Changelog for memkind-tests-1.14.0-lp154.2.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Thu Jul 07 2022 Patryk Kaminski v1.14.0- Provided a memtier binary for common uses of memory tiering- Added memkind memtier API header file to installed headers- Added missing information in memkind memtier manpages- Upgraded jemalloc internal library to version 5.3.0- Fixes to security issues
* Thu Dec 23 2021 Patryk Kaminski v1.13.0- Added fixed kind for user-supplied memory area (along with the C++ allocator)- Provided a function memkind_get_capacity() to get the memory capacity of nodes available to a given kind- Optimized PMEM kind (allocating metadata from main memory)- Added logging to file mechanism (enabled with an --enable-logging-to-file configure parameter)- Fixed wrong NUMA nodes masks for some of static kinds- Fixed building for different malloc_usable_size() implementations
* Wed Sep 01 2021 Patryk Kaminski v1.12.0- Added memory tiering intercept library- Optimized hog memory- Removed memkind_malloc_wrapper- Extended error handling in pmem_allocator
* Fri Feb 26 2021 Michal Biesek v1.11.0- Provided a function to verify if path supports DAX - memkind_check_dax_path()- Provided a NUMA node interleave variant for MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM (MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM_INTERLEAVE)- Provided a function to enable/disable background threads - memkind_set_bg_threads()- Provided a function to print statistics - memkind_stats_print()- Extended configure mechanism by enable-memkind-initial-exec-tls option- Extended memkind to support HMAT (libhwloc required)- Provided memory property abstraction (MEMKIND_HIGHEST_CAPACITY
*, MEMKIND_LOWEST_LATENCY_LOCAL
*, MEMKIND_HIGHEST_BANDWIDTH_LOCAL
*)- Extended support for MEMKIND_HBW
* to platforms with full HMAT support (kernel+hardware)
* Mon Sep 14 2020 Michal Biesek v1.10.1- Fixed calculation size for pmem kind- Added support for MEMKIND_HOG_MEMORY in pmem kind- Fixed memkind_defrag_reallocate- Extended configure mechanism by MIN_LG_ALIGN parameter and disable-heap-manager option- Optimized searching command in mallctl, memkind_defrag_reallocate and memkind_detect_kind methods- Removed punch-hole in destroy extent operation
* Mon Dec 16 2019 Michal Biesek v1.10.0- Provided another way to use Persistent Memory in memkind (MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM_
* kinds)- Added C++ allocator for static kinds (including MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM_
* kinds)- Provided an interface to get memkind allocation statistics- Provided a method to reduce fragmentation - memkind_defrag_reallocate()- Added support for background thread- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 5.2.1- Extended hbw interface with hbw_malloc_usable_size()- Simplified building process
* Wed Apr 03 2019 Michal Biesek v1.9.0- Provided a second function to create PMEM kind memkind_create_pmem_with_config()- Provided the memkind_detect_kind() function to recognize a kind from memory allocation- Provided memkind_config_set_memory_usage_policy() function that modifies the default memory usage policy behavior- Provided the ability to pass a NULL kind to memkind_malloc_usable_size() and memkind_realloc()- Unified the memkind_realloc() behavior for all kinds- Added the support for the pool_msize() function to TBB- Extended build arch to ppc64, ppc64le, s390x- Removed disable-stats from used jemalloc- Fixed compilation under the Clang and rpm build configuration- Provided the support for Dockerfile
* Mon Dec 10 2018 Michal Biesek v1.8.0- Fixed error with realloc/free method with passing thread-specific cache flag- Fixed error with memkind_create_pmem(), if other PMEM kind was destroyed before- Fixed error with zeroing large allocations in PMEM kind- Added support to create kind without maximum size limit of PMEM kind (max_size=0)- Extended memkind API with memkind_malloc_usable_size()- Removed EXPERIMENTAL from most methods in memkind API- Added MEMKIND_ERROR_ARENAS_CREATE code- Added C++ allocator for PMEM kind- Extended PMEM examples- Fixed integration with Travis CI- Extended Travis CI configuration with Astyle and Coverage- Added PMEM kind tests
* Wed Jan 24 2018 Pawel Kochanek v1.7.0- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 5.0.- Fixed error that has been occurring while memkind was dynamically loaded.- Fixed MEMKIND_HBW_NODES behavior for single NUMA node system.- Removed licenses other than BSD 3-clause from COPYING.- Changed build instructions.- Added configurable jemalloc prefix in build scripts.- Upgraded gtest to version 1.8.0.- Added memory footprint tests.- Added locality test for MEMKIND_PREFERRED.- Applied test parametrization in BATests.- Fixed problems with pytest testing in Travis.- Added huge page configuration in several tests.- Removed several symbols that are no longer exposed in public API from man pages.- Fixed HBW_POLICY_BIND_ALL documentation.
* Tue Jun 13 2017 Artur Koziej v1.6.0- Introduced new policy HBW_POLICY_BIND_ALL.- Introduced MEMKIND_HBW_ALL, MEMKIND_HBW_ALL_HUGETLB and MEMKIND_REGULAR kinds.- Fixed hbw_posix_memalign_psize() return value in case of unsupported policy and page size combination.- Documented supported policy and page size combination for hbw_posix_memalign_psize().- Merged libmemkind.a and libjemalloc_pic.a into a single static library.- Fixed OOM during tcache acquisition.- Tuned huge pages configuration in memkind tests.- Added stress tests for allocations with large random sizes.- Added stress tests for allocations with random kinds.- Extended policy and NUMA node binding tests.- Fixed several Travis build problems.- Removed gb_page_tests_preferred_policy tests.
* Tue Feb 21 2017 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.5.0- Intel(R) TBB scalable_allocator can be used as heap management alternative to jemalloc (requires installed Intel (R) TBB package and environment variable MEMKIND_HEAP_MANAGER=TBB)- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 4.3.1 (previously modified 3.5.1)- Introduced new environment option MEMKIND_HOG_MEMORY. Setting it to \"1\" will prevent memkind from releasing memory to OS.- Introduced support for KNM processor from Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) family- General cleanup of build scripts (e.g. fixed issues found on Ubuntu, introduced simple build.sh script)- Deprecated support for gigabyte-pages- Removed number of previously deprecated symbols
* Thu Nov 17 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.4.0- Introduced hbw_verify_memory_region() for verifying if provided memory region fully falls into high-bandwidth memory (for details please take a look at man/hbwmalloc.3).- New API for creating kinds using set of predefined attributes: memkind_create_kind(), memkind_destroy_kind() (for details please take a look at man/memkind.3).- Fixed issue in autohbw where it was reporting limit error regardless of value provided.- Added logging on error paths.- Test base fixes and improvements.
* Tue Sep 27 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.3.0- Introduced logging mechanism (for details please take a look at man/memkind.3).- Deprecated symbols: memkind_finalize(), memkind_get_num_kind(), memkind_get_kind_by_partition(), memkind_get_kind_by_name(), memkind_partition_mmap(), memkind_get_size(), MEMKIND_ERROR_MEMALIGN, MEMKIND_ERROR_MALLCTL, MEMKIND_ERROR_GETCPU, MEMKIND_ERROR_PMTT, MEMKIND_ERROR_TIEDISTANCE, MEMKIND_ERROR_ALIGNMENT, MEMKIND_ERROR_MALLOCX, MEMKIND_ERROR_REPNAME, MEMKIND_ERROR_PTHREAD, MEMKIND_ERROR_BADPOLICY, MEMKIND_ERROR_REPPOLICY.- Added integration with hwloc (turned on with --with-hwloc).- Cleanup of symbols exposed by libmemkind.so (e.g. no longer exposing libnuma and jemalloc symbols).- AutoHBW files have been moved to \"memkind/autohbw\" directory, code has been refactored and tests have been added to appropriate scenarios.- Library is now built with flags improving security (can be turned off with --disable-secure configure time option).- Changed configuration of jemalloc to turn off unused features.
* Thu Aug 18 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.2.0- memkind_create() and memkind_ops have been deprecated (moved to memkind_deprecated.h).- Deprecated the headers from memkind/internal and added compile-time warnings to them (plan is to remove those from rpm packages).- autohbw files have been moved to memkind/autohbw directory.- API decorators (memkind_malloc_pre, memkind_malloc_post etc.) now need to be enabled with configure-time option --enable-decorators.- Allocation time optimizations with up to 20% improvement.
* Wed Jul 13 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.1.1- Performance improvement for memkind_free() in scenario where NULL was passed as kind (reduced by 60%).- Introduced integration with Travis CI.- Fixed issue where memory returned from calloc was not filled with zeroes when using memkind_pmem kinds.- Fixed issue where interleave kinds was failing on systems without Transparent Huge Pages module configured.- Resolved several issues that was causing compilation errors on some systems.- test/test.sh is now able to detect system configuration, and run only those tests which requirements are meet.- Added gtest to repo to avoid downloading it during build proecess.
* Mon May 23 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski v1.1.0- Implemented algorithm for detecting high-bandwidth memory on Intel Xeon Phi X200 without parsing PMTT.- PMTT-parsing service has been removed.- memkind struct definition from memkind.h has been replaced by forward declaration. Definition has been moved to /internal/memkind_private.h and shouldn\'t be considered as part of library interface anymore.- Performance improvement for hugetlb kinds (check_available() is no longer parsing sysfs every time).- Performance fix by removing --enable-safe from jemmaloc build flags.- New tests for validating high-bandwidth memory detection has been added.- AFTS has been split into two groups: memkind-afts.ts and memkind-afts-ext.ts, based on amount of required memory (for details view test/README).
* Thu Mar 03 2016 Artur Koziej v1.0.0- hbwmalloc.h released as stable API.- Introduce API standards: STANDARD API, NON-STANDARD API, EXPERIMENTAL API.- Introduce memkind versioning API.- Fix type names in hbwmalloc API.- Change error codes to POSIX standard ones in hbwmalloc API.- Move API headers to include directory.- Move NON-STANDARD API, or EXPERIMENTAL API to include/memkind/internal directory.- New man page (memkind_interleave.3) describing interleave kind.- Significant documentation improvement.- Performance fix for jemalloc - significantly decrease of library initialization time.- Enforce 2MB alignment in jemalloc due to the Linux kernel bug (munmap() fails for huge pages, when the size is not aligned).- Move to systemd defined service (memkind.service), drop init.d script.- New rpm layout (memkind and memkind-devel).- Remove false dependency on OpenMP.- Extend test base for stress, longevity and initialization performance tests.- Fix memory leak in ctl_growk().- Rename namespace: hbwmalloc -> hbw.- Rename class: hbwmalloc_allocator -> allocator.
* Thu Oct 15 2015 Krzysztof Kulakowski v0.3.0- Added two new kinds: MEMKIND_INTERLEAVE and MEMKIND_HBW_INTERLEAVE (for details please take a look at man/memkind.3)- Added support for file-backed memory heaps (for details please take a look at man/memkind_pmem.3)- Added autohbw library, that intercepts the standard heap allocations, which let use high-bandwidth memory without modifying existing codebase (for details please take a look at examples/autohbw_README)- jemalloc is now, statically linked, internal component of memkind RPM instead of rpm dependency.- Added memkind_allocated example which demonstrates usage of memkind with alignas() alignment specifier introduced in C++11 (for details please take a look at examples/README)- Added support for using thread local storage to improve performance in multithreaded applications (enabled by configure time option: --enable-tls)- Added possibility to set number of jemalloc arenas per kind by configure time parameter or environmental variable (for details please take a look at MEMKIND_ARENA_NUM_PER_KIND section of man/memkind.3).- Added decorators to the memkind allocation APIs. These are weak symbols (pre and post for each API) which can modify the input and output of each of the calls.- Significantly extended test base (new groups of tests: performance, multithreaded, PMTT, nagtive, stress).
* Fri Jan 09 2015 Christopher Cantalupo v0.2.0- Bumped memkind ABI version to 0:1:0.- Removed memkind_get_kind_for_free() from externally facing API\'s. Instead if memkind_free() is called with zero passed for the kind then memkind_get_kind_for_free() is called internally.- Moved to single callback memkind_partition_mmap() to simplify jemalloc modifications.- Added hooks for setting file descriptor and offset for mmap enabling file-backed memory kinds.- Added a void pointer called \"priv\" to memkind structure for storing data for user-defined kinds.- Removed call to sched_getcpu(), now thread id is hashed to determine the arena index.- Added weak symbol hooks for decorating the heap management functions.- Fixed several issues with init.d/memkind script and spec file scriptlets that are exposed by SLES-12.- Introduced an example library called numakind. The numakind library will allocate from the closest NUMA node to a thread as measured when that thread makes its first allocation call.- Fixed error handling in memkind_gbtlb_mmap() that could cause a segfault when gigabyte pages are not available.- Added tests for PMTT parser.- Removed binary mock PMTT table from source code, replaced it with a hexdump.- Fixed a number of issues in test scripts which were suppressing errors.- Removed unnecessary includes from header files.- Better error checking in example code.- Documentation update and clean up.
* Thu Nov 13 2014 Christopher Cantalupo v0.1.0- Increased test code coverage significantly.- Fixed bug in memkind_error_message() for MEMKIND_ERROR_TOOMANY.- Removed memkind_arena_free() API since it was redundant with memkind_default_free().- Static memkind structs are now declared as extern in the headers and defined in the source files files rather than being statically defined in the headers.
* Thu Oct 30 2014 Christopher Cantalupo v0.0.9- Now building with autotools.- Updated documentation.- Fixed typo in copyright.- Fixed test scripts to properly handle return code of each test.- Added C++03 standard allocator that uses hbw_malloc and hbw_free.