Check for pending signals when spinning in write(pipefd).
bug33237, bug33192: Fixes to Onload recovery following NIC reset.
bug33571, bug33654: Do not defer signals: SIGBUS, SIGSEGV, SIGPROF.
bug32061: Reset affinity hint before freeing VF interrupt.
bug33459: Fix buffer leak after close with EF_TCP_SERVER_LOOPBACK=2.
bug32280: stackdump: Fix error accessing files under /proc.
bug33565: stackdump: Fixup printing of cmdline to account for null byte.
bug33632: Fix once-per-stack memory leak.
bug33647: Fix memory leak when using huge pages.
bug33639: Fix warning due to creating proc entries in atomic context.
bug32467: Fix bug when TCP bind() call results in handover to kernel.
bug32325: Fix problem installing init scripts on Fedora 17 with lsb package.
bug32602: Fix leak of packet buffers in TCP receive path corner cases.
bug32670: Fix bug allocating packet buffers when memory is fragmented.
bug32494: Fix truncation of "onload_stackdump filters" output when large.
bug32721: Fix kernel panic provoked by low system memory.
bug32462: Fix onload_iptables on older python versions (2.4).
bug32659: Fix hang in fork() (exhibited by Java processes).
bug33759: Compile fixes for Linux kernel 3.7.


openonload-201210
-----------------

- Updated sfc net driver to v3_3_0_6222B.
- task26187: Firewall interface to limit traffic that can bypass kernel stack.
- task26187: Iptables integration supports subset of iptables rules.
- task28045: Default onload_stackdump output improved to identify process info.
- task28045: New onload_stackdump commands: env, processes, affinities
- task19306: Acceleration of pselect(), ppoll() and epoll_pwait().
- task31567: Improve epoll_wait() and poll() performance when heavily loaded.
- task30177: Add physical addressing mode EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=2 or 3.
- task30177: Add onload module option phys_mode_gid.
- task8595:  Removed module option unsafe_sriov_without_iommu.
- task26188: Support packet buffers in huge pages (EF_USE_HUGE_PAGES).
- task31354: New mode EF_TCP_CLIENT_LOOPBACK=4 to put loopback in new stack
- task29363: Keep non-blocking free pool replenished in loopback cases.
- task8595:  Fix frequency with which we call schedule() with EF_UL_EPOLL=2.
- task30187: Added support for sendmmsg() on accelerated UDP sockets.
- task8595:  Set IRQ affinity hint for EF_IRQ_CORE with VFs.
- task8595:  New stackdump stats relating to sock_wakes and unlock_slow.

- bug30208: Return error if zero-copy buffers are used with wrong stack.
- bug31176: drop lock if returning error from ci_udp_zc_recv_from_os
- bug30890: Fix bug with EF_UL_EPOLL=2 when sockets are handed over to kernel.
- bug22388, bug25644: Fix cleanup when fail to insert h/w filter for multicast.
- bug24199: Fix bug relating to multicast joins on multiple vlan interfaces.
- bug31262: Fix kernel buffer overrun provoked by "onload_stackdump filters"
- bug31333: Fix acceleration with SOCK_NONBLOCK or SOCK_CLOEXEC.
- bug31130: Fix bug on second call to connect() on TCP socket.
- bug30731, bug31368: Prevent infinite loop due to post-poll-list corruption.
- bug30731, bug31368: Prevent infinite loop due to loopback-list corruption.
- bug31449: Fix timeout bug in accept() when spinning.
- bug31464: Fix bug in onload_zc_recv() when multiple multicast recipients.
- bug31494: Do not accept net packets for loopback sockets.
- bug31494: Properly reorder loopback packets when sending.
- bug31497: Increase default number of stacks EF_UL_EPOLL=2 can handle.
- bug31497: Add module option epoll2_max_stacks.
- bug31515: Fix kernel panic with EF_UL_EPOLL=2.
- bug30825: Don't allow packets to be received from ports that are down.
- bug31548: Fix case that could leave onload stack persisting after app exit.
- bug31565: Fix bug in combination of EPOLLPRI and EPOLLET in userlevel epoll.
- bug31573: Userlevel epoll ignored EPOLLWRNORM and EPOLLWRBAND.
- bug31574: Determine kernel pkg name without being confused by other pkgs.
- bug31565: Fix combination of EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLET in userlevel epoll.
- bug31600: Fix build for linux kernels >= 3.5.2
- bug31619: Fix bug in accelerated pipe causing data corruption.
- bug28514: Fix double-release of packet on out-of-order TCP receive.
- bug31638: Fix TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT with TCP loopback acceleration.
- bug29449: Fix bug relating to FIOASYNC signal handling.
- bug31310: Fix EF_NAME with setuid applications.
- bug31410: Fix route via a gateway that is a local IP on an accelerated intf.
- bug30140: Fix blocking read of length zero from pipe: it should not block.
- bug31785: Enforce EF_RXQ_MIN and EF_MIN_FREE_PACKETS.
- bug31278: Fix incorrect ACK field in RST-ACK packet.
- bug25680: Avoid thundering herd problem when apps start with same EF_NAME.
- bug32011: Enable faststart after idle sender when no timestamp option.
- bug32011: Reduce default dynamic ACK threshold to 16 by default.
- bug32028: Fix EPOLLONESHOT bug that could cause epoll_wait to not unblock.
- bug32166: Further workarounds for IOMMU foibles.
- bug32168: Do not block in read() with count=0.
- bug32234: Add diagnostic to warn user about old unsupported iommu.
- bug32284: Intercept __recv_chk and __recvfrom_chk.
- bug31889: Fix crash with TCP loopback accept() and out of endpoint buffers.
- bug31669: Drop TCP loopback connection if the other end is destroyed.
- bug31974: Fix accept() from kernel on 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5.


openonload-201205-u1
--------------------

- Various workarounds for IOMMU-related kernel bugs.
- Compatibility with RHEL6.3 and linux-3.4.0.
- Use IP ID of zero with TCP.
- bug29724: Do not accept unsolicited ARPs that change MAC associated with IP.
- bug29870: Share iommu domain between VFs in a single Onload stack.
- Fix previously ignored option EF_TCP_ADV_WIN_SCALE_MAX.
- bug29996: Do not send packets with IP TTL=0.
- bug27919: Fix poll() after nonblocking connect on TCP socket.
- bug27932: Fix RPM dependency bugs.
- Improve error messages when out of socket buffers.
- Reduce cost of waking other threads for loopback and pipes.
- bug30140: Fix bugs in error handling in pipe read/write.
- bug30140: Fix race with pipes between close() of write-fd and read().
- Various improvements and minor bug fixes to spin-loops.
- bug30199: Fix python3 compatibility bug in affinity scripts.
- bug30214: Return 0 rather than EAGAIN on onload_zc_recv() if called callback.
- bug23968: Fix warnings from recent gcc versions.
- bug30218: Fix getsockopt(TCP_INFO) on new socket.
- bug30219: Do not print scary warning when tcgetpgrp() is called.
- bug29929: Ensure we always drain OS path in UDP onload_zc_recv().
- Avoid syscall in ioctl(SIOCATMARK).
- bug30260: Fix RTNL message length for RTM_GETLINK request.
- bug30173: Do not wait forever for flush to complete -- it may fail.
- bug30251: Don't return error with EF_NO_FAIL=0 if socket type not onloadable.
- bug27042: Reduce delayed-ack time to avoid spurious retransmits.
- bug26090: Fix send to host with no route and SO_BINDTODEVICE.
- Fix minor memory leak in cicppl_arp_pkt_tx_queue.
- bug26089: Fix packets sent via kernel w SO_BINDTODEVICE going to wrong intf.
- Fix error return code from udp send interrupted by signal.
- bug30359: Fix error code returned from sigaction and exit_group syscalls.
- Avoid polling the stack when EF_POLL_ON_DEMAND=0.
- Improve onload_stackdump's handling of zombie stacks.
- Add "onload_stackdump -z kill" to terminate stacks lingering after exit.
- bug30218: Reduce initial RTO to 1s from 3d to match Linux.
- bug30516: Fix interrupts with scalable packet buffer mode.
- bug30633: Fix kernel panic on driver reload.
- License ef_vi samples as BSD so users can cut-and-paste.
- bug27835: Added extern "C" to ef_vi headers to ease use from C++.
- bug21349: Keep zwin timer running in FIN-WAIT-1.
- bug30863: Fix for ARP confirmation when using a gateway.
- bug30892: Fix inconsistency in locking operations.
- sfc: Updated sfc net driver to v3_2_1_6099.
- bug30711: ef_vi: Make SOP/CONT flags available in RX_DISCARD events.
- bug31026: Fix seg-fault in epoll_ctl(DEL) with EF_UL_EPOLL=0|2.


openonload-201205-p4
--------------------

- bug30511: Do not remove HW filters when SW filter table fills.
- bug30519: Fix leak of OS socket reference, leaving UDP port in-use.
- Update version of libciul to 2.0.0.  (Should have been done in p2 release).


openonload-201205-p3
--------------------

- bug30429: Fix assertion in kernel when >64K packet buffers used.


openonload-201205-p2
--------------------

- bug30110: Fix sfcaffinity_config regression and support newer kernels.
- bug29929: Return from onload_zc_recv on END_OF_BURST during recv via OS.
- bug30108: Fix kernel panic caused by TCP loopback acceleration.
- bug30429: Fix bug causing misbehaviour when >64K packet buffers used.
- bug30429: Fix integer overflow when run out of buffer table space.
- bug30417: Fix bug in TCP send() path leading to app seg-fault.
- bug30445: Fix bug in TCP send() path leading to stack lock getting stuck.


openonload-201205
-----------------

- bug28090: Fix close and destructor functions for epoll.
- bug28268: Fix command line arg handling in onload_tcpdump.
- bug27932: RPM spec file dependency fix for MRG rt kernels.
- bug27700: Validate options in kernel to protect against bad values.
- TCP loopback acceleration (see release notes).
- Don't disable interrupts when lock contention detected.
- Improvements to TCP/UDP select/poll/epoll handling in kernel.
- Do not grab stack lock when EF_POLL_ON_DEMAND=0.
- bug27186: Fix sys-calls and interrupts with select + TCP-listener.
- bug27102: Fix bugs relating to signal handling at process termination.
- bug27329: Fix scaling of timers on SFN6x22F adapters.
- TCP striping feature reinstated.
- bug27530: Allow non-root to set EF_IRQ_CORE with EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1.
- Put useful info in /proc/$pid/fd to identify Onload sockets and stacks.
- Reduce ACK rate when streaming to increase TCP efficiency.
- Fix epoll bug failing to report data arriving via kernel.
- bug2641: Fix problems relating to handling of ARP.
- New tool onload_fuser to identify processes using Onload.
- bug27997: Fix bug that caused bad error code to be returned by close().
- Added module options to set max size of control plane tables.
- bug28096: Do not access user-space data under spinlock
- bug28090: Fix close and dtor functions for epoll.
- bug28228: getsockopt(udp_sock, IP_PKTOPTIONS) should return ENOPROTOOPT.
- bug28268: Fix command line parsing bugs in onload_tcpdump.
- bug28267: Use MAC and IP addresses to validate reinforcement requests.
- Add end-of-batch flag ONLOAD_ZC_END_OF_BURST to onload_zc_callback.
- New option EF_TCP_RST_DELAYED_CONN prevents delayed delivery.
- bug28558: onload_zc_send() now respects O_NONBLOCK flag.
- bug28556: Fix fstat() interception.
- bug28691: Fix error path in pipe() call.
- Include debug symbols in binaries by default.
- bug28480: Fix process exit interception.
- bug28598: Check untrusted values in ci_tcp_reset_untrusted()
- bug27921: close synreq queue in linux way: no FIN or RST.
- bug28622: Fix RPM build failure with version 3 kernels.
- bug28923: Fix spinning in onload_zc_recv().
- bug28955: bug28960: fix getsockopt(IP_PKTOPTIONS).
- bug28205: Fix error path in onload_tcpdump.
- bug29009: Fix timeout extension bugs.
- bug28936: Fix SO_LINGER behaviour when references to a socket.
- bug29073: Handle IPPROTO_IP sockopts for ip6 sockets.
- bug28123: Allow dup2() onto fd with concurrent accept() to complete.
- bug28974: Check for socket errors and OS receive in onload_zc_recv() spin.
- bug29222: Correctly handle iov_len==0 cases.
- bug27413: Handle interrupts in threads when EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1.
- bug29322: Fix pipe + EPOLLET.
- Get MTU from Linux route when it is available.
- Avoid onload_install error if service config fails.
- Support ioctls FIOASYNC and SIOCSPGRP.
- Add further detail to stackdump output for sockets.
- Support fcntls F_SETSIG and F_GETSIG.
- Avoid unnecessary sys-calls with O_ASYNC is set but F_SETOWN is not.
- bug29458: Properly limit number of pipe buffers.
- bug29420: Various problems managing VFs fixed and/or worked-around.
- bug29107: Fix bonding acceleration on recent kernels (3.x).
- Fix stackdump output for pipes, which had byte counts reversed.
- Fix bug in connect() with SO_SNDTIMEO timeout.
- bug29357: Only allow VFs to be used with kernels.
- bug29357: Avoid IOAPIC memory range in VF iova linear allocator.
- Do not support SR-IOV (VFs, EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1) on 32-bit kernels.
- ef_vi: Relicensed under the LGPL to permit distribution of proprietary apps.
- ef_vi: Support receive-side scaling (RSS).
- ef_vi: Fix kernel panic on failure to allocate an ef_vi_set.
- ef_vi: Added protection domains and registered memory.
- ef_vi: Option to use VFs, allowing more registered memory and lower latency.
- ef_vi: Option to use physical addressing.
- ef_vi: bug27821: Don't indicate RX_DISCARD for IP fragments.
- ef_vi: Update samples to use registered memory.
- ef_vi: The network interface is now a required arg to efpingpong.
- ef_vi: Fix bug in efsink and dump out packet contents.


openonload-201109-u2
--------------------

- Fix build errors with RHEL5.7 updates.
- Support for recent Linux kernels including 3.2.
- Workaround bug in gnumake on Fedora installs.
- bug22279: Fix latency spike provoked by lock contention.
- bug27605: Fix resource leak when epoll fd is closed.
- bug27605: Fix deadlock when epoll_wait() interrupted by signal.
- bug27566: Fix seg-fault with EPOLL_CTL_DEL with NULL events param.
- Improve epoll performance with concurrent epoll_ctl() and epoll_wait().
- bug27672: Fix for onload_zc_recv with fragmented-looped-back datagrams.
- Added support for F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC.
- bug27702: Tighten rules for stack sharing to prevent privilege escalation.
- Added config option EF_SHARE_WITH to control sharing between users.
- bug27763: Fix bug in ef_iobufset_remap() that broke ef_vi samples.
- bug27834: Fix bug in onload_zc_recv() when receiving via kernel.
- bug27788: Fix call stack corruption caused by receive filtering extension.
- bug27905: Bug prevented incoming connections on unaccelerated bonded intf.
- bug27742: Fix epoll bug preventing notification of receive via kernel.
- bug27984: Fix pipe creation when pipe buffers are fragmented.
- bug27986: Fix onload_tcpdump -i vlan_if.
- bug27705: Fix kernel->user data leak.
- bug27704: Fix security bug allowing user to write into kernel memory.
- Remove bashism from onload_uninstall


openonload-201109-u1
--------------------

- Prevent threads from exiting until they leave onload critical section.
- Added support for SFN5322F and SFN6x22F adapters.
- Improvements to onload_stackdump output.
- Added option EF_DEFER_WORK_LIMIT to limit how much work can be deferred.
- Support IOMMU pass-through mode with EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1.
- Improve performance of epoll_wait() with unaccelerated file descriptors.
- onload_tcpdump will no longer cause lock contention.
- Replace EF_POLL_FAST_LOOPS with EF_POLL_FAST_USEC.
- Replace EF_POLL_NONBLOCK_FAST_LOOPS with EF_POLL_NONBLOCK_FAST_USEC.
- Added onload_thread_set_spin() extension for per-thread control of spinning.
- Added pipe2() acceleration.
- Improve implementation of EF_POLL_ON_DEMAND to reduce lock contention.
- Reduce jitter in apps spin-blocking in select/poll/epoll.
- Avoid unwanted interrupts when spinning.
- Improve compatibility with kernel patch updates.
- Return buffers of appropriate size in onload_zc_alloc_buffers() when known.
- Expose all spin-related config options via "onload_stackdump opts".
- ef_vi: Add version checking and reporting.
- Reduce chances of lock contention jitter caused by timeout events.
- sfc: Updated sfc net driver to v3_2_0_6040.
- bug26154: Fix bug returning error from ioctl() call.
- bug26245: Fix problem with SO_BINDTODEVICE when used to unbind.
- bug26276: Handle same IP on multiple interfaces.
- bug26338: Fix interrupt name when EF_PACKET_BUFFER_MODE=1 (linux 3.x).
- bug26346: Fix panic when non-solarflare interface given to sfcaffinity_tool.
- bug24690: Fix epoll_ctl(op=EPOLL_CTL_DEL, event=NULL).
- bug22432: Support SOCK_CLOEXEC in socket() and accept4() calls.
- bug26579: Handle IP fragments in zero-copy receive properly.
- bug22432: Support SOCK_NONBLOCK in accept4() calls.
- bug26620: Check and don't assert that socket is connected for zc_send().
- bug26704: fix return codes for onload_zc_send().
- bug26781: Fix data corruption with onload_zc_recv().
- bug26828: Return error rather than -1 from onload_zc_recv().
- bug26843: Correctly return status when ICMP error received in zc_recv().
- bug26798: Fix race condition in pipe close.
- bug26695: Fix reference counting bug when probing unknown file descriptor.
- bug26798: Fix race condition in pipe close.
- bug26997: Fix regression in sending of TCP out-of-band data.
- bug26899: Restore EF_FORK_NETIF behaviour for unnamed stacks.
- bug27052: Fix bugs in shutdown() behaviour.
- Fix regression in the latency profile.  EF_TCP_FASTSTART_IDLE was not set.
- bug27128: Set msg_namelen properly in UDP onload_zc_recv() via kernel.
- bug22279: Fix wakeup race that could cause threads to block for too long.
- bug27160: Re-accelerate bond after non-acceleratable port removed.
- bug27181: ef_vi: Fix bugs when allocating ef_vi_set.
- bug27186: Accelerated select treated TCP listener as kernel socket.
- bug27180: Send SIGPIPE when return EPIPE from onload_zc_send.
- bug27188: Fix bad warnings in sys-log with EF_UL_EPOLL=2.
- bug22279: Fix bug causing multicast loopback delivery to fail to wake.
- bug26541: Fix count-down timer interrupts on SFC9000 adapters.
- Fixed bug that removed file on onload rpm upgrade.


openonload-201109
-----------------

- Improved transmit latency for kernels pre-2.6.32 (includes RHEL5).
- Scalable Packet Buffer Mode; increases max packet-buffers (see ReleaseNotes).
- Zero-Copy API for TCP transmit and UDP receive (see ReleaseNotes).
- New tool onload_tcpdump to capture accelerated packets.
- Improved performance of epoll where the fd-set includes non accelerated fd's.
- Improved performance for UDP and TCP listening sockets.
- Improved resilience to termination via signal for apps sharing stacks.
- Improved handling when short of packet buffers.
- Added dynamic version of the Onload Extensions Library.
- Option EF_IRQ_CORE and EF_IRQ_CHANNEL to affinitise Onload interrupts.
- Spinning in TCP send now enabled with EF_POLL_USEC.
- ef_filter_spec_set_unicast_all() and multicast_all() are now supported.
- sfc: Updated to v3_1_0_4083
- bug25527: correctly handle finding bond info for VLAN over bond.
- bug25372: check bonding hash for multicast.
- bug25037: SO_TIMESTAMP copes with server time going backwards.
- bug25148: do not reset incoming connection when backlog is full.
- task21712: defer process termination if shared stacks are locked.
- bug24872: handover sockets if listen() or connect() fail with ENOBUFS.
- bug24874: fix fcntl(F_GETFL) for pipe.
- bug24690: allow NULL epoll_event when deleting fd from epoll set.
- bug24566: drop socket lock before running pending signals.
- bug23093: do not enter_lib before sendfile() syscall.
- bug22392: When spinning in UL, check for postponed signals.
- bug23968: fix gcc-4.6 warnings


openonload-201104-u2
--------------------

- Avoid jitter caused by periodic timer.
- Improvements to onload_stackdump statistics and output for pipes.
- Avoid grabbing lock in interrupt handler if not needed.
- Prevent unnecessary polling when interrupt driven.
- Reduce wakeup latency when interrupt driven.
- Don't poll for network events when polling accelerated pipes.
- Improve performance of epoll with UDP sockets.
- Fix timeout extension in epoll_wait() with spinning.
- Added option EF_EPOLL_NONBLOCK_FAST_LOOPS.
- Improve accuracy of timestamps (SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] and SIOCGSTAMP[NS]).
- Added option EF_TCP_LISTEN_HANDOVER and EF_TCP_CONNECT_HANDOVER.
- Use /bin/sh instead of bash in scripts.
- Improved sfcaffinity_config spreading of interrupts.
- Improved flexibility and handling of onload tuning profiles.
- Fix race that could cause jitter when blocking and EF_INT_DRIVEN=0.
- Added option EF_TX_QOS_CLASS.
- Try to exit "memory pressure" condition more promptly.
- ef_vi: Fix delayed RX doorbell when write-combining enabled.
- bug24965: Fix bug that caused UDP send hang on concurrent sends with no arp.


openonload-201104-u1
--------------------

- bug22781: Fix problem setting EF_FDTABLE_SIZE when non-root.
- Build fixes for RHEL6.1, MRG2, 2.6.39, gcc 4.6.
- Add Onload Extensions library.
- bug23578: Copying too much data in getsockopt() when buffer supplied is big.
- Add counter for handover to kernel in socket() calls.
- bug23749: Fix bug in SO_TIMESTAMP and SO_TIMESTAMPNS.
- Support TCP_QUICKACK socket option.
- bug23833: Don't attempt to accelerate bond that has vlan interface as slave.
- Ensure onload_tool works when /sbin is not on the PATH.
- bug23878: Fix to software driverlink filtering.
- Include some missing options in "onload_stackdump doc".
- ef_vi: Add env vars EF_VI_EVQ_SIZE, EF_VI_TXQ_SIZE, EF_VI_RXQ_SIZE.
- ef_vi: Choose appropriate size of event queue by default (instead of min).
- ef_vi: Add EF_EVENT_RX_DISCARD_MCAST_MISMATCH.
- Avoid further synchronisation costs when EF_FDS_MT_SAFE enabled.
- Avoid syscall in ioctls SIOCGSTAMP and SIOCGSTAMPNS.
- Fix SIOCGSTAMP(NS) when last receive was via kernel.
- Avoid syscall in ioctl FIONREAD when datagram available at userlevel.
- Avoid syscall in ioctl FIONREAD when kernel receives disabled.
- sfc_affinity: Fix bug preventing filters from being added.
- Support "-f hosts" option to mpiexec.
- Pass through profile options when invoking onload on remote hosts.
- Add some new counters to onload_stackdump, "lots" output extended.
- bug22230: SO_BINDTODEVICE to vlan interface didn't work.
- Added option EF_MCAST_JOIN_BINDTODEVICE.
- Improve EF_PREFAULT_PACKETS to prefault RX rings and enable by default.
- Only use atomic memory alloc for packet buffers when needed.
- EF_MULTICAST option removed.  See new EF_MCAST_RECV option.
- Added option EF_MCAST_JOIN_HANDOVER.
- bug24121: Fix data corruption when receiving UDP datagram with large MTU.
- bug24225: UDP receive queue did not respect SO_RCVBUF.
- bug24227: Poor TX latency on second send with write-combining enabled.
- Added EF_UDP_PORT_HANDOVER[23]_{MIN,MAX} options to add flexibility.


openonload-201104
-----------------

- New epoll implementation with improved scalability (see ReleaseNotes).
- New epoll also accelerates epoll_pwait().
- Acceleration of anonymous pipes.
- Partial implementation of SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option.
- New extended API for controlling mapping between stacks and sockets.
- onload_stackdump now works for non-root users.
- Epoll optimisation to improve performance of epoll_ctl() calls.
- Send performance improved in certain bonded configurations.
- Improve performance and accuracy of SIOCGSTAMP ioctl.
- Add suport for SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS, SIOCGSTAMPNS.
- Improved interrupt avoidance in blocking poll/select/poll.
- bug22046: Return from accept() if socket is shutdown().
- bug22701: Fix kernel crash when Onload process killed by a signal.
- bug22073: Always initialise revents for non-accelerated fds in poll().
- bug19843: Fix selection of mac when sending multicast packet to default
   route with gateway.
- Improve performance when multiple threads call select(), poll(), epoll.
- bug20328: Set cmsg msg_controllen to zero if not filling in any data.
- bug22018: Fix race that could cause EAGAIN on TCP send after poll, select
   or epoll says socket is readable.
- bug22263: Do not mask out EPOLLERR and EPOLLHUP after EPOLL_CTL_MOD.
- Added option EF_EPOLL_MT_SAFE to disable internal locking in epoll.
- Record max depth of UDP recv queue (available in onload_stackdump).
- Support larger max number of packet buffers per stack (limit was 32K).
- bug22431: Do not clear fdsets when select() returns error.
- bug22428: Fixed bug in select() where fdsets not cleared when non-blocking.
- bug22332: Handle case where socket is handed to kernel stack when in epoll.
- bug22400: Fix handling of restarting of calls on signal.
- bug22635: Fix timeout and signal handling when spinning.
- bug22636: Update select() timeout properly.
- bug21464: Handle siginterrupt() properly.
- EF_TX_PUSH is now enabled by default.
- Support for recvmmsg() call (even when not present in libc or kernel).
- Reduce cases where extra TCP ACKs are generated.  (Reduces TCP latency).
- Add options EF_TCP_FASTSTART_{INIT,IDLE,LOSS} to prevent extra TCP ACKs.
- Support SOCK_NONBLOCK flag.
- Fix rpm spec bug that could confuse modprobe after upgrade.
- Bugfix: Read EF_TCP_INITIAL_CWND and EF_TCP_LOSS_MIN_CWND options.
- onload_tool script should now work with the ash shell.
- onload_loaddrivers can now supply module parameters.
- Several minor performance improvements in select().
- Small latency improvements on receive path on all systems.
- Substantial latency improvement on send using write combining (requires
   kernel version >= 2.6.28).
- Various improvements to onload_stackdump output.
- EF_INT_DRIVEN=1 is enabled by default when spinning not enabled.
- Intercept __read_chk() -- needed on recent glibc.
- ef_vi: Add mac filtering.
- ef_vi: Add receive-side scaling.
- ef_vi: Add ef_iobufset_remap() to support forwarding.
- ef_vi: New and improved sample apps.
- bug23390: Fix infinite busy loop when run out of packet buffers.
- Improve handling when few packet buffers available at startup.
- Added options EF_RXQ_MIN and EF_MIN_FREE_PACKETS.
- Added option EF_POLL_NONBLOCK_FAST_LOOPS to accelerate poll(..., timeout=0).
- Added options EF_POLL_TCP_LISTEN_UL_ONLY and EF_POLL_UDP_UL_ONLY.
- Install kernel module symbol info to well-known location.
- sfc: Updated to v3_1_0_4041
- sfc: TX push and write combining reduce latency
- sfc: RX n-tuple support (use 'ethtool -U' or 'sfctool -U')
- sfc: Runtime logging control (use 'ethtool -s ethX msglvl ...')
- Onload driver build now requires CONFIG_NETFILTER.


openonload-20101111-u1
----------------------

- More distributions supported by RPMs.
- bug21384: Fixed bug in synchronisation with kernel control plane.
- Performance improvement for UDP multicast sends.
- bug21271: Fix handling of signals when waiting for memory.
- bug21271: Fix handling of rare exception path in UDP send.
- bug21309: Fix kernel driver livelock bug. 
- bug19843: Fixed case where gateway mac was used instead of m'cast mac.
- bug21509: Sometimes IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP would fail to accelerate when
   interface was chosen via route table.
- bug18845: Improved handling when short of packet buffers.
- Added canned configuration profiles.
- New statistics added to "onload_stackdump stats".
- EF_MAX_PACKETS is no longer rounded to a power of 2.
- Use "onload_tool reload" to reload drivers.
    onload_loaddrivers is deprecated.
- No longer disable CPU low power states by default.
    Use "onload_tool disable_cstates [persist]" to re-enable.
- bug21634: Fix bug when multiple sockets subscribe to same multicast stream.
- bug21643: Uncorking TCP socket would sometimes delay sending data.
- Make ef_vi robust to certain errors in event notifications.
- Minor change in ef_vi interface.
- bug21103: Suppress constantly repeating error messages.
- Support up to 6 accelerated network interfaces by default.
- Fixed dimensioning of state when many accelerated interfaces supported.
- Improve performance of send/recv etc. when file descriptor not accelerated.
- Avoid unnecessary control plane sys-calls when ARP entries are static.
- bug21575: Fix rare deadlock in kernel driver.
- Update to v3_0_8_2221 sfc driver.


openonload-20101111
-------------------

- Set EF_TX_PUSH=1 to knock 0.5us off TX latency.
- Fixed bugs in handling of VLANs and bonds.
- Fixed broken EPOLLET handling.
- Improved epoll with TCP to more closely match Linux behaviour.
- Fixed numerous bugs found in extended testing.
- Fixed jumbo frame regression.
- Added config file /etc/sysconfig/openonload to control access to Onload.


openonload-20100923
-------------------

- See ReleaseNotes for details of new features and known problems.
- Acceleration of 802.1Q VLAN interfaces.
- Acceleration of bonded interfaces.
- Acceleration of epoll system calls.
- Small improvement in UDP send and receive latency.
- Prevent high latency when doing non-blocking receive calls.
- Many many minor enhancements and bug fixes.


openonload-20100604-u3
----------------------

- Fix bug that caused UDP packets to get wrong TTL value.
- Send log messages to syslog if STDERR is not a TTY.
- Fix incompatibility with apps that call fork() during _init.
- Support 2.6.34 and 2.6.35 kernels.
- Fixed zero-window probe bug.
- Avoid dependency on /usr for driver load.
- Ensure that onload driver gets loaded at boot time.
- Fix select() timeout behaviour when spinning.
- Update to v3_0_6_2199 sfc driver.


openonload-20100604-u2
----------------------

- Fix bugs in filter module that caused ports to be reused inappropriately.
- "onload_install --newkernel" to install modules for a new kernel.
- Allow "onload_install --listfiles" when Onload is already installed.
- The rpm spec file (in src/onload_misc) should now work on RHEL5.
- Adding and removing local IP addresses should now work properly.
- Fix recursion bug in send path introduced in 20100604 properly.
- Fix small per-stack memory leak.
- Fix rare bug that could cause corruption of packet lists.


openonload-20100604-u1
----------------------

- Zero-initialise UDP socket receive packet and byte counters.
- Fix DMA error on systems using IOMMU and multiple Onloaded interfaces.
- Fix recursion bug in send path introduced in 20100604 release.
- Fix bug that caused kernel panic when Onload stack destroyed.
- Fix warning due to memory allocated with interrupts disabled.
- Fix lock corruption caused by signal race.
- Fix kernel panic caused by logging ioctl.


openonload-20100604
-------------------

- Added option EF_MAX_RX_PACKETS to limit RX path buffer usage.
- Improved handling of situations where DMA buffers become scarce.
- Send reset on TCP connections when stack freed with internal lock stuck.
- Fix incompatibility that prevented 32-bit apps working on 64-bit RHEL5.
- Fix bug in control plane: Caused accelerated traffic to go to wrong port.
- Fixed build for certain realtime kernels and fedora 11 kernels.
- Work-around unwanted intercept of signal() in SLES10 ksh.
- Support for Fedora 12.
- Install preload libraries setuid/setgid by default.
- Quieten kernel log messages about RTA_PRIORITY.
- Fix bad performance of UDP send with large datagrams.
- Respect spin timeout in UDP send.
- Fixed state corruption bug in TCP TX exception path.
- Config option documentation available from "onload_stackdump doc".
- Fixed bug that could cause multicast filter to install on wrong interface.
- Fixed UDP send jitter at certain message sizes and rates.
- Added EF_SEND_POLL_THRESH and EF_SEND_POLL_MAX_EVS options.
- Improvements to data exported by onload_stackdump.
- Cope with early calls into libonload.so before it is initialised.
- Added option EF_DELACK_THRESH to disable delayed acknowledgements.
- EF_LOAD_ENV now true by default.
- Disable EF_CONG_AVOID_SCALE_BACK by default.
- Improvements to interrupt handling, reducing interrupts when spinning.
- Improvements to onload_install.
- Put sfc.ko in updates directory so it overrides in-tree driver.
- "onload_stackdump spin_poll" command.
- Acceleration of UDP sockets in userlevel select().
  (NB. poll() remains best performing multiplexor).
- onload_install --listfiles option.
- Limit time spent "buzzing" a lock by default.
- Make slow start less conservative by default.
- Added options EF_TCP_INITIAL_CWND and EF_TCP_LOSS_MIN_CWND.
- "onload_stackdump describe_stats" gives documentation for internal stats.
- Option --kernelver for onload_build and onload_install.
- Improved EF_UDP_RECV_UL_ONLY so less likely to break applications.
- Added option EF_UDP_RECV_MCAST_UL_ONLY.
- Hand UDP sockets connected over non-Onload interface to kernel by default.
- Turn on reporting of certain errors in syslog by default.
- sfcirqaffinity script to help setup interrupt affinity.
- Update to v3_0_3_2141 sfc driver.


openonload-20100308-u2
----------------------

- Fixed build errors for various kernel versions, including SLES9, Ubuntu
   and Fedora 12 kernels.
- Fixed build errors for certain Ubuntu kernel versions.
- Fixed kernel panic when certain interface is down.
- Option to spin when waiting for packet buffers.
- Fix for high latency when multiple threads spinning in TCP recv().
- Update to v3_0_3_2123 sfc driver.


openonload-20100308-u1
----------------------

- Fixed incorrect default SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF for TCP sockets.
- Fixed potential race in UDP receive path.


openonload-20100308
-------------------

- Support for recent Linux kernels, inc. 2.6.33
- Unlocked UDP send path avoids lock contention.
- Improved performance for UDP multicast sends.
- Improved support for jumbo frames.
- Improved UDP performance when traffic goes over non-accelerated
  interfaces.
- Improved performance for UDP with poll().
- Fix to poll() timeout extension.
- Option for apps to "share" an OpenOnload stack.
- Option to loopback multicast to local receiver (when stack is shared).
- Improved NUMA scaling: Onload DMA memory now allocated in local NUMA node.
- Update to v3_0_2_2115 sfc driver.
- Use appropriate temperature sensor limits.


openonload-20091220
-------------------

- Update to v3_0_2_2064 sfc driver.
- Support for SFC9000 controllers (SFN5122F).
- bugfix: Failed connect() could cause connection to subsequently hang.
- Fixes to signal handling.  Some calls returned EINTR instead of restarting.
- Reduce cpu overhead when blocking and locks are contended.
- Introduce more fine-grained control of when spinning is used.
- Do not spin in TCP accept() by default.
- "stackdump filters" output no longer goes to kernel log
- Fixed bug in filtering code relating to multiple sockets in one stack.
- Do not attempt the close() intercept on kernels where it doesn't work.
- Added option to "buzz" internal locks.
- bugfix: Fix out-of-bounds table lookup.
- Reduce cost of "deferred work" path and fix race.
- Do not hold stack lock while spinning in TCP recv().
- Latency improvement when spinning and interrupts are also enabled.
- Handover UDP sockets that are connected over the loopback interface.
- Add option EF_UDP_CONNECT_HANDOVER.


openonload-20091106
-------------------

- Update to v2_3_20_1086 sfc driver.
- sfcaffinity_config: Fixed bug where irq affinity might not be set.
- Increase the number of "kernel" sockets that user-level poll() will track.
- sfcaffinity_config: Improve error messages.
- Remove limitation in filter tables that limited us to 8 hops max.
- Program hardware with minimum filter hops needed for current filters.
- First steps towards spreading onload interrupts.
- Improvements in install to support packaging up binaries, and making rpms.
- Fix build and install problem on Debian systems.


openonload-20090812
-------------------

- Support for using Onload with multiple NICs/ports.
- The SFC affinity driver is now included with OpenOnload.
- Various minor improvements to stackdump.
- Performance improvement in TCP send and receive paths.
- Scalability improvement in UDP recv() et al when spinning.
- Export symbol "onload_version" from the preload library (can be used by
  applications if they want to know whether onload is present, and what
  version).
- Various bug fixes.


openonload-20090409.1
---------------------

- bug16011: Packet loss when IPG is very small.
- Performance improvement for UDP recv() when spinning is enabled.


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