Interested readers can quench their curiosity either with one
of the Richard Stevens books (ISBN 9780201633467) or the
Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork).
This commit was SVN r24680.
Correctly check the dependencies of MSYS env.
Set up configure include and lib path for building the package.
update a few more CMake scripts.
This commit was SVN r24663.
that enabling "local_only" by default could cause excessive
by-NUMA-node paging and/or OOMs (rather than allowing memory
allocations to spill over to other NUMA nodes).
This brought home the very real-world example of people buying servers
with more processors/cores than they need, just to get more memory.
We wouldn't want Badness to occur in such scenarios by default.
Instead, let people turn on "only allow memory allocations on my local
NUMA node" if their application would benefit from it.
This commit was SVN r24648.
So separate out the printing of that key, and let the individual procs generate it in a way that ensures they all get the same result.
This commit was SVN r24646.
After a long period of development with many starts and stops, we
finally got this where we wanted it.
This commit introduces 2 new MCA params (note that the
"maffinity_libnuma_policy" MCA param introduced by r24290 was removed
when libnuma support was removed). Remember that maffinity policies
are only in effect when paffinity is enaabled -- i.e., when processes
are bound to processors!
* '''maffinity_base_alloc_policy:''' Policy that determines how
general memory allocations are bound after MPI_INIT. A value of
"none" means that no memory policy is applied. A value of
"local_only" means that all memory allocations will be restricted
to the local NUMA node where each process is placed. Note that
operating system paging policies are unaffected by this setting.
For example, if "local_only" is used and local NUMA node memory is
exhausted, a new memory allocation may cause paging.
* '''maffinity_base_bind_failure_action:''' What Open MPI will do if
it explicitly tries to bind memory to a specific NUMA location, and
fails. Note that this is a different case than the general
allocation policy described by maffinity_base_alloc_policy. A
value of "warn" means that Open MPI will warn the first time this
happens, but allow the job to continue (possibly with degraded
performance). A value of "error" means that Open MPI will abort
the job if this happens.
This needs at least a little soak time on the trunk before going to
v1.5.
This commit was SVN r24639.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24290 --> open-mpi/ompi@afa654746c
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2698 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2698
Upgrade to hwloc 1.2 (from hwloc 1.1.2). This should fix the problems
Nathan's seeing in #2778.
Let's let this soak on the trunk for a little while and see how LANL's
MTT's work out. If that works, then we can CMR this to v1.5.
This commit was SVN r24635.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2778 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2778
Nth core, so it fell over to try to find the Nth PU.
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hwloc isn't able to find cores on all platforms. Example: PPC64
running RHEL 5.4 (linux kernel 2.6.18) only reports NUMA nodes and
PU's. Fine.
However, note that hwloc_get_obj_by_type() will return NULL in 2
(effectively) different cases:
- no objects of the requested type were found
- the Nth object of the requested type was not found
So first we have to see if we can find *any* cores by looking for the
0th core. If we find it, then try to find the Nth core. Otherwise,
try to find the Nth PU.
This commit was SVN r24632.
