v1.14.1-rc3

1.14.1 RC3 (May 19, 2023)

• Fixed ROCm to prevent the locking of host pinned memory

v1.14.1-rc2

1.14.1 RC2 (May 18, 2023)

Bugfixes

• Added CUDA 12 based UCX builds to the release flow

v1.14.1-rc1

1.14.1 RC1 (May 17, 2023)

Bugfixes

• Increased the maximal number of endpoint configurations
• Fixed filter for a slow-lanes in selection logic
• Fixed TCP transport bandwidth calculation
• Fixed device detection for ROCM
• Fixed compatibility with CUDA 12
• Fixed rendezvous threshold for multi-path configurations
• Fixed error message in case of static link
• Fixed BlueField-3 detection
• Multiple fixes for Azure CI pipeline

v1.15.0 RC1

1.15.0 RC1 (May 10, 2023)

Features:

UCP

• Added 2-stage pipeline protocol in the new protocol infrastructure
• Added reset and abort functionality of rendezvous protocols in the new infrastructure
• Added zero-copy rendezvous data send protocol in the new infrastructure
• Added support for user memory handle in the new protocol infrastructure
• Added option to force ODP registration for certain memory types
• Enabled lock free memory region deregistration
• Updated allow/deny transport list feature to control auxiliary transport selection
• Multiple performance improvements of the new protocol infrastructure
• Multiple improvements in error and debug messages

UCT

• Split UCT_MD_MKEY_PACK_FLAG_INVALIDATE into two flags for RMA and AMO
• Added put_zcopy and get_zcopy scheme support for self transport
• Added base implementation of is_reachable_v2 API using intra/inter flag
• Introduced MD capability for non-blocking registration memory types

RDMA CORE (IB, ROCE, etc.)

• Added option to control CQE zipping per CQ RX/TX direction
• Added option to specify how DCI selects port under RoCE LAG
• Added hw_dcs to the list of policies to select DCI by an endpoint
• Removed implicit on-demand paging
• Added option to set RoCE lag dct port for response under queue affinity mode
• Improved IB memlock limit logging

UCS

• Added ucs_string_buffer_rbrk() to split token

GPU (CUDA, ROCM)

• Added support for atomic reply_buffer on GPU memory
• Added system device information for AMD GPUs
• Improved performance estimation of gdr_copy transport
• Added a simplistic implementation of performance estimation of cuda_ipc transport
• Improved performance estimation of cuda_ipc on Hopper architecture
• Added rcache parameters for rocm transports
• Introduced dmabuf support for rocm transports
• Implemented asynchronous progress for the zcopy operations in the rocm_copy transport
• Added option to enable using cross-device dmabuf file descriptor for rocm

Java

• Added Java bindings for exported memh feature

Tests

• Added a rocm docker container for testing
• Added option to send client_id in iodemo test
• Added support for multiple connections to the same server in iodemo test
• Added synchronization before exit to hello world examples

Tools

• Added user-side memcpy option for AM benchmarks in ucx_perftest
• Added wireshark LUA dissectors for some UCX protocols

Build

• Added a separate xpmem deb subpackage
• Added aarch64 support to the binary distribution pipeline
• Removed dependency on libnuma

Bugfixes:

UCP

• Fixed crash during connection manager cleanup
• Fixed rkey index calculation for rendezvous protocol
• Fixed rcache dump function
• Removed logging from rkey unpack in release mode
• Fixed dobule free of rkey in rendezvous protocol
• Fixed rendezvous pipeline protocol error flow
• Fixed error handling in rendezvous get zcopy protocol
• Replay pending requests of wireup EP CM during connection establishment to prevent potential ordering issues and wrong configuration
• Pass user-provided memory type to the function that checks whether the buffer can be sent inline or not
• Avoid memory registration during UCP context initialization
• Fixed CPU/device atomics selection in the new protocol infrastructure
• Multiple fixes in the new protocol infrastructure information output

UCT

• Fixed exported memh packing
• Fixed an error in checking return status of multi-threaded memory registration function

RDMA CORE (IB, ROCE, etc.)

• Added check for UAR support to memory domain opening
• Fixed updating port counters for devx qp
• Fixed ibv_create_cq error message on node without Infiniband
• Fixed performance degradation due to using 2 paths on NDR400 by default
• Removed unnecessary async lock which otherwise would block UD progress

UCS

• Fixed displaying wrong environment variable suggestions
• Fixed VFS warning output
• Fixed SEGV in ucs_debug_backtrace_next(), upon previous SEGV handling, due to ENOMEM situation
• Fixed memory corruption when using UCX_MPOOL_FIFO=y

UCM

• Fixed mremap() override

GPU (CUDA, ROCM)

• Fixed usage of dmabuf when the buffer is not page-aligned
• Removed async_cb from cuda_copy to avoid the issue with UCP worker async lock

Java

• Fixed leakage of jucx_request global references

Documentation

• Updated ucp_worker_release_address description

Tests

• Fixed wrong usage of ep_close in examples

Tools

• Removed support for librte from perf
• Fixed worker flush deadlock when using multiple workers in ucx_perftest

Build

• Changed 'unsupported option' ICC command line warning to error
• Removed never used fault-injection configuration option
• Fixed obsolete macro warnings in new autoconf/libtool
• Fixed building UCX with GCC 13
• Fixed UCX RPM build on machines that have libxpmem-devel rpm from MLNX_OFED installation
• Fixed ucx-rdmacm package requirements
• Fixed compilation errors with armcc-22.1
• Fixed passing port number to goperftest

v1.14.0

Features:

UCP

• Added API for querying transport and device names on endpoint
• Added API for querying datatype object
• Added API for exporting and importing memory keys (no implementation yet)
• Added support for non-persistent active message header
• Added infrastructure to print protocols v2 performance
• Multiple performance improvements for protocols v2
• Added support for non-contiguous datatypes for rendezvous protocols v2
• Added support for reset and abort request in protocols v2
• Added support for user memory handles in RMA API
• Added multi-rail support for RMA API in protocols v2
• Added support for up to 16 different lanes per endpoint
• Added support for dmabuf memory registration in protocols v2
• Added strong fence mode for ucp_worker_fence() API

UCT

• Added new uct_md_mem_attach() API to support exported memory handles
• Added remote completion mode for endpoint flush (via new flag)
• Added support for dmabuf registration
• Added new uct_ep_connect_to_ep_v2() API
• Added new uct_mem_reg_v2() API
• Added new uct_md_query_v2() API
• Added support for IPv6 loopback address in TCP transport

RDMA CORE (IB, ROCE, etc.)

• Added ECE (enhanced connection establishment) support for RC and DC transports
• Added support for hardware DCS in DC transport
• Added UD interface and endpoint resource information to VFS
• Added CQ creation via DEVX API
• Removed support for accelerated IB transports over legacy experimental verbs

UCS

• Added support for auto-correction of user environment variables

UCM

• Implemented CUDA bistro hooks for aarch64 (to enable memory cache on this platform)
• Added support for CUDA virtual/stream-ordered memory with cudaMallocAsync

GPU (CUDA, ROCM)

• Implemented uct_iface_estimate_perf() function for ROCM
• Removed obsoleted ROCM gdr transport
• Added support for hsa async_copy for short operations in ROCM
• Added memory allocation functions in ROCM

Java

• Added methods for ucp_worker_arm() and ucp_worker_get_efd()

Documentation

• Added FAQ for using pkg-config tool to build applications with UCX

Tests

• Added prints of latency per connection in io_demo

Tools

• Added runtime library version to the 'ucx_info -v' output
• Added support for memory types in ucx_info

Bugfixes

UCP

• Multiple fixes in keepalive protocol
• Multiple fixes and improvements in UCP rcache flows
• Fixed endpoints leak by disabling resolving remote endpoints in certain cases
• Multiple fixes and cleanups in wireup protocol and lanes selection flows
• Multiple fixes in protocols v2 infrastructure
• Fixed worker interface initialization taking atomic caps into account
• Fixed UCP AM max payload value calculation for protocols v2
• Fixed deadlock in rcache when UCX_LOG_LEVEL set to debug
• Fixed lanes weight calculation in rendezvous protocol v2
• Fixed user memory handle support in rendezvous protocol
• Fixed message split in rendezvous protocol to avoid having very small chunks
• Improved performance estimations for protocols v2
• Fixed receive descriptors leak in UCP AM rendezvous

UCT

• Fixed double free of server endpoint in TCP sockcm
• Updated KNEM bandwidth to be dedicated resource rather than shared
• Fixed race in CM when listener is destroyed during conn_req_cb invocation
• Updated default bandwidth value for memory mapper transports
• Disqualify posix transport if /dev/shm size is too small
• Disqualify KNEM transport if memory registration fails with it
• Fixed cuda detection (when cuda headers are not present, but nvml headers are)

RDMA CORE (IB, ROCE, etc.)

• Fixed device error handling (prevent coredump when iface is down/up)
• Multiple fixes in DC transport (error flows, flow control, etc)
• Multiple fixes and cleanups in UD transport
• Fixed MR registration (avoid atomic offset breaking region alignment)
• Fixed indirect key registration (avoid creating atomic KSM on top of relaxed-order key)
• Fixed thread domain usage for accelerated verbs transports
• Added print of a particular syndrome on DEVX function failures
• Fixed DEVX QP creation by setting proper ts_format attribute
• Decreased size of DC endpoint
• Fixed bandwidth calculation for RoCE LAGs
• Fixed port counters setting for DEVX QPs
• Fixed compile errors on SLES sp3
• Removed errors during md open in case of strict memlock limit

UCS

• Removed async_max_events limit (e.g. to support many concurrent TCP connections)
• Updated memory wc flush using DGH hint for ARM platform
• Fixed deprecation warnings because of <sys/fcntl.h> includes
• Added default bandwidth value for ZHAOXIN CPU

UCM

• Fixed segfault in malloc when compiled with -flto

GPU (CUDA, ROCM)

• Updated cuda_copy transport to use event fd instead of async callback
• Fixed ROCM IPC transport (use remote agent if available)
• Fixed clang compilation errors in CUDA copy transport
• Fixed ROCM memtype detection
• Improved performance estimation of CUDA copy transport
• Fixed send to self flows in ROCM

Documentation

• Updated GPU memory support section in FAQ

Tests

• Multiple fixes and improvements in unit tests

Tools

• Fixed MPI RTE send deadlock in ucx_perftest

Build

• Build Debian package with multi-thread support
• Fixed configure warning by using POSIX compliant sh syntax
• Multiple fixes for Debian package build
• Dropped support for Ubuntu16

v1.14.0 RC6 (March 1, 2023)

Bugfixes

Build

• Multiple fixes and improvements in generation of .deb packages
• Dropped support for Ubuntu16

v1.14.0 RC5 (February 20, 2023)

Bugfixes

Build

• Added publishing cuda .deb packages

v1.14.0 RC4 (February 14, 2023)

Bugfixes

Build

• Fixed UCX cuda support in .deb packages

v1.14.0 RC3 (February 10, 2023)

Bugfixes:

Build

• Fixed generation of .deb packages

v1.14.0 RC2 (February 2, 2023)

Bugfixes:

GPU (CUDA, ROCM)

• Updated cuda_copy transport to use event fd instead of async callback