Changelog 5.4.1

Support for Intel Granite Rapids (core, energy, uncore)
Support for Intel Sierra Forrest (core, energy, uncore)
Support for AMD Bergamo (core, energy, uncore)
Support for Nvidia Grace (core, uncore)
Fix: AMD Zen4 DataFabric units
Fix: Multi-socket RAPL measurements on Sapphire Rapids
Fix: Energy unit for RAPL DRAM domain for SPR, GNR and SRF
Fix: Discovery mechanism workaround for UPI and M3UPI units of SPR
Fix: Intel Westmere Uncore with perf_event backend
Fix: Fujitsu A64FX (more counters, fixed topology, ...)
Container bridge to use LIKWID inside container
Sysfeatures interface reworked with support for various architectures and libraries
Fix build for NVMON for CUDA 12.6+
likwid-mpirun: SLURM pinning with cpu_mask feature
Update of internal hwloc (2.11.2) and Lua (5.4.7) version

If you are building for RHEL9 (or its derivatives), the perl-locale package has to be installed.

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

likwid - likwid-5.4.0rc2

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

likwid - likwid-5.4.0rc1

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

likwid - likwid-5.3.0

We are happy to release version 5.3.0 of LIKWID, the tools suite for performance oriented programmers. Thanks to all the contributors, especially HPE for the AMD ROCm backend.

Changelog for 5.3.0: - Support for Intel SapphireRapids (Core, Uncore, RAPL) - Support for AMD Zen4 (Core, Uncore, RAPL) - Support for Apple M1 - Support for AMD GPUs (MarkerAPI, F90 interface) - Support for AWS Graviton3 (ARM Neoverse V1) - Support for HiSilicon TSV110 - Fix of F90 interface installation - Support for extended umasks in ICX and SPR - Units for metrics in performance groups - Library calls to get meta information (version, supported features, etc.) - Some fixes for direct access mode - Some fixes for X86 RDPMC detection - Update of internal hwloc (2.9.3) and Lua (5.4.6) version - New experimental sysfeatures module

Note: For Intel SapphireRapids systems with HBM, LIKWID in perf_event access mode and /sys/devices/uncore_type_14_* devices, apply the attached patch. Thanks @Julius-Plehn

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.2.2

Fix pin string parsing in pinning library
Make SBIN path configurable in build system
Add PKGBUILD for ArchLinux package builds
Remove accessDaemon double-fork in systemd environments
Group updates for L2/L3 (mainly AMD Zen)
Fix multi-initialization in MarkerAPI
Add energy event scaling for Fujitsu A64FX
Nvmon: Use Cupti error string to get better warning/error messages
Nvmon: Store events internally to re-use event strings in stopCounters
AccessLayer: Catch SIGCHLD to stop sending requests to accessDaemon if it was killed
likwid-genTopoCfg: Update writing and reading of topology file
Add INST_RETIRED_NOP event for Intel Icelake (desktop & server)
Removed some memory leaks
Improved checks for RDPMC availability
Add TOPDOWN_SLOTS for perf_event
Fix for systems with CPU sockets without hwthreads (A64FX FX1000)
Fix if HOME environment variable is not set (systemd)
Reader function for perf_event_paranoid in Lua to get state early
likwid-mpirun: Sanitize np and ppn values to avoid crashes

Note: The groups MEM_DP and MEM_SP use only 6 of 8 memory controllers for Intel Icelake SP. The attached patch fixes both groups.

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Published by TomTheBear almost 4 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.2.1

We are happy to release a new bugfix version of the LIKWID tool suite.

Add support for Intel Rocketlake and AMD Zen3 variant (Family 19, Model 0x50)
Fix for perf_event multiplexing (important!)
Fix for potential deadlock in MarkerAPI (thx @jenny-cheung)
Build and runtime fixes for Nvidia GPU backend, updates for CUDA test codes
peakflops kernel for ARMv8
Updates for AMD Zen1/2/3 event lists and groups
Support spaces in MarkerAPI region tags (thx @jrmadsen)
Use 'online' cpulist instead of 'present'
Switch CI from Travis-CI to NHR@FAU Cx services
Document -reset and -ureset for likwid-setFrequencies
Reset cpuset in unpinned runs
Remove destructor in frequency module
Check PID if given through --perfpid
Intel Icelake: OFFCORE_RESPONSE events
AccessDaemon: Check PCI init state before using it
likwid-mpirun: Set mpi type for SLURM automatically
likwid-mpirun: Fix for skip mask for OpenMPI
Fix for triad_sve* benchmarks

Note: The groups MEM_DP and MEM_SP use only 6 of 8 memory controllers for Intel Icelake SP. The attached patch fixes both groups.

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Published by TomTheBear over 4 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.2.0

We are happy to release a new major update of the LIKWID tool suite.

Support for AMD Zen3 (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel IcelakeSP (Core + Uncore)
New affinity code
Fix for Ivybridge uncore code
Bypass accessdaemon by using rdpmc instruction on x86_64
Introduce notion of CPU die in topology module
Use CPU dies for socket-lock for Intel CascadelakeAP
Add environment variable LIKWIDIGNORECPUSET to break out of current CPUset
Fixes for affinity module CPUlist sorting
Build against system-installed hwloc
Update for Intel SkylakeX/CascadelakeX L3 group
Rename DataFabric events for all generations of AMD Zen
Add static cache configuration for Fujitsu A64FX
Add multiplexing checks for perf_event backend
Fix for table width of likwid-topology after adding CPU die column
Adding RasPi 4 with 32 bit OS as ARMv7
Add default groups for Intel Icelake desktop
Fix for likwid-setFrequencies to not apply minFreq when setting governor
likwid-powermeter: Fix hwthread selection when run with -p
likwid-setFrequencies: Get measured base frequency if register is not readable
CLOCK group for all AMD Zen
Fixes in Nvidia GPU support in NvMarkerAPI and topology module

WARNING: This version has bugs in the perfevent backend. The multiplexing checks cause problems. WARNING: The benchmarks `triadsve` for ARM8 chips use only 3 instead of 4 streams. *Note**: The groups MEM_DP and MEM_SP use only 6 of 8 memory controllers for Intel Icelake SP. The attached patch fixes both groups.

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Published by TomTheBear almost 5 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.1.1

Changelog for version 5.1.1:

Support for Intel Cometlake desktop (Core + Uncore)
Fix for topology module of Fujitsu A64FX
Fix for Intel Skylake SP in SNC mode
Fix for likwid-perfscope
Fix for CLI argument parsing
Updated group and data file checkers
Vector sum benchmark in SVE
FP_PIPE group for Fujitsu A64FX
Maximal number of CLI arguments configurable in config.mk (currently 16384)
Fix for cpulist_sort function
Fix for Intel SkylakeSP/CascadelakeSP CBOX devices in perf_event mode
Multiplexing-Fix for perf_event (with warning)
Adjust CUDA function pointer names in topology_gpu to avoid name clashes
Fix for Lua 5.1
Fix for likwid-setFrequency when reading CPU base frequency

Note: This version does not contain any updates for AMD Zen3 and Intel IcelakeSP. Note: Uncore measurements on Intel Cascadelake AP systems require an update of the topology module which will come in 5.2.0 WARNING: The benchmarks triad_sve* for ARM8 chips use only 3 instead of 4 streams.

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Published by TomTheBear about 5 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.1.0

Changelog for version 5.1.0:

Support for Intel Icelake desktop (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel Icelake server (Core only)
Support for Intel Tigerlake desktop (Core only)
Support for Intel Cannonlake (Core only)
Support for Nvidia GPUs with compute capability >= 7.0 (CUpti Profiling API)
Initial support for Fujitsu A64FX (Core) including SVE assembly benchmarks
Support for ARM Neoverse N1 (AWS Graviton 2)
Support for AMD Zen3 (Core + Uncore but without any events)
Check for Intel HWP
Fix for TID filter of Skylake SP LLC filter0 register
Fix for Lua 5.1
Fix for likwid-mpirun skip masks
Fortran90 interface for NvMarkerAPI (update)
CPUisonline check to filter non-usable CPU cores
Fix for freeMemory in NUMA module (with hwloc backend)
Fix for likwid-setFrequencies

We want to thank Intel, AMD, AWS and the University of Regensburg for their support.

If you want to use this release in a publication, please cite: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4282696

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Published by TomTheBear over 5 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.0.2

Changelog for 5.0.2:

Fix memory leak in calc_metric()
New peakflops benchmarks in likwid-bench
Fix for NUMA domain handling properly
Improvements for perf_event backend
Fix for perfctr and powermeter with perf_event backend
Fix for likwid-mpirun for SLURM with cpusets
Fix for likwid-setFrequencies in cpusets
Update for POWER9 event list
Updates for AMD Zen, Zen+ and Zen2 (events, groups)
Fix for Intel Uncore events with same name for different devices
Fix for file descriptor handling
Fix for compilation with GCC10
Remove sleep timer warning
Update examples C-markerAPI and C-internalMarkerAPI

Note: If you want to use LIKWID 5.0.2 with Lua 5.1, please apply this patch

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Published by TomTheBear over 5 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.0.1

I'm happy to announce a new bugfix release of LIKWID 5.

Some fixes for likwid-mpirun
- Fix for hybrid pinning with multiple hosts
- Fix for perf.groups without core-local events (switch to likwid-pin)
- Fix for command line parser
- For for mpiopts parameter
- Add UPMC as Uncore counter to splitUncoreEvents()
- Expand user-given input to abspath if possible
- Check for at least one executable in user-given command
- Add skip mask for SLURM + Intel OpenMP
- Check if user-given MPI type is available
Fix for perf_event backend when used as root
Include likwid-marker.h in likwid.h to not break old MarkerAPI code
Enable build with ARM HPC compiler (ARMCLANG compiler setting)
Fix creation of likwid-bench benchmarks on POWER platforms
Fix for build system in NVIDIAINTERFACE=BUILDAPPDAEMON=true
Update for executable tester
Update for MPI+X test (X: OpenMP or Pthreads)

Merry Christmas

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Published by TomTheBear over 6 years ago

likwid - likwid-5.0.0

New version LIKWID 5.0.0

Changelog: - Support for ARM architectures. Special support for Marvell Thunder X2 - Support for IBM POWER architectures. Support for POWER8 and POWER9. - Support for AMD Zen2 microarchitecture. - Support for data fabric counters of AMD Zen microarchitecture - Support for Nvidia GPU monitoring (with NvMarkerAPI) - New clock frequency backend (with less overhead) - Generation of benchmarks for likwid-bench on-the-fly from ptt files - Switch back to C-based metric calculator (less overhead) - Interface function to performance groups, create your own. - Integration of GOTCHA for hooking into client application at runtime - Thread-local initialization of streams for likwid-bench - Enhanced support for SLURM with likwid-mpirun - New MPI and Hybrid pinning features for likwid-mpirun - Interface to enable the membind kernel memory policy - JSON output filter file (use -o output.json) - Update of internal HWLOC to 2.1.0

Note: The MarkerAPI Macros have been moved to a separate header "likwid-marker.h"

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Published by TomTheBear over 6 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.3.4

New bugfix release:

Fix for detecting PCI devices if system can split up LLC and memory channels (Intel CoD or SNC)
Don't pin accessDaemon to threads to avoid long access latencies due to busy hardware thread
Fix for calculations in likwid-bench if streams are used for input and output
Fix for LIKWIDMARKERREGISTER with perf_event backend
Support for Intel Atom (Tremont) (nothing new, same as Intel Atom (Goldmont Plus))
Workaround for topology detection if LLC and memory channels are split up. Kernel does not detect it properly sometimes. (Intel CoD or SNC)
Minor updates for build system
Minor updates for documentation

Notice: If you want to compile likwid-4.3.4 with ACCESSMODE=perf_event, please apply the attached patch before compiling.

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Published by TomTheBear about 7 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.3.3

Fixes for likwid-mpirun
Fixes for events of Intel Skylake SP and Intel Broadwell
Support for Intel CascadeLake X (only new eventlist, uses code from Intel Skylake SP)
Fix for bitmask creation in Lua
Event options for perf_event backend
New assembly benchmarks in likwid-bench
MarkerAPI: Function to reset regions
Some new performance groups (DIVIDE and TMA)
Fixes for AMD Zen performance groups
Fix when using topology input file
Minor bugfixes

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Published by TomTheBear over 7 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.3.2

Fix in internal metric calculator
Support for Intel Knights Mill (core, rapl, uncore)
Intel Skylake X: Some fixes for events and perf. groups
Set KMPINITAT_FORK to bypass bug in Intel OpenMP memory allocator
AMD Zen: Use RETIRED_INSTRUCTION instead of fixed-purpose counter for metric calculation
All FLOPS_* groups now have vectorization ratio
Fix for MarkerAPI with perf_event backend
Fix for maximal/minimal uncore frequency
Skip counters that are already in use, don't exit
likwid-mpirun: minor fix when overloading a host
Improved detection of PCI devices

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Published by TomTheBear about 8 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.3.1

Minor fixes for Intel Skylake and frequency module

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Published by TomTheBear over 8 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.3.0

Support for Intel Skylake SP architecture (core, uncore, energy)
Support for AMD Zen architecture (core, l2, energy)
Support for Intel Goldmont Plus architecture
Pinning strategy 'balanced'
New Lua based calculator
Support for Intel PState CPU frequency daemon

Minor: - Fixed MCDRAM measurements on Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) with perf_event back end

Merry Christmas

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Published by TomTheBear over 8 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.2.1

Fix for logical selection strings
likwid-agent: general update
likwid-mpirun: Improved SLURM support
likwid-mpirun: Print metrics sorted as they are listen in perf. group
likwid-perfctr: Print metrics/events as header in timeline mode Redirect to file when -o switch is used
likwid-setFrequency: Commandline options to set min, max and current frequency
Pinning-Library: Automatically detect and skip shepard threads
Intel Broadwell: Added support for E3 (like Desktop), Fix for L3 group
Intel IvyBridge: Fix for PCU fixed-purpose counters
Intel Skylake: Fix for events CYCLEACTIVITY, new event L2LINES_OUT
Intel Xeon Phi (KNL): Fix for overflow register, Update for ENERGY group OFFCORE_RESPONSE events are now tile-specific
Intel SandyBridge: Fix for L3CACHE group
Event/Counter list contains only usable counters and events
Fix and warning message for static library builds

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Published by TomTheBear almost 9 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.2.0

Support for Intel Xeon Phi (Knights Landing): Core, Uncore, RAPL
Support for Uncore counters of some desktop chips (SandyBridge, IvyBridge, Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake)
Basic support for Linux perf_event interface instead of native access. Currently only core-local counters working, Uncore is experimental
Support to build against a existing Lua installation (5.1 - 5.3 tested)
Support for CPU frequency manipulation, Lua interface updated
Access module checks for LLNL's msr_safe kernel module
Support for counter registers that are only available when HyperThreading is off
Socket measurements can be used for all cores on the socket in metric formulas.

The LIKWID team wishes Merry Christmas to everyone.

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Published by TomTheBear over 9 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.1.2

Fix for likwid-powermeter: Use proper energy unit
Fix for performance groups for Intel Broadwell (D/EP): DATA and FALSE_SHARE
Reduce number of started access daemons
Clean Uncore unit local control registers (needed for simultaneous use of LIKWID 3 and 4)
Clean config, filter and counter registers at *_finalize function
Fix for likwid-features and likwid-perfctr

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Published by TomTheBear almost 10 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.1.1

Fix for Uncore handling for EP/EN/EX systems
Minor fix for Uncore handling on Intel desktop systems
Fix in generic readCounters function
Support for Intel Goldmont (untested)
Fixes for likwid-mpirun

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Published by TomTheBear almost 10 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.1.0

Support for Intel Skylake (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel Broadwell (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel Broadwell D (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel Broadwell EP/EN/EX (Core + Uncore)
Support for Intel Airmont (Core)
Uncore support for Intel SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell
Performance group and event set handling in library
Internal calculator for derived metrics
Improvement of Marker API
Get results/metrics of last measurement cycle
Fixed most memory leaks
Respect 'Intel PMU sharing guide'
Update of internal Lua to 5.3
More examples (C++11 threads,Cilk+, TBB)
Test suite for executables and library
Accuracy checker supports multiple CPUs
Security checked access daemon
Likwid-bench supports Integer benchmarks
Likwid-bench selects interation count automatically
Likwid-bench has new FMA related benchmarks
Likwid-mpirun supports SLURM job scheduler
Reintroduced tool likwid-features

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Published by TomTheBear about 10 years ago

likwid - likwid-4.0.1

likwid-bench: Iteration determination is done serially
likwid-bench: Manual selection of iterations possible
likwid-perfctr: Set cpuset to all CPUs not only the first
likwid-pin: Set cpuset to all CPUs not only the first
likwid-accuracy.py: Enhanced plotting functions, use only instrumented likwid-bench
likwid-accessD: Check for allowed register for PCI accesses
Add models HASWELLM1 (0x45) and HASWELLM2 (0x46) to likwid-powermeter and likwid-accessD
New test application using Cilk and Marker API
New test application using C++11 threads and Marker API
likwid-agent: gmetric version check for --group option and s/\s*/_/ in metric names
likwid-powermeter: Print RAPL domain name
Marker API: Initialize access already at likwid_markerInit()
Marker API: likwid_markerThreadInit() only pins if not already pinned

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Published by TomTheBear almost 11 years ago

likwid - LIKWID Version 4.0.0

After about one year of development, We are happy to announce the newest version of LIKWID.

The features of LIKWID 4.0.0: - Support for Intel Broadwell - Uncore support for all Uncore-aware architectures - Nehalem (EX) - Westmere (EX) - SandyBridge EP - IvyBridge EP - Haswell EP - Measure multiple event sets in a round-robin fashion (no multiplexing!) - Event options to filter the counter increments - Whole LIKWID functionality is exposed as API for C/C++ and Lua - New functions in the Marker API to switch event sets and get intermediate results - Topology code relies on hwloc. CPUID is still included but only as fallback - Most LIKWID applications are written in Lua (only exception likwid-bench) - Monitoring daemon likwid-agent with multiple output backends - More performance groups

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Published by TomTheBear almost 11 years ago

Recent Releases of likwid

likwid - likwid-5.4.1

Changelog 5.4.1

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc7

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc6

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc5

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc4

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc3

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc2

likwid - likwid-5.4.1rc1

likwid - likwid-5.4.0

likwid - likwid-5.4.0rc2

likwid - likwid-5.4.0rc1

likwid - likwid-5.3.0

likwid - likwid-5.2.2

likwid - likwid-5.2.1

likwid - likwid-5.2.0

likwid - likwid-5.1.1

likwid - likwid-5.1.0

likwid - likwid-5.0.2

likwid - likwid-5.0.1

likwid - likwid-5.0.0

likwid - likwid-4.3.4

likwid - likwid-4.3.3

likwid - likwid-4.3.2

likwid - likwid-4.3.1

likwid - likwid-4.3.0

likwid - likwid-4.2.1

likwid - likwid-4.2.0

likwid - likwid-4.1.2

likwid - likwid-4.1.1

likwid - likwid-4.1.0

likwid - likwid-4.0.1

likwid - LIKWID Version 4.0.0