[netperf-talk] 2.4.2 is "released"

[Rick Jones]

Well, I finally pulled the trigger and have "released" netperf 2.4.2 - 
the release takes two forms.  First is a tag in the subversion repository:

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf/tags/netperf-2.4.2

the second is a tar file at:

ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf/netperf-2.4.2.tar.gz

Here are the highlights from:

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags/netperf-2.4.2/Release_Notes

These are the Release Notes for Revision 2.4.2 of netperf:

Things changed in this release:

*) Fixes for floating point format differences, courtesy of George
    Davis.

*) Additions for CPU util support on MacOS X, courtesy of Anonymous.

*) Processor affinity is now supported on AIX 5.3 (perhaps earlier)
    via the bindprocessor system call.

*) Fixes for test lockups with TCP_CRR and TCP_CC under Windows
    courtesy of Dikon Reed.

*) Fixes to netcpu_looper.c to get it to actually compile :)

*) Have netcpu_looper use the bind_to_specific_processor() call
    provided by netlib since that knows about more platforms than the
    code in netcpu_looper did. The looper CPU binding will use a
    mapping to handle cases where the CPU id's on the system may not be
    a contiguous space starting from zero.  At present, the code that
    setups the mapping only knows about retrieving actual CPU ids under
    HP-UX.

*) The netcpu_sysctl method becomes calibration-free, courtesy of
    Andrew Gallatin

happy benchmarking,

rick jones