F-Stack Release Note

F-Stack Release Note

F-Stack is an open source network framework based on DPDK.

2019.11 F-Stack v1.20

1. F-Stack lib:

• Fix some bugs. Corresponding upstream changeset from Freebsd releng-11.0/release-11.1/release-11.2/release-11.3/release-12
• Fix bug of bind and connect. @jin.hao
• Fix F-stack compile error in Red Hat 8.0 with gcc 8.2.1.
• Add IPv6 supported.
• Add make install, and you can not must set FF_DPDK and FF_PATH.
• Add FF_USE_PAGE_ARRAY compile switch in Makefile, turn on it will not use mcopy when transmit packetes from bsd to dpdk. @jin.hao
• Add vlan supported. @dragonorloong
• Add bonding suopported. Note: some bond driver can not work with multi processes.
• Add pkt_tx_delay parameter in config.ini.
• Add tx_csum_offoad_skip parameter in config.ini. @JayathS

2. Nginx:

• Upgrade to 1.16.1.

3. Redis:

• Upgrade to 5.0.5

4. Tools:

• Fix the crash bug while excute ff_netstat -n.
• IPv6 supported.
• Add make install, and you can use ff_ to run F-Stack tools.
• ff_traffic support -P to show traffic info of all processes.
• ff_top support -P to show cpu usage of all processes.
• All tools can work in one time.

5. DPDK:

• Upgrade to 18.11.5 LTS.

2019.11 F-Stack v1.13

1. F-Stack lib:

• Fix some bugs.
• Add interface ff_dup, ff_dup2``ff_ioctl_freebsd, ff_getsockopt_freebsd, ff_setsockopt_freebsd.
• Initial parameter proc-type can be NULL, default “auto”.
• Add “idle_sleep” parameter to reduce CPU usage when no pkts incomming, add base_virtaddr parameter for some vms.
• Add arch arm64 compiler options.
• Support Container(Docker).
• Support vlan.

2. Nginx:

• Fix some bugs.
• Hook getpeername,getsockname,shutdown.
• Support “master_process off”.

3. Redis:

• Reset cpu affinity when new process forked.

4. Tools:

• Add traffic tool.

5. DPDK:

• Upgrade to 17.11.4 LTS.

2018.5 F-Stack v1.12

1. Fixed some bugs.
2. Nginx: host event supported.
3. kern_timeout: decrease the cpu usage of timer.
4. DPDK: upgrade to 17.11.2 LTS.

2017.11 F-Stack v1.11

1. Intel DPDK network I/O module.
2. FreeBSD Network Stack.
3. Nic offload: checksum(IP/TCP/UDP), TSO, VLAN, etc.
4. Network tools: sysctl, ifconfig, route, netstat, top, etc.
5. Firewall supported: ipfw.
6. Netgraph supported: ngctl.
7. Posix-like API: socket,event.
8. Coroutine API.
9. Python bindings for F-Stack: pyfstack.
10. App: Nginx/Redis supported.