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.
Deadlock when using the shmem_collect32()/shmem_collect64() routines and any of the non-root PEs pass 0 as the number of elements.
Algorithm in _algorithm_central_collector() does use 0 as a special value, and thus does not break out of the loop.
fixed by IgorI, reviewed by MikeD
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=ompi-rm1.8
This commit was SVN r31814.
1. fix in oshmem scoll component: basic algorithms should
call basic collectives since their implementation
incompatible with others (fca, hcoll).
2. Set OPAL_EVLOOP_ONCE flag ON for libevent in the case
of yoda smpl. Otherwise there is possible deadlock in
atomic_basic_lock call
fixed by Val, Igor, reviewed by Miked
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=ompi-rm1.7
This commit was SVN r30762.
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.
