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1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
Support for Two-Terabyte Memory Systems
System Administration Enhancements
SPARC: Support for Fast Reboot
User-Level CMT Observability Tools
Solaris Volume Manager Data Recovery
Oracle Solaris Groups Functionality
x86: Generic FMA Topology Enumerator
System Performance Enhancements
Tunable Parameter for Flash Devices in the sd.conf Configuration File
x86: Oracle Solaris I/O Interrupt Framework Enhancement for Nehalem-EX Platforms
Support for IPv6 NAT on IPFilter
x86: Jumbo Frame Support in the bnx Driver
PKCS#11 Provider for Oracle Key Manager
Support for AES Cipher Suites in the KSSL
Assigning a New Password Does Not Unlock a Locked Account
Password Construction Policy Applies to the root User by Default
Samba Upgrade to Version 3.5.8
x86: Bash Upgrade to Version 3.2
Apache C++ Standard Library Version 4 Support
Support for New Devices in the ixgbe Driver
Support for New Devices in the igb Driver
Support for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) Devices in the e1000g Driver
Support for New Devices in the bge Driver
Support for New Device in the qlcnic Driver
Support for New Device in the mcxnex/mcxe Driver
Support for New Devices in the scu Driver
x86: Support for LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA Device
This section describes the driver enhancements in this release.
The bge driver supports public Generic LAN Driver (GLD) interfaces.
For more information about GLD interfaces, see the following man pages:
The bge driver supports Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI). This support increases the number of available interrupts, thereby potentially increasing the performance of the system.
For more information, see the bge(7D) man page.
The bge driver supports Jumbo Frames for Broadcom BCM5718. This feature provides the following advantages:
Increases throughput by enabling the system to concentrate on data in the frames
Reduces CPU utilization because the number of interrupts are reduced
For more information, see the bge(7D) man page.
Oracle Solaris supports the RDSv3 interfaces required by Oracle for RAC 11g. Oracle has defined Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) interfaces for Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). These interfaces have been available on Linux platforms since OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.3. This feature is primarily for the InfiniBand transport.
In RDSv1, the RDS driver copies data from userland to the kernel to transport data to a remote destination. This copying of large data is expensive and time consuming. The support for RDSv3 with InfiniBand eliminates this problem by providing direct memory access (DMA), thereby decreasing response time.