1. Galen's fine-grain control of queue pair resources in the openib
BTL.
1. Pasha's new implementation of asychronous HCA event handling.
Pasha's new implementation doesn't take much explanation, but the new
"multifrag" stuff does.
Note that "svn merge" was not used to bring this new code from the
/tmp/ib_multifrag branch -- something Bad happened in the periodic
trunk pulls on that branch making an actual merge back to the trunk
effectively impossible (i.e., lots and lots of arbitrary conflicts and
artifical changes). :-(
== Fine-grain control of queue pair resources ==
Galen's fine-grain control of queue pair resources to the OpenIB BTL
(thanks to Gleb for fixing broken code and providing additional
functionality, Pasha for finding broken code, and Jeff for doing all
the svn work and regression testing).
Prior to this commit, the OpenIB BTL created two queue pairs: one for
eager size fragments and one for max send size fragments. When the
use of the shared receive queue (SRQ) was specified (via "-mca
btl_openib_use_srq 1"), these QPs would use a shared receive queue for
receive buffers instead of the default per-peer (PP) receive queues
and buffers. One consequence of this design is that receive buffer
utilization (the size of the data received as a percentage of the
receive buffer used for the data) was quite poor for a number of
applications.
The new design allows multiple QPs to be specified at runtime. Each
QP can be setup to use PP or SRQ receive buffers as well as giving
fine-grained control over receive buffer size, number of receive
buffers to post, when to replenish the receive queue (low water mark)
and for SRQ QPs, the number of outstanding sends can also be
specified. The following is an example of the syntax to describe QPs
to the OpenIB BTL using the new MCA parameter btl_openib_receive_queues:
{{{
-mca btl_openib_receive_queues \
"P,128,16,4;S,1024,256,128,32;S,4096,256,128,32;S,65536,256,128,32"
}}}
Each QP description is delimited by ";" (semicolon) with individual
fields of the QP description delimited by "," (comma). The above
example therefore describes 4 QPs.
The first QP is:
P,128,16,4
Meaning: per-peer receive buffer QPs are indicated by a starting field
of "P"; the first QP (shown above) is therefore a per-peer based QP.
The second field indicates the size of the receive buffer in bytes
(128 bytes). The third field indicates the number of receive buffers
to allocate to the QP (16). The fourth field indicates the low
watermark for receive buffers at which time the BTL will repost
receive buffers to the QP (4).
The second QP is:
S,1024,256,128,32
Shared receive queue based QPs are indicated by a starting field of
"S"; the second QP (shown above) is therefore a shared receive queue
based QP. The second, third and fourth fields are the same as in the
per-peer based QP. The fifth field is the number of outstanding sends
that are allowed at a given time on the QP (32). This provides a
"good enough" mechanism of flow control for some regular communication
patterns.
QPs MUST be specified in ascending receive buffer size order. This
requirement may be removed prior to 1.3 release.
This commit was SVN r15474.
VxWorks. Still some issues remaining, I'm sure.
Refs trac:1010
This commit was SVN r15320.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1010 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1010
types and add STOP_AT_FIRST_PRIORITY type for framework configuration,
which allows all components at the highest priority that succeeds to
succeed
* Use STOP_AT_FIRST_PRIORITY type for gpr framework, so that the null
component isn't built when the replica and proxy components are
available.
This commit was SVN r15286.
libsysfs headers are required for libibverbs v1.0 (i.e., OFED 1.0 and
OFED 1.1), meaning that <infiniband/verbs.h> would #include
<sysfs/libsysfs.h>. Hence, if the libsysfs headers did not exist on a
system, including <verbs.h> would fail.
With older versions of Autoconf, we would simply test for the
''presence'' of the <infinband/verbs.h> and not actually try to
''use'' it. This could leave OMPI in a weird situation on systems
that did not have the sysfs headers installed: configure would
complete successfully, but the build of the openib btl would fail.
Some users complained, thinking that there was a real compile error in
the OMPI code base.
Hence, we decided that it would be better to AC_CHECK_HEADER for the
sysfs header files in configure. If the sysfs header files were not
found, configure would abort. Users generally understand when
configure aborts, and know how to read the output and fix the
underlying problem; it was ''much'' more obvious than having the OMPI
build fail for nebulous reasons much later.
Note that we also checked for / added -lsysfs, but that wasn't
necessary because libibverbs already run-time linked to it (i.e.,
libibverbs couldn't have been installed if the sysfs libraries weren't
installed).
However, there are now two reasons why the check for sysfs's header
files is no longer necessary:
* Newer versions of Autoconf are now used for OMPI tarballs that
check for both the presence '''and''' usability of header files.
Hence, AC_CHECK_HEADER for <infiniband/verbs.h> will actually try
to ''use'' it, so if the sysfs header files are not installed,
AC_CHECK_HEADER will (rightfully) fail.
* libibverbs v1.1 (i.e., OFED 1.2 and beyond) does not require
libsysfs at all (headers or libraries).
When checking for the sysfs header files, OMPI's configure ''forces''
you to have sysfs installed, even though it may not be needed (e.g.,
libibverbs v1.1 and beyond). Clearly, this is not good (especially
since the sysfs software package is now deprecated, and some Linux
distros no longer install it by default).
So this commit simply removes the check for the sysfs header files and
libraries, allowing OMPI to be build on systems with libibverbs >=1.1 that
do not have sysfs installed.
For systems with libibverbs 1.0, if they do not have the sysfs headers
installed, we'll still fail AC_CHECK_HEADER and therefore still fail
configure properly. I expanded the warning message to say that if
libibverbs 1.0 is being used, check to ensure that sysfs is installed,
yadda yadda yadda.
This commit was SVN r14971.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1045 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1045
have the SRQ interface.
* Instead of setting AC_DEFINEs per MCA component, set per test. THe
answers can never be difference, and this will speed sed just a teeny
bit
This commit was SVN r14856.
-I for ${includedir}/openmpi. Solves many problems, and with just a tad
bit of hackery. Don't know why I didn't just do this earlier.
Refs trac:542
This commit was SVN r14853.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 542 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/542
an issue on Solaris where /usr/bin/grep doesn't understand -q. The
grep that AC_PROG_GREP finds (/usr/xpg4/bin/grep), which is POSIX
compliant and understands -q. Also fix one instance where egrep was
used instead of $EGREP.
This commit was SVN r14829.
* Require Autoconf 2.60 or higher and remove some cruft
required for AC 2.59 or the AC 2.59 / AC 2.60 mix
* Remove a bunch of now unnecessary AC_SUBST calls
* Use the libtool-provided variables for the -I and
library to use when compiling against ltdl
Fixes trac:1000
This commit was SVN r14652.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1000 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1000
* Have _ompi_check_package_lib set LIBS, similar to how
_ompi_check_package_include sets CPPFLAGS. Fixes an
issue discovered by Don
* Need to restore flags after end of TM testing.
This commit was SVN r14602.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r14552 --> open-mpi/ompi@e63346a633
via the visibility feature that is provided by some compilers.
Per default this feature is disabled, to enable it you need to
configure with --enable-visibility and obviously you need a compiler
with visibility support. Please refer to the wiki for more information.
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Visibility
This commit was SVN r14582.
able to compile tm support, but is still "odd" in terms of the way AC
macros are normally structured. Brian says that he will fix it
properly someday.
This commit was SVN r14573.
* Remove duplicate calls to ompi_check_package by poking at the
internals just a bit. Possibly should make those officially
exposed, but whatever.
* Don't build OpenIB with PTMalloc2 and no thread support, as
this will always lead to badness.
* minor formatting cleanups
This commit was SVN r14552.
Thank God for google-able mailing list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-libtool@gnu.org/msg00899.html
We ran into this exact bug in Libtool that was causing the C++
bindings library to be compiled incorrectly (therefore causing static
initializers to not fire properly when in a shared library, which is
the default installation configuration). Putting in some libtool
patches to fix the problem -- will be mailing the Libtool crowd
shortly to ask for a better fix...
This commit was SVN r14454.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 982 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/982
finally brings in functionality that is already on the 1.2 branch, and
was developed and tested in the v1.2ofed branch (and other places).
Short version of new features:
* Support for ibv_fork_init()
* Automatically fill in the openib BTL bandwidth value by
querying the HCA port
* Installdirs functionality
* Fixes to always use -I in the Fortran wrapper compilers (#924)
* Gleb's mpool updates
* Remove some kruft in btl/openib/configure.m4, therefore
fixing the harmless warnings noted in #665
* Bunches of updates to the Linux RPM spec file
I.e., effectively the same thing that r14411 brought to the v1.2
branch.
Also effectively brought in r14432 and r14433 (some fixes on top of
the original r14411 commit to v1.2). Still need to bring in the moral
equivalent of r14445 after this commit (fixes to installdirs).
This commit was SVN r14449.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r14411 --> open-mpi/ompi@83b31314ae
r14432 --> open-mpi/ompi@a48f160595
r14433 --> open-mpi/ompi@68f346d2bc
r14445 --> open-mpi/ompi@13d366b827
* If pbs-config can be found (either in the PATH or the
--with-tm=<dir> directory tree), use that to search for the relevant
compiler / linker flags to get TM support.
* Fix a long-standing bug that if --without-tm is supplied, we'll
still try to look for tm support
This commit was SVN r14372.
This merge adds Checkpoint/Restart support to Open MPI. The initial
frameworks and components support a LAM/MPI-like implementation.
This commit follows the risk assessment presented to the Open MPI core
development group on Feb. 22, 2007.
This commit closes trac:158
More details to follow.
This commit was SVN r14051.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r13912
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/158
private scope. Solves the problem of Red Hat-provided OFED not
working properly because the libibverbs plugins are not linked
against libibverbs.
This commit was SVN r13926.
- Set ompi-specific autoconf cache-variables
- Implement one function to check for availability of an
attribute with the possibility for a cross-check.
- Do cross-checks for
__attribute__(format)
__attribute__(nonnull)
__attribute__(sentinel)
__attribute__(warn_unused_result)
- Grep the compilers warnings for keywords regarding ignored
attributes.
- Include also the no_instrument_function
This commit was SVN r13556.
go and have proper casting.
Tested with linux gcc-4, icc-9.0, pathcc-2.2.1 and pgi-6.2.5
(icc warns on several attributes, that they are ignored;
same for pathcc and pgi)
This commit was SVN r13485.
Check both the c and cpp compilers for support of attributes, and then check for support for each individual attribute with both compilers. Only if both compilers support a given attribute will we enable it.
This commit was SVN r13483.
remote nodes. It will also kill off rogue orteds and orterun
processes. The killing of processes is ifdef'ed out for Windows
since I do not know how to do it there. Note that this change
will requite an autogen.
This commit was SVN r13477.
most common attributes. Useful attributes may be:
- optimization (pure, const, malloc--restrictness)
- data layout (packed)
- interface definition, API (deprecated, visibility, weak alias)
- compiler hint for code analysis and debugging (nonnull, format)
This commit was SVN r13369.
