v2.11.1

Bugs Fixed:

• Fix frequency benchmark on GNR
• Add ELC mode for compute dies on SRF and GNR

v2.11.0

Features Added

• Report Efficiency Latency Control (ELC) configuration on SRF and GNR
• Report PCIe address, NUMA node, and more for NVME drives
• Add support for PMU profiling on AWS ICX and SPR VMs ... and SRF servers.
• Report L3 size on GNR
• Processor TDP added to Summary field of Excel 'brief' report

Bugs Fixed

• Fix turbo benchmark on systems with many cores, e.g., SRF
• Fix memory performance benchmark when run on systems with large huge page sizes
• Fix Excel report corruption when NaN values result from '-profile pmu'

v2.10.0

2.10.0
Features Added

• Support for Sierra Forest Xeon CPUs
• The '-benchmark frequency' option now measures AVX2/3 frequencies in addition to non-AVX frequencies
• Minor improvements to System Summary field in Excel 'Brief' report
• Nodes in multi-node HTML report will now be in the same order as presented in targets file
• SRF and GNR ISAs identified in ISAs report table
• EMR reference benchmark data added

Other Changes

• Removed "Feature" table from report
• Removed Active Idle settings from report

Known Issues

• The '-profile pmu' and '-profile power' options do not function on SRF.
• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.

v2.9.1

Bugs Fixed

• Extremely long run time on some EMR virtual machines

v2.9.0

Features Added

• Report CPU temperature when CPUs have been active when '-benchmark turbo' is run
• Memory population chart for Dell SPR platform
• Extend prefetchers field to include all known prefetchers

Bugs Fixed

• Slow report generation when an extremely deep call stack is captured with the -analyze option
• LLC size mis-calculated on EMR MCC SKUs
• Micro-architecture mis-identified on AWS m7i instances

Known Issues

• Frequency measurement benchmark not yet supported on GNR and SRF
• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.

v2.8.0

Bugs Fixed

• Turbo on/off incorrectly reported on Excel Brief Report summary field

Features Added

• PMU-based metrics added to profiling options, e.g., -profile pmu or -profile all
• Package and DRAM power stats added to profiling options, e.g., -profile power or -profile all
• Option to skip configuration data collection when profiling or analyzing, e.g., -profile all -noconfig
• Recognize DLB and QAT accelerators on SRF and GNR
• ISA table extended to show availability of newest ISAs
• Add recognition of temperature related entries in System Event Log to Insights
• Recognize GNR, SRF, and AMD Bergamo CPUs
• upgraded to MLC v3.11

Known Issues

• Frequency measurement benchmark not yet supported on GNR and SRF
• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.

v2.7.4

Bugs Fixed

• false positive Vulnerability for CVE-2022-40982 ("Downfall") on some ICX systems

v2.7.3

Sub-components Updated

• spectre-meltdown-checker -- updated to latest HEAD commit
• others -- internal components used to collect data and generate reports

Features Added

• None

Bugs Fixed

• None

Known Issues

• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.

v2.7.2

Features Added

• None

Bugs Fixed

• Corrupt Excel reports in svr-info version 2.7.1 caused by incompatibility between Go 1.21 and Excelize package. Reverting to Go 1.20.7.

Known Issues

• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.

v2.7.1

IMPORTANT: This release generates corrupt Excel reports. If you rely on svr-info's Excel reports, please use svr-info version 2.7.0 until another release can be generated.

Features Added

• None

Bugs Fixed

• CXL devices were not being detected due to lspci version incompatibility
• Insights that rely on CPU micro-architecture names were not matching appended MCC/XCC text
• Align power-perf policy insight to labels introduced in 2.7.0

Minor Changes

• Use latest (as of release build time) spectre-meltdown-checker script from public repo
• IAX accelerator renamed to IAA
• Fix information text regarding Perl on HTML Analysis report

Known Issues

• The storage micro-benchmark may not run on CentOS due to OS locale settings.
• CPU cache sizes are reported in aggregate on Ubuntu 20.04 and newer.
• DRAM population and CPU frequencies may not be accurate on some public cloud IaaS VMs.