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We are pleased to announce the release of OSv 0.11 Alpha Release

Features

Some of the noteworthy additions are:

REST API

We are continuously extending REST API coverage of OSv. Latest additions are:

  • Network API: get routes information
  • Hardware API: get processor numbers and flags
  • File system API: df - report filesystem disk space usage
  • OS API: update the OS command line
  • Environment Variables API: unset an environment variable

Lua base CLI

Introducing a new optional Lua CLI module Lua CLI can run on OSv, when building the image with make -image=cli, or externally, using REST API to interact with the OSv server. Lua CLI have low footprint, and does not relay on the JVM. More on the Lua CLI here

New page range allocator

The original memory allocation algorithm for large objects was first-fit linear search. The new allocator achieves better computational complexity, which is not worse than logarithmic as long as there is appropriately large amount of free contiguous memory. Small unallocated memory blocks are kept, depending on their size, in one of 16 lists with constant time allocation and deallocation. Free areas too large to fit in any of these lists are stored in a tree that guarantees logarithmic complexity.

Cloud-init

now support sections in user data. Each section can refer to a particular module/application.

Random

experimental, use at your own risk

collect entropy from interrupts, 1 bit from the following sources:

  • interrupt vector number
  • instruction pointer
  • cycles counter and provides RDRAND as a source of entropy for CSPRNG

EC2 Simulator

A new testing tool, which allows testing EC2 metadata query locally

Performance

Some of the latest improvements

  • A new route cache mitigate TCP/IP scalability issues on SMP by remove locking (rwlock and mutex). Improves Tomcat benchmark by 10% for 4 vCPU use case.
  • maximize LSO frames size, Maximizing the LSO packet size we reduce the CPU usage both in the guest, and in HV. improves the netperf TCP_STREAM test performance up to 260%, depend on packet size.
  • Add fast path in ARP lookups, caching IPv4 address and MAC address
  • Decrease lock contention within the TCP accept case

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Full List of contributions

Amnon Heiman (127):
      Http Server: remove unused config object
      Http Serve: Clean up the matcher class
      Http Server: Add mime types for ico and txt
      Http Server: Os Version API
      Http Server: Change the OS version stub to use uname
      Http Server: Move handlers in the api directory
      Http Server: Json formatter
      Http Server: Change the OS version to work with the json formatter
      Http Server: switch to boost_program_options-mt
      Http Server: Add json path support
      Http Server: Support Json objects
      Http Server: Expend the formatter
      Http Server: Routes can be configure with a json path
      Http Server: auto code generation script
      Http Server: Makefile support code generation
      Http Server: Initilize the route from the json path definition
      Http Server: Add stub for shutdown
      Http Server: Implement the os api
      Http Server: Code generation script error
      Http Server: Code Cleanup in routes and matchrules
      Http Server: Code clean up and astyle handlers
      Http Server: Rename parser to transformer
      Http server: file interaction handlers complete support for file_transformer
      Http Server: Search a header in the request by its name
      Http Server: add get_url to the request
      Http Server: fix a bug in the matcher
      Http Server: allows empty paramter in a path parameter
      Http Server: add redirect on missing slash
      Http Server: when requesting for a directory adds index.html to the path
      Http Server: Add a file transformer
      Http Server: Simplify the routes API with the url object
      Http Server: Add file mapping
      Http Server: Add file mapping to main
      Http Server: missing a class in a method decleration
      Http Server: Fix a bug in the initilization of the a bufferbuilder
      Http Server: Remove copy constructor and assignment from json base
      Http Server: Fix a few error with commas in Json parsing
      Http Server: Adding copy constructor to the generated code
      Http Server: Add query parameters to the request structure
      Http Server: Fix a comment and format in handler.hh
      Http Server: Add not found exception to handler
      Http Server: support query parameters
      Http Server: routes dispatching need to support GET/POST
      Http Server: Add the java directory to the include list
      Http Server: Add the jvm implementation
      Http Server: Add the jvm init to main
      Http Server: Add stubs for the java_api
      Http Server: Add PUT and DELETE operation
      Http Server: Support PUT and DELETE http command
      Http Server: use typedef in connection.hh
      Http Server: Add message handling exception to connection
      Http Server: Add a helper read string function to connection
      Http Server: Add multi-part field to the request
      Http Server: Add multi-part parser to connection object
      Http Server: Add method to check if this is a multi part message
      Http Server: Read multi-part messages
      Http Server: add bad parameter exception
      Http Server: Adding the file API implementation
      Http Server: Add file init to main.cc
      Http Server: Change the Swagger GUI to / instead of /ui
      Http Server: Use const for operation names
      Http Server: Change file.cc to use constants over string
      Http Server: Makefile should depend on the code generation script
      Http Server: Override the default error message
      Http Server: Add enum support to code generation
      Http server: Additional file support
      Http Server: Testing to support additional os version
      Http Server testing: Adding file API testing
      Http Server: Move exception to their own file
      Http Server: File upload handled by the handler
      Http Server: file api - file upload
      Http Server: Testing the file upload API
      Http server: Add stub for debugger buffer
      Http Server: Makefile to depend on h files
      Move the swagger api submodule to mgmt
      Http Server: Clean up in the lambda expression handlers
      Http Server: handler to support mandatory parameters
      Http Server: add mandatory parameters to the path
      Http server: Add a parameter not found exception
      Http Server: Add mandatory parameters support to the routes
      Http server: Adding path holder
      Http server: code generation to support mandatory parameters
      Http Server: Code generation declare path holder
      Http Server: Initilialize the path_holder
      Http Server: file.cc to use new API
      Http Server: running astyle on jvm.cc
      Http Server: jvm and os API implementation to use new API
      Http Server: Modify the parameter order in path_holder
      Http Server: set a default type in path holder to be json
      Http Server: Move the parameters object to the request
      Swagger API: Adding the env.json
      Swagger API: Adding the env.json to the api-docs
      Http Server: Adding the env API implementation
      Http Server: Call env::init from main
      Http Server: Add tests for environment variable
      OSv Init: http client
      OSv Init: the osvinit class
      OSv Init: the main
      OSv Init: A basic configuration file
      Http Server: A singleton class for starting the httpserver
      OSv Init: Makefile
      Http server: Make file create a stub library
      OSv Init: add the module.py
      Http Server: rename httpserver.so to libhttpserver.so
      OSvInit: add directory of the yaml-cpp library
      Http Server: The global server header file
      Http Server: Code generation, add template function to copy and set structure.
      Http Server: Auto code generation determine class order
      Http Server: Code generation removing tracing printouts
      Http Server: Make file git pull should pull from the root directory
      Http Server: Split Testing into multiple files
      vfs mount: change char * to const char*
      Http Server Testing: Adding test for thread API
      Remove the Route gathering logic outside of lsroute
      Http Server: Add routes API
      Adding libtools.so library
      Http Server: Write a text to a file
      Http Server: code generation improve error handling
      Http Server: Implicitly call json formatting for json handlers
      build.mk pass arch to the module compilation
      Adding libtools.so library
      Http Server: clean up the implementation using the updated API
      Drivers get_name method should be const
      libtools should be added to the image
      Move the get interface logic outside of ifconfig into libtools.lib
      Http Server: Add an API to unset environment variable
      unset environment varaible change the swagger definition

Asias He (11):
      tcp: Increase TCBHASHSIZE from 512 to 4096
      tcp: Remove the function tcp_twrecycleable
      net: Decrease lock contention within the TCP accept case
      net: Add fast path in ARP lookups
      syscall: Drop #if 0'd sendfile code
      net: Get rid of unnecessary recursive locking
      net: kill lltable_drain
      net: kill arp_ifinit2
      net: Remove dead code in if.cc
      net: Remove ifa_ref()/ifa_free(), which are atomic(9), from ip_output()
      net: Do not leak ifa in ip_output

Avi Kivity (48):
      httpserver: build with optimizations
      httpserver: add build dependencies
      vfs: move poll_link to file.h
      vfs: convert file::f_poll_list to be a boost::intrusive::list
      vfs: remove unneeded extern "C" from osv/file.h
      epoll: use correct key
      epoll: properly lock epoll file
      epoll: handle races between epoll_wait() and epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL)
      epoll: use epoll_file in epoll_ptr
      tests: add epoll tests for same file/differnt fd
      Merge tag 'epoll-fixes-v2' of https://github.com/avikivity/osv
      test/misc-malloc: fix data corruption in worker thread
      rcu hashtable
      tests: add test for rcu_hashtable
      net: use rcu_hashtable in net channel classifier
      sched: fix allocation in interruptible wait_until
      Revert "net: use rcu_hashtable in net channel classifier"
      virtio: fix missed notification
      build: teach osv-version.sh not to pick up random tags
      tests: fix tst-dlfcn
      tests: reduce rcu hashtable test running time
      tests: run tests with --unsafe-cache
      net: avoid more tcp_close() in tcp_do_segment()
      libc: import if_nametoindex() from musl
      Improve complexity of the large allocator
      build: don't regenerate makefiles constantly
      build: ask before nuking old build/release/
      Revert "mempool: use new page range allocator"
      Revert "build: ask before nuking old build/release/"
      rcu_hashtable: fix bad erase()
      Revert "Revert "net: use rcu_hashtable in net channel classifier""
      bsd: avoid #define malloc() when possible
      memory: allow using debug allocator in parallel with standard allocator
      memory: debug allocator helper
      Merge branch dbg-alloc
      build: remove .SECONDARY
      build: fix build/release link generation
      net: kill inpgroups
      net: simplify inpcb allocation
      net: remove unused fields from struct inpcb
      net: inpcb: replace bzero() with C++ initialization
      net: remove tcp offload support
      net: convert inpcbinfo::ipi_lock to a mutex
      net: tcp: remove dead code
      net: tcp: fix up indentations
      Revert "build: remove .SECONDARY"
      rcu hashtable: add documenation
      rcu hashtable: fix documentation

Calle Wilund (8):
      Remote REST API for trace point introspection and control
      Add REST Api call for trace dump extraction.
      java: Add chained exception to ContextIsolator:runjar
      java: Fix JVM stack protection issues
      mmu: file-mapped vma flag
      libc: Fix pthread_getattr_np()
      Add "modules" to symbol search path to get httpserver etc symbols
      httpserver: Support POST requests with application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Claudio Fontana (3):
      core/elf: validate NOTE segment length
      aarch64: implement processor::ticks()
      drivers: pl011: do not convert \n to \r\n

Dmitry Fleytman (1):
      release-ec2: introduce AWS region/zone/placement group parameters

Elazar Leibovich (3):
      x64: Document how boot16.S get loader size
      x64: Replace magic constant with variable for ELF entry point offset
      x64: explain where %rbp and %rbx are set

Glauber Costa (29):
      arch: factor out parse_cmdline
      inspect the current command line
      commands: add method to save a command line to disk
      create an exception for code 500
      os: add an api to modify the command line
      libc: regex functions
      command line: fix issues with commited code
      cpuid: add string to cpuid parser
      processor: provide a string representation of all processor features
      move cpuid.hh to processor.hh header
      httpserver: harware probing API
      xen blkfront: Don't for quiesce on absent flush
      xen blkfront: software barrier support
      pthread: implement pthread yield
      libc: implement passwd handling functions
      pthread: implement pthread_rwlock functions
      user: implement some more user functions
      user: implement getgrgid
      user: nitpick for getlogin_r
      build: export a meaningful arch-string to be used for OSv
      use the canonical arch string for uname, instead of hard coding it
      elf: initial implementation of getauxval
      path lookup: allow null pointer for name argument
      fs: implement lutimes
      tests: return a failure code if tst-utimes fails
      tst: increment tst-utimes with lutimes functionality
      libc: implement glibc's glob_pattern_p
      time functions: implement utime
      httpserver: document /os/cmdline

Gleb Natapov (2):
      vfs: increase vnode refcount under vnode_lock lock in dentry_alloc()
      bsd: change zfs rwlock implementation to use OSv's rwlock instead of mutex

Jaspal Singh Dhillon (6):
      add handler for /os/dmesg and add dmesg as a command
      rest_api: expose set/get hostname api
      vfs: implement sendfile()
      tests: add tests for sendfile()
      vfs: fix errno in sendfile()
      tests: fix tst-sendfile.cc

Masami Ichikawa (1):
      scripts: Support both python2 and python3 for api.py

Nadav Har'El (26):
      mgmt: compile osvinit after httpserver
      mgmt/httpserver: Add more include directories
      REST API: Add /os/thread request
      Remove bsd/include/pthread_np.h
      Httpserver: add to "make clean"
      readdir(): set missing d_reclen field
      libosv.so: Add missing weak symbols
      Fix thread::thread_clock() on a running thread
      Update mgmt.git head
      libc: snprintf for "infinite" lengths
      Add __longjmp_chk()
      command line: don't wait for disowned threads
      loader: always run httpserver, and other stuff from /init
      module system: add httpserver module unless explicitly removed
      console: Fix bare linefeeds on early output on Xen
      Another early-boot linefeed fix
      Add missing backtrace line
      tests: Test thread_local support
      bsd: Change again recently-changed rwlock API
      Re-add ".SECONDARY" to build.mk
      Route Cache patch #1
      Route Cache patch #2
      Clean up tests/misc-mutex.cc
      revert "make image=", add new "make modules="
      Add rwlock read-lock benchmark to tests/misc-mutex
      Fix empty-path case of futimesat()

Or Cohen (21):
      Add ncurses module
      Add libedit module
      Add lua module
      Add cli module code
      Build code for cli module
      Some documents created while working on the CLI
      cli: Fix usage of httpserver module
      cli: Use a proper terminal definition
      httpserver: Fix /os/dmesg output format
      cli: Refactoring command structure
      cli: Add "hello" boilerplate command example
      cli: Multiple modifications for API utility
      cli: cat: use API to retrieve file content
      cli: Add date command
      cli: Add df command
      cli: Add free command
      cli: Add mkdir command
      cli: Add rm command
      cli: Add dmesg command
      Lua: Install modules with LuaRocks
      Lua: Add lua-stdlib to available Lua modules

Paweł Dziepak (14):
      mempool: limit max_object_size to page_size / 4
      mempool: replace MALLOC_ALIGNMENT with alignof(max_align_t)
      mempool: set default alignment to min(size, alignof(max_align_t))
      mempool: don't increase size of arbitrary aligned objects
      mempool: make sure that alignof(max_align_t) >= 2 * sizeof(size_t)
      include: add ilog2()
      include: add count_trailing_zeros() functions
      mempool: remove unused function debug_memory_pool()
      mempool: introduce new page range allocator
      mempool: use new page range allocator
      mempool: fix page_range_allocator::_bitmap resize
      Revert "Revert "mempool: use new page range allocator""
      loader: get offset of list and set hooks in page_range
      memory: don't allocate huge page range if it is not big enough

Pekka Enberg (33):
      Rename miniweb to httpserver
      Http Server: Fix small formatting glitch
      Http Server: Clean up <api/os.hh>
      Http Server: Fix include path in Makefile
      Http Server: Show code generation during build
      api-doc: update to latest
      Merge httpserver from mgmt.git into osv.git
      httpserver: Fix Swagger UI submodule
      Merge pull request #1 from tgrabiec/httpserver
      modules/httpserver: Fix path for 'make check'
      mgmt: update to latest
      scripts: GCE image uploading
      mgmt: update to latest
      mgmt: update to latest
      Merge branch 'lua-cli'
      Move osvinit into osv.git
      modules/osvinit: Fix module configuration
      modules/osvinit: Fix module path
      mgmt: update to latest
      Rename osvinit to cloud-init
      elf: Make lookup_addr() respect symbol size
      EC2 simulator: Add metadata API for Cassandra autoconfig
      vfs: Fix lseek() boundary cases
      tests: Test case for lseek()
      Revert "tcp_output(): maximize LSO frames size"
      Merge branch 'archlinux-build-fixes'
      Revert "Adding libtools.so library"
      scripts/test.py: Fix output alignment
      Merge branch 'cloud-init-improvements'
      Merge branch 'cli-port-commands'
      Merge branch 'route-cache'
      routecache: Remove debugging printout
      mgmt: update to latest

Prasad Joshi (8):
      fs: add openat systemcall
      libc: add dirfd api
      test: add openat testcase
      libzfs: define unresolved devid_get function
      libzfs: disable BSD specific geom_gettree call
      zfs: skip character devices for ZFS pool lookup
      zpool: fix pool import assert when name starts with number
      zfs: ioctl(TRYIMPORT) must fail if config buf is insufficient

Raphael S. Carvalho (10):
      x64: Introduce the instruction RDRAND
      x64: random: provide RDRAND as a source of entropy for CSPRNG
      random: Add debug messages for available hw sources
      random: init and deinit live entropy sources
      zfs: Fix spa import procedure for multi-vdev pools
      mkfs: Automatic detection and insertion of additional vblk devices
      random: fix random_harvest visibility for C++ source files
      random: Print warning when no hw source of entropy is available
      random: kill random_harvestq_cache
      vfs: log file system unmounts

Renato Cunha (6):
      sched: Add cpu_set_t as expected by linux programs
      pthread: Add cpu_set_t support to pthread
      pthread: Add pthread_attr_setaffinity_np and pthread_attr_getaffinity_np
      pthread: Add stubbed versions of pthread_setaffinity_np and its get counterpart
      tests: Add testing for pthread_attr_setaffinity_np and get counterpart
      tests/tst-pthread-affinity: Remove bogus struct

Shlomi Livne (2):
      Http Server: File System DF RESTful API
      Test tst-poll.cc can not be runned twice

Takuya ASADA (13):
      fs: add chown stub
      math: Add __isinff
      libc: Add __fdelt_chk
      loader: add --ip on cmdline, static IP configuration
      loader: add --defaultgw on cmdline, default gateway address
      loader: add --nameserver on cmdline, nameserver address
      isa-serial: Introduce early_init() to init driver ealier
      fs: call abort on sys_panic, instead of kprintf
      pci: Add VGA classcode
      vga: use PCI classcode on probe function
      pci: Add AHCI classcodes
      ahci: use PCI classcode on probe function
      ide: fix drive availability check

Tomasz Grabiec (71):
      httpserver: compile using boost headers matching libraries we link with
      httpserver: fix paths to misc.bin
      httpserver: add missing stub for java_api::is_valid()
      Extract httpserver into separate module
      httpserver: add missing module.py
      tests: fix pattern for os/version
      httpserver: fix make rules for submodules
      httpserver: do not override response code in request post-processing phase
      httpserver: cleanup: remove unused parameter from reply400/reply500
      httpserver: cleanup: make handle() return void
      api: add RESTful API for controlling the sampling profiler
      osvinit: fix compilation error
      osvinit: express compilation-time dependency on httpserver with require()
      httpserver: tests: the script is using the wrong command line
      modules: locate httpserver in modules/
      httpserver: fix module path used in module.py
      httpserver: register /env API
      httpserver: tests: do not ignore request failures
      osvinit: update location of httpserver module
      Bump up apps.git pointer
      make: fix typo in .PHONY
      make: clean all modules on 'make clean'
      osvinit: fix linking of osvinit.so
      net: respect MTU set via ioctl
      random: fix includes
      random: create random devices even when there's no virtio-rng
      timer-set: make the assertion in expire() more verbose
      httpserver: fix rule for swagger-ui
      scripts: add EC2 metadata service simulator
      bsd: wire get_cyclecount() to processor::ticks()
      Bump up apps.git pointer
      bsd: add missing include to random.h
      ring_spsc: introduce emplace() method
      core: introduce unordered_ring_mpsc
      tests: add test for unordered_ring_mpsc
      bsd: C++'ify random_harvestq.c
      random: make random_harvest() non-blocking
      random: collect entropy from interrupts
      gdb: fix 'osv runqueue' on python3
      bsd: make hash.h includeable from both C and C++ code
      bsd: extract get_clockcycles() declaration to a header
      bsd: reorder fields of struct random_adaptor to match initialization order
      bsd: C++'ify source files realted to entropy harvesting
      lockfree: align ring_spsc.emplace() to the STL standard
      core: move unordered_ring_mpsc.hh form osv/ to lockfree/
      Add utilities for working with exceptions
      cloud-init: run before httpserver
      cloud-init: client: make connection time out after 1 second
      cloud-init: client: support for setting HTTP headers
      cloud-init: client: introduce text() method for getting response contents
      cloud-init: client: do not throw when response code is not 200
      cloud-init: call load*() methods directly
      cloud-init: turn 'once' flag to a standard behavior
      cloud-init: add support for pluggable configuration modules
      cloud-init: introduce meta-data service abstraction
      cloud-init: load config from cloud's user data by default
      cloud-init: link with boost_filesystem
      cloud-init: add support for "files" syntax
      cloud-init: clean up error handling
      scripts: use EC2 tools from PATH
      setup.py: append EC2_HOME/bin to PATH
      setup.py: backup /etc/environment before override
      setup.py: use standard EC2 packages on Ubuntu
      dlfcn: fix corruption caused by dlclose()
      epoll: make epoll_wait respect concurrent updates
      tests: add test for epoll_ctl concurrent with epoll_wait
      tests: make tst-epoll return non-zero exit code on error
      tests: fix tst-sigwait.cc
      modules/lua: fix the build
      epoll: add support for EPOLLONESHOT
      tests: epoll: add test for EPOLLONESHOT

Vlad Zolotarov (3):
      percpu_xmit: Use a proper memory order in clear_pending()
      tcp_output(): maximize LSO frames size
      tcp_output(): maximize LSO frames size

Zifei Tong (13):
      Add parentheses in print statement to support Py3K
      Fix 'sign-compare' error in unordered_ring_mpsc.hh
      build: change libgcc_s.a to libgcc.a
      build: fix tst-static-thread-variable.so dependencies (again)
      scripts: encode string before use it as buffer
      httpserver: python3 support for json2code.py
      scripts: add python3 support to test framework
      scripts: add gcc 4.9 support to loader.py
      build: use system gcc headers when build_env=host
      mmu: show path and offset for file-mapped vma
      elf: get rid of zero-length vmas
      gdb: fix padding for short bits str
      gdb: show offset/path for file mapped vma in 'osv mmap'

konya.vic@gmail.com (1):
      pci: Fix wrong offsets of PCI configuration
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