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.
top_ompi_srcdir -> OMPI_TOP_SRCDIR
top_ompi_builddir -> OMPI_TOP_BUILDDIR
We also split the srcdir/builddir flags according to their local tree (e.g., OPAL_TOP_SRCDIR), and tied them all together in configure.ac. Renamed ompi_ignore and ompi_unignore to be opal_<foo> as these are agnostic markers.
Only thing left is ompilibdir being treated similar to what we dif for srcdir/builddir. Coming soon.
This commit was SVN r31678.
ROMIO code assumes all processes will use the same ROMIO driver. we
were not reaching the "find a common file system" logic when NFS was
enabled, everyone stat-ed the file system without errors, but some
processees found a different file system (like if some processes are
writing to NFS and others to UFS)
See discussion beginning here:
http://lists.mpich.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-March/002403.html
Tested-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Submitted by Rob Lathan, reviewed by Jeff Squyres
cmr=v1.8:reviewer=ompi-rm1.8
This commit was SVN r31201.
ROMIO and Lustre 2.4.0. It has been solved upstream already; here's
the ticket:
http://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/ticket/1973
And here's the commit that fixed it:
a0c4278f14
OMPI does not have the other code referred to in that git commit (in
ad_lustre_hints.c).
Thanks to Adam Moody for reporting the issue.
cmr=v1.7.4:reviewer=hjelmn:subject=Fix ROMIO compile error w/ Lustre 2.4
This commit was SVN r30393.
pkg{data,lib,includedir}, use our own ompi{data,lib,includedir}, which is
always set to {datadir,libdir,includedir}/openmpi. This will keep us from
having help files in prefix/share/open-rte when building without Open MPI,
but in prefix/share/openmpi when building with Open MPI.
This commit was SVN r30140.
Some NFS scenarios can result in an infinite ESTALE return, which will
hang ROMIO. This commit causes ROMIO to error out after a large number
of retries instead of spinning forever.
This is MPICH commit b250d338:
http://git.mpich.org/mpich.git/commit/b250d338e66667a8a1071a5f73a4151fd59f83b2
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=jsquyres
This commit was SVN r29993.
spawning a process using MPI_Comm_spawn. For this, the first operation has to
be collective which we can not guarantuee outside of the MPI_File_open
operation.
This commit was SVN r29008.
soon:
- add a new abstraction layer to be used internally for some operations
- add a new mca parameter to control lazy intialization of shared file
pointer structures
This commit was SVN r28826.
This patch reshape the way we deal with topologies completely. Where
our topologies were mainly storage components (they were not capable
of creating the new communicator), the new version is built around a
[possibly] common representation (in mca/topo/topo.h), but the functions
to attach and retrieve the topological information are specific to each
component. As a result the ompi_create_cart and ompi_create_graph functions
become useless and have been removed.
In addition to adding the internal infrastructure to manage the topology
information, it updates the MPI interface, and the debuggers support and
provides all Fortran interfaces.
This commit was SVN r28687.
Notes:
- This commit also eliminates the need for an available components list in use
in several frameworks. None of the code in question was making use of the
priority field of the priority component list item so these extra lists were
removed.
- Cleaned up selection code in several frameworks to sort lists using opal_list_sort.
- Cleans up the ompi/orte-info functions. Expose the functions that construct the
list of params so they can be used elsewhere.
patches for mtl/portals4 from brian
missed a few output variables in openib
This commit was SVN r28241.
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.
* Don't call PMPI_* anything from our module code; that's terribly
bad form (and disallowed!). Instead, do the proper back-end stuff
to reset the error handler on the file handle.
* If we've already started to MPI_Finalize, then just give up and
don't actually perform all the file closing actions (because
ROMIO's file close calls MPI_Barrier, which will obviously fail if
MPI_Finalize has already been invoked). Bad user behavior should
be punished (by leaking resources, not closing the file properly,
etc.).
This commit was SVN r28177.
flags, and mca flags are kept seperate until the very end. The main configure
wrapper flags should now be modified by using the OPAL_WRAPPER_FLAGS_ADD
macro. MCA components should either let <framework>_<component>_{LIBS,LDFLAGS}
be copied over OR set <framework>_<component>_WRAPPER_EXTRA_{LIBS,LDFLAGS}.
The situations in which WRAPPER CPPFLAGS can be set by MCA components was
made very small to match the one use case where it makes sense.
This commit was SVN r27950.
party configure.in scripts to be configure.ac so that Automake stops
complaining about them.
This commit was SVN r27791.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27790 --> open-mpi/ompi@675a2f5c48
Reasoning: The old behavior was a little confusing. mca_base_components_open does not open an output stream so it is a little unexpected that mca_base_components_close does. To add to this several frameworks (that don't use mca_base_components_close) failed to close their output in the framework close function and others closed their output a second time. This change is an improvement to the symantics of mca_base_components_open/close as they are now symetric in their functionality.
This commit was SVN r27570.
# This is triggered based on a mca-paramater and can be used with all collective modules.
# Individual queues maintained for read and write.
# The additional communication to combine data is done at file-close so that the
actual timing of collective-operations will not get affected.
# The queues are initialized in file-open
This commit was SVN r27439.
