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.
Not sure what happened here, but the resulting trunk wouldn't even configure. After spending time fixing that problem, I found it wouldn't compile due to multiple syntax errors that had been introduced in both the OPAL and OMPI layer. This raised questions as to the completeness of the work.
Given that the author is departing, I pinged Jeff about it and we agreed to revert this for now. Hopefully, it can either be fixed by the author prior to actual departure, or someone else can pick it up (now that it is in the history) and fix it.
This commit was SVN r27511.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27508 --> open-mpi/ompi@12c3c743de
r27509 --> open-mpi/ompi@79e4a8ca38
r27510 --> open-mpi/ompi@1ad5ff625a
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
1. fix a bug in pml_ob1_recvreq/sendreq.c, buffer was made defined where the request has already been released.
2. complete memchecker support for collective functions.
3. change the wrongly spelled function name of memchecker, i.e. '*_isaddressible' should be '*_isaddressable'
This commit was SVN r20043.
implement specific function, thereby
removing bogus requirement on valgrind/valgrind.h
dough...
- Call specific function runindebugger() before
doing expensive checks on each component of struct.
- Get rid of void* warnings..
This commit was SVN r17438.
