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-- Modify sgather to make global file systems easier to configure.
-- Added sacctmgr reconfig to reread the slurmdbd.conf in the slurmdbd.
-- Modify scontrol job operations to accept comma delimited list of job IDs.
Applies to job update, hold, release, suspend, resume, requeue, and
requeuehold operations.
-- Refactor job_submit/lua interface. LUA FUNCTIONS NEED TO CHANGE! The
lua script no longer needs to explicitly load meta-tables, but information
is available directly using names slurm.reservations, slurm.jobs,
slurm.log_info, etc. Also, the job_submit.lua script is reloaded when
updated without restarting the slurmctld daemon.
-- Allow users to specify --resv_ports to have value 0.
-- Cray MPMD (Multiple-Program Multiple-Data) support completed.
-- Added ability for "scontrol update" to references jobs by JobName (and
filtered optionally by UserID).
-- Add support for an advanced reservation start time that remains constant
relative to the current time. This can be used to prevent the starting of
longer running jobs on select nodes for maintenance purpose. See the
reservation flag "TIME_FLOAT" for more information.
-- Enlarge the jobid field to 18 characters in squeue output.
-- Added "scontrol write config" option to save a copy of the current
configuration in a file containing a time stamp.
-- Eliminate native Cray specific port management. Native Cray systems must
now use the MpiParams configuration parameter to specify ports to be used
for commmunications. When upgrading Native Cray systems from version 14.03,
all running jobs should be killed and the switch_cray_state file (in
SaveStateLocation of the nodes where the slurmctld daemon runs) must be
explicitly deleted.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.0pre4
==============================
-- Added job array data structure and removed 64k array size restriction.
-- Added SchedulerParameters options of bf_max_job_array_resv to control how
many tasks of a job array should have resources reserved for them.
-- Added more validity checking of incoming job submit requests.
-- Added srun --export option to set/export specific environment variables.
-- Scontrol modified to print separate error messages for job arrays with
different exit codes on the different tasks of the job array. Applies to
job suspend and resume operations.
-- Fix race condition in CPU frequency set with job preemption.
-- Always call select plugin on step termination, even if the job is also
complete.
-- Srun executable names beginning with "." will be resolved based upon the
working directory and path on the compute node rather than the submit node.
-- Add node state string suffix of "$" to identify nodes in maintenance
reservation or scheduled for reboot. This applies to scontrol, sinfo,
and sview commands.
-- Enable scontrol to clear a nodes's scheduled reboot by setting its state
to "RESUME".
-- As per sbatch and srun documentation when the --signal option is used
signal only the steps and unless, in the case, of a batch job B is
specified in which case signal only the batch script.
-- Modify AuthInfo configuration parameter to accept credential lifetime
option.
-- Modify crypto/munge plugin to use socket and timeout specified in AuthInfo.
-- If we have a state for a step on completion put that in the database
instead of guessing off the exit_code.
-- Added squeue -P/--priority option that can be used to display pending jobs
in the same order as used by the Slurm scheduler even if jobs are submitted
to multiple partitions (job is reported once per usable partition).
-- Improve the pending reason description for various QOS limits. For each
QOS limit that causes a job to be pending print its specific reason.
For example if job pends because of GrpCpus the squeue command will
print QOSGrpCpuLimit as pending reason.
-- sched/backfill - Set expected start time of job submitted to multiple
partitions to the earliest start time on any of the partitions.
-- Introduce a MAX_BATCH_REQUEUE define that indicates how many times a job
can be requeued upon prolog failure. When the number is reached the job
is put on hold with reason JobHoldMaxRequeue.
-- Add sbatch job array option to limit the number of simultaneously running
tasks from a job array (e.g. "--array=0-15%4").
-- Implemented a new QOS limit MinCPUs. Users running under a QOS must
request a minimum number of CPUs which is at least MinCPUs otherwise
their job will pend.
-- Introduced a new pending reason WAIT_QOS_MIN_CPUS to reflect the new QOS
limit.
-- Job array dependency based upon state is now dependent upon the state of
the array as a whole (e.g. afterok requires ALL tasks to complete
sucessfully, afternotok is true if ANY tasks does not complete successfully,
and after requires all tasks to at least be started).
-- The srun -u/--unbuffered options set the stdout of the task launched
by srun to be line buffered.
-- The srun options -/--label and -u/--unbuffered can be specified together.
This limitation has been removed.
-- Provide sacct display of gres accounting information per job.
-- Change the node status size from uin16_t to uint32_t.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.0pre3
==============================
-- Move xcpuinfo.[c|h] to the slurmd since it isn't needed anywhere else
and will avoid the need for all the daemons to link to libhwloc.
-- Add memory test to job_submit/partition plugin.
-- Added new internal Slurm functions xmalloc_nz() and xrealloc_nz(), which do
not initialize the allocated memory to zero for improved performance.
-- Modify hostlist function to dynamically allocate buffer space for improved
performance.
-- In the job_submit plugin: Remove all slurmctld locks prior to job_submit()
being called for improved performance. If any slurmctld data structures are
read or modified, add locks directly in the plugin.
-- Added PriorityFlag LEVEL_BASED described in doc/html/level_based.shtml
-- If Fairshare=parent is set on an account, that account's children will be
effectively reparented for fairshare calculations to the first parent of
their parent that is not Fairshare=parent. Limits remain the same,
only it's fairshare value is affected.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.0pre2
==============================
-- Added AllowSpecResourcesUsage configuration parameter in slurm.conf. This
allows jobs to use specialized resources on nodes allocated to them if the
job designates --core-spec=0.
-- Add new SchedulerParameters option of build_queue_timeout to throttle how
much time can be consumed building the job queue for scheduling.
-- Added HealthCheckNodeState option of "cycle" to cycle through the compute
nodes over the course of HealthCheckInterval rather than running all at
the same time.
-- Add job "reboot" option for Linux clusters. This invokes the configured
RebootProgram to reboot nodes allocated to a job before it begins execution.
-- Added squeue -O/--Format option that makes all job and step fields available
for printing.
-- Improve database slurmctld entry speed dramatically.
-- Add "CPUs" count to output of "scontrol show step".
-- scancel -b signals only the batch step neither any other step nor any
children of the shell script.
-- MySQL - enforce NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
-- Added CpuFreqDef configuration parameter in slurm.conf to specify the
default CPU frequency and governor to be set at job end.
-- Added support for job email triggers: TIME_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT_90 (reached
90% of time limit), TIME_LIMIT_80 (reached 80% of time limit), and
TIME_LIMIT_50 (reached 50% of time limit). Applies to salloc, sbatch and
srun commands.
-- In slurm.conf add the parameter SrunPortRange=min-max. If this is configured
then srun will use its dynamic ports only from the configured range.
-- Make debug_flags 64 bit to handle more flags.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.0pre1
==============================
-- Modify etc/cgroup.release_common.example to set specify full path to the
scontrol command. Also find cgroup mount point by reading cgroup.conf file.
-- Improve qsub wrapper support for passing environment variables.
-- Modify sdiag to report Slurm RPC traffic by user, type, count and time
consumed.
-- In select plugins, stop triggering extra logging based upon the debug flag
-- Added SchedulerParameters options of bf_yield_interval and bf_yield_sleep
to control how frequently and for how long the backfill scheduler will
relinquish its locks.
-- To support larger numbers of jobs when the StateSaveDirectory is on a
file system that supports a limited number of files in a directory, add a
subdirectory called "hash.#" based upon the last digit of the job ID.
-- More gracefully handle missing batch script file. Just kill the job and do
not drain the compute node.
-- Add support for allocation of GRES by model type for heterogenous systems
(e.g. request a Kepler GPU, a Tesla GPU, or a GPU of any type).
-- Record and enable display of nodes anticipated to be used for pending jobs.
-- Modify squeue --start option to print the nodes expected to be used for
pending job (in addition to expected start time, etc.).
-- Add association hash to the assoc_mgr.
-- Better logic to handle resized jobs when the DBD is down.
-- Introduce MemLimitEnforce yes|no in slurm.conf. If set no Slurm will
not terminate jobs if they exceed requested memory.
-- Add support for non-consumable generic resources for resources that are
limited, but can be shared between jobs.
-- Introduce 5 new Slurm errors in slurm_errno.h related to job to better
-- Modify scontrol to print error message for each array task when updating
the entire array.
-- Added gres_drain and gres_used fields to node_info_t.
-- Added PriorityParameters configuration parameter in slurm.conf.
-- Introduce automatic job requeue policy based on exit value. See RequeueExit
and RequeueExitHold descriptions in slurm.conf man page.
-- Modify slurmd to cache launched job IDs for more responsive job suspend and
gang scheduling.
-- Permit jobs steps full control over cpu_bind options if specialized cores
are included in the job allocation.
-- Added ChosLoc configuration parameter to specifiy the pathname of the
Chroot OS tool.
-- Sent SIGCONT/SIGTERM when a job is selected for preemption with GraceTime
configured rather than waiting for GraceTime to be reached before notifying
the job.
-- Do not resume a job with specialized cores on a node running another job
with specialized cores (only one can run at a time).
-- Add specialized core count to job suspend/resume calls.
-- task/affinity and task/cgroup - Correct specialized core task binding with
user supplied invalid CPU mask or map.
-- Add srun --cpu-freq options to set the CPU governor (OnDemand, Performance,
PowerSave or UserSpace).
-- Add support for a job step's CPU governor and/or frequency to be reset on
suspend/resume (or gang scheduling). The default for an idle CPU will now
be "ondemand" rather than "userspace" with the lowest frequency (to recover
from hard slurmd failures and support gang scheduling).
-- Added PriorityFlags option of Calulate_Running to continue recalculating
the priority of running jobs.
-- Replace round-robin front-end node selection with least-loaded algorithm.
-- CRAY - Improve support of XC30 systems when running natively.
-- Add new node configuration parameters CoreSpecCount, CPUSpecList and
MemSpecLimit which support the reservation of resources for system use
with Linux cgroup.
-- Add child_forked() function to the slurm_acct_gather_profile plugin to
close open files, leaving application with no extra open file descriptors.
-- Cray/ALPS system - Enable backup controller to run outside of the Cray to
accept new job submissions and most other operations on the pending jobs.
-- Have sacct print job and task array id's for job arrays.
-- If <sys/prctl.h> is present name major threads in slurmctld, for
example backfill
thread: slurmctld_bckfl, the rpc manager: slurmctld_rpcmg etc.
The name can be seen for example using top -H.
-- Provide more precise error message when job allocation can not be satisfied
(e.g. memory, disk, cpu count, etc. rather than just "node configuration
not available").
-- Create a new DebugFlags named TraceJobs in slurm.conf to print detailed
information about jobs in slurmctld. The information include job ids, state
and node count.
-- When a job dependency can never be satisfied do not cancel the job but keep
pending with reason WAIT_DEP_INVALID (DependencyNeverSatisfied).
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.12
===========================
-- Make it so previous versions of salloc/srun work with newer versions
of Slurm daemons.
-- Avoid delay on commit for PMI rank 0 to improve performance with some
MPI implementations.
-- Correct the sbatch pbs parser to process -j.
-- Squeue modified to not merge tasks of a job array if their wait reasons
differ.
-- Use the slurm_getpwuid_r wrapper of getpwuid_r to handle possible
interrupts.
-- Allow --ignore-pbs to take effect when read as an #SBATCH argument.
-- Do not launch step if job killed while the prolog was running.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.11
===========================
-- ALPS - Fix depth for Memory items in BASIL with CLE 5.2
(changed starting in 5.2.3).
-- ALPS - Fix issue when tracking memory on a PerNode basis instead of
PerCPU.
-- Modify assoc_mgr_fill_in_qos() to allow for a flag to know if the QOS read
lock was locked outside of the function or not.
-- Give even better estimates on pending node count if no node count
is requested.
-- Fix jobcomp/mysql plugin for MariaDB 10+/Mysql 5.6+ to work with reserved
work "partition".
-- If requested (scontrol reboot node_name) reboot a node even if it has
an maintenance reservation that is not active yet.
-- Fix issue where exclusive allocations wouldn't lay tasks out correctly
with CR_PACK_NODES.
-- Do not requeue a batch job from slurmd daemon if it is killed while in
the process of being launched (a race condition introduced in v14.03.9).
-- Do not let srun overwrite SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES if already in an allocation.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Prevent a job's end_time from being too small after a basil reservation
error.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix sbatch --ntasks-per-core option from setting invalid
SLURM_NTASKS_PER_CORE environment value.
-- Prevent scancel abort when no job satisfies filter options.
-- ALPS - Fix --ntasks-per-core option on multiple nodes.
-- Double max string that Slurm can pack from 16MB to 32MB to support
larger MPI2 configurations.
-- Log Cray MPI job calling exit() without mpi_fini(), but do not treat it as
a fatal error. This partially reverts logic added in version 14.03.9.
-- sview - Fix displaying of suspended steps elapsed times.
-- Increase number of messages that get cached before throwing them away
when the DBD is down.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix jobs from starting in overlapping reservations that won't finish before
a "maint" reservation begins.
-- Fix "squeue --start" to override SQUEUE_FORMAT env variable.
-- Restore GRES functionality with select/linear plugin. It was broken in
version 14.03.10.
-- Fix possible race condition when attempting to use QOS on a system running
accounting_storage/filetxt.
-- Sanity check for Correct QOS on startup.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.10
===========================
-- Fix a few sacctmgr error messages.
-- Treat non-zero SlurmSchedLogLevel without SlurmSchedLogFile as a fatal
error.
-- Correct sched_config.html documentation SchedulingParameters
should be SchedulerParameters.
-- When using gres and cgroup ConstrainDevices set correct access
permission for the batch step.
-- Fix minor memory leak in jobcomp/mysql on slurmctld reconfig.
-- Fix bug that prevented preservation of a job's GRES bitmap on slurmctld
restart or reconfigure (bug was introduced in 14.03.5 "Clear record of a
job's gres when requeued" and only applies when GRES mapped to specific
files).
-- BGQ: Fix race condition when job fails due to hardware failure and is
requeued. Previous code could result in slurmctld abort with NULL pointer.
-- Prevent negative job array index, which could cause slurmctld to crash.
-- Fix issue with squeue/scontrol showing correct node_cnt when only tasks
are specified.
-- Check the status of the database connection before using it.
-- ALPS - If an allocation requests -n set the BASIL -N option to the
amount of tasks / number of node.
-- ALPS - Don't set the env var APRUN_DEFAULT_MEMORY, it is not needed anymore.
-- Give better estimates on pending node count if no node count is requested.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix issue where requeuing jobs could cause an assert.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.9
==========================
-- If slurmd fails to stat(2) the configuration print the string describing
the error code.
-- Fix for mixing core base reservations with whole node based reservations
to avoid overlapping erroneously.
-- BLUEGENE - Remove references to Base Partition.
-- sview - If compiled on a non-bluegene system then used to view a BGQ fix
to allow sview to display blocks correctly.
-- Fix bug in update reservation. When modifying the reservation the end time
was set incorrectly.
-- The start time of a reservation that is in ACTIVE state cannot be modified.
-- Update the cgroup documentation about release agent for devices.
-- MYSQL - fix for setting up preempt list on a QOS for multiple QOS.
-- Correct a minor error in the scancel.1 man page related to the
--signal option.
-- Enhance the scancel.1 man page to document the sequence of signals sent
-- Fix slurmstepd core dump if the cgroup hierarchy is not completed
when terminating the job.
-- Fix hostlist_shift to be able to give correct node names on names with a
different number of dimensions than the cluster.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix invalid pointer in corner case in the plugin.
-- Make sure on a reconfigure the select information for a node is preserved.
-- Correct logic to support job GRES specification over 31 bits (problem
in logic converting int to uint32_t).
-- Remove logic that was creating GRES bitmap for node when not needed (only
needed when GRES mapped to specific files).
-- BLUEGENE - Fix sinfo -tr before it would only print idle nodes correctly.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix for licenses_only reservation on bluegene systems.
-- sview - Verify pointer before using strchr.
-- -M option on tools talking to a Cray from a non-Cray fixed.
-- CRAY - Fix rpmbuild issue for missing file slurm.conf.template.
-- Fix race condition when dealing with removing many associations at
different times when reservations are using the associations that are
being deleted.
-- When a node's state is set to power_down/power_up, then execute
SuspendProgram/ResumeProgram even if previously executed for that node.
-- Fix logic determining when job configuration (i.e. running node power up
logic) is complete.
-- Setting the state of a node in powered down state node to "resume" will
no longer cause it to reboot, but only clear the "drain" state flag.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix srun documentation to remove SLURM_NODELIST being equivalent as the -w
option (since it isn't).
-- Fix issue with --hint=nomultithread and allocations with steps running
arbitrary layouts (test1.59).
-- PrivateData=reservation modified to permit users to view the reservations
which they have access to (rather then preventing them from seeing ANY
reservation). Backport from 14.11 commit 77c2bd25c.
-- Fix PrivateData=reservation when using associations to give privileges to
a reservation.
-- Better checking to see if select plugin is linear or not.
-- Add support for time specification of "fika" (3 PM).
-- Provide better estimate of minimum node count for pending jobs using more
job parameters.
-- ALPS - Add SubAllocate to cray.conf file for those who like the way <=2.5
did the ALPS reservation.
-- Safer check to avoid invalid reads when shutting down the slurmctld with
lots of jobs.
-- Fix minor memory leak in the backfill scheduler when shutting down.
-- Add ArchiveResvs to the output of sacctmgr show config and init the variable
on slurmdbd startup.
-- SLURMDBD - Only set the archive flag if purging the object
(i.e ArchiveJobs PurgeJobs). This is only a cosmetic change.
-- Fix for job step memory allocation logic if step requests GRES and memory
is not allocations are not managed.
-- Fix sinfo to display mixed nodes as allocated in '%F' output.
-- Sview - Fix cpu and node counts for partitions.
-- Ignore NO_VAL in SLURMDB_PURGE_* macros.
-- ALPS - Don't drain nodes if epilog fails. It leaves them in drain state
with no way to get them out.
-- Fix issue with task/affinity oversubscribing cpus erroneously when
using --ntasks-per-node.
-- MYSQL - Fix load of archive files.
-- Treat Cray MPI job calling exit() without mpi_fini() as fatal error for
that specific task and let srun handle all timeout logic.
-- Fix small memory leak in jobcomp/mysql.
-- Correct tracking of licenses for suspended jobs on slurmctld reconfigure or
restart.
-- If failed to launch a batch job requeue it in hold.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.8
==========================
-- Fix minor memory leak when Job doesn't have nodes on it (Meaning the job
has finished)
-- Fix sinfo/sview to be able to query against nodes in reserved and other
states.
-- Make sbatch/salloc read in (SLURM|(SBATCH|SALLOC))_HINT in order to
handle sruns in the script that will use it.
-- srun properly interprets a leading "." in the executable name based upon
the working directory of the compute node rather than the submit host.
-- Fix Lustre misspellings in hdf5 guide
Kilian Cavalotti
committed
-- Fix wrong reference in slurm.conf man page to what --profile option should
be used for AcctGatherFilesystemType.
-- Update HDF5 document to point out the SlurmdUser is who creates the
ProfileHDF5Dir directory as well as all it's sub-directories and files.
-- CRAY NATIVE - Remove error message for srun's ran inside an salloc that
had --network= specified.
-- Defer job step initiation of required GRES are in use by other steps rather
than immediately returning an error.
-- Deprecate --cpu_bind from sbatch and salloc. These never worked correctly
and only caused confusion since the cpu_bind options mostly refer to a
step we opted to only allow srun to set them in future versions.
-- Modify sgather to work if Nodename and NodeHostname differ.
-- Changed use of JobContainerPlugin where it should be JobContainerType.
-- Fix for possible error if job has GRES, but the step explicitly requests a
GRES count of zero.
-- Make "srun --gres=none ..." work when executed without a job allocation.
-- Change the global eio_shutdown_time to a field in eio handle.
-- Advanced reservation fixes for heterogeneous systems, especially when
reserving cores.
-- If --hint=nomultithread is used in a job allocation make sure any srun's
ran inside the allocation can read the environment correctly.
-- If batchdir can't be made set errno correctly so the slurmctld is notified
correctly.
-- Remove repeated batch complete if batch directory isn't able to be made
since the slurmd will send the same message.
-- sacctmgr fix default format for list transactions.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix backfill issue with backfilling jobs on blocks already
reserved for higher priority jobs.
-- When creating job arrays the job specification files for each elements
are hard links to the first element specification files. If the controller
fails to make the links the files are copied instead.
-- Fix error handling for job array create failure due to inability to copy
job files (script and environment).
-- Added patch in the contribs directory for integrating make version 4.0 with
Slurm and renamed the previous patch "make-3.81.slurm.patch".
-- Don't wait for an update message from the DBD to finish before sending rc
message back. In slow systems with many associations this could speed
responsiveness in sacctmgr after adding associations.
-- Eliminate race condition in enforcement of MaxJobCount limit for job arrays.
-- Fix anomaly allocating cores for GRES with specific device/CPU mapping.
-- cons_res - When requesting exclusive access make sure we set the number
of cpus in the job_resources_t structure so as nodes finish the correct
cpu count is displayed in the user tools.
-- If the job_submit plugin calls take longer than 1 second to run, print a
warning.
-- Make sure transfer_s_p_options transfers all the portions of the
s_p_options_t struct.
-- Correct the srun man page, the SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE, SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE
SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST environment variable are set only when task/affinity
plugin is configured.
-- sacct - Initialize variables correctly to avoid incorrect structure
reference.
-- Performance adjustment to avoid calling a function multiple times when it
only needs to be called once.
-- Give more correct waiting reason if job is waiting on association/QOS
MaxNode limit.
-- DB - When sending lft updates to the slurmctld only send non-deleted lfts.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix documentation on how to build a reservation less than
a midplane.
-- If Slurmctld fails to read the job environment consider it an error
and abort the job.
-- Add the name of the node a job is running on to the message printed by
slurmstepd when terminating a job.
-- Remove unsupported options from sacctmgr help and the dump function.
-- Update sacctmgr man page removing reference to obsolete parameter
MaxProcSecondsPerJob.
-- Added more validity checking of incoming job submit requests.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.7
==========================
-- Add note to MaxNodesPerUser and multiple jobs running on the same node
counting as multiple nodes.
-- PerlAPI - fix renamed call from slurm_api_set_conf_file to
slurm_conf_reinit.
-- Fix gres race condition that could result in job deallocation error message.
-- Correct NumCPUs count for jobs with --exclusive option.
-- When creating reservation with CoreCnt, check that Slurm uses
SelectType=select/cons_res, otherwise don't send the request to slurmctld
and return an error.
-- Save the state of scheduled node reboots so they will not be lost should the
slurmctld restart.
-- In select/cons_res plugin - Insure the node count does not exceed the task
count.
-- switch/nrt - Do not explicitly unload windows for a job on termination,
only unload its table (which automatically unloads its windows).
-- When HealthCheckNodeState is configured as IDLE don't run the
HealthCheckProgram for nodes in any other states than IDLE.
-- Remove all slurmctld locks prior to job_submit() being called in plugins.
If any slurmctld data structures are read or modified, add locks directly
in the plugin.
-- Minor sanity check to verify the string sent in isn't NULL when using
bit_unfmt.
-- CRAY NATIVE - Fix issue on heavy systems to only run the NHC once per
job/step completion.
-- Remove unneeded step cleanup for pending steps.
-- Fix issue where if a batch job was manually requeued the batch step
information wasn't stored in accounting.
-- When job is release from a requeue hold state clean up its previous
exit code.
-- Correct the srun man page about how the output from the user application
is sent to srun.
-- Increase the timeout of the main thread while waiting for the i/o thread.
Allow up to 180 seconds for the i/o thread to complete.
-- When using sacct -c to read the job completion data compute the correct
job elapsed time.
-- Perl package: Define some missing node states.
-- When using AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/mysql zero out the
database index for the array elements avoiding duplicate database values.
-- Reword the explanation of cputime and cputimeraw in the sacct man page.
-- JobCompType allows "jobcomp/mysql" as valid name but the code used
"job_comp/mysql" setting an incorrect default database.
-- Try to load libslurm.so only when necessary.
-- When nodes scheduled for reboot, set state to DOWN rather than FUTURE so
they are still visible to sinfo. State set to IDLE after reboot completes.
-- Apply BatchStartTimeout configuration to task launch and avoid aborting
srun commands due to long running Prolog scripts.
-- Fix minor memory leaks when freeing node_info_t structure.
-- If a batch script is requeued and running steps get correct exit code/signal
previous it was always -2.
-- If step exitcode hasn't been set display with sacct the -2 instead
of acting like it is a signal and exitcode.
-- Send calculated step_rc for batch step instead of raw status as
done for normal steps.
-- If a job times out, set the exit code in accounting to 1 instead of the
signal 1.
-- Update the acct_gather.conf.5 man page removing the reference to
InfinibandOFEDFrequency.
-- Fix gang scheduling for jobs submitted to multiple partitions.
-- Enable srun to submit job to multiple partitions.
-- Update slurm.conf man page. When Epilog or Prolog fail the node state
is set ro DRAIN.
-- Start a job in the highest priority partition possible, even if it requires
preempting other jobs and delaying initiation, rather than using a lower
priority partition. Previous logic would preempt lower priority jobs, but
then might start the job in a lower priority partition and not use the
resources released by the preempted jobs.
-- Fix SelectTypeParameters=CR_PACK_NODES for srun making both job and step
resource allocation.
-- BGQ - Make it possible to pack multiple tasks on a core when not using
the entire cnode.
-- MYSQL - if unable to connect to mysqld close connection that was inited.
-- DBD - when connecting make sure we wait MessageTimeout + 5 since the
timeout when talking to the Database is the same timeout so a race
condition could occur in the requesting client when receiving the response
if the database is unresponsive.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.6
==========================
-- Added examples to demonstrate the use of the sacct -T option to the man
page.
-- Fix for regression in 14.03.5 with sacctmgr load when Parent has "'"
around it.
-- Update comments in sacctmgr dump header.
-- Fix for possible abort on change in GRES configuration.
-- CRAY - fix modules file, (backport from 14.11 commit 78fe86192b.
-- Fix race condition which could result in requeue if batch job exit and node
registration occur at the same time.
-- switch/nrt - Unload job tables (in addition to windows) in user space mode.
-- Differentiate between two identical debug messages about purging vestigial
job scripts.
-- If the socket used by slurmstepd to communicate with slurmd exist when
slurmstepd attempts to create it, for example left over from a previous
requeue or crash, delete it and recreate it.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.5
==========================
-- If a srun runs in an exclusive allocation and doesn't use the entire
allocation and CR_PACK_NODES is set layout tasks appropriately.
-- Correct Shared field in job state information seen by scontrol, sview, etc.
-- Print Slurm error string in scontrol update job and reset the Slurm errno
before each call to the API.
-- Fix task/cgroup to handle -mblock:fcyclic correctly
-- Fix for core-based advanced reservations where the distribution of cores
across nodes is not even.
-- Fix issue where association maxnodes wouldn't be evaluated correctly if a
QOS had a GrpNodes set.
-- GRES fix with multiple files defined per line in gres.conf.
-- When a job is requeued make sure accounting marks it as such.
-- Print the state of requeued job as REQUEUED.
-- Fix if a job's partition was taken away from it don't allow a requeue.
-- Make sure we lock on the conf when sending slurmd's conf to the slurmstepd.
-- Fix issue with sacctmgr 'load' not able to gracefully handle bad formatted
file.
-- sched/backfill: Correct job start time estimate with advanced reservations.
-- Error message added when in proctrack/cgroup the step freezer path isn't
able to be destroyed for debug.
-- Added extra index's into the database for better performance when
deleting users.
-- Fix issue with wckeys when tracking wckeys, but not enforcing them,
you could get multiple '*' wckeys.
-- Fix bug which could report to squeue the wrong partition for a running job
that is submitted to multiple partitions.
-- Report correct CPU count allocated to job when allocated whole node even if
not using all CPUs.
-- If job's constraints cannot be satisfied put it in pending state with reason
BadConstraints and don't remove it.
-- sched/backfill - If job started with infinite time limit, set its end_time
one year in the future.
-- Clear QOS GrpUsedCPUs when resetting raw usage if QOS is not using any cpus.
-- Remove log message left over from debugging.
-- When using CR_PACK_NODES fix make --ntasks-per-node work correctly.
-- Report correct partition associated with a step if the job is submitted to
multiple partitions.
-- Fix to allow removing of preemption from a QOS
-- If the proctrack plugins fail to destroy the job container print an error
message and avoid to loop forever, give up after 120 seconds.
-- Make srun obey POSIX convention and increase the exit code by 128 when the
process terminated by a signal.
-- Sanity check for acct_gather_energy/rapl
-- If the proctrack plugins fail to destroy the job container print an error
message and avoid to loop forever, give up after 120 seconds.
-- If the sbatch command specifies the option --signal=B:signum sent the signal
to the batch script only.
-- If we cancel a task and we have no other exit code send the signal and
exit code.
-- Added note about InnoDB storage engine being used with MySQL.
-- Set the job exit code when the job is signaled and set the log level to
debug2() when processing an already completed job.
-- Reset diagnostics time stamp when "sdiag --reset" is called.
-- squeue and scontrol to report a job's "shared" value based upon partition
options rather than reporting "unknown" if job submission does not use
--exclusive or --shared option.
-- task/cgroup - Fix cpuset binding for batch script.
-- sched/backfill - Fix anomaly that could result in jobs being scheduled out
of order.
-- Expand pseudo-terminal size data structure field sizes from 8 to 16 bits.
-- Set the job exit code when the job is signaled and set the log level to
-- Distinguish between two identical error messages.
-- If using accounting_storage/mysql directly without a DBD fix issue with
start of requeued jobs.
-- If a job fails because of batch node failure and the job is requeued and an
epilog complete message comes from that node do not process the batch step
information since the job has already been requeued because the epilog
script running isn't guaranteed in this situation.
-- Change message to note a NO_VAL for return code could of come from node
failure as well as interactive user.
-- Modify test4.5 to only look at one partition instead of all of them.
-- Fix sh5util -u to accept username different from the user that runs the
command.
-- Corrections to man pages:salloc.1 sbatch.1 srun.1 nonstop.conf.5
slurm.conf.5.
-- Have sacctmgr dump cluster handle situations where users or such have
special characters in their names like ':'
-- Add more debugging for information should the job ran on wrong node
and should there be problems accessing the state files.
-- Fix issue where not enforcing QOS but a partition either allows or denies
them.
-- CRAY - Make switch/cray default when running on a Cray natively.
-- CRAY - Make job_container/cncu default when running on a Cray natively.
-- Disable job time limit change if it's preemption is in progress.
-- Correct logic to properly enforce job preemption GraceTime.
-- Fix sinfo -R to print each down/drained node once, rather than once per
partition.
-- If a job has non-responding node, retry job step create rather than
returning with DOWN node error.
-- Support SLURM_CONF path which does not have "slurm.conf" as the file name.
-- CRAY - make job_container/cncu default when running on a Cray natively
-- Fix issue where batch cpuset wasn't looked at correctly in
jobacct_gather/cgroup.
-- Correct squeue's job node and CPU counts for requeued jobs.
-- Correct SelectTypeParameters=CR_LLN with job selecition of specific nodes.
-- Only if ALL of their partitions are hidden will a job be hidden by default.
-- Run EpilogSlurmctld for a job is killed during slurmctld reconfiguration.
-- Close window with srun if waiting for an allocation and while printing
something you also get a signal which would produce deadlock.
-- Add SelectTypeParameters option of CR_PACK_NODES to pack a job's tasks
tightly on its allocated nodes rather than distributing them evenly across
the allocated nodes.
-- cpus-per-task support: Try to pack all CPUs of each tasks onto one socket.
Previous logic could spread the tasks CPUs across multiple sockets.
-- Add new distribution method fcyclic so when a task is using multiple cpus
it can bind cyclically across sockets.
-- task/affinity - When using --hint=nomultithread only bind to the first
thread in a core.
-- Make cgroup task layout (block | cyclic) method mirror that of
task/affinity.
-- If TaskProlog sets SLURM_PROLOG_CPU_MASK reset affinity for that task
based on the mask given.
-- Keep supporting 'srun -N x --pty bash' for historical reasons.
-- If EnforcePartLimits=Yes and QOS job is using can override limits, allow
it.
-- Fix issues if partition allows or denies account's or QOS' and either are
not set.
-- If a job requests a partition and it doesn't allow a QOS or account the
job is requesting pend unless EnforcePartLimits=Yes. Before it would
always kill the job at submit.
-- Fix format output of scontrol command when printing node state.
-- Improve the clean up of cgroup hierarchy when using the
jobacct_gather/cgroup plugin.
-- Added SchedulerParameters value of Ignore_NUMA.
-- Fix issues with code when using automake 1.14.1
-- select/cons_res plugin: Fix memory leak related to job preemption.
-- After reconfig rebuild the job node counters only for jobs that have
not finished yet, otherwise if requeued the job may enter an invalid
COMPLETING state.
-- Do not purge the script and environment files for completed jobs on
slurmctld reconfiguration or restart (they might be later requeued).
-- scontrol now accepts the option job=xxx or jobid=xxx for the requeue,
requeuehold and release operations.
-- task/cgroup - fix to bind batch job in the proper CPUs.
-- Added strigger option of -N, --noheader to not print the header when
displaying a list of triggers.
-- Modify strigger to accept arguments to the program to execute when an
event trigger occurs.
-- Attempt to create duplicate event trigger now generates ESLURM_TRIGGER_DUP
("Duplicate event trigger").
-- Treat special characters like %A, %s etc. literally in the file names
when specified escaped e.g. sbatch -o /home/zebra\\%s will not expand
%s as the stepid of the running job.
-- CRAYALPS - Add better support for CLE 5.2 when running Slurm over ALPS.
-- Test time when job_state file was written to detect multiple primary
slurmctld daemons (e.g. both backup and primary are functioning as
primary and there is a split brain problem).
-- Fix scontrol to accept update jobid=# numtasks=#
-- If the backup slurmctld assumes primary status, then do NOT purge any
job state files (batch script and environment files) and do not re-use them.
This may indicate that multiple primary slurmctld daemons are active (e.g.
both backup and primary are functioning as primary and there is a split
brain problem).
-- Set correct error code when requeuing a completing/pending job
-- When checking for if dependency of type afterany, afterok and afternotok
don't clear the dependency if the job is completing.
-- Cleanup the JOB_COMPLETING flag and eventually requeue the job when the
last epilog completes, either slurmd epilog or slurmctld epilog, whichever
comes last.
-- When attempting to requeue a job distinguish the case in which the job is
JOB_COMPLETING or already pending.
-- When reconfiguring the controller don't restart the slurmctld epilog if it
is already running.
-- Email messages for job array events print now use the job ID using the
format "#_# (#)" rather than just the internal job ID.
-- Set the number of free licenses to be 0 if the global license count
decreases and total is less than in use.
-- Add DebugFlag of BackfillMap. Previously a DebugFlag value of Backfill
logged information about what it was doing plus a map of expected resouce
use in the future. Now that very verbose resource use map is only logged
with a DebugFlag value of BackfillMap
-- Modify the description of -E and -S option of sacct command as point in time
'before' or 'after' the database records are returned.
-- Correct support for partition with Shared=YES configuration.
-- If job requests --exclusive then do not use nodes which have any cores in an
advanced reservation. Also prevents case where nodes can be shared by other
jobs.
-- For "scontrol --details show job" report the correct CPU_IDs when thre are
multiple threads per core (we are translating a core bitmap to CPU IDs).
-- If DebugFlags=Protocol is configured in slurm.conf print details of the
connection, ip address and port accepted by the controller.
-- Fix minor memory leak when reading in incomplete node data checkpoint file.
-- Enlarge the width specifier when printing partition SHARE to display larger
sharing values.
-- sinfo locks added to prevent possibly duplicate record printing for
resources in multiple partitions.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.3-2
============================
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.3
==========================
-- Correction to default batch output file name. In version 14.03.2 was using
"slurm_<jobid>_4294967294.out" due to error in job array logic.
-- In slurm.spec file, replace "Requires cray-MySQL-devel-enterprise" with
"Requires mysql-devel".
-- Fix race condition if PrologFlags=Alloc,NoHold is used.
-- Cray - Make NPC only limit running other NPC jobs on shared blades instead
of limited non NPC jobs.
-- Fix for sbatch #PBS -m (mail) option parsing.
-- Fix job dependency bug. Jobs dependent upon multiple other jobs may start
prematurely.
-- Set "Reason" field for all elements of a job array on short-circuited
scheduling for job arrays.
-- Allow -D option of salloc/srun/sbatch to specify relative path.
-- Added SchedulerParameter of batch_sched_delay to permit many batch jobs
to be submitted between each scheduling attempt to reduce overhead of
scheduling logic.
-- Added job reason of "SchedTimeout" if the scheduler was not able to reach
the job to attempt scheduling it.
-- Add job's exit state and exit code to email message.
-- scontrol hold/release accepts job name option (in addition to job ID).
-- Handle when trying to cancel a step that hasn't started yet better.
-- Add --priority option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands.
-- Honor partition priorities over job priorities.
-- Fix sacct -c when using jobcomp/filetxt to read newer variables
-- Fix segfault of sacct -c if spaces are in the variables.
-- Release held job only with "scontrol release <jobid>" and not by resetting
the job's priority. This is needed to support job arrays better.
-- Correct squeue command not to merge jobs with state pending and completing
together.
-- Fix issue where user is requesting --acctg-freq=0 and no memory limits.
-- Fix issue with GrpCPURunMins if a job's timelimit is altered while the job
is running.
-- Temporary fix for handling our typemap for the perl api with newer perl.
-- Fix allowgroup on bad group seg fault with the controller.
-- Handle node ranges better when dealing with accounting max node limits.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.1-2
-- Update configure to set correct version without having to run autogen.sh
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.1
==========================
-- Add support for job std_in, std_out and std_err fields in Perl API.
-- Add "Scheduling Configuration Guide" web page.
-- BGQ - fix check for jobinfo when it is NULL
-- Do not check cleaning on "pending" steps.
-- task/cgroup plugin - Fix for building on older hwloc (v1.0.2).
-- In the PMI implementation by default don't check for duplicate keys.
Set the SLURM_PMI_KVS_DUP_KEYS if you want the code to check for
duplicate keys.
-- Permit user root to propagate resource limits higher than the hard limit
slurmd has on that compute node has (i.e. raise both current and maximum
limits).
-- Fix issue with license used count when doing an scontrol reconfig.
-- Fix the PMI iterator to not report duplicated keys.
-- Fix issue with sinfo when -o is used without the %P option.
-- Rather than immediately invoking an execution of the scheduling logic on
every event type that can enable the execution of a new job, queue its
execution. This permits faster execution of some operations, such as
modifying large counts of jobs, by executing the scheduling logic less
frequently, but still in a timely fashion.
-- If the environment variable is greater than MAX_ENV_STRLEN don't
set it in the job env otherwise the exec() fails.
-- Optimize scontrol hold/release logic for job arrays.
-- Modify srun to report an exit code of zero rather than nine if some tasks
exit with a return code of zero and others are killed with SIGKILL. Only an
exit code of zero did this.
-- Avoid slurmctld crash getting job info if detail_ptr is NULL.
-- Fix sacctmgr add user where both defaultaccount and accounts are specified.
-- Added SchedulerParameters option of max_sched_time to limit how long the
main scheduling loop can execute for.
-- Added SchedulerParameters option of sched_interval to control how frequently
the main scheduling loop will execute.
-- Move start time of main scheduling loop timeout after locks are aquired.
-- Add squeue job format option of "%y" to print a job's nice value.
-- Update scontrol update jobID logic to operate on entire job arrays.
-- Fix PrologFlags=Alloc to run the prolog on each of the nodes in the
allocation instead of just the first.
-- Fix race condition if a step is starting while the slurmd is being
restarted.
-- Make sure a job's prolog has ran before starting a step.
-- BGQ - Fix invalid memory read when using DefaultConnType in the
bluegene.conf
-- Make sure we send node state to the DBD on clean start of controller.
-- Fix some sinfo and squeue sorting anomalies due to differences in data
types.
-- Only send message back to slurmctld when PrologFlags=Alloc is used on a
Cray/ALPS system, otherwise use the slurmd to wait on the prolog to gate
the start of the step.
-- Remove need to check PrologFlags=Alloc in slurmd since we can tell if prolog
has ran yet or not.
-- Fix squeue to use a correct macro to check job state.
-- BGQ - Fix incorrect logic issues if MaxBlockInError=0 in the bluegene.conf.
-- priority/basic - Insure job priorities continue to decrease when jobs are
submitted with the --nice option.
-- Make the PrologFlag=Alloc work on batch scripts
-- Make PrologFlag=NoHold (automatically sets PrologFlag=Alloc) not hold in
salloc/srun, instead wait in the slurmd when a step hits a node and the
prolog is still running.
-- Added --cpu-freq=highm1 (high minus one) option.
-- Expand StdIn/Out/Err string length output by "scontrol show job" from 128
to 1024 bytes.
-- squeue %F format will now print the job ID for non-array jobs.
-- Use quicksort for all priority based job sorting, which improves performance
significantly with large job counts.
-- If a job has already been released from a held state ignore successive
release requests.
-- Fix srun/salloc/sbatch man pages for the --no-kill option.
-- Add squeue -L/--licenses option to filter jobs by license names.
-- Handle abort job on node on front end systems without core dumping.
-- Fix dependency support for job arrays.
-- When updating jobs verify the update request is not identical to
the current settings.
-- When sorting jobs and priorities are equal sort by job_id.
-- Do not overwrite existing reason for node being down or drained.
-- Requeue batch job if Munge is down and credential can not be created.
-- Make _slurm_init_msg_engine() tolerate bug in bind() returning a busy
ephemeral port.
-- Don't block scheduling of entire job array if it could run in multiple
partitions.
-- Introduce a new debug flag Protocol to print protocol requests received
together with the remote IP address and port.
-- CRAY - Set up the network even when only using 1 node.
-- CRAY - Greatly reduce the number of error messages produced from the task
plugin and provide more information in the message.
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.0
==========================
-- job_submit/lua: Fix invalid memory reference if script returns error message
for user.
-- Add logic to sleep and retry if slurm.conf can't be read.
-- Reset a node's CpuLoad value at least once each SlurmdTimeout seconds.
-- Scheduler enhancements for reservations: When a job needs to run in
reservation, but can not due to busy resources, then do not block all jobs
in that partition from being scheduled, but only the jobs in that
reservation.
-- Export "SLURM*" environment variables from sbatch even if --export=NONE.
-- When recovering node state if the Slurm version is 2.6 or 2.5 set the
protocol version to be SLURM_2_5_PROTOCOL_VERSION which is the minimum
supported version.
-- Update the scancel man page documenting the -s option.
-- Update sacctmgr man page documenting how to modify account's QOS.
-- Fix for sjstat which currently does not print >1TB memory values correctly.
-- Change xmalloc()/xfree() to malloc()/free() in hostlist.c for better
performance.
-- Update squeue.1 man page describing the SPECIAL_EXIT state.
-- Added scontrol option of errnumstr to return error message given a slurm
error number.
-- If srun invoked with the --multi-prog option, but no task count, then use
the task count provided in the MPMD configuration file.
-- Prevent sview abort on some systems when adding or removing columns to the
display for nodes, jobs, partitions, etc.
-- Add job array hash table for improved performance.
-- Make AccountingStorageEnforce=all not include nojobs or nosteps.
-- Added sacctmgr mod qos set RawUsage=0.
-- Modify hostlist functions to accept more than two numeric ranges (e.g.
"row[1-3]rack[0-8]slot[0-63]")
-- Run job scheduling logic immediately when nodes enter service.
-- Added sbatch '--parsable' option to output only the job id number and the
cluster name separated by a semicolon. Errors will still be displayed.
-- Added failure management "slurmctld/nonstop" plugin.
-- Prevent jobs being killed when a checkpoint plugin is enabled or disabled.
-- Update the documentation about SLURM_PMI_KVS_NO_DUP_KEYS environment
variable.
-- select/cons_res bug fix for range of node counts with --cpus-per-task
option (e.g. "srun -N2-3 -c2 hostname" would allocate 2 CPUs on the first
node and 0 CPUs on the second node).
-- Change reservation flags field from 16 to 32-bits.
-- Add reservation flag value of "FIRST_CORES".
-- Added the idea of Resources to the database. Framework for handling
license servers outside of Slurm.
-- When starting the slurmctld only send past job/node state information to
accounting if running for the first time (should speed up startup
dramatically on systems with lots of nodes or lots of jobs).
-- Make job array expressions more flexible to accept multiple step counts in
the expression (e.g. "--array=1-10:2,50-60:5,123").
-- switch/cray - add state save/restore logic tracking allocated ports.
-- SchedulerParameters - Replace max_job_bf with bf_max_job_start (both will
work for now).
-- Add SchedulerParameters options of preempt_reorder_count and
preempt_strict_order.
-- Make memory types in acct_gather uint64_t to handle systems with more than
4TB of memory on them.
-- BGQ - --export=NONE option for srun to make it so only the SLURM_JOB_ID
and SLURM_STEP_ID env vars are set.
-- Munge plugins - Add sleep between retries if can't connect to socket.
-- Added DebugFlags value of "License".
-- Added --enable-developer which will give you -Werror when compiling.
-- Fix for job request with GRES count of zero.
-- Job array dependency logic: Cache results for major performance improvement.
-- Modify squeue to support filter on job states Special_Exit and Resizing.
-- Defer purging job record until after EpilogSlurmctld completes.
-- Fix handling RPCs from a 14.03 slurmctld to a 2.6 slurmd
* Changes in Slurm 14.03.0pre6
==============================
-- Modify slurmstepd to log messages according to the LogTimeFormat
parameter in slurm.conf.
-- Insure that overlapping reservations do not oversubscribe available
licenses.
-- Added core specialization logic to select/cons_res plugin.
-- Added whole_node field to job_resources structure and enable gang scheduling
for jobs with core specialization.
-- When using FastSchedule = 1 the nodes with less than configured resources
are not longer set DOWN, they are set to DRAIN instead.
-- Modified 'sacctmgr show associations' command to show GrpCPURunMins
by default.
-- Replace the hostlist_push() function with a more efficient
hostlist_push_host().
-- Modify the reading of lustre file system statistics to print more
information when debug and when io error occur.
-- Add specialized core count field to job credential data.
NOTE: This changes the communications protocol from other pre-releases of
version 14.03. All programs must be cancelled and daemons upgraded from
previous pre-releases of version 14.03. Upgrades from version 2.6 or earlier
can take place without loss of jobs
-- Add version number to node and front-end configuration information visible
using the scontrol tool.
-- Add idea of a RESERVED flag for node state so idle resources are marked
not "idle" when in a reservation.
-- Added core specialization plugin infrastructure.
-- Added new job_submit/trottle plugin to control the rate at which a user
can submit jobs.
-- CRAY - added network performance counters option.
-- Allow scontrol suspend/resume to accept jobid in the format jobid_taskid
to suspend/resume array elements.