Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:46:52 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Thanks for all the work on the MPSAFE network stack project Message-ID: <20070727134047.O46637@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Dear all, Thanks again to everyone involved in this multi-year project to make our network stack fully parallel. It has been a huge project, and the number of people who've worked on it is sufficiently long as to be not easily captured. I would like to acknowledge everyone involved, and apologize for missed names. The following FreeBSD developers and other individuals have all made significant contributions to this work, and deserve many thanks: John Baldwin, John Birrell, Antoine Brodin, Jake Burkholder, Alan Cox, Brooks Davis, Pawel Dawidek, Matthew Dillon, Tor Egge, Julian Elischer, Ruslan Ermilov, Bruce Evans, Don Lewis, Brian Feldman, Andrew Gallatin, John-Mark Gurney, Paul Holes, Peter Holm, Jeffrey Hsu, Kris Kennaway, Maxim Konovalov, Joseph Koshy, Wojciech Koszek, Roman Kurakin, Max Laier, Nate Lawson, Sam Leffler, Jonathan Lemon, Warner Losh, Don Lewis, Qing Li, Scott Long, Warner Losh, Kip Macy, Rick Macklem, Ed Maste, Bosko Milekic, Marcel Moolenaar, George Neville-Neil, Andre Oppermann, Chuck Paterson, Bill Paul, Alfred Perlstein, Paolo Pisati, Attilio Rao, Luigi Rizzo, Jeff Roberson, Paul Saab, Hidetoshi Shimokawa, Mike Silberback, Bruce Simpson, Gleb Smirnoff, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mohan Srinivasan, Randall Stewart, Marius Strobl, Mike Tancsa, Seigo Tanimura, JINMEI Tatuya, Andrew Thompson, Hajimu UMEMOTO, Stephan Uphoff, Peter Wemm, David Xu, Jennifer Yang, Maksim Yevmenkin, Pyun YongHyeon, and Bjoern Zeeb. The support of many FreeBSD-consuming companies and organizations was instrumental in making this work happen, especially with regard to sponsoring development, providing testing resources, hardware, etc: BSDI, who contributed prototype reference source code for parts of a finer-grained implementation of the BSD kernel, and specifically, network stack, as well as their early development support for the SMPng Project as a whole. The FreeBSD Foundation, who provided sponsorship to fund portions of the development, as well as test hardware, as well as sponsoring conferences, developer summits, and developer travel in order to bring together developers working on the project. All FreeBSD Foundation sponsors deserve our thanks for helping to make this possible -- you can find the names of some of these sponsors on the FreeBSD Foundation web site, and get your own name added there by making a donation yourself :-). In addition, I'd like to thank Sentex Data Communications and the Internet Software Consortium for their support in providing test environments for this work. Isilon Systems also provided sponsorship for the MPSAFE VFS work, which overlapped with this work in several areas including the NFS server. Yahoo! has provided significant testing support, as well as supporting several developers who worked on this project. Hardware has been donated by many companies, but especially by Cisco, iXsystems, HP, FreeBSD Systems, Myricom, AMD, Neterion, Chelsio, Intel, and IronPort Systems (now also a Cisco company). Finally, I want to thank all the members of the FreeBSD community for their diligence in reporting and tracking bugs, tolerance of occasional minor (and major) instability, and supportive words for this project over many yeras. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070727134047.O46637>