github openucx/ucx v1.14.0-rc1
v1.14.0 RC1 (January 25, 2023)

latest releases: v1.17.0, v1.17.0-rc3, v1.17.0-rc2...
pre-release21 months ago

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)

  • 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

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