high prio QPs and low prio QPs) and because not all of them are polled each time
progrgess() is called (to save on latency) starvation is possible. The commit
fixes this. Now each channel is polled, but higher priority channels are polled
more often. Three new parameters are introduced that control polling ratios
between different channels.
This commit was SVN r17024.
(sometimes after the merge with the ORTE branch), the opal_pointer_array
will became the only pointer_array implementation (the orte_pointer_array
will be removed).
This commit was SVN r17007.
to a pending queue of eager rdma QP instead of correct pending list. This patch
fixes this by getting reed of "eager rdma qp" notion. Packet is always send
over its order QP. The patch also adds two pending queues for high and low prio
packets. Only high prio packets are sent over eager RDMA channel.
This commit was SVN r16780.
main idea (except of cleanup) is to save on initialisation of unneeded fields
and to use C type checking system to catch obvious errors.
This commit was SVN r16779.
Each one of them has a field to store QP type, but this is redundant.
Store qp type only in one structure (the component one).
This commit was SVN r16272.
one HCA. Multiple ports, LMC, multiple BTLs per one LID. Having only one CQ for
all of them substantially reduce polling time.
This commit was SVN r15933.
/tmp/jms-modular-wireup branch):
* This commit moves all the openib BTL connection code out of
btl_openib_endpoint.c and into a connect "pseudo-component" area,
meaning that different schemes for doing OFA connection schemes can
be chosen via function pointer (i.e., MCA parameter) at run-time.
* The connect/connect.h file includes comments describing the
specific interface for the connect pseudo-component.
* Two pseudo-components are in this commit (more can certainly be
added).
* oob: use the same old oob/rml scheme for creating OFA connections
that we've had forever; this now just puts the logic into this
self-contained pseudo-component.
* rdma_cm: a currently-empty set of functions (that currently
return NOT_IMPLEMENTED) that will someday use the RDMA connection
manager to make OFA connections.
This commit was SVN r15786.
sender piggybacks a number of credit messages it received from a peer. A number
of outstanding credit messages is limited. This is needed to never ever fall
back to HW flow control.
This commit was SVN r15580.
1. Galen's fine-grain control of queue pair resources in the openib
BTL.
1. Pasha's new implementation of asychronous HCA event handling.
Pasha's new implementation doesn't take much explanation, but the new
"multifrag" stuff does.
Note that "svn merge" was not used to bring this new code from the
/tmp/ib_multifrag branch -- something Bad happened in the periodic
trunk pulls on that branch making an actual merge back to the trunk
effectively impossible (i.e., lots and lots of arbitrary conflicts and
artifical changes). :-(
== Fine-grain control of queue pair resources ==
Galen's fine-grain control of queue pair resources to the OpenIB BTL
(thanks to Gleb for fixing broken code and providing additional
functionality, Pasha for finding broken code, and Jeff for doing all
the svn work and regression testing).
Prior to this commit, the OpenIB BTL created two queue pairs: one for
eager size fragments and one for max send size fragments. When the
use of the shared receive queue (SRQ) was specified (via "-mca
btl_openib_use_srq 1"), these QPs would use a shared receive queue for
receive buffers instead of the default per-peer (PP) receive queues
and buffers. One consequence of this design is that receive buffer
utilization (the size of the data received as a percentage of the
receive buffer used for the data) was quite poor for a number of
applications.
The new design allows multiple QPs to be specified at runtime. Each
QP can be setup to use PP or SRQ receive buffers as well as giving
fine-grained control over receive buffer size, number of receive
buffers to post, when to replenish the receive queue (low water mark)
and for SRQ QPs, the number of outstanding sends can also be
specified. The following is an example of the syntax to describe QPs
to the OpenIB BTL using the new MCA parameter btl_openib_receive_queues:
{{{
-mca btl_openib_receive_queues \
"P,128,16,4;S,1024,256,128,32;S,4096,256,128,32;S,65536,256,128,32"
}}}
Each QP description is delimited by ";" (semicolon) with individual
fields of the QP description delimited by "," (comma). The above
example therefore describes 4 QPs.
The first QP is:
P,128,16,4
Meaning: per-peer receive buffer QPs are indicated by a starting field
of "P"; the first QP (shown above) is therefore a per-peer based QP.
The second field indicates the size of the receive buffer in bytes
(128 bytes). The third field indicates the number of receive buffers
to allocate to the QP (16). The fourth field indicates the low
watermark for receive buffers at which time the BTL will repost
receive buffers to the QP (4).
The second QP is:
S,1024,256,128,32
Shared receive queue based QPs are indicated by a starting field of
"S"; the second QP (shown above) is therefore a shared receive queue
based QP. The second, third and fourth fields are the same as in the
per-peer based QP. The fifth field is the number of outstanding sends
that are allowed at a given time on the QP (32). This provides a
"good enough" mechanism of flow control for some regular communication
patterns.
QPs MUST be specified in ascending receive buffer size order. This
requirement may be removed prior to 1.3 release.
This commit was SVN r15474.
This is required to tighten up the BTL semantics. Ordering is not guaranteed,
but, if the BTL returns a order tag in a descriptor (other than
MCA_BTL_NO_ORDER) then we may request another descriptor that will obey
ordering w.r.t. to the other descriptor.
This will allow sane behavior for RDMA networks, where local completion of an
RDMA operation on the active side does not imply remote completion on the
passive side. If we send a FIN message after local completion and the FIN is
not ordered w.r.t. the RDMA operation then badness may occur as the passive
side may now try to deregister the memory and the RDMA operation may still be
pending on the passive side.
Note that this has no impact on networks that don't suffer from this
limitation as the ORDER tag can simply always be specified as
MCA_BTL_NO_ORDER.
This commit was SVN r14768.
