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Rainer Keller
4c0e8e1e69 - Header orte/mca/oob/base/base.h is probably the wrong one to include
anyhow -- if oob functionality is neededm then orte/mca/oob/oob.h

   Nevertheless compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration   

This commit was SVN r20641.
2009-02-26 04:20:03 +00:00
Rainer Keller
04567d3af0 - Header orte/mca/errmgr/errmgr.h is not needed.
Once again compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration   

This commit was SVN r20640.
2009-02-26 04:05:30 +00:00
Rainer Keller
d81443cc5a - On the way to get the BTLs split out and lessen dependency on orte:
Often, orte/util/show_help.h is included, although no functionality
   is required -- instead, most often opal_output.h, or               
   orte/mca/rml/rml_types.h                                           
   Please see orte_show_help_replacement.sh commited next.            

 - Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
   actually showed two *missing* #include "orte/util/show_help.h"     
   in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c and                  
   in orte/tools/orte-top/orte-top.c                                  
   Manually added these.                                              

   Let's have MTT the last word.

This commit was SVN r20557.
2009-02-14 02:26:12 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
a5281f0434 - 1/4 commit for Windows Visual Studio and CCP support:
CMakeLists and .windows files.
  In contribs preconfigured and precompiled parts.

This commit was SVN r20108.
2008-12-10 20:59:20 +00:00
Ralph Castain
1ace83c470 Enable modex-less launch. Consists of:
1. minor modification to include two new opal MCA params:
   (a) opal_profile: outputs what components were selected by each framework
       currently enabled for most, but not all, frameworks
   (b) opal_profile_file: name of file that contains profile info required
       for modex

2. introduction of two new tools:
   (a) ompi-probe: MPI process that simply calls MPI_Init/Finalize with
       opal_profile set. Also reports back the rml IP address for all
       interfaces on the node
   (b) ompi-profiler: uses ompi-probe to create the profile_file, also
       reports out a summary of what framework components are actually
       being used to help with configuration options

3. modification of the grpcomm basic component to utilize the
   profile file in place of the modex where possible

4. modification of orterun so it properly sees opal mca params and
   handles opal_profile correctly to ensure we don't get its profile

5. similar mod to orted as for orterun

6. addition of new test that calls orte_init followed by calls to
   grpcomm.barrier

This is all completely benign unless actively selected. At the moment, it only supports modex-less launch for openib-based systems. Minor mod to the TCP btl would be required to enable it as well, if people are interested. Similarly, anyone interested in enabling other BTL's for modex-less operation should let me know and I'll give you the magic details.

This seems to significantly improve scalability provided the file can be locally located on the nodes. I'm looking at an alternative means of disseminating the info (perhaps in launch message) as an option for removing that constraint.

This commit was SVN r20098.
2008-12-09 23:49:02 +00:00
Ralph Castain
6e050bc78c Update the route when it comes from a different job family.
This fixes ticket #1699

This commit was SVN r20085.
2008-12-09 01:16:18 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c2b18b363d Initialize a variable before use
This commit was SVN r20080.
2008-12-08 16:16:40 +00:00
George Bosilca
7a30a98a89 Use the generic cast.
This commit was SVN r20028.
2008-11-24 15:52:36 +00:00
Ralph Castain
f54fda489e This is a first step towards supporting fully-routed OOB communications:
1. remove direct routed module (hooray!)

2. add radix tree routed module (binomial remains default)

3. remove duplicate data storage - orteds were storing nidmap and pidmap data in odls, everyone else in ess

4. add ess APIs to update nidmap, add new pidmap - used only by orteds for MPI-2 support

5. modify code to eliminate multiple calls to orte_routed.update_route that recreated info already in ess pidmap. Add ess API to lookup that info instead. Modify routed modules to utilize that capability

6. setup new ability to shutdown orteds without sending back an "ack" message to mpirun - not utilized yet, will require some changes to plm terminate_orteds functions in managed environments (coming soon)

Initial tests indicating that fully routing comm via defined routing trees may not actually have a significant cost for operations like IB QP setup. More tests required to confirm.

This will require an autogen...

This commit was SVN r19866.
2008-10-31 21:10:00 +00:00
Ralph Castain
6e5d844c36 Roll in the revamped IOF subsystem. Per the devel mailing list email, this is a complete rewrite of the iof framework designed to simplify the code for maintainability, and to support features we had planned to do, but were too difficult to implement in the old code. Specifically, the new code:
1. completely and cleanly separates responsibilities between the HNP, orted, and tool components.

2. removes all wireup messaging during launch and shutdown.

3. maintains flow control for stdin to avoid large-scale consumption of memory by orteds when large input files are forwarded. This is done using an xon/xoff protocol.

4. enables specification of stdin recipients on the mpirun cmd line. Allowed options include rank, "all", or "none". Default is rank 0.

5. creates a new MPI_Info key "ompi_stdin_target" that supports the above options for child jobs. Default is "none".

6. adds a new tool "orte-iof" that can connect to a running mpirun and display the output. Cmd line options allow selection of any combination of stdout, stderr, and stddiag. Default is stdout.

7. adds a new mpirun and orte-iof cmd line option "tag-output" that will tag each line of output with process name and stream ident. For example, "[1,0]<stdout>this is output"

This is not intended for the 1.3 release as it is a major change requiring considerable soak time.

This commit was SVN r19767.
2008-10-18 00:00:49 +00:00
Ralph Castain
15c47a2473 Revise the daemon collective system to handle comm_spawn patterns that cross into new nodes that are not direct children on the routing tree of the HNP.
Refers to ticket #1548. Although this appears to fix the problem, the ticket will be held open pending further test prior to transition to the 1.3 branch.

This commit was SVN r19674.
2008-10-02 20:08:27 +00:00
Ralph Castain
508cb45583 Add a little more diagnostic info when we cannot do an rml send
This commit was SVN r19654.
2008-09-28 02:13:49 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
04ee20a880 - Mainly type casts. Microsoft VC++ compiler is too strict.
This commit was SVN r19517.
2008-09-08 15:39:30 +00:00
Brian Barrett
79cf946bce Add header file needed for the non-full RTE, non-debug case
This commit was SVN r19475.
2008-09-01 18:02:32 +00:00
Ralph Castain
3e2a3db887 Add a missing ntoh conversion when pushing a message back onto the RML progress queue.
If a message cannot be routed because the addressee isn't yet known, then the message is held on a queue in the RML for a period of time (currently set to 500 millisec). At the end of that time, we pop the message from the list and attempt to send it again. This action requires that we convert the header back to
network-byte-order before calling the OOB.

If the message still cannot be routed, we put the message back on the list and reset the timer. However, since we are going to convert the header when it com
es off of the list, we have to ntoh it before putting it back on the list so it all comes out right. This step was missing.

Thus, the problem only showed up relatively rarely because a message would have to be pushed onto the queue at least twice for the problem to surface.

This should fix a specific ticket (1389), but we will wait to see the results of MTT runs to verify. Note that we really don't know why a message is rattling around in the RML for so long, especially since this all seems to be happening during finalize, so this could cause mpirun to hang. Or it could simply trash the message and exit cleanly. Shall be interesting to see!

This commit was SVN r19276.
2008-08-13 17:54:15 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
0af7ac53f2 Fixes trac:1392, #1400
* add "register" function to mca_base_component_t
   * converted coll:basic and paffinity:linux and paffinity:solaris to
     use this function
   * we'll convert the rest over time (I'll file a ticket once all
     this is committed)
 * add 32 bytes of "reserved" space to the end of mca_base_component_t
   and mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t to make future upgrades
   [slightly] easier
   * new mca_base_component_t size: 196 bytes
   * new mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t size: 36 bytes
 * MCA base version bumped to v2.0
   * '''We now refuse to load components that are not MCA v2.0.x'''
 * all MCA frameworks versions bumped to v2.0
 * be a little more explicit about version numbers in the MCA base
   * add big comment in mca.h about versioning philosophy

This commit was SVN r19073.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1392 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1392
2008-07-28 22:40:57 +00:00
Ralph Castain
cb93775cca Just for the AR - remove unnecessary typecast
This commit was SVN r19034.
2008-07-25 15:30:37 +00:00
Ralph Castain
7e6e104fc3 Add more debugging to the RML when it fails to find a route - specifically, have it print a stacktrace so we can figure out where it came from.
This commit was SVN r19032.
2008-07-25 15:01:41 +00:00
Ralph Castain
09db4c3a60 Add target tag to diagnostic output
This commit was SVN r18918.
2008-07-16 01:57:01 +00:00
Ralph Castain
07841808ee Add some debugging - provide a gentler abort when routes cannot be found
This commit was SVN r18915.
2008-07-15 15:48:46 +00:00
Ralph Castain
ba5498cdc6 Repair the MPI-2 dynamic operations. This includes:
1. repair of the linear and direct routed modules

2. repair of the ompi/pubsub/orte module to correctly init routes to the ompi-server, and correctly handle failure to correctly parse the provided ompi-server URI

3. modification of orterun to accept both "file" and "FILE" for designating where the ompi-server URI is to be found - purely a convenience feature

4. resolution of a message ordering problem during the connect/accept handshake that allowed the "send-first" proc to attempt to send to the "recv-first" proc before the HNP had actually updated its routes.

Let this be a further reminder to all - message ordering is NOT guaranteed in the OOB

5. Repair the ompi/dpm/orte module to correctly init routes during connect/accept.

Reminder to all: messages sent to procs in another job family (i.e., started by a different mpirun) are ALWAYS routed through the respective HNPs. As per the comments in orte/routed, this is REQUIRED to maintain connect/accept (where only the root proc on each side is capable of init'ing the routes), allow communication between mpirun's using different routing modules, and to minimize connections on tools such as ompi-server. It is all taken care of "under the covers" by the OOB to ensure that a route back to the sender is maintained, even when the different mpirun's are using different routed modules.

6. corrections in the orte/odls to ensure proper identification of daemons participating in a dynamic launch

7. corrections in build/nidmap to support update of an existing nidmap during dynamic launch

8. corrected implementation of the update_arch function in the ESS, along with consolidation of a number of ESS operations into base functions for easier maintenance. The ability to support info from multiple jobs was added, although we don't currently do so - this will come later to support further fault recovery strategies

9. minor updates to several functions to remove unnecessary and/or no longer used variables and envar's, add some debugging output, etc.

10. addition of a new macro ORTE_PROC_IS_DAEMON that resolves to true if the provided proc is a daemon

There is still more cleanup to be done for efficiency, but this at least works.

Tested on single-node Mac, multi-node SLURM via odin. Tests included connect/accept, publish/lookup/unpublish, comm_spawn, comm_spawn_multiple, and singleton comm_spawn.

Fixes ticket #1256

This commit was SVN r18804.
2008-07-03 17:53:37 +00:00
Ralph Castain
158040cf3b First step: be kind to Jeff's disk space - let's abort without dumping core files all over the place
This commit was SVN r18751.
2008-06-26 16:10:03 +00:00
Ralph Castain
282a220e7e Update the debugger interface per email thread with Jeff and Brian. Handoff to them for final test and validation
This commit was SVN r18670.
2008-06-18 15:28:46 +00:00
George Bosilca
8e7c35e76c These symbols are only available via the module/component structure, so they
don't have to be globally visible.

This commit was SVN r18666.
2008-06-18 08:20:02 +00:00
Ralph Castain
0532d799d6 Complete implementation of the --without-rte-support configure option. Working with Brian, this has been tested on RedStorm.
Some minor changes to help facilitate debugger support so that both mpirun and yod can operate with it. Still to be completed.

This commit was SVN r18664.
2008-06-18 03:15:56 +00:00
Ralph Castain
9613b3176c Effectively revert the orte_output system and return to direct use of opal_output at all levels. Retain the orte_show_help subsystem to allow aggregation of show_help messages at the HNP.
After much work by Jeff and myself, and quite a lot of discussion, it has become clear that we simply cannot resolve the infinite loops caused by RML-involved subsystems calling orte_output. The original rationale for the change to orte_output has also been reduced by shifting the output of XML-formatted vs human readable messages to an alternative approach.

I have globally replaced the orte_output/ORTE_OUTPUT calls in the code base, as well as the corresponding .h file name. I have test compiled and run this on the various environments within my reach, so hopefully this will prove minimally disruptive.

This commit was SVN r18619.
2008-06-09 14:53:58 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c992e99035 Remove the tags from orte_output_open and the filtering operation from orte_output - this will be handled differently to improve the XML output interface
This commit was SVN r18557.
2008-06-03 14:24:01 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
e7ecd56bd2 This commit represents a bunch of work on a Mercurial side branch. As
such, the commit message back to the master SVN repository is fairly
long.

= ORTE Job-Level Output Messages =

Add two new interfaces that should be used for all new code throughout
the ORTE and OMPI layers (we already make the search-and-replace on
the existing ORTE / OMPI layers):

 * orte_output(): (and corresponding friends ORTE_OUTPUT,
   orte_output_verbose, etc.)  This function sends the output directly
   to the HNP for processing as part of a job-specific output
   channel.  It supports all the same outputs as opal_output()
   (syslog, file, stdout, stderr), but for stdout/stderr, the output
   is sent to the HNP for processing and output.  More on this below.
 * orte_show_help(): This function is a drop-in-replacement for
   opal_show_help(), with two differences in functionality:
   1. the rendered text help message output is sent to the HNP for
      display (rather than outputting directly into the process' stderr
      stream)
   1. the HNP detects duplicate help messages and does not display them
      (so that you don't see the same error message N times, once from
      each of your N MPI processes); instead, it counts "new" instances
      of the help message and displays a message every ~5 seconds when
      there are new ones ("I got X new copies of the help message...")

opal_show_help and opal_output still exist, but they only output in
the current process.  The intent for the new orte_* functions is that
they can apply job-level intelligence to the output.  As such, we
recommend that all new ORTE and OMPI code use the new orte_*
functions, not thei opal_* functions.

=== New code ===

For ORTE and OMPI programmers, here's what you need to do differently
in new code:

 * Do not include opal/util/show_help.h or opal/util/output.h.
   Instead, include orte/util/output.h (this one header file has
   declarations for both the orte_output() series of functions and
   orte_show_help()).
 * Effectively s/opal_output/orte_output/gi throughout your code.
   Note that orte_output_open() takes a slightly different argument
   list (as a way to pass data to the filtering stream -- see below),
   so you if explicitly call opal_output_open(), you'll need to
   slightly adapt to the new signature of orte_output_open().
 * Literally s/opal_show_help/orte_show_help/.  The function signature
   is identical.

=== Notes ===

 * orte_output'ing to stream 0 will do similar to what
   opal_output'ing did, so leaving a hard-coded "0" as the first
   argument is safe.
 * For systems that do not use ORTE's RML or the HNP, the effect of
   orte_output_* and orte_show_help will be identical to their opal
   counterparts (the additional information passed to
   orte_output_open() will be lost!).  Indeed, the orte_* functions
   simply become trivial wrappers to their opal_* counterparts.  Note
   that we have not tested this; the code is simple but it is quite
   possible that we mucked something up.

= Filter Framework =

Messages sent view the new orte_* functions described above and
messages output via the IOF on the HNP will now optionally be passed
through a new "filter" framework before being output to
stdout/stderr.  The "filter" OPAL MCA framework is intended to allow
preprocessing to messages before they are sent to their final
destinations.  The first component that was written in the filter
framework was to create an XML stream, segregating all the messages
into different XML tags, etc.  This will allow 3rd party tools to read
the stdout/stderr from the HNP and be able to know exactly what each
text message is (e.g., a help message, another OMPI infrastructure
message, stdout from the user process, stderr from the user process,
etc.).

Filtering is not active by default.  Filter components must be
specifically requested, such as:

{{{
$ mpirun --mca filter xml ...
}}}

There can only be one filter component active.

= New MCA Parameters =

The new functionality described above introduces two new MCA
parameters:

 * '''orte_base_help_aggregate''': Defaults to 1 (true), meaning that
   help messages will be aggregated, as described above.  If set to 0,
   all help messages will be displayed, even if they are duplicates
   (i.e., the original behavior).
 * '''orte_base_show_output_recursions''': An MCA parameter to help
   debug one of the known issues, described below.  It is likely that
   this MCA parameter will disappear before v1.3 final.

= Known Issues =

 * The XML filter component is not complete.  The current output from
   this component is preliminary and not real XML.  A bit more work
   needs to be done to configure.m4 search for an appropriate XML
   library/link it in/use it at run time.
 * There are possible recursion loops in the orte_output() and
   orte_show_help() functions -- e.g., if RML send calls orte_output()
   or orte_show_help().  We have some ideas how to fix these, but
   figured that it was ok to commit before feature freeze with known
   issues.  The code currently contains sub-optimal workarounds so
   that this will not be a problem, but it would be good to actually
   solve the problem rather than have hackish workarounds before v1.3 final.

This commit was SVN r18434.
2008-05-13 20:00:55 +00:00
Ralph Castain
ff70636024 Allgather_list needs its own tag to avoid conflicting with the allgather modex operation.
All spawned procs must decode the port of the spawning process so they can communicate in direct routed mode.

This fixes comm_spawn for all routing modes.

This commit was SVN r18395.
2008-05-07 03:03:56 +00:00
Ralph Castain
d97a4f880d Shift the daemon collective operation to the ODLS framework. Ensure we track the collectives per job to avoid race conditions. Take advantage of the new capabilities of the routed framework to define aggregating trees for the daemon collective, and to track which daemons are participating to handle the case of sparse participation.
Make it all work with comm_spawn in the case of all procs on previously occupied nodes, some new procs on new nodes, and mixtures of the two.

Note: comm_spawn now works with both binomial and linear routed modules. There remains a problem of spawned procs not properly getting updated contact info for the parent proc when run in the direct routed mode...but that's for another day.

This commit was SVN r18385.
2008-05-06 20:16:17 +00:00
Ralph Castain
3e55fe6f6d Fold in the revised modex scheme. Move the ompi_proc_t modex portions to the RTE level since the daemons already have that info. Provide each process with the equivalent of a "nidmap" - both a map of what nodes are in the job, and a map of which node each process is on. This enables the use of static ports, though that hasn't been turned "on" in this commit.
Update the rsh tree spawn capability so we spawn the next wave of daemons before launching our own local procs.

Add an ability to encode nodenames for large clusters with contiguous node name numbering schemes - this allows communication of all node names in a few bytes instead of tens-of-bytes/node.

This commit was SVN r18338.
2008-04-30 19:49:53 +00:00
Ralph Castain
7b91f8baff Cleanup and fix bugs in the MPI dynamics section. Modify the dpm API so it properly takes ports instead of process names (as correctly identified by Aurelien). Fix race conditions in the use of ompi-server. Fix incompatibilities between the mpi bindings and the dpm implemenation that could cause segfaults due to uninitialized memory.
Fix the ompi-server -h cmd line option so it actually tells you something!

Add two new testing codes to the orte/test/mpi area: accept and connect.

This commit was SVN r18176.
2008-04-16 14:27:42 +00:00
Ralph Castain
7c7304466c Add a binomial tree-based launch to ssh, turned "on" only when the plm_rsh_tree_spawned mca param is set to a non-zero value. This probably isn't a very optimized capability, but it does execute a tree-based launch that may scale better than linear at high node counts.
Add the daemon map capability to the ODLS to create and save a map of daemon vpid vs nodename from the launch message.

Cleanup a few places in the base plm launch support where we didn't adequately protect rml recv's from potentially executing sends.

This commit was SVN r18143.
2008-04-14 18:26:08 +00:00
Ralph Castain
e050f37578 Cleanup a few warnings about initializing variables.
Remove an obsolete data value.

This commit was SVN r18129.
2008-04-10 19:15:16 +00:00
Ralph Castain
e7d0dae89d Ensure we update the daemon collective trees if num_procs changes, but only if it changes
This commit was SVN r18120.
2008-04-10 03:44:18 +00:00
Ralph Castain
dc2f88b9f0 Now that we have the daemon collectives, the unity routed module no longer needs the "hack" we inserted a week ago to tell the daemons how to talk directly to all the application procs. The modex and barrier messages flow cleanly across the daemons and are "dropped" into the procs where required.
Add some insurance to make certain that the daemons' number of procs only gets updated when it absolutely is intended.

This commit was SVN r18118.
2008-04-10 02:45:42 +00:00
Ralph Castain
3a0d09300b Fully implement the inbound binomial allgather for daemon-based collectives. Supports both modex and barrier operations.
Comm_spawn still uses the rank=0 method - shifting that algo to the daemons is under study.

This commit was SVN r18115.
2008-04-09 22:10:53 +00:00
Ralph Castain
6166278e18 Improve the scalability of the modex operation and fix a bug reported by Tim P
The bug was a race condition in the barrier operation that caused the barrier in MPI_Finalize to fail on very short programs.

Scalaiblity was improved by using the daemons to aggregate modex and barrier messages before sending them to the rank=0 proc. Improvement is proportional to ppn, of course, but there really wasn't a scaling problem at low ppn anyway. This modification also paves the way for better allgather operations since now all the data for each node is sitting at the daemon level, and the daemons are now aware that a collective operation on the OOB is underway (so they -can- participate in a collective of their own to support it).

Also added better diagnostics to map out the timing associated with MPI_Init - turned on by -mca orte_timing 1.

This commit was SVN r17988.
2008-03-27 15:17:53 +00:00
Ralph Castain
cca449e379 Move an OMPI RML tag to the OMPI layer
This commit was SVN r17950.
2008-03-25 13:30:48 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4efddc7b0a Fix the allgather and allgather_list functions to avoid deadlocks at large node/proc counts. Violated the RML rules here - we received the allgather buffer and then did an xcast, which causes a send to go out, and is then subsequently received by the sender. This fix breaks that pattern by forcing the recv to complete outside of the function itself - thus, the allgather and allgather_list always complete their recvs before returning or sending.
Reogranize the grpcomm code a little to provide support for soon-to-come new grpcomm components. The revised organization puts what will be common code elements in the base to avoid duplication, while allowing components that don't need those functions to ignore them.

This commit was SVN r17941.
2008-03-24 20:50:31 +00:00
Rich Graham
d37db14901 get the shared memory collectives working again with the new
version of orte.

This commit was SVN r17672.
2008-02-29 22:28:57 +00:00
Ralph Castain
5e6928d710 Cleanup recursions in ORTE caused by processing recv'd messages that can cause the system to take action resulting in receipt of another message.
Basically, the method employed here is to have a recv create a zero-time timer event that causes the event library to execute a function that processes the message once the recv returns. Thus, any action taken as a result of processing the message occur outside of a recv.

Created two new macros to assist:

ORTE_MESSAGE_EVENT: creates the zero-time event, passing info in a new orte_message_event_t object

ORTE_PROGRESSED_WAIT: while waiting for specified conditions, just calls progress so messages can be recv'd.

Also fixed the failed_launch function as we no longer block in the orted callback function. Updated the error messages to reflect revision. No change in API to this function, but PLM "owners" may want to check their internal error messages to avoid duplication and excessive output.

This has been tested on Mac, TM, and SLURM.

This commit was SVN r17647.
2008-02-28 19:58:32 +00:00
Ralph Castain
d70e2e8c2b Merge the ORTE devel branch into the main trunk. Details of what this means will be circulated separately.
Remains to be tested to ensure everything came over cleanly, so please continue to withhold commits a little longer

This commit was SVN r17632.
2008-02-28 01:57:57 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
213b5d5c6e Per long threads on the mailing list and much confusion discussion
about linkers, have all OPAL, ORTE, and OMPI components '''not'' link
against the OPAL, ORTE, or OMPI libraries.

See ttp://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/10/4220.php for
details (or https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Linkers for a
better-formatted version of the same info).

This commit was SVN r16968.
2007-12-15 13:32:02 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
7ae9589d70 The header is at the address of the buffer pointed to by the iov, not
the address of the iov.

This commit was SVN r16513.
2007-10-19 12:40:14 +00:00
Ralph Castain
ec5fe78876 When in the unity message routing mode, we have to update the RML contact info in the parent procs so that they know how to talk to the children. Ideally, this would be done in the MPI layer since that layer knows which procs are actively involved in the comm_spawn. However, it isn't being done there, which causes comm_spawn to fail, so do it explicitly in the RTE.
Note that this means ALL procs in the parent job are updated, even though they may not be participating in the comm_spawn. This doesn't really hurt anything - just unnecessary.

Comm_spawn still has a problem when a child process shares a node with a parent, so this doesn't fix everything. It only fixes the bug of ensuring all procs know how to talk to each other.

This commit was SVN r16460.
2007-10-16 16:09:41 +00:00
Ralph Castain
713b6e13a5 Improve diagnostic output messages when errors are hit
This commit was SVN r16457.
2007-10-16 14:51:52 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
423f23eb6a Fixes trac:1160. There is still some other problem in the OOB, but we
wanted to commit this to get wider testing.

This commit was SVN r16445.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1160 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1160
2007-10-15 15:41:36 +00:00
Josh Hursey
aa8391f888 Local and global coordinators should be the only ones involved in the
movement of checkpoint files. This reduces the overhead on the applicaiton.

This commit was SVN r16412.
2007-10-09 19:52:47 +00:00
Ralph Castain
54b2cf747e These changes were mostly captured in a prior RFC (except for #2 below) and are aimed specifically at improving startup performance and setting up the remaining modifications described in that RFC.
The commit has been tested for C/R and Cray operations, and on Odin (SLURM, rsh) and RoadRunner (TM). I tried to update all environments, but obviously could not test them. I know that Windows needs some work, and have highlighted what is know to be needed in the odls process component.

This represents a lot of work by Brian, Tim P, Josh, and myself, with much advice from Jeff and others. For posterity, I have appended a copy of the email describing the work that was done:

As we have repeatedly noted, the modex operation in MPI_Init is the single greatest consumer of time during startup. To-date, we have executed that operation as an ORTE stage gate that held the process until a startup message containing all required modex (and OOB contact info - see #3 below) info could be sent to it. Each process would send its data to the HNP's registry, which assembled and sent the message when all processes had reported in.

In addition, ORTE had taken responsibility for monitoring process status as it progressed through a series of "stage gates". The process reported its status at each gate, and ORTE would then send a "release" message once all procs had reported in.

The incoming changes revamp these procedures in three ways:

1. eliminating the ORTE stage gate system and cleanly delineating responsibility between the OMPI and ORTE layers for MPI init/finalize. The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info. The allgather is implemented using the orte_grpcomm framework since the BTL's are not active at that point. At the moment, the grpcomm framework only has a "basic" component analogous to OMPI's "basic" coll framework - I would recommend that the MPI team create additional, more advanced components to improve performance of this step.

The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions. We tried to use MPI barriers instead (since the BTL's are active at that point), but - as we discussed on the telecon - these are not currently true barriers so the job would hang when we fell through while messages were still in process. Note that the grpcomm barrier doesn't actually resolve that problem, but Brian has pointed out that we are unlikely to ever see it violated. Again, you might want to spend a little time on an advanced barrier algorithm as the one in "basic" is very simplistic.

Summarizing this change: ORTE no longer tracks process state nor has direct responsibility for synchronizing jobs. This is now done via collective operations within the MPI layer, albeit using ORTE collective communication services. I -strongly- urge the MPI team to implement advanced collective algorithms to improve the performance of this critical procedure.


2. reducing the volume of data exchanged during modex. Data in the modex consisted of the process name, the name of the node where that process is located (expressed as a string), plus a string representation of all contact info. The nodename was required in order for the modex to determine if the process was local or not - in addition, some people like to have it to print pretty error messages when a connection failed.

The size of this data has been reduced in three ways:

(a) reducing the size of the process name itself. The process name consisted of two 32-bit fields for the jobid and vpid. This is far larger than any current system, or system likely to exist in the near future, can support. Accordingly, the default size of these fields has been reduced to 16-bits, which means you can have 32k procs in each of 32k jobs. Since the daemons must have a vpid, and we require one daemon/node, this also restricts the default configuration to 32k nodes.

To support any future "mega-clusters", a configuration option --enable-jumbo-apps has been added. This option increases the jobid and vpid field sizes to 32-bits. Someday, if necessary, someone can add yet another option to increase them to 64-bits, I suppose.

(b) replacing the string nodename with an integer nodeid. Since we have one daemon/node, the nodeid corresponds to the local daemon's vpid. This replaces an often lengthy string with only 2 (or at most 4) bytes, a substantial reduction.

(c) when the mca param requesting that nodenames be sent to support pretty error messages, a second mca param is now used to request FQDN - otherwise, the domain name is stripped (by default) from the message to save space. If someone wants to combine those into a single param somehow (perhaps with an argument?), they are welcome to do so - I didn't want to alter what people are already using.

While these may seem like small savings, they actually amount to a significant impact when aggregated across the entire modex operation. Since every proc must receive the modex data regardless of the collective used to send it, just reducing the size of the process name removes nearly 400MBytes of communication from a 32k proc job (admittedly, much of this comm may occur in parallel). So it does add up pretty quickly.


3. routing RML messages to reduce connections. The default messaging system remains point-to-point - i.e., each proc opens a socket to every proc it communicates with and sends its messages directly. A new option uses the orteds as routers - i.e., each proc only opens a single socket to its local orted. All messages are sent from the proc to the orted, which forwards the message to the orted on the node where the intended recipient proc is located - that orted then forwards the message to its local proc (the recipient). This greatly reduces the connection storm we have encountered during startup.

It also has the benefit of removing the sharing of every proc's OOB contact with every other proc. The orted routing tables are populated during launch since every orted gets a map of where every proc is being placed. Each proc, therefore, only needs to know the contact info for its local daemon, which is passed in via the environment when the proc is fork/exec'd by the daemon. This alone removes ~50 bytes/process of communication that was in the current STG1 startup message - so for our 32k proc job, this saves us roughly 32k*50 = 1.6MBytes sent to 32k procs = 51GBytes of messaging.

Note that you can use the new routing method by specifying -mca routed tree - if you so desire. This mode will become the default at some point in the future.


There are a few minor additional changes in the commit that I'll just note in passing:

* propagation of command line mca params to the orteds - fixes ticket #1073. See note there for details.

* requiring of "finalize" prior to "exit" for MPI procs - fixes ticket #1144. See note there for details.

* cleanup of some stale header files

This commit was SVN r16364.
2007-10-05 19:48:23 +00:00