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In contrast, FreeBSD 7.0 introduced TCP buffer auto-tuning, and thus should provide good TCP performance out of the box even over LFNs. This release also implements large-send offload (LSO) and large-receive offload (LRO) for some Ethernet adapters. FreeBSD 7.0 also announces the following in its presentation of technological advances:
10Gbps network optimization: With optimized device drivers from all major 10gbps network vendors, FreeBSD 7.0 has seen extensive optimization of the network stack for high performance workloads, including auto-scaling socket buffers, TCP Segment Offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO), direct network stack dispatch, and load balancing of TCP/IP workloads over multiple CPUs on supporting 10gbps cards or when multiple network interfaces are in use simultaneously. Full vendor support is available from Chelsio, Intel, Myricom, and Neterion.
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The FreeBSD Foundation has granted a project "Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack" to Lawrence Stewart at Swinburne University. Goals for this project include support for Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC, RFC 3465), merging SIFTR into the FreeBSD codebase, and improving the implementation of the reassembly queue. Information is available on Center for Advanced Internet Architectures. Other improvements done by this group are support for modular congestion control, implementations of CUBIC, H-TCP, TCP Vegas, the SIFTR TCP implementation tool, and a testing framework including improvements to iperf for better buffer size control.
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In February 2010, a set of Software for FreeBSD TCP R&D was announced by the Swinburne group: This includes modular TCP congestion control, Hamilton TCP (H-TCP), a newer "Hamilton Delay" Congestion Control Algorithm v0.1, Vegas Congestion Control Algorithm v0.1, as well as a kernel helper/hook framework ("Khelp") and a module (ERTT) to improve RTT estimation.
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