Hrvoje Popovski wrote in to alert us that Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) has written a new blog post entitled Faster vlan(4) forwarding?, which leads in with

Two years ago we observed that vlan(4) performances suffered from the locks added to the queueing API. At that time, the use of SRP was also pointed out as a possible responsible for the regression. Since dlg@ recently reworked if_enqueue() to allow pseudo-drivers to bypass the use of queues, and their associated locks, let's dive into vlan(4) performances again.

Read the whole thing here: Faster vlan(4) forwarding?

openrsync, a clean-room implementation of rsync, is being developed by Kristaps Dzonsons as part of the rpki-client(1) project [featured in an earlier article]. openrsync(1) has been imported into the tree (as "rsync") by Sebastian Benoit (benno@):

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	benno@cvs.openbsd.org	2019/02/10 16:18:28

Added files:
	usr.bin/rsync  : Makefile TODO.md blocks.c child.c client.c 
	                 downloader.c extern.h fargs.c flist.c hash.c 
	                 io.c log.c main.c md4.c md4.h mkpath.c 
	                 receiver.c rsync.1 rsync.5 rsyncd.5 sender.c 
	                 server.c session.c socket.c symlinks.c 
	                 uploader.c 

Log message:
Import Kristaps' openrsync into the tree.
OK deraadt@

The "Security" section on the GitHub site contains a description of openrsync's use of OpenBSD's security features.

At the time of writing, rsync is not yet linked to the build.

Florian Obser (florian@) kindly wrote in with news on some recent work:

DNS is easy. You fire up your browser, enter undeadly.org in its address bar and sooner or later you reach your favourite OpenBSD journal.

Well, not quite.

Fresh from the a2k19 hackathon, Joel Sing (jsing@) delivered a presentation at the 2019 linux.conf.au.

Video is now available.

Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) just committed support for 2TB of physical memory on the amd64 platform:

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    src
Changes by:     mlarkin@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/20 23:18:37

Modified files:
        sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c pmap.c 
        sys/arch/amd64/include: pmap.h 

Log message:
Support 2TB phys mem

This change expands the direct map to 4 slots (512GB each), to support
machines with up to 2TB physical memory. Should further expansion be
required, this change provides the means to do that with a single #define
change.

with help from and ok guenther

Those of you with machines with lots of memory are encouraged to try this out and report your dmesg!

Peter Hessler (phessler@) has committed changes to make it possible to join any open wifi network:

With two commits by Pratik Vyas (pd@), vmm(4) support for i386 host systems has been deleted (one can still run i386 guests under vmm on an amd64 host). The commit messages explain the reasoning behind this move:

Ian Darwin (ian@) wrote in to let us know that he's written an article which is a follow-up to an Undeadly story from a decade ago!

The article provides a fine illustration of benefits of a bloat-free OS.

Thanks very much for the pointer, Ian.

Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has just changed the default console font to Spleen, a font of his own creation:

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    src
Changes by:     fcambus@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/09 04:23:32

Modified files:
        sys/dev/rasops : rasops.c 
        sys/dev/wsfont : wsfont.c 

Log message:
Enable Spleen in wsfont and modify the font selection logic at runtime
in rasops(9) to allow selecting larger fonts when available.