that enabling "local_only" by default could cause excessive
by-NUMA-node paging and/or OOMs (rather than allowing memory
allocations to spill over to other NUMA nodes).
This brought home the very real-world example of people buying servers
with more processors/cores than they need, just to get more memory.
We wouldn't want Badness to occur in such scenarios by default.
Instead, let people turn on "only allow memory allocations on my local
NUMA node" if their application would benefit from it.
This commit was SVN r24648.
After a long period of development with many starts and stops, we
finally got this where we wanted it.
This commit introduces 2 new MCA params (note that the
"maffinity_libnuma_policy" MCA param introduced by r24290 was removed
when libnuma support was removed). Remember that maffinity policies
are only in effect when paffinity is enaabled -- i.e., when processes
are bound to processors!
* '''maffinity_base_alloc_policy:''' Policy that determines how
general memory allocations are bound after MPI_INIT. A value of
"none" means that no memory policy is applied. A value of
"local_only" means that all memory allocations will be restricted
to the local NUMA node where each process is placed. Note that
operating system paging policies are unaffected by this setting.
For example, if "local_only" is used and local NUMA node memory is
exhausted, a new memory allocation may cause paging.
* '''maffinity_base_bind_failure_action:''' What Open MPI will do if
it explicitly tries to bind memory to a specific NUMA location, and
fails. Note that this is a different case than the general
allocation policy described by maffinity_base_alloc_policy. A
value of "warn" means that Open MPI will warn the first time this
happens, but allow the job to continue (possibly with degraded
performance). A value of "error" means that Open MPI will abort
the job if this happens.
This needs at least a little soak time on the trunk before going to
v1.5.
This commit was SVN r24639.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24290 --> open-mpi/ompi@afa654746c
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2698 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2698
1. replacing mpi_paffinity_alone with opal_paffinity_alone - for back-compatibility, I have aliased mpi_paffinity_alone to the new param name. This caus
es a mild abstraction break in the opal/mca/paffinity framework - per the devel discussion...live with it. :-) I also moved the ompi_xxx global variable
that tracked maffinity setup so it could be properly closed in MPI_Finalize to the opal/mca/maffinity framework to avoid an abstraction break.
2. Added code to the odls/default module to perform paffinity binding and maffinity init between process fork and exec. This has been tested on IU's odi
n cluster and works for both MPI and non-MPI apps.
3. Revise MPI_Init to detect if affinity has already been set, and to attempt to set it if not already done. I have *not* tested this as I haven't yet f
igured out a way to do so - I couldn't get slurm to perform cpu bindings, even though it supposedly does do so.
This has only been lightly tested and would definitely benefit from a wider range of evaluation...
This commit was SVN r21209.
A subset of this patch needs to be applied to v1.2
Refs trac:928
This commit was SVN r15918.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 928 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/928
- 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.
API is still a bit unstable and may change.
- Add a primitive "first use" component that simply has each process
"touch" the pages that they want to use, thereby [hopefully] locking
them locally to a specific processor
- Add hooks in ompi_mpi_init to enable memory affinity when processor
affinity is used.
- Added hooks in ompi_mpi_finalize to shut down memory affinity when
it was initialized during ompi_mpi_init.
- Added right hooks in ompi_info to display maffinity components.
This commit was SVN r7044.
