New MCA param: btl_usnic_max_resends_per_iteration. This is the max
number of resends we'll do in a single pass through usNIC component
progress. This prevents progress from getting stuck in an endless
loop of retransmissions (i.e., if more retransmissions are triggered
during the sending of retransmissions). Specifically: we need to
leave the resend loop to allow receives to happen (which may ACK
messages we have sent previously, and therefore cause pending resends
to be moot).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Significantly increase the default retrans timeout. If the
retrans timeout is too soon, we can end up in a retransmission storm
where the logic will continually re-transmit the same frames during a
single run through the usNIC progress function (because the timer for
a single frame expires before we have run through re-transmitting all
the frames pending re-transmission).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
New MCA parameter: btl_usnic_ack_iteration_delay. Set this to the
number of times through the usNIC component progress function before
sending a standalone ACK (vs. piggy-backing the ACK on any other send
going to the target peer).
Use "ticks" language to clarify that we're really counting the number
of times through the usNIC component DATA_CHANNEL completion check (to
check for incoming messages) -- it has no relation to wall clock time
whatsoever.
Also slightly change the channel-checking scheme in usNIC component
progress: only check the PRIORITY channel once (vs. checking it once,
not finding anything, and then falling through the progress_2() where we
check PRIORITY again and then check the DATA channel).
As before, if our "progress" libevent fires, increment the tick
counter enough to guarantee that all endpoints that need an ACK will
get triggered to send standalone ACKs the next time through progress,
if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Remove compatibility code for multiple versions of BTL_IN_OPAL,
BTL_VERSION, and RCACHE_VERSION. This stuff was really only necessary
when we were actively swapping code between multiple release branches
that had large variations in core OMPI infrastructure. These large
variations have now been around for quite a while, so the need for
this "compat" layer is significantly reduced. It hasn't been removed
simply because a few of the "compat" names a slightly more friendly
than the real names (e.g., the SEND/RECV/PUT names).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Three minor updates from the code review of
https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi-release/pull/933:
* Remove an extra blank line a show_help message
* We no longer allow -1 for the MCA param btl_usnic_av_eq_num, so
change the flag to REGINT_GE_ONE
* Change "num_blocks" definition to be in terms of block_len (not
eq_size)
A bunch of empirical testing has shown that increasing the retranmit
timeout from 1ms to 5ms doesn't adversely affect performance, yet
decreases the number of gratuitious retransmissions.
Add endpoints in a blocked manner so that we don't overrun the
fi_av_insert() event queue. Also make the AV EQ length an MCA param,
and report it in mca_btl_base_verbose >=5 output.
We try to keep the source code the same between master and v1.10. So
put the #if's back for OPAL_HAVE_HWLOC (and just hard-code it to 1 on
master) so that this code is also compilable in v1.10.
This commit does two things. It removes checks for C99 required
headers (stdlib.h, string.h, signal.h, etc). Additionally it removes
definitions for required C99 types (intptr_t, int64_t, int32_t, etc).
Signed-off-by: Nathan Hjelm <hjelmn@me.com>
We had several problems in the old code:
1. We were specifying an arbitrary timeout (100 ms) and then abandoning
all remaining pending AV insert operations. We would then free the
endpoint buffer that we gave to fi_av_insert(), usually causing
libfabric's progress thread to write to a freed buffer.
2. We were claiming in a show_help message that the timeout was
controllable via an MCA parameter. This commit removes that
parameter, since there's no good method for us to specify a timeout
like this to libfabric right now.
3. We also weren't waiting for the correct number of fi_av_insert()
operations to complete. We were waiting for nprocs, which is
accidentally fine for 2 procs on separate hosts, but not for most
other proc counts.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
This commit represents the conversion of the usnic BTL from verbs to
libfabric.
For the moment, libfabric is embedded in Open MPI (currently in the
usnic BTL). This is because the libfabric API is still changing, and
also has not yet been released. Ultimately, this embedded copy of
libfabric will likely disappear and the usnic BTL will rely on an
external installation of libfabric.
New configure options:
* --with-libfabric: will cause configure to fail if libfabric support
cannot be built
* --without-libfabric: will prevent libfabric support from being built
* --with-libfabric=DIR: use an external libfabric installation
* --with-libfabric-libdir=LIBDIR: when paired with --with-libfabric=DIR,
use LIBDIR for the libfabric installation library dir
The --with-libnl3[-libdir] arguments are now gone.
1. After we receive N abnormally-short messages (meaning: corrupted),
print a show_help message about it. N defaults to 25. N can be set
to 0 disable the message via btl_usnic_max_short_packets.
1. If we receive a completion error for something other than a
receive, display a show_help message.
Reviewed by Dave Goodell.
CMR'ing to v1.8.3, but it will require a custom patch because of the
OMPI->OPAL BTL move.
cmr=v1.8.3
This commit was SVN r32522.
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.
