Sure, it's this NEWS item: + Do not limit the number of processors to 1024 on Solaris anymore.
Brice Le 11/07/2012 04:30, TERRY DONTJE a écrit : > Is this also going to include the topology_solaris.c improvements? > > --td > > On 7/10/2012 3:16 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: >> I am preparing a v1.5rc1 release, so here's the current status in case >> somebody wants to comment. >> >> >> Major changes for is v1.5: >> >> * instruction caches >> * lstopo becomes lstopo + lstopo-no-graphics >> * improvements to misc backends (AIX, FreeBSD) >> >> >> Full v1.5 NEWS list: >> >> * Backends >> + Do not limit the number of processors to 1024 on Solaris anymore. >> + Gather total machine memory on FreeBSD. >> + XML topology files do not depend on the locale anymore. Float numbers >> such as NUMA distances or PCI link speeds now always use a dot as a >> decimal separator. >> + Add instruction caches detection on Linux, AIX, Windows and Darwin. >> + Add get_last_cpu_location() support for the current thread on AIX. >> + Support binding on AIX when threads or processes were bound with >> bindprocessor(). Thanks to Hendryk Bockelmann for reporting the issue >> and testing patches, and to Farid Parpia for explaining the binding >> interfaces. >> + Improve AMD topology detection in the x86 backend (for FreeBSD) using >> the topoext feature. >> * API >> + Increase HWLOC_API_VERSION to 0x00010500 so that API changes may be >> detected at build-time. >> + Add a cache type attribute describind Data, Instruction and Unified >> caches. Caches with different types but same depth (for instance L1d >> and L1i) are placed on different levels. >> + Add hwloc_get_cache_type_depth() to retrieve the hwloc level depth of >> of the given cache depth and type, for instance L1i or L2. >> It helps disambiguating the case where hwloc_get_type_depth() returns >> HWLOC_TYPE_DEPTH_MULTIPLE. >> + Instruction caches are ignored unless HWLOC_TOPOLOGY_FLAG_ICACHES is >> passed to hwloc_topology_set_flags() before load. >> + Add hwloc_ibv_get_device_osdev_by_name() OpenFabrics helper in >> openfabrics-verbs.h to find the hwloc OS device object corresponding to >> an OpenFabrics device. >> * Tools >> + Add lstopo-no-graphics, a lstopo built without graphical support to >> avoid dependencies on external libraries such as Cairo and X11. When >> supported, graphical outputs are only available in the original lstopo >> program. >> - Packagers splitting lstopo and lstopo-no-graphics into different >> packages are advised to use the alternatives system so that lstopo >> points to the best available binary. >> + Instruction caches are enabled in lstopo by default. User --no-icaches >> to disable them. >> + Add -t/--threads to show threads in hwloc-ps. >> * Removal of obsolete components >> + Remove the old cpuset interface (hwloc/cpuset.h) which is deprecated and >> superseded by the bitmap API (hwloc/bitmap.h) since v1.1. >> hwloc_cpuset and nodeset types are still defined, but all hwloc_cpuset_* >> compatibility wrappers are now gone. >> + Remove Linux libnuma conversion helpers for the deprecated and >> broken nodemask_t interface. >> + Remove support for "Proc" type name, it was superseded by "PU" in v1.0. >> + Remove hwloc-mask symlinks, it was replaced by hwloc-calc in v1.0. >> * Misc >> + Non-printable characters are dropped from strings during XML export. >> + Assert hwloc_is_thissystem() in several I/O related helpers. >> + Limit the number of retries when operating on all threads within a >> process on Linux if the list of threads is heavily getting modified. >> >> >> Plus some item currently only listed in the v1.4 branch NEWS: >> >> * Fix PCIe 3.0 link speed computation. >> * Fix importing of escaped characters with the minimalistic XML backend. >> * Fix a memory leak in the x86 backend. >> >> >> Open tickets against v1.5: >> >> * #77: improve windows get_cpubind. I don't think I'll have time to work >> on this soon since only Hartmut can test such patches on large windows >> machines. >> * #79: annotate the lstopo textual output for offline/unavailable/bound >> CPUs (red/green/black in the graphical output). Easy to implement but >> I don't have any obviously good solution yet. >> * There's an OMPI ticket about hwloc fixes for a native windows build. >> We're supposed to get a patch one day. >> >> >> Brice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hwloc-devel mailing list >> hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel > > -- > Terry D. Dontje | Principal Software Engineer > Developer Tools Engineering | +1.781.442.2631 > Oracle *- Performance Technologies* > 95 Network Drive, Burlington, MA 01803 > Email terry.don...@oracle.com <mailto:terry.don...@oracle.com> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel
