Overview
The 8.1.1 is a patch release that fixes a major regression in 8.1.0. The regression is in the area of user level OpenMP thread handling, where we received several reports of reduced performance. Performance in these cases has been restored with ESMF 8.1.1.
Release Notes
- This patch release is backward compatible with ESMF 8.1.0.
- No bit-for-bit changes are expected for this release compared to ESMF 8.1.0.
- No changes were made to the ESMF regrid weight generation methods and applications. The ESMF tables summarizing the ESMF regridding status are unchanged.
- This patch release corrects a regression in the handling of user level OpenMP threads. See the Known Bugs section for details.
Known Bugs
- Same as ESMF_8_1_0 with the following exceptions:
- The issue with OpenMP thread count being reset to 1 within all ESMF components has been fixed.
- The PETs of all ESMF components, and any potentially created OpenMP threads under such PETs, are no longer pinned automatically to any specific PEs.
- Platform-specific bugs:
- The same as ESMF_8_1_0.