=== Kernel Benchmark, MAINTAINERS, and pkgdist

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link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[Kernel benchmark writeup] URL: https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[] +
link:https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[MAINTAINERS srcmgr thread] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[] +
link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[MAINTAINERS pull request] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[] +
link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/pull/1[pkg to distribution set converter] URL: https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/pull/1[]

Contact: Trevor Xu <trevorxu5@gmail.com>

My work this term was split between three projects.

==== Kernel Benchmark

I ran several benchmarks of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (default installation), and FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT with kernel debugging disabled.
The purpose of this work was to provide proper measurements of the performance impacts of kernel debug tooling.
I found that the default installation of 16.0-CURRENT (i.e. with debug) was significantly slower than 15.0-RELEASE, particularly in areas such as memory allocation.
On the other hand, 16.0-CURRENT when configured correctly had performance comparable to 15.0-RELEASE in every test I ran.
A link:https://github.com/Humanoid-Human/fbsd-work/blob/main/kernel-benchmark.md[full writeup] is available.

==== MAINTAINERS Modernization

Based on the info from the link:https://github.com/freebsd/srcmgr/issues/21[srcmgr thread], I made a layout for a UCL file that would store maintainers and paths to watch, as a replacement for the current MAINTAINERS file.
I then wrote a flua script that reads this file and can output CODEOWNERS for GitHub or Forgejo, get the maintainers for a particular path, get paths for a particular maintainer, etc.
The pull request can be found link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2107[here].

==== pkg to Distribution Set Converter

Currently working on writing a shell script that can convert a pkgbase package set into a distribution set.
This would help facilitate the transition to pkgbase.

Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation