supports a wide variety of operating systems and platforms; see the
opal/mca/paffinity/hwloc/hwloc/README file for details.
This component includes an embedded copy of hwloc, currently based on
hwloc-1.0rc6. But note that hwloc is properly SVN imported into the
/vendor branch, so it will be easy to update when 1.0 GA is released.
Note that the hwloc tree embedded in opal/mca/paffinity/hwloc/hwloc is
identical to a hwloc distribution tarball, except that much of the
documentation was rm -rf'ed (because we don't need it for the embedded
case).
Since the paffinity framework currently does not understand hardware
threads, the hwloc component compensates for this by identifying cores
by the "first" hardware thread on that core. Hopefully we'll update
paffinity someday to understand hardware threads. :-)
configure grew a --with-hwloc option, analogous to what we do for many
other external libraries that OMPI supports. However, there's a new
feature: due to the request of several distros, OMPI can be configured
to build with its internal copy of hwloc or with an external copy of
hwloc (e.g., a system-installed hwloc).
1. If --with-hwloc is not specified, Open MPI will try to use its
internal copy (but silently fail/ignore hwloc if that fails).
1. If --with-hwloc=<dir> is supplied, Open MPI looks for hwloc
support in <dir> (and --with-hwloc-libdir=<dir>, if specified).
1. If --with-hwloc=external is supplied, Open MPI will look for hwloc
in a compiler/linker default external location.
1. If --with-hwloc=internal is supplied, Open MPI will use its
internal copy of hwloc.
Some of OMPI's main configury had to be slightly re-arranged in the
bootstrapping phase to accomodate hwloc's configry needs.
This commit was SVN r23125.
--enable-mpi-ext configure switch in the top-level README file).
See Josh's excellent wiki page about OMPI extensions:
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/MPIExtensions
This extension exposes a new API to MPI applications:
{{{
int OMPI_Affinity_str(char ompi_bound[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX],
char current_binding[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX],
char exists[OMPI_AFFINITY_STRING_MAX]);
}}}
It returns 3 things. Each are a prettyprint string describing sets of
processors in terms of sockets and cores:
1. What Open MPI bound this process to. If Open MPI didn't bind this
process, the prettyprint string says so.
1. What this process is currently bound to. If the process is
unbound, the prettyprint string says so. This string is a
separate OUT parameter to detect the case where some other entity
bound the process (potentially after Open MPI bound it).
1. What processors are availabile in the system, mainly for reference.
This commit was SVN r23018.
bug: libmpi_f90 had libmpi.la in its LIBADD instead of libmpi_f77.la.
Fixes trac:2244.
This commit was SVN r22704.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2244 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2244
Refs trac:2011.
(ignore this commit for #2011 -- this is ''just'' for testing that the
"refs" Trac/SVN hook is working properly)
This commit was SVN r21887.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2011 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2011
Syntax and grammar in README.WINDOWS and update refs in README.
This commit was SVN r20055.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1399 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1399
