For some time, ORTE has had the ability to launch daemons on all nodes prior to launching an application. It has largely been used outside of the OMPI community, and so was never explicitly turned "on" inside OMPI releases. Nevertheless, the code has been there.
Allowing VM launches does not require ANY changes to existing PLM components. All that was required was to have orterun launch the daemons as a separate call to orte_plm.spawn -prior- to launching the applications. The rest of the VM support code resides in the rmaps framework:
(a) a check when asked to map a job to see if it is the daemon job, and
(b) a separate "setup_virtual_machine" mapper in the rmaps base that creates the required map so the PLM's will do the right thing.
In order to support those users who have no RM allocation but like to give the allocation in the form of a -host or -hostfile argument to their application, there is a little more code in orterun and the setup_virtual_machine mapper to capture information passed in that manner.
This has been tested with rsh and slurm environments, and, since there is nothing environment-specific in the implementation, should work in others as well - but needs to be proven.
This commit was SVN r24524.
1. removing the enum of mapper values
2. change the req_mapper and last_mapper fields to char* so they can hold the component name instead of a mapper flag
3. revise the selection logic in the mapper components to reflect the change. Components now look for their name in the req_mapper field, or to see if other criteria (e.g., npernode) are set that mandate their doing the mapping
Several MCA params resided in the rmaps base for historical reasons - they have been in the base since at least the original 1.2 release (and perhaps earlier). However, George correctly pointed out that they really should reside in their respective components. Accordingly, move them to the components, but register synonyms to the old names to avoid breaking backward compatibility.
These revisions retain the current functionality of allowing comm_spawn'd jobs to use different mappers than the original job, and for the errmgr to utilize the resilient mapper to recover processes regardless of how they were originally mapped.
Given the large number of possible combinations, I am sure that someone will find a corner-case combination of values and selection criteria that cause either no mapper to be selected, or one other than the intended to be used. No one can test all the ways people will use this system, so I expect debugging to continue for awhile.
The ability of comm_spawn'd jobs to exploit this functionality relies on changes to the orte_dpm component - this will be committed separately.
This commit was SVN r24520.
When called, each mapper checks to see if it can map the job. If npernode is provided, for example, then the loadbalance mapper accepts the assignment and performs the operation - all mappers before it will "pass" as they can't map npernode requests.
Also remove the stale and never completed topo mapper.
This commit was SVN r24393.
(OMPI_ERR_* = OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE(ret)), since the return value could be a
SOS-encoded error. The OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE() takes in a SOS error and returns
back the native error code.
* Since OPAL_SUCCESS is preserved by SOS, also change all calls of the form
(OPAL_ERROR == ret) to (OPAL_SUCCESS != ret). We thus avoid having to
decode 'ret' to get the native error code.
This commit was SVN r23162.
Add a ''map_bynode'' info key to determine if the job to be started by comm_spawn* should be mapped by node or by slot. Default is to map according to the default policy set when the parent job was started.
cmr:v1.5.1
This commit was SVN r22564.
1. ensure that orte_rmaps_base_schedule_policy does not override cmd line settings
2. when you try to bind to more cores than we have, generate a not-enough-processors error message
3. allow npersocket -bind-to-core combination - because, yes, somebody actually wants to do it.
This commit was SVN r21996.
1. default -npersocket to force -bind-to-socket
2. if we cannot get a value for cores/socket, try using #logical cpus. otherwise, default to 1 core
3. add missing error message for not-enough-processors
4. since we no longer loop through orte_register_params twice, put the auto-detect of
topology info in the rte_init for hnp and std_orted
5. fix bind-to-core, bysocket combination
This commit was SVN r21992.
1. finalize the logic for properly respecting externally assigned bindings. Thanks to Chris Samuel for his help with this. Still needs some acid testing, but appears to now work.
2. remove the double-logic of requiring opal_paffinity_alone AND bind-to-foo. If the user specifies bind-to-foo, trust her and just do it.
This commit was SVN r21885.
Add a capability to parse the rankfile to extract node information in place of requiring both hostfile and rankfile for non-RM managed environments. The rankfile is -only- parsed for this IF the hostfile and -host options are not given. Otherwise, those are used to establish allocation info as we did before this commit.
This commit was SVN r21815.
Adds several new mpirun options:
* -bysocket - assign ranks on a node by socket. Effectively load balances the procs assigned to a node across the available sockets. Note that ranks can still be bound to a specific core within the socket, or to the entire socket - the mapping is independent of the binding.
* -bind-to-socket - bind each rank to all the cores on the socket to which they are assigned.
* -bind-to-core - currently the default behavior (maintained from prior default)
* -npersocket N - launch N procs for every socket on a node. Note that this implies we know how many sockets are on a node. Mpirun will determine its local values. These can be overridden by provided values, either via MCA param or in a hostfile
Similar features/options are provided at the board level for multi-board nodes.
Documentation to follow...
This commit was SVN r21791.
