Features:
- Support for an override parameter file (openmpi-mca-param-override.conf).
Variable values in this file can not be overridden by any file or environment
value.
- Support for boolean, unsigned, and unsigned long long variables.
- Support for true/false values.
- Support for enumerations on integer variables.
- Support for MPIT scope, verbosity, and binding.
- Support for command line source.
- Support for setting variable source via the environment using
OMPI_MCA_SOURCE_<var name>=source (either command or file:filename)
- Cleaner API.
- Support for variable groups (equivalent to MPIT categories).
Notes:
- Variables must be created with a backing store (char **, int *, or bool *)
that must live at least as long as the variable.
- Creating a variable with the MCA_BASE_VAR_FLAG_SETTABLE enables the use of
mca_base_var_set_value() to change the value.
- String values are duplicated when the variable is registered. It is up to
the caller to free the original value if necessary. The new value will be
freed by the mca_base_var system and must not be freed by the user.
- Variables with constant scope may not be settable.
- Variable groups (and all associated variables) are deregistered when the
component is closed or the component repository item is freed. This
prevents a segmentation fault from accessing a variable after its component
is unloaded.
- After some discussion we decided we should remove the automatic registration
of component priority variables. Few component actually made use of this
feature.
- The enumerator interface was updated to be general enough to handle
future uses of the interface.
- The code to generate ompi_info output has been moved into the MCA variable
system. See mca_base_var_dump().
opal: update core and components to mca_base_var system
orte: update core and components to mca_base_var system
ompi: update core and components to mca_base_var system
This commit also modifies the rmaps framework. The following variables were
moved from ppr and lama: rmaps_base_pernode, rmaps_base_n_pernode,
rmaps_base_n_persocket. Both lama and ppr create synonyms for these variables.
This commit was SVN r28236.
* Fixes trac:2329 : Improves the error message, and ensures opal-restart will not segv in opal_finalize.
This commit was SVN r25586.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2329 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2329
Short Version:
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Event engine needs to be flushed so it does not use old/stale file descriptors.
Long Version:
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The problem was that the restarted process was waiting for the socket to the local daemon to finish establishing during the 'sync' operation. The core problem was that the daemon was sending a header of 36 bytes, but the restarted process only received 35 bytes of the message. So the restarted process became stuck waiting for the last byte to arrive.
After many hours of digging, I figured out that the event engine was using the same file descriptor for its evsig_cb functionality (to signal itself when a signal arrives). So when the daemon wrote in to the new fd the event engine was stealing the first byte (*shakes fist at event engine*) before the recv() could be posted.
The solution is to use the event_reinit() function on restart to re-establish the now-stale file descriptors in the event engine. This seems to have fixed the problem.
A few other minor things:
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* Add a check to make sure the event engine is balanced in its init/finalize
* Add the opal_event_base_close() to the BLCR restart exec function (still not 100% sure it is needed, but there it is).
This commit was SVN r24296.
This is a fairly intrusive change, but outside of the moving of opal/event to opal/mca/event, the only changes involved (a) changing all calls to opal_event functions to reflect the new framework instead, and (b) ensuring that all opal_event_t objects are properly constructed since they are now true opal_objects.
Note: Shiqing has just returned from vacation and has not yet had a chance to complete the Windows integration. Thus, this commit almost certainly breaks Windows support on the trunk. However, I want this to have a chance to soak for as long as possible before I become less available a week from today (going to be at a class for 5 days, and thus will only be sparingly available) so we can find and fix any problems.
Biggest change is moving the libevent code from opal/event to a new opal/mca/event framework. This was done to make it much easier to update libevent in the future. New versions can be inserted as a new component and tested in parallel with the current version until validated, then we can remove the earlier version if we so choose. This is a statically built framework ala installdirs, so only one component will build at a time. There is no selection logic - the sole compiled component simply loads its function pointers into the opal_event struct.
I have gone thru the code base and converted all the libevent calls I could find. However, I cannot compile nor test every environment. It is therefore quite likely that errors remain in the system. Please keep an eye open for two things:
1. compile-time errors: these will be obvious as calls to the old functions (e.g., opal_evtimer_new) must be replaced by the new framework APIs (e.g., opal_event.evtimer_new)
2. run-time errors: these will likely show up as segfaults due to missing constructors on opal_event_t objects. It appears that it became a typical practice for people to "init" an opal_event_t by simply using memset to zero it out. This will no longer work - you must either OBJ_NEW or OBJ_CONSTRUCT an opal_event_t. I tried to catch these cases, but may have missed some. Believe me, you'll know when you hit it.
There is also the issue of the new libevent "no recursion" behavior. As I described on a recent email, we will have to discuss this and figure out what, if anything, we need to do.
This commit was SVN r23925.
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/07/8240.php
Documentation:
http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/
Major Changes:
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* Added C/R-enabled Debugging support.
Enabled with the --enable-crdebug flag. See the following website for more information:
http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/crdebug/
* Added Stable Storage (SStore) framework for checkpoint storage
* 'central' component does a direct to central storage save
* 'stage' component stages checkpoints to central storage while the application continues execution.
* 'stage' supports offline compression of checkpoints before moving (sstore_stage_compress)
* 'stage' supports local caching of checkpoints to improve automatic recovery (sstore_stage_caching)
* Added Compression (compress) framework to support
* Add two new ErrMgr recovery policies
* {{{crmig}}} C/R Process Migration
* {{{autor}}} C/R Automatic Recovery
* Added the {{{ompi-migrate}}} command line tool to support the {{{crmig}}} ErrMgr component
* Added CR MPI Ext functions (enable them with {{{--enable-mpi-ext=cr}}} configure option)
* {{{OMPI_CR_Checkpoint}}} (Fixes trac:2342)
* {{{OMPI_CR_Restart}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_Migrate}}} (may need some more work for mapping rules)
* {{{OMPI_CR_INC_register_callback}}} (Fixes trac:2192)
* {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_start}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_checkpoint}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_end}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_checkpoint_callback}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_restart_callback}}}
* {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_continue_callback}}}
* The ErrMgr predicted_fault() interface has been changed to take an opal_list_t of ErrMgr defined types. This will allow us to better support a wider range of fault prediction services in the future.
* Add a progress meter to:
* FileM rsh (filem_rsh_process_meter)
* SnapC full (snapc_full_progress_meter)
* SStore stage (sstore_stage_progress_meter)
* Added 2 new command line options to ompi-restart
* --showme : Display the full command line that would have been exec'ed.
* --mpirun_opts : Command line options to pass directly to mpirun. (Fixes trac:2413)
* Deprecated some MCA params:
* crs_base_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_stage_local_snapshot_dir
* snapc_base_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_dir
* snapc_base_global_shared deprecated, use sstore_stage_global_is_shared
* snapc_base_store_in_place deprecated, replaced with different components of SStore
* snapc_base_global_snapshot_ref deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_ref
* snapc_base_establish_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, never well supported
* snapc_full_skip_filem deprecated, use sstore_stage_skip_filem
Minor Changes:
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* Fixes trac:1924 : {{{ompi-restart}}} now recognizes path prefixed checkpoint handles and does the right thing.
* Fixes trac:2097 : {{{ompi-info}}} should now report all available CRS components
* Fixes trac:2161 : Manual checkpoint movement. A user can 'mv' a checkpoint directory from the original location to another and still restart from it.
* Fixes trac:2208 : Honor various TMPDIR varaibles instead of forcing {{{/tmp}}}
* Move {{{ompi_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to {{{orte_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to be more flexible in where this should be set.
* opal_crs_base_metadata_write* functions have been moved to SStore to support a wider range of metadata handling functionality.
* Cleanup the CRS framework and components to work with the SStore framework.
* Cleanup the SnapC framework and components to work with the SStore framework (cleans up these code paths considerably).
* Add 'quiesce' hook to CRCP for a future enhancement.
* We now require a BLCR version that supports {{{cr_request_file()}}} or {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}} in order to make the code more maintainable. Note that {{{cr_request_file}}} has been deprecated since 0.7.0, so we prefer to use {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}}.
* Add optional application level INC callbacks (registered through the CR MPI Ext interface).
* Increase the {{{opal_cr_thread_sleep_wait}}} parameter to 1000 microseconds to make the C/R thread less aggressive.
* {{{opal-restart}}} now looks for cache directories before falling back on stable storage when asked.
* {{{opal-restart}}} also support local decompression before restarting
* {{{orte-checkpoint}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata
* {{{orte-restart}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata
* Remove the {{{orte-restart}}} preload option. This was removed since the user only needs to select the 'stage' component in order to support this functionality.
* Since the '-am' parameter is saved in the metadata, {{{ompi-restart}}} no longer hard codes {{{-am ft-enable-cr}}}.
* Fix {{{hnp}}} ErrMgr so that if a previous component in the stack has 'fixed' the problem, then it should be skipped.
* Make sure to decrement the number of 'num_local_procs' in the orted when one goes away.
* odls now checks the SStore framework to see if it needs to load any checkpoint files before launching (to support 'stage'). This separates the SStore logic from the --preload-[binary|files] options.
* Add unique IDs to the named pipes established between the orted and the app in SnapC. This is to better support migration and automatic recovery activities.
* Improve the checks for 'already checkpointing' error path.
* A a recovery output timer, to show how long it takes to restart a job
* Do a better job of cleaning up the old session directory on restart.
* Add a local module to the autor and crmig ErrMgr components. These small modules prevent the 'orted' component from attempting a local recovery (Which does not work for MPI apps at the moment)
* Add a fix for bounding the checkpointable region between MPI_Init and MPI_Finalize.
This commit was SVN r23587.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1924 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1924
Ticket 2097 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2097
Ticket 2161 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2161
Ticket 2192 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2192
Ticket 2208 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2208
Ticket 2342 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2342
Ticket 2413 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2413
Originally the patch was to improve the error message, but when digging into the code I found a subtle bug. If the daemon does not tell the HNP what CRS component it used, then the HNP tries to figure it out from the metadata (this is an uncommon case). The path the HNP used was not complete, so it was unable to find the metadata information. This patch fixes this by adding the 'snapshot_reference' to the 'snapshot_location' which completes the path for this search.
cmr:v1.4 (needs a custom patch)
cmr:v1.5
This commit was SVN r22479.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2190 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2190
This commit looks larger than it really is since it includes a fair amount of code cleanup.
The SIGSTOP/SIGCONT+checkpointing work uses some of the functionality in r20391. Basic use case below (note that the checkpoint generated is useable as usual if the stopped application is terminated).
{{{
shell 1) mpirun -np 2 -am ft-enable-cr my-app
... running ...
shell 2) ompi-checkpoint --stop -v MPIRUN_PID
[localhost:001300] [ 0.00 / 0.20] Requested - ...
[localhost:001300] [ 0.00 / 0.20] Pending - ...
[localhost:001300] [ 0.01 / 0.21] Running - ...
[localhost:001300] [ 1.01 / 1.22] Stopped - ompi_global_snapshot_1234.ckpt
Snapshot Ref.: 0 ompi_global_snapshot_1234.ckpt
shell 2) killall -CONT mpirun
... Application Continues execution in shell 1 ...
}}}
Other items in this commit are mostly cleanup that has been sitting off-trunk for too long:
* Add a new {{{opal_crs_base_ckpt_options_t}}} type that encapsulates the various options that could be passed to the CRS. Currently only TERM and STOP, but this makes adding others ''much'' easier.
* Eliminate ORTE_SNAPC_CKPT_STATE_PENDING_TERM, since it served a redundant purpose with the new options type.
* Lay some basic ground work for some future features.
This commit was SVN r21995.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r20391 --> open-mpi/ompi@0704b98668
* Add 'orte-checkpoint -l' option that lists all checkpoints currently available on the system.
* Add 'orte-restart -i' which prints information regarding the checkpoint targeted for restart.
* Add ability to extract the timing metadata.
* Fix show_help() in the orte-checkpoint and orte-restart tools. They should be using the opal versions instead of the orte versions (otherwise nothing is printed).
This commit was SVN r21194.
This patch contains the following items:
* Fix the flag passed to open() for the read side of the named pipe between the local and app coordinator. There is a race condition when using O_RDWR on a named pipe (not sure how that bug got in there in the first place).
* Adjust control in the C/R thread timing
* Clarify return code in BLCR component
* Allow the user to adjust the max wait time for the named pipes in the FileM local coordinator by using the MCA parameter "snapc_full_max_wait_time" (Default: 20 seconds)
* If the application terminates while there are active FileM operations, force mpirun to wait on these operations to complete.
* Allow the user to set the local copy command (Default: cp) via MCA parameter "filem_rsh_cp"
* Implement the ability to throttle the number of outgoing connections in FileM. At larger scales this type of explicit throttling helps prevent overwhelming the HNP machine. Default: 10, set via MCA parameter: {{{filem_rsh_max_outgoing}}}
This commit was SVN r21167.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r21131 --> open-mpi/ompi@0deb009225
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
This commit fixes trac:1691
Thanks to Matthias Hovestadt for identifying this issue.
This commit was SVN r20114.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1691 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1691
I promoted the ''none'' component to a full component, and updated the other components to reflect this code movement. The ''none'' component is the default component unless the user requests '''-am ft-enable-cr''' to auto-select a component. There is an MCA parameter to show a warning if the application requested an FT enabled job, but the ''none'' component was selected ({{{crs_none_select_warning}}}).
This temporarily fixes the problem mentioned in r18739. The full fix will entail working on ticket #1291.
Thanks to Ethan from Sun for finding this bug.
This commit was SVN r18840.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r18739 --> open-mpi/ompi@a003fa7a50
* Remove the opal_only option. This was suffering from bit rot, and no one uses it. It can be added back fairly easily if wanted.
* Cleanup metadata interactions at the local level.
* Touch up some of the INC funcitonality (fix typos and a minor ordering issue)
This commit was SVN r18416.
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2008/04/3779.php
{{{
svn merge -r 18276:18380 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/tmp-public/jjh-mca-play .
}}}
Any components not in the trunk, but in one of the effected frameworks *must* be
updated. Contact the list, look at the RFC, or look at the diff for how to do this.
Sorry for the early commit of this, but I wanted to get it in today (per RFC) and
didn't know if I would have a chance later today.
This commit was SVN r18381.
Some MPI C interface files saw some spacing changes to conform to the coding standards of Open MPI.
Changed MPI C interface files to use {{{OPAL_CR_ENTER_LIBRARY()}}} and {{{OPAL_CR_EXIT_LIBRARY()}}} instead of just {{{OPAL_CR_TEST_CHECKPOINT_READY()}}}. This will allow the checkpoint/restart system more flexibility in how it is to behave.
Fixed the configure check for {{{--enable-ft-thread}}} so it has a know dependance on {{{--enable-mpi-thread}}} (and/or {{{--enable-progress-thread}}}).
Added a line for Checkpoint/Restart support to {{{ompi_info}}}.
Added some options to choose at runtime whether or not to use the checkpoint polling thread. By default, if the user asked for it to be compiled in, then it is used. But some users will want the ability to toggle its use at runtime.
There are still some places for improvement, but the feature works correctly. As always with Checkpoint/Restart, it is compiled out unless explicitly asked for at configure time. Further, if it was configured in, then it is not used unless explicitly asked for by the user at runtime.
This commit was SVN r17516.
requesting it. This commit adds a bit of error checking to keep us from
participating in a checkpoint that we did not initiate and therefore are
not ready for.
Thanks to Paul Hargrove and Eric Roman for their help with this.
This commit was SVN r16694.
* Fix some missing includes in a few places.
* Add the cr_request() functionality to the BLCR CRS component.
We are now dependent upon the 0.6.* series of BLCR.
* Made the CR notification mechanism a registered function.
This way we can have an OPAL-only version and it can be replaced at
runtime with the ORTE version.
* Add a 'opal_cr_allow_opal_only' parameter that will enable OPAL-only
CR functionality when the user wants it. Default: Disabled.
* Fix the placement of a checkpoint request check in MPI_Init
* Pull the OPAL notification mechanism into the SnapC framework.
* We no longer fork/exec the 'opal-checkpoint' command for local
checkpointing, the Local coordinator in the orted does this directly.
* The Local and Application coordinator talk together bypassing the OPAL
notifiation mechanism.
* Optimized the Local <-> App Coordinator communication.
* Improved the structure used to track vpid_snapshots in the local coord.
* Fix a race condition in which an application under heavy communication load
may produce an inconsistent global checkpoint.
This commit was SVN r16389.
was taken form the $CWD to the storage directory. Now we just store directly
to the storage directory which can reduce NFS traffic if working in that mode.
A slight performance boost, but at the point you are using NFS you are paying
a penalty anyway. Now you just don't have to pay it twice :)
This commit was SVN r16099.
- Add signal handler BLCR register (helps with debugging)
- ifdef out the cr_request_file section for checkpointing self.
There is a bug with the 0.4.2 version of BLCR such that this
does not handle moving checkpoint files around.
I'm following up with the BLCR folks on this one (and checking
the newest release).
This commit was SVN r14069.
This merge adds Checkpoint/Restart support to Open MPI. The initial
frameworks and components support a LAM/MPI-like implementation.
This commit follows the risk assessment presented to the Open MPI core
development group on Feb. 22, 2007.
This commit closes trac:158
More details to follow.
This commit was SVN r14051.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r13912
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/158
