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.
config/ directory. We split them apart a while ago in the hopes that
it would simplify things, but it didn't really (e.g., because there
were still some ompi/opal .m4 files in the top-level config/
directory, resulting in developer confusion where any given m4 macro
was defined).
So this commit consolidates them back into the top-level directory for
simplicity.
There's still (at least) two changes that would be nice to make:
1. Split any generated .m4 file (e.g., autogen-generated .m4 files)
into a separate directory somewhere so that a top-level -Iconfig/
will only get our explicitly defined macros, not the autogen stuff
(e.g., with libevent2019 needing to get the visibility macro, but
NOT all the autogen-generated inclusion of component configure.m4
files).
1. Change configure to be of the form:
{{{
# ...a small amount of preamble/setup...
OPAL_SETUP
m4_ifdef([project_orte], [ORTE_SETUP])
m4_ifdef([project_ompi], [OMPI_SETUP])
# ...a small amount of finishing stuff...
}}}
I doubt we'll ever get anything as clean as that, but that would be
the goal to shoot for.
This commit was SVN r27704.
Continue the reorganization of the configure system. Move files from the main config directory to their appropriate level-specific config directories. Modify the configure system to correctly handle compiler detection, test, and setup so that all things pertaining to opal and orte are done at the lower level, with the ompi configure system only looking at mpi-specific options.
Ensure the wrapper compilers for orte and ompi only get built when appropriate. Add support for c++ to the orte wrapper compilers, both script and non-script versions.
This commit was SVN r22138.
svn merge -r 19823:19821 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk ./
I copied the config directory in another location, and the original
.svn directory was replaced by the Open MPI one ... As a result my
first commit, applied the changes on the Open MPI trunk instead of
the other project.
This commit was SVN r19824.
only static libraries. Previously, we were linking the libraries into
directly into the common, btl, and mtl code. This seemed to work fine
for me on my Opteron Fedora box, but caused Lisa some issues (PtlNIInit
would succeed, but the network handle would fail when used with
PtlEQAlloc).
Instead, link the portals libraries directly into libmpi and not at
all into the common, btl, or mtl components. THen use some linker
tricks to force the linker to bring in the public interface for the
reference implementation (which thankfully is pretty small).
This commit was SVN r15902.
interconnects that provide matching logic in the library.
Currently includes support for MX and some support for
Portals
* Fix overuse of proc_pml pointer on the ompi_proc structuer,
splitting into proc_pml for pml data and proc_bml for
the BML endpoint data
* bug fixes in bsend init code, which wasn't being used by
the OB1 or DR PMLs...
This commit was SVN r10642.
