WHAT: Open our low-level communication infrastructure by moving all necessary components (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool) down in OPAL
All the components required for inter-process communications are currently deeply integrated in the OMPI layer. Several groups/institutions have express interest in having a more generic communication infrastructure, without all the OMPI layer dependencies. This communication layer should be made available at a different software level, available to all layers in the Open MPI software stack. As an example, our ORTE layer could replace the current OOB and instead use the BTL directly, gaining access to more reactive network interfaces than TCP. Similarly, external software libraries could take advantage of our highly optimized AM (active message) communication layer for their own purpose. UTK with support from Sandia, developped a version of Open MPI where the entire communication infrastucture has been moved down to OPAL (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool). Most of the moved components have been updated to match the new schema, with few exceptions (mainly BTLs where I have no way of compiling/testing them). Thus, the completion of this RFC is tied to being able to completing this move for all BTLs. For this we need help from the rest of the Open MPI community, especially those supporting some of the BTLs. A non-exhaustive list of BTLs that qualify here is: mx, portals4, scif, udapl, ugni, usnic.
This commit was SVN r32317.
__opal_attribute_nonnull__, __opal_attribute_warn_unused_result__,
__opal_attribute_malloc__, __opal_attribute_sentinel__ and
__opal_attribute_format__
This commit was SVN r14078.
The same treatement will happens on all sub-projects. The .h files
have to be C++ compatibles and all symbols with an external visibility
have to get the {PROJECT}_DECLSPEC in front of the prototype.
This commit was SVN r11340.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
* rename ompi_basename to opal_basename
* rename ompi bitop functions to opal
* rename ompi_cmd_line to opal_cmd_line
* rename ompi_sizet2int to opal_sizet2int
* rename orte_daemon_init to opal_daemon_init
* rename ompi_few to opal_few
This commit was SVN r6330.
