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This file describes changes in recent versions of Slurm. It primarily
documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators.
* Changes in Slurm 16.05.7
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-- Fix issue in the priority/multifactor plugin where on a slurmctld restart
more time than should be allowed would be accounted for.
-- cray/busrt_buffer - If total_space in a pool decreases, reset used_space
rather than trying to account for buffer allocations in progress.
-- cray/busrt_buffer - Fix for double counting of used_space at slurmctld
startup.
-- Fix regression in 16.05.6 where if you request multiple cpus per task (-c2)
and request --ntasks-per-core=1 and only 1 task on the node
the slurmd would abort on an infinite loop fatal.
-- cray/busrt_buffer - Internally track both allocated and unusable space.
The reported UsedSpace in a pool is now the allocated space (previously was
unusable space). Base available space on whichever value leaves least free
space.
-- cray/burst_buffer - Preserve job ID and don't translate to job array ID.
-- cray/burst_buffer - Update "instance" parsing to match updated dw_wlm_cli
output.
-- sched/backfill - Insure we don't try to start a job that was already started
and requeued by the main scheduling logic.
-- job_submit/lua - add access to the job features field in job_record.
-- select/linear plugin modified to better support heterogeneous clusters when
topology/none is also configured.
-- Permit cancellation of jobs in configuring state.
-- acct_gather_energy/rapl - prevent segfault in slurmd from race to gather
data at slurmd startup.
-- Integrate node_feature/knl_generic with "hbm" GRES information.
-- Fix output routines to prevent rounding the TRES values for memory or BB.
-- switch/cray plugin - fix use after free error.
-- docs - elaborate on how way to clear TRES limits in sacctmgr.
-- knl_cray plugin - Avoid abort from backup slurmctld at start time.
-- cgroup plugins - fix two minor memory leaks.
-- If a node is booting for some job, don't allocate additional jobs to the
node until the boot completes.
-- testsuite - fix job id output in test17.39.
-- Modify backfill algorithm to improve performance with large numbers of
running jobs. Group running jobs that end in a "similar" time frame using a
time window that grows exponentially rather than linearly. After one second
of wall time, simulate the termination of all remaining running jobs in
order to respond in a reasonable time frame.
-- Fix slurm_job_cpus_allocated_str_on_node_id() API call.
-- sched/backfill plugin: Make malloc match data type (defined as uint32_t and
allocated as int).

Dominik Bartkiewicz
committed
-- srun - prevent segfault when terminating job step before step has launched.

Dominik Bartkiewicz
committed
-- sacctmgr - prevent segfault when trying to reset usage for an invalid
account name.
-- Make the openssl crypto plugin compile with openssl >= 1.1.
* Changes in Slurm 16.05.6
==========================
-- Docs - the correct default value for GroupUpdateForce is 0.
-- mpi/pmix - improve point to point communication performance.
-- SlurmDB - include pending jobs in search during 'sacctmgr show runawayjobs'.
-- Add client side out-of-range checks to --nice flag.
-- Fix support for sbatch "-W" option, previously eeded to use "--wait".
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin and capmc_suspend/resume programs modified to
sleep and retry capmc operations if the Cray State Manager is down. Added
CapmcRetries configuration parameter to knl_cray.conf.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: Remove any KNL MCDRAM or NUMA features from
node's configuration if capmc does NOT report the node as being KNL.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: drain any node not reported by
"capmc node_status" on startup or reconfig.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: Substantially streamline and speed up logic
to load current node state on reconfigure failure or unexpected node boot.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: Add separate thread to interact with capmc
in response to unexpected node reboots.
-- node_features plugin - Add "mode" argument to node_features_p_node_xlate()
function to fix some bugs updating a node's features using the node update
RPC.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: If the reconfiguration of nodes for an
interactive job fails, kill the job (it can't be requeued like a batch job).
-- Testsuite - Added srun/salloc/sbatch tests with --use-min-nodes option.
-- Fix typo when an error occurs when discovering pmix version on
configure.
-- Fix configuring pmix support when you have your lib dir symlinked to lib64.
-- Fix waiting reason if a job is waiting for a specific limit instead of
always just AccountingPolicy.
-- Correct SchedulerParameters=bf_busy_nodes logic with respect to the job's
minimum node count. Previous logic would not decremement counter in some
locations and reject valid job request for not reaching minimum node count.
-- Fix FreeBSD-11 build by using llabs() function in place of abs().
-- Cray: The slurmd can manipulate the socket/core/thread values reported based
upon the configuration. The logic failed to consider select/cray with
SelectTypeParameters=other_cons_res as equivalent to select/cons_res.
-- If a node's socket or core count are changed at registration time (e.g. a
KNL node's NUMA mode is changed), change it's board count to match.
-- Prevent possible divide by zero in select/cons_res if a node's board count
is higher than it's socket count.
-- Allow an advanced reservation to contain a license count of zero.
-- Preserve non-KNL node features when updating the KNL node features for a
multi-node job in which the non-KNL node features vary by node.
-- task/affinity plugin: Honor a job's --ntasks-per-socket and
--ntasks-per-core options in task binding.
-- slurmd - do not print ClusterName when using 'slurmd -C'.
-- Correct a bitmap test function (used only by the select/bluegene plugin).
-- Do not propagate SLURM_UMASK environment variable to batch script.
-- Added node_features/knl_generic plugin for KNL support on non-Cray systems.
-- Cray: Prevent abort in backfill scheduling logic for requeued job that has
been cancelled while NHC is running.
-- Improve reported estimates of start and end times for pending jobs.
-- pbsnodes: Show OS value as "unknown" for down nodes.
-- BlueGene - correctly scale node counts when enforcing MaxNodes limit take 2.
-- Fix "sbatch --hold" to set JobHeldUser correctly instead of JobHeldAdmin.
-- Cray - print warning that task/cgroup is required, and must be after
task/cray in the TaskPlugin settings.
-- Document that node Weight takes precedence over load with LLN scheduling.

Dominik Bartkiewicz
committed
-- Fix issue where gang scheduling could happen even with OverSubscribe=NO.
-- Expose JOB_SHARED_* values to job_submit/lua plugin.
-- Fix issue where number of nodes is not properly allocated when srun is
requested with -n tasks < hosts from -w hostlist.
-- Update srun documentation for -N, -w and -m arbitrary.
-- Fix bug that was clearing MAINT mode on nodes scheduled for reboot (bug
introduced in version 16.05.5 to address bug in overlapping reservations).
-- Add logging of node reboot requests.
-- Docs - remove recommendation for ReleaseAgent setting in cgroup.conf.
-- Make sure a job cleans up completely if it has a node fail. Mostly an
issue with gang scheduling.
* Changes in Slurm 16.05.5
==========================
-- Fix accounting for jobs requeued after the previous job was finished.
-- slurmstepd modified to pre-load all relevant plugins at startup to avoid
the possibility of modified plugins later resulting in inconsistent API
or data structures and a failure of slurmstepd.
-- Export functions from parse_time.c in libslurm.so.
-- Export unit convert functions from slurm_protocol_api.c in libslurm.so.
-- Fix scancel to allow multiple steps from a job to be cancelled at once.
-- Update and expand upgrade guide (in Quick Start Administrator web page).
-- burst_buffer/cray: Requeue, but do not hold a job which fails the pre_run
operation.
-- Insure reported expected job start time is not in the past for pending jobs.
-- Add support for PMIx v2.
-- mpi/pmix: support for passing TMPDIR path through info key
-- Cray: update slurmconfgen_smw.py script to correctly identify service nodes
versus compute nodes.
-- FreeBSD - fix build issue in knl_cray plugin.
-- Corrections to gres.conf parsing logic.
-- Make partition State independent of EnforcePartLimits value.
-- Fix multipart srun submission with EnforcePartLimits=NO and job violating
the partition limits.
-- Fix problem updating job state_reason.
-- pmix - Provide HWLOC topology in the job-data if Slurm was configured
with hwloc.
-- Cray - Fix issue restoring jobs when blade count increases due to hardware
reconfiguration.
-- burst_buffer/cray - Hold job after 3 failed pre-run operations.
-- sched/backfill - Check that a user's QOS is allowed to use a partition
before trying to schedule resources on that partition for the job.
-- sacctmgr - Fix displaying nodenames when printing out events or
reservations.
-- Fix mpiexec wrapper to accept task count with more than one digit.
-- Add mpiexec man page to the script.
-- Add salloc_wait_nodes option to the SchedulerParameters parameter in the
slurm.conf file controlling when the salloc command returns in relation to
when nodes are ready for use (i.e. booted).
-- Handle case when slurmctld daemon restart while compute node reboot in
progress. Return node to service rather than setting DOWN.
-- Preserve node "RESERVATION" state when one of multiple overlapping
reservations ends.
-- Restructure srun command locking for task_exit processing logic for improved
parallelism.
-- Modify srun task completion handling to only build the task/node string for
logging purposes if it is needed. Modified for performance purposes.

Alejandro Sanchez
committed
-- Docs - update salloc/sbatch/srun man pages to mention corresponding
environment variables for --mem/--mem-per-cpu and allowed suffixes.

Alejandro Sanchez
committed
-- Silence srun warning when overriding the job ntasks-per-node count
with a lower task count for the step.
-- node_features/knl_cray: Fix bug where MCDRAM state could be taken from
capmc rather than cnselect.
-- node_features/knl_cray: If a node is rebooted outside of Slurm's direction,
update it's active features with current MCDRAM and NUMA mode information.
-- Restore ability to manually power down nodes, broken in 15.08.12.
-- Don't log error for job end_time being zero if node health check is still
running.
-- When powering up a node to change it's state (e.g. KNL NUMA or MCDRAM mode)
then pass to the ResumeProgram the job ID assigned to the nodes in the
SLURM_JOB_ID environment variable.
-- Allow a node's PowerUp state flag to be cleared using update_node RPC.
-- capmc_suspend/resume - If a request modify NUMA or MCDRAM state on a set of
nodes or reboot a set of nodes fails then just requeue the job and abort the
entire operation rather than trying to operate on individual nodes.
-- node_features/knl_cray plugin: Increase default CapmcTimeout parameter from
10 to 60 seconds.
-- Fix squeue filter by job license when a job has requested more than 1
license of a certain type.
-- Fix bug in PMIX_Ring in the pmi2 plugin so that it supports singleton mode.
It also updates the testpmixring.c test program so it can be used to check
singleton runs.
-- Automically cleanup task/cgroup cpuset and devices cgroups after steps are
done.
-- Testsuite - Fix test1.83 to handle gaps in node names properly.

Dominik Bartkiewicz
committed
-- BlueGene - correctly scale node counts when enforcing MaxNodes limit.
-- Make sure no attempt is made to schedule a requeued job until all steps are
cleaned (Node Health Check completes for all steps on a Cray).
-- KNL: Correct task affinity logic for some NUMA modes.
-- Add salloc/sbatch/srun --priority option of "TOP" to set job priority to
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