Background: In order to support atomics each btl needs to provide support
for communicating with self unless the btl module can guarantee global
atomicity. Before this commit bml/r2 discarded any BTL with lower
exclusivity than an existing send btl. This would cause the BML to
discard any btl other than self.
The new behavior is as follows:
- If an exisiting send btl has higher exclusivity then the btl will not be
added to the send btl list for the endpoint.
- If a btl provides RDMA support then it is always added to the rdma btl
list.
- bml_btl weight for send btls is now calculated across all send btls.
- bml_btl weight for rdma btls is now calculated across all rdma btls.
With this change self should still win as the only send btl for loopback
without disqualifying other btls (ugni, openib) for atomic operations.
value NULL for the descriptor
The send inline optimization uses the btl_sendi function to achieve
lower latency and higher message rates. The problem is the btl_sendi
function was allowed to return a descriptor to the caller. This is fine
for some paths but not ok for the send inline optimization. To fix
this the btl now must be able to handle descriptor = NULL.
structure
This structure member was originally used to specify the remote segment
for an RDMA operation. Since the new btl interface no longer uses
desriptors for RDMA this member no longer has a purpose. In addition
to removing these members the local segment information has been
renamed to des_segments/des_segment_count.
attempting to break the get into multiple rdma fragments
A little background. Historically ob1 always registered the entire memory
region when the RGET protocol was in use. This changed when Mellanox
added support to fragment RGET using the btl_prepare_dst function. Now
that the BTL layer has changed to split out the limits of get/put there
is explicit fragmentation code in ob1. Before this commit the registration
was still done per RGET fragment.
This commit will attempt to register the entire region before creating
RGET fragments. If the registration is successfull then all RGET
fragments will use this registration otherwise they will each attempt
to register their own segment of the receive buffer. If that fails
enough times each fragment will give up and fall back on send/recv.
The old BTL interface provided support for RDMA through the use of
the btl_prepare_src and btl_prepare_dst functions. These functions were
expected to prepare as much of the user buffer as possible for the RDMA
operation and return a descriptor. The descriptor contained segment
information on the prepared region. The btl user could then pass the
RDMA segment information to a remote peer. Once the peer received that
information it then packed it into a similar descriptor on the other
side that could then be passed into a single btl_put or btl_get
operation.
Changes:
- Removed the btl_prepare_dst function. This reflects the fact that
RDMA operations no longer depend on "prepared" descriptors.
- Removed the btl_seg_size member. There is no need to btl's to
subclass the mca_btl_base_segment_t class anymore.
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Add more
Be more selective about closing fd's for the alps odls
component. Don't close fd's of pipes set up by the
apshepherd for providing RDMA credentials, etc.
Add an entry to the help file in case
alps_app_lli_pipes returns an error.
There was an obvious bug in the alps/ras component compare_nodes method
which resulted in the function always evaluating the nodes
as being equivalent.
