1. It's actually hashing now, whereas the old OPAL hash table was not. Thus, it is a bug fix for and, as such, should be included in the 1.8 series.
2. It is dynamic and can grow and shrink the number of buckets in accordance with job size, whereas the old OPAL hash table had a fixed number of buckets which resulted in poor retrieval performance at large scale.
This scheme has been deployed in the field on very large H.P./Mellanox systems and has been demonstrated to significantly decrease job start-up time (~ 20% improvement) when launching applications directly with srun in SLURM environments. However, neither SLURM nor direct launch are prerequisites to take advantage of this change as any entity that utilizes OPAL hash table objects can benefit (at least partially) from this contribution.
* Resolve set-but-not-used issues
* Resolve incorrect const notation (I checked with George first to see
what const notation he actually wanted)
* Comment out unused code (didn't delete it because it's useful
debugging code)
* Resolve int<-->void* casting
* Resolved signed / unsigned comparisons
This commit was SVN r30225.
tests, not OMPI tests.
This allows us to "make distcheck" with "./autogen.sh -no-ompi"
trees (i.e., these tests will now still work even if the OMPI layer is
not present -- because they're OPAL tests and we should treat them
that way).
This commit was SVN r23524.
