We commonly see messages on the users list where a peer has hung up
because it has crashed. Instead of having just a BTL_ERROR message,
make this a real opal_show_help() message that tells the user that the
peer unexpectedly hung up, and they should look into *why* that peer
hung up.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Added mca parameter to turn progress thread on/off
Add a flag to check if we have btl progress thread.
Added macro for ob1 matching lock.
Update the AUTHORS file.
All BTL-only operations (basically all data movements
with the exception of the matching operation) can now
be handled for the TCP BTL by a progress thread.
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.
