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Modern FreeBSD (at Opentech 2010)

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Outline of modern elements in FreeBSD 8. ...

Outline of modern elements in FreeBSD 8.

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- embedded now uses similar technologies to servers
- SMP dominance - (which motivates SMPng, GCD, ...)
- ZFS and UFS improvements
- we've lead the way in identifying how open source projects should run, and what they should do, but have done a lot of experimentation to get there
1:1 - simplifying scheduler data structures and
allowing them to use more complex heuristics
GCD - a new concurrent programming framework, answers mapping of M:N to 1:1
we switched from M:N to 1:1 to simply the scheduler / threading code, and because it appeared that application writers were generally choosing to use small thread pools (say, 2-100 threads) rather than using very large numbers. In part because Linux used 1:1 and you couldn't get it to create very large thread counts
Apple’s FreeBSD-derived iOS on iPhone and Ipad
FreeBSD-derived JunOS running on low-power switches
Recent work on algorithms and approaches that scale to high core counts through
complex work distribution, and hardware-assisted work distribution on high-performance network cards
1. as benchmarks over the last few years have shown, and we continue to aggressively exploit new parallelism.
2. and our kernel memory allocator has recently been updated to introduce NUMA-awareness.
1. for many evolving applications such as firewall appliances and smartphones.
3. Most recently, we've announced the Capsicum project, developed in collaboration with Google, to support capability-oriented OS security.
4. capiscum cutting edge, best paper
64-bit support
snapshots
background file system checking
extended attributes
advanced security features such as ACLs and MAC
and most recently, journaling
2. allows easily pluggable and extensible storage transforms,
* storage multipathing
* new RAID integration
* full file-system journaling and
* replication for fault tolerance.
3. with its self-healing and management features
1. we even have our own Prevent server system and actively re-analyze our source code nightly.
2. offering introspection tools for performance and behavioural analysis
3. allows similar analysis of userspace applications the FreeBSD foundation is sponsoring Rui Paulo to complete this.
4. make FreeBSD one of the best OS platforms for kernel feature development, including
a. integrated debugging
b. dynamic lock order analysis
Talked to many developers who actually write their Linux kernel code on FreeBSD so that they can use the debugging tools, before porting to Linux!
Commercial vendors have always done this: NetApp, Juniper, Apple, Isilon, Panasas, ...
1. Dealing with project growth has been a critical challenge, both socially and technically.
1a. A social experiment that has proven extremely successful, allowing us to renew project leadership over time.
2. Roughly ten years ago, we moved for the first time to an
3. including the very interesting SMPng project, which involved dozens of developers (and companies) collaborating to improve multiprocessor scalability.
4. in which chartered teams take responsibility for portions of the project's work: release engineering, application porting, security advisories, system adminstration, bug-busting, documentation, etc,
5. Moving away from the idea that a small "core team" of developers does it all.
6. CVS: many extensions --> Subversion: few extensions
7. as a way to improve our branched development methodology for
side-projects with long life cycles, as well as
supporting dozens of summer students each year sponsored by Google
8. Our most
recent developer summit at BSDCan 2010 in Ottawa had over 100 attendees
including developers and invited guests from various companies. That's a good
bit bigger than the 15-20 (?) folks at the first developer summit at the 2001
USENIX ATC in Boston.
9. Warner’s audit of all involved licenses should be
mentioned also.

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