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 17.02.4 ========================== -- Do not attempt to schedule jobs after changing the power cap if there are already many active threads. -- Job expansion example in FAQ enhanced to demonstrate operation in heterogeneous environments. -- Prevent scontrol crash when operating on array and no-array jobs at once. -- knl_cray plugin: Log incomplete capmc output for a node. -- knl_cray plugin: Change capmc parsing of mcdram_pct from string to number. -- Remove log files from test20.12. -- When rebooting a node and using the PrologFlags=alloc make sure the prolog is ran after the reboot. -- node_features/knl_generic - If a node is rebooted for a pending job, but fails to enter the desired NUMA and/or MCDRAM mode then drain the node and requeue the job. -- node_features/knl_generic disable mode change unless RebootProgram configured. -- Add new burst_buffer function bb_g_job_revoke_alloc() to be executed if there was a failure after the initial resource allocation. Does not release previously allocated resources. -- Test if the node_bitmap on a job is NULL when testing if the job's nodes are ready. This will be NULL is a job was revoked while beginning. -- Fix incorrect lock levels when testing when job will run or updating a job. -- Add missing locks to job_submit/pbs plugin when updating a jobs dependencies. -- Add support for lua5.3 -- Add min_memory_per_node|cpu to the job_submit/lua plugin to deal with lua not being able to deal with pn_min_memory being a uint64_t. Scripts are urged to change to these new variables avoid issue. If not set the variables will be 'nil'. -- Calculate priority correctly when 'nice' is given. -- Fix minor typos in the documentation. -- node_features/knl_cray: Preserve non-KNL active features if slurmctld reconfigured while node boot in progress. -- node_features/knl_generic: Do not repeatedly log errors when trying to read KNL modes if not KNL system. -- Add missing QOS read lock to backfill scheduler. -- When doing a dlopen on liblua only attempt the version compiled against. -- Fix null-dereference in sreport cluster ulitization when configured with memory-leak-debug. -- Fix Partition info in 'scontrol show node'. Previously duplicate partition names, or Partitions the node did not belong to could be displayed. -- Fix it so the backup slurmdbd will take control correctly. -- Fix unsafe use of MAX() macro, which could result in problems cleaning up accounting plugins in slurmd, or repeat job cancellation attempts in scancel. -- Fix 'scontrol update reservation duration=unlimited' to set the duration to 365-days (as is done elsewhere), rather than 49710 days. -- Check if variable given to scontrol show job is a valid jobid. -- Fix WithSubAccounts option to not include WithDeleted unless requested. -- Prevent a job tested on multiple partitions from being marked WHOLE_NODE_USER. -- Prevent a race between completing jobs on a user-exclusive node from leaving the node owned. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.3 ========================== -- Increase --cpu_bind and --mem_bind field length limits. -- Fix segfault when using AdminComment field with job arrays. -- Clear Dependency field when all dependencies are satisfied. -- Add --array-unique to squeue which will display one unique pending job array element per line. -- Reset backfill timers correctly without skipping over them in certain circumstances. -- When running the "scontrol top" command, make sure that all of the user's jobs have a priority that is lower than the selected job. Previous logic would permit other jobs with equal priority (no jobs with higher priority). -- Fix perl api so we always get an allocation when calling Slurm::new(). -- Fix issue with cleaning up cpuset and devices cgroups when multiple steps end at the same time. -- Document that PriorityFlags option of DEPTH_OBLIVIOUS precludes the use of FAIR_TREE. -- Fix issue if an invalid message came in a Slurm daemon/command may abort. -- Make it impossible to use CR_CPU* along with CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE. The options are mutually exclusive. -- ALPS - Fix scheduling when ALPS doesn't agree with Slurm on what nodes are free. -- When removing a partition make sure it isn't part of a reservation. -- Fix seg fault if loading attempting to load non-existent burstbuffer plugin. -- Fix to backfill scheduling with respect to QOS and association limits. Jobs submitted to multiple partitions are most likley to be effected. -- sched/backfill: Improve assoc_limit_stop configuration parameter support. -- CRAY - Add ansible play and README. -- sched/backfill: Fix bug related to advanced reservations and the need to reboot nodes to change KNL mode. -- Preempt plugins - fix check for 'preempt_youngest_first' option. -- Preempt plugins - fix incorrect casts in preempt_youngest_first mode. -- Preempt/job_prio - fix incorrect casts in sort function. -- Fix to make task/affinity work with ldoms where there are more than 64 cpus on the node. -- When using node_features/knl_generic make it so the slurmd doesn't segfault when shutting down. -- Fix potential double-xfree() when using job arrays that can lead to slurmctld crashing. -- Fix priority/multifactor priorities on a slurmctld restart if not using accounting_storage/[mysql|slurmdbd]. -- Fix NULL dereference reported by CLANG. -- Update proctrack documentation to strongly encourage use of proctrack/cgroup. -- Fix potential memory leak if job fails to begin after nodes have been selected for a job. -- Handle a job that made it out of the select plugin without a job_resrcs pointer. -- Fix potential race condition when persistent connections are being closed at shutdown. -- Fix incorrect locks levels when submitting a batch job or updating a job in general. -- CRAY - Move delay waiting for job cleanup to after we check once. -- MYSQL - Fix memory leak when loading archived jobs into the database. -- Fix potential race condition when starting the priority/multifactor plugin's decay thread. -- Sanity check to make sure we have started a job in acct_policy.c before we clear it as started. -- Allow reboot program to use arguments. -- Message Aggr - Remove race condition on slurmd shutdown with respects to destroying a mutex. -- Fix updating job priority on multiple partitions to be correct. -- Don't remove admin comment when updating a job. -- Return error when bad separator is given for scontrol update job licenses. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.2 ========================== -- Update hyperlink to LBNL Node Health Check program. -- burst_buffer/cray - Add support for line continuation. -- If a job is cancelled by the user while it's allocated nodes are being reconfigured (i.e. the capmc_resume program is rebooting nodes for the job) and the node reconfiguration fails (i.e. the reboot fails), then don't requeue the job but leave it in a cancelled state. -- capmc_resume (Cray resume node script) - Do not disable changing a node's active features if SyscfgPath is configured in the knl.conf file. -- Improve the srun documentation for the --resv-ports option. -- burst_buffer/cray - Fix parsing for discontinuous allocated nodes. A job allocation of "20,22" must be expressed as "20\n22". -- Fix rare segfault when shutting down slurmctld and still sending data to the database. -- Fix gres output of a job if it is updated while pending to be displayed correctly with Slurm tools. -- Fix pam_slurm_adopt. -- Fix missing unlock when job_list doesn't exist when starting priority/ multifactor. -- Fix segfault if slurmctld is shutting down and the slurmdbd plugin was in the middle of setting db_indexes. -- Add ESLURM_JOB_SETTING_DB_INX to errno to note when a job can't be updated because the dbd is setting a db_index. -- Fix possible double insertion into database when a job is updated at the moment the dbd is assigning a db_index. -- Fix memory error when updating a job's licenses. -- Fix seff to work correctly with non-standard perl installs. -- Export missing slurmdbd_defs_[init|fini] needed for libslurmdb.so to work. -- Fix sacct from returning way more than requested when querying against a job array task id. -- Fix double read lock of tres when updating gres or licenses on a job. -- Make sure locks are always in place when calling assoc_mgr_make_tres_str_from_array. -- Prevent slurmctld SEGV when creating reservation with duplicated name. -- Consider QOS flags Partition[Min|Max]Nodes when doing backfill. -- Fix slurmdbd_defs.c to not have half symbols go to libslurm.so and the other half go to libslurmdb.so. -- Fix 'scontrol show jobs' to remove an errant newline when 'Switches' is printed. -- Better code for handling memory required by a task on a heterogeneous system. -- Fix regression in 17.02.0 with respects to GrpTresMins on a QOS or Association. -- Cleanup to make make dist work. -- Schedule interactive jobs quicker. -- Perl API - correct value of MEM_PER_CPU constant to correctly handle memory values. -- Fix 'flags' variable to be 32 bit from the old 16 bit value in the perl api. -- Export sched_nodes for a job in the perl api. -- Improve error output when updating a reservation that has already started. -- Fix --ntasks-per-node issue with srun so DenyOnLimit would work correctly. -- node_features/knl_cray plugin - Fix memory leak. -- Fix wrong cpu_per_task count issue on heterogeneous system when dealing with steps. -- Fix double free issue when removing usage from an association with sacctmgr. -- Fix issue with SPANK plugins attempting to set null values as environment variables, which leads to the command segfaulting on newer glibc versions. -- Fix race condition on slurmctld startup when plugins have not gone through init() ahead of the rpc_manager processing incoming messages. -- job_submit/lua - expose admin_comment field. -- Allow AdminComment field to be set by the job_submit plugin. -- Allow AdminComment field to be changed by any Administrator. -- Fix key words in jobcomp select. -- MYSQL - Streamline job flush sql when doing a clean start on the slurmctld. -- Fix potential infinite loop when talking to the DBD when shutting down the slurmctld. -- Fix MCS filter. -- Make it so pmix can be included in the plugin rpm without having to specify --with-pmix. -- MYSQL - Fix initial load when not using he DBD. -- Fix scontrol top to not make jobs priority 0 (held). -- Downgrade info message about exceeding partition time limit to a debug2. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.1-2 ============================ -- Replace clock_gettime with time(NULL) for very old systems without the call. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.1 ========================== -- Modify pam module to work when configured NodeName and NodeHostname differ. -- Update to sbatch/srun man pages to explain the "filename pattern" clearer -- Add %x to sbatch/srun filename pattern to represent the job name. -- job_submit/lua - Add job "bitflags" field. -- Update slurm.spec file to note obsolete RPMs. -- Fix deadlock scenario when dumping configuration in the slurmctld. -- Remove unneeded job lock when running assoc_mgr cache. This lock could cause potential deadlock when/if TRES changed in the database and the slurmctld wasn't made aware of the change. This would be very rare. -- Fix missing locks in gres logic to avoid potential memory race. -- If gres is NULL on a job don't try to process it when returning detailed information about a job to scontrol. -- Fix print of consumed energy in sstat when no energy is being collected. -- Print formatted tres string when creating/updating a reservation. -- Fix issues with QOS flags Partition[Min|Max]Nodes to work correctly. -- Prevent manipulation of the cpu frequency and governor for batch or extern steps. This addresses an issue where the batch step would inadvertently set the cpu frequency maximum to the minimum value supported on the node. -- Convert a slurmctd power management data structure from array to list in order to eliminate the possibility of zombie child suspend/resume processes. -- Burst_buffer/cray - Prevent slurmctld daemon abort if "paths" operation fails. Now job will be held. Update job update time when held. -- Fix issues with QOS flags Partition[Min|Max]Nodes to work correctly. -- Refactor slurmctld agent logic to eliminate some pthreads. -- Added "SyscfgTimeout" parameter to knl.conf configuration file. -- Fix for CPU binding for job steps run under a batch job. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0 ========================== -- job_submit/lua - Make "immediate" parameter available. -- Fix srun I/O race condtion to eliminate a error message that might be generated if the application exits with outstanding stdin. -- Fix regression when purging/archiving jobs/events. -- Add new job state JOB_OOM indicating Out Of Memory condition as detected by task/cgroup plugin. -- If QOS has been added to the system go refigure out Deny/AllowQOS on partitions. -- Deny job with duplicate GRES requested. -- Fix loading super old assoc_mgr usage without segfaulting. -- CRAY systems: Restore TaskPlugins order of task/cray before task/cgroup. -- Task/cray: Treat missing "mems" cgroup with "debug" messages rather than "error" messages. The file may be missing at step termination due to a change in how cgroups are released at job/step end. -- Fix for job constraint specification with counts, --ntasks-per-node value, and no node count. -- Fix ordering of step task allocation to fill in a socket before going into another one. -- Fix configure to not require C++ -- job_submit/lua - Remove access to slurmctld internal reservation fields of job_pend_cnt and job_run_cnt. -- Prevent job_time_limit enforcement from blocking other internal operations if a large number of jobs need to be cancelled. -- Add 'preempt_youngest_order' option to preempt/partition_prio plugin. -- Fix controller being able to talk to a pre-released DBD. -- Added ability to override the invoking uid for "scontrol update job" by specifying "--uid=|-u ". -- Changed file broadcast "offset" from 32 to 64 bits in order to support files over 2 GB. -- slurm.spec - do not install init scripts alongside systemd service files. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0rc1 ============================== -- Add port info to 'sinfo' and 'scontrol show node'. -- Fix errant definition of USE_64BIT_BITSTR which can lead to core dumps. -- Move BatchScript to end of each job's information when using "scontrol -dd show job" to make it more readable. -- Add SchedulerParameters configuration parameter of "default_gbytes", which treats numeric only (no suffix) value for memory and tmp disk space as being in units of Gigabytes. Mostly for compatability with LSF. -- Fix race condtion in srun/sattach logic which would prevent srun from terminating. -- Bitstring operations are now 64bit instead of 32bit. -- Replace hweight() function in bitstring with faster version. -- scancel would treat a non-numeric argument as the name of jobs to be cancelled (a non-documented feature). Cancelling jobs by name now require the "--jobname=" command line argument. -- scancel modified to note that no jobs satisfy the filter options when the --verbose option is used along with one or more job filters (e.g. "--qos="). -- Change _pack_cred to use pack_bit_str_hex instead of pack_bit_fmt for better scalability and performance. -- Add BootTime configuration parameter to knl.conf file to optimize resource allocations with respect to required node reboots. -- Add node_features_p_boot_time() to node_features plugin to optimize scheduling with respect to node reboots. -- Avoid allocating resources to a job in the event that its run time plus boot time (if needed) extent into an advanced reservation. -- Burst_buffer/cray - Avoid stage-out operation if job never started. -- node_features/knl_cray - Add capability to detected Uncorrectable Memory Errors (UME) and if detected then log the event in all job and step stderr with a message of the form: error: *** STEP 1.2 ON tux1 UNCORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR AT 2016-12-14T09:09:37 *** Similar logic added to node_features/knl_generic in version 17.02.0pre4. -- If job is allocated nodes which are powered down, then reset job start time when the nodes are ready and do not charge the job for power up time. -- Add the ability to purge transactions from the database. -- Add support for requeue'ing of federated jobs (BETA). -- Add support for interactive federated jobs (BETA). -- Add the ability to purge rolled up usage from the database. -- Properly set SLURM_JOB_GPUS environment variable for Prolog. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0pre4 ============================== -- Add support for per-partitiion OverTimeLimit configuration. -- Add --mem_bind option of "sort" to run zonesort on KNL nodes at step start. -- Add LaunchParameters=mem_sort option to configure running of zonesort by default at step startup. -- Add "FreeSpace" information for each pool to the "scontrol show burstbuffer" output. Required changes to the burst_buffer_info_t data structure. -- Add new node state flag of NODE_STATE_REBOOT for node reboots triggered by "scontrol reboot" commands. Previous logic re-used NODE_STATE_MAINT flag, which could lead to inconsistencies. Add "ASAP" option to "scontrol reboot" command that will drain a node in order to reboot it as soon as possible, then return it to service. -- Allow unit conversion routine to convert 1024M to 1G. -- switch/cray plugin - change legacy spool directory location. -- Add new PriorityFlags option of INCR_ONLY, which prevents a job's priority from being decremented. -- Make it so we don't purge job start messages until after we purge step messages. Hopefully this will reduce the number of messages lost when filling up memory when the database/DBD is down. -- Added SchedulingParameters option of "bf_job_part_count_reserve". Jobs below the specified threshold will not have resources reserved for them. -- If GRES are configured with file IDs, then "scontrol -d show node" will not only identify the count of currently allocated GRES, but their specific index numbers (e.g. "GresUsed=gpu:alpha:2(IDX:0,2),gpu:beta:0(IDX:N/A)"). Ditto for job information with "scontrol -d show job". -- Add new mcs/account plugin. -- Add "GresEnforceBind=Yes" to "scontrol show job" output if so configured. -- Add support for SALLOC_CONSTRAINT, SBATCH_CONSTRAINT and SLURM_CONSTRAINT environment variables to set default constraints for salloc, sbatch and srun commands respectively. -- Provide limited support for the MemSpecLimit configuration parameter without the task/cgroup plugin. -- node_features/knl_generic - Add capability to detected Uncorrectable Memory Errors (UME) and if detected then log the event in all job and step stderr with a message of the form: error: *** STEP 1.2 ON tux1 UNCORRECTABLE MEMORY ERROR AT 2016-12-14T09:09:37 *** -- Add SLURM_JOB_GID to TaskProlog environment. -- burst_buffer/cray - Remove leading zeros from node ID lists passed to dw_wlm_cli program. -- Add "Partitions" field to "scontrol show node" output. -- Remove sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins and associated code. -- Remove SchedulerRootFilter option and slurm_get_root_filter() API call. -- Add SchedulerParameters option of spec_cores_first to select specialized cores from the lowest rather than highest number cores and sockets. -- Add PrologFlags option of Serial to disable concurrent launch of Prolog and Epilog scripts. -- Fix security issue caused by insecure file path handling triggered by the failure of a Prolog script. To exploit this a user needs to anticipate or cause the Prolog to fail for their job. CVE-2016-10030. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0pre3 ============================== -- Add srun host & PID to job step data structures. -- Avoid creating duplicate pending step records for the same srun command. -- Rewrite srun's logic for pending steps for better efficiency (fewer RPCs). -- Added new SchedulerParameters options step_retry_count and step_retry_time to control scheduling behaviour of job steps waiting for resources. -- Optimize resource allocation logic for --spread-job job option. -- Modify cpu_bind and mem_bind map and mask options to accept a repetition count to better support large task count. For example: "mask_mem:0x0f*2,0xf0*2" is equivalent to "mask_mem:0x0f,0x0f,0xf0,0xf0". -- Add support for --mem_bind=prefer option to prefer, but not restrict memory use to the identified NUMA node. -- Add mechanism to constrain kernel memory allocation using cgroups. New cgroup.conf parameters added: ConstrainKmemSpace, MaxKmemPercent, and MinKmemSpace. -- Correct invokation of man2html, which previously could cause FreeBSD builds to hang. -- MYSQL - Unconditionally remove 'ignore' clause from 'alter ignore'. -- Modify service files to not start Slurm daemons until after Munge has been started. NOTE: If you are not using Munge, but are using the "service" scripts to start Slurm daemons, then you will need to remove this check from the etc/slurm*service scripts. -- Do not process SALLOC_HINT, SBATCH_HINT or SLURM_HINT environment variables if any of the following salloc, sbatch or srun command line options are specified: -B, --cpu_bind, --hint, --ntasks-per-core, or --threads-per-core. -- burst_buffer/cray: Accept new jobs on backup slurmctld daemon without access to dw_wlm_cli command. No burst buffer actions will take place. -- Do not include SLURM_JOB_DERIVED_EC, SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE, or SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE in PrologSlurmctld environment (not available yet). -- Cray - set task plugin to fatal() if task/cgroup is not loaded after task/cray in the TaskPlugin settings. -- Remove separate slurm_blcr package. If Slurm is built with BLCR support, the files will now be part of the main Slurm packages. -- Replace sjstat, seff and sjobexit RPM packages with a single "contribs" package. -- Remove long since defunct slurmdb-direct scripts. -- Add SbcastParameters configuration option to control default file destination directory and compression algorithm. -- Add new SchedulerParameter (max_array_tasks) to limit the maximum number of tasks in a job array independently from the maximum task ID (MaxArraySize). -- Fix issue where number of nodes is not properly allocated when sbatch and salloc are requested with -n tasks < hosts from -w hostlist or from -N. -- Add infrastructure for submitting federated jobs. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0pre2 ============================== -- Add new RPC (REQUEST_EVENT_LOG) so that slurmd and slurmstepd can log events through the slurmctld daemon. -- Remove sbatch --bb option. That option was never supported. -- Automatically clean up task/cgroup cpuset and devices cgroups after steps are completed. -- Add federation read/write locks. -- Limit job purge run time to 1 second at a time. -- The database index for jobs is now 64 bits. If you happen to be close to 4 billion jobs in your database you will want to update your slurmctld at the same time as your slurmdbd to prevent roll over of this variable as it is 32 bit previous versions of Slurm. -- Optionally lock slurmstepd in memory for performance reasons and to avoid possible SIGBUS if the daemon is paged out at the time of a Slurm upgrade (changing plugins). Controlled via new LaunchParameters options of slurmstepd_memlock and slurmstepd_memlock_all. -- Add event trigger on burst buffer errors (see strigger man page, --burst_buffer option). -- Add job AdminComment field which can only be set by a Slurm administrator. -- Add salloc, sbatch and srun option of --delay-boot=