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.
OMPI
and a language agnostic part in OPAL. The convertor is completely
moved into OPAL. This offers several benefits as described in RFC
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2009/07/6387.php
namely:
- Fewer basic types (int* and float* types, boolean and wchar
- Fixing naming scheme to ompi-nomenclature.
- Usability outside of the ompi-layer.
- Due to the fixed nature of simple opal types, their information is
completely
known at compile time and therefore constified
- With fewer datatypes (22), the actual sizes of bit-field types may be
reduced
from 64 to 32 bits, allowing reorganizing the opal_datatype
structure, eliminating holes and keeping data required in convertor
(upon send/recv) in one cacheline...
This has implications to the convertor-datastructure and other parts
of the code.
- Several performance tests have been run, the netpipe latency does not
change with
this patch on Linux/x86-64 on the smoky cluster.
- Extensive tests have been done to verify correctness (no new
regressions) using:
1. mpi_test_suite on linux/x86-64 using clean ompi-trunk and
ompi-ddt:
a. running both trunk and ompi-ddt resulted in no differences
(except for MPI_SHORT_INT and MPI_TYPE_MIX_LB_UB do now run
correctly).
b. with --enable-memchecker and running under valgrind (one buglet
when run with static found in test-suite, commited)
2. ibm testsuite on linux/x86-64 using clean ompi-trunk and ompi-ddt:
all passed (except for the dynamic/ tests failed!! as trunk/MTT)
3. compilation and usage of HDF5 tests on Jaguar using PGI and
PathScale compilers.
4. compilation and usage on Scicortex.
- Please note, that for the heterogeneous case, (-m32 compiled
binaries/ompi), neither
ompi-trunk, nor ompi-ddt branch would successfully launch.
This commit was SVN r21641.
- 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.
PERUSE_COMM_REQ_ACTIVATE event.
Therefore move the PERUSE_TRACE_COMM_EVENT for this event from
MCA_PML_BASE_SEND_REQUEST_INIT / MCA_PML_BASE_RECV_REQUEST_INIT
to the proper places into pml_ob1_isend.c / pml_ob1_irecv.c right
after the MCA_PML_OB1_SEND_REQUEST_INIT /
MCA_PML_OB1_RECV_REQUEST_INIT.
This commit was SVN r15945.
receive queues are shared among all PMLs, they are declared in the base PML,
and the selected PML is in charge of initializing and releasing them.
The CM PML is slightly different compared with OB1 or DR. Internally it use
2 different types of requests: light and heavy. However, now with this patch
both types of requests are stored in the same queue, and cast appropriately
on the allocation macro. This means we might use less memory than we allocate,
but in exchange we got full support for most of the parallel debuggers.
Another thing with this patch, is that now for all PML (CM included) the basic
PML requests start with the same fields, and they are declared in the same order
in the request structure. Moreover, the fields have been moved in such a way
that only one volatile/atomic will exist per line of cache (hopefully).
This commit was SVN r15346.
* Create a new request type: NOOP (described below)
* For all MPI_*_INIT functions, OBJ_NEW an ompi_request_t and set its
type to NOOP
* Ensure that the NOOP requests are OBJ_RELEASE'd when they are done
* MPI_START looks at the request type; if NOOP, just return success. If
not, call the PML start() function
* MPI_STARTALL always pass the entire array of requests back to the PML
(see next point)
* Make the PMLs only process PML requests (i.e., ignore/skip anything
that isn't of type PML -- such as the NOOP requests)
* Add a little more param error checking in STARTALL
This commit was SVN r12338.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 529 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/529
is the one provided by the user. For the buffered send the real datatype used
for the communication is always MPI_BYTE and the count can be retrieved from
the req_bytes_packed field. This will decrease the size of the request by
one pointer and one size_t (8 bytes or 16 bytes depending on the architecture).
This commit was SVN r10680.
flag, new flags to be included when convertor is initialized
- modified pml/btl module defs and added stub functions for diagnostic
output routines to dump state of queues / endpoints
- updates to data reliability pml
This commit was SVN r9329.
to let the PML (or io, more generally the low level request manager)
to have it's own release function (what was before the req_fini). This
function will only be called from the low level while the req_free will
be called from the upper level (MPI layer) in order to mark the request
as not used by the user anymore.
From the request point of view the requests will be marked as inactive
everytime we read their status (true for persistent as well). As
MPI_REQUEST_NULL is already marked as inactive, the test and wait functions
are simpler. The drawback is that now we have to change in the
ompi_request_{test|wait} the req_status of the request once we get it's
status.
This commit was SVN r9290.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
second instance of the ompi_proc from the send and receive request. This
information is already available on the base request, so there is no
need for duplication. The drawback is that now (in order to avoid a
second lookup in the communicator array of procs) we have to set the base
proc in the PML's _ALLOC macro.
This commit was SVN r8900.
convertor (when prepared) increase the reference count on the used datatype. This reference count
will be released only when the OBJ_DESTRUCT is called on a convertor. However, having to call
OBJ_CONSTRUCT and OBJ_DESTRUCT on each request every time we want to use it (even when it come
from the cache) is an expensive operation. This can be avoided is the OBJ_DESTRUCT will leave the
convertor in exactly the same state as OBJ_CONSTRUCT. With this approach we just have to call
OBJ_CONSTRUCT for each convertor once when we initially create the request.
This commit was SVN r7813.
