Changelog v1.7.8

Change log for LCI v1.7.8

Major Changes

• Upstream LCI spack package to the spack repo.
• Add RoCE support
  • including the GID auto selection feature.
• Improve multi-device support
  • use shared low-level data structures.
  • use shared heap and package pools for devices
• Fix messages of size larger than int_max.
  • LCI will break the message into multiple chunks and send them with RDMA write.

Breaking Changes

• Change the github repo name from uiuc-hpc/LC to uiuc-hpc/lci
• Remove the LCI::Shared cmake target

Other Changes

• improve spack package.py: use spec.satisfies instead of spec.value
• fix(ofi): pass LCI_SERVER_MAX_SENDS/RECVS to libfabric endpoints
• add three performance counters: net_poll_cq_num, sync_stay_timer, cq_stay_timer
• refactor backend: LCI device as LCIS endpoint
• force ofi cxi to disable LCI_ENABLE_PRG_NET_ENDPOINT
• initialize allocated packets with LCII_POOLID_LOCAL
• add net_cq_poll related counters to measure the thread contention in progress engine
• fix(lct/pcounter): exit recording thread if not needed
• ibv backend: adjust max_send, max_recv, max_cqe according to device_attr
• improve LCIConfig.cmake.in: PACKAGE_CMAKE_INSTALL_XXX can be changed by find_dependency