anything for non-MPI apps. Oops! (But before you freak out, gentle
reader, note that mpi_paffinity_alone for MPI apps still worked fine)
When we made the switchover somewhere in the 1.3 series to have the
orted's do processor binding, then stuff like:
mpirun --mca mpi_paffinity_alone 1 hostname
should have bound hostname to processor 0. But it didn't because of a
subtle startup ordering issue: the MCA param registration for
opal_paffinity_alone was in the paffinity base (vs. being in
opal/runtime/opal_params.c), but it didn't actually get registered
until after the global variable opal_paffinity_alone was checked to
see if we wanted old-style affinity bindings. Oops.
However, for MPI apps, even though the orted didn't do the binding,
ompi_mpi_init() would notice that opal_paffinity_alone was set, yet
the process didn't seem to be bound. So the MPI process would bind
itself (this was done to support the running-without-orteds
scenarios). Hence, MPI apps still obeyed mpi_paffinity_alone
semantics.
But note that the error described above caused the new mpirun switch
--report-bindings to not work with mpi_paffinity_alone=1, meaning that
the orted would not report the bindings when mpi_paffinity_alone was
set to 1 (it ''did'' correctly report bindings if you used
--bind-to-core or one of the other binding options).
This commit separates out the paffinity base MCA param registration
into a small function that can be called at the Right place during the
startup sequence.
This commit was SVN r22602.
1. replacing mpi_paffinity_alone with opal_paffinity_alone - for back-compatibility, I have aliased mpi_paffinity_alone to the new param name. This caus
es a mild abstraction break in the opal/mca/paffinity framework - per the devel discussion...live with it. :-) I also moved the ompi_xxx global variable
that tracked maffinity setup so it could be properly closed in MPI_Finalize to the opal/mca/maffinity framework to avoid an abstraction break.
2. Added code to the odls/default module to perform paffinity binding and maffinity init between process fork and exec. This has been tested on IU's odi
n cluster and works for both MPI and non-MPI apps.
3. Revise MPI_Init to detect if affinity has already been set, and to attempt to set it if not already done. I have *not* tested this as I haven't yet f
igured out a way to do so - I couldn't get slurm to perform cpu bindings, even though it supposedly does do so.
This has only been lightly tested and would definitely benefit from a wider range of evaluation...
This commit was SVN r21209.
Short version: remove opal_paffinity_alone and restore
mpi_paffinity_alone. ORTE makes various information available for the
MPI layer to decide what it wants to do in terms of processor
affinity.
Details:
* remove opal_paffinity_alone MCA param; restore mpi_paffinity_alone
MCA param
* move opal_paffinity_slot_list param registration to paffinity base
* ompi_mpi_init() calls opal_paffinity_base_slot_list_set(); if that
succeeds use that. If no slot list was set, see if
mpi_paffinity_alone was set. If so, bind this process to its Node
Local Rank (NLR). The NLR is the ORTE-maintained slot ID; if you
COMM_SPAWN to a host in this ORTE universe that already has procs
on it, the NLR for the new job will start at N (not 0). So this is
slightly better than mpi_paffinity_alone in the v1.2 series.
* If a slot list is specified *and* mpi_paffinity_alone is set, we
display an error and abort.
* Remove calls from rmaps/rank_file component to register and lookup
opal_paffinity mca params.
* Remove code in orte/odls that set affinities - instead, have them
just pass a slot_list if it exists.
* Cleanup the orte/odls code that determined
oversubscribed/want_processor as these were just opposites of each
other.
This commit was SVN r18874.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1383 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1383
A subset of this patch needs to be applied to v1.2
Refs trac:928
This commit was SVN r15918.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 928 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/928
- 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.
- Simple components for getting and setting processor affinity of a
process; does *not* include scheduling decisions
- No one in the OMPI code base invokes the framework yet
- Added linux component for using sched_setaffinity()
- Added shell solaris component that will use processor_bind()
(currently .ompi_ignore'd)
This commit was SVN r6854.
