After much work by Jeff and myself, and quite a lot of discussion, it has become clear that we simply cannot resolve the infinite loops caused by RML-involved subsystems calling orte_output. The original rationale for the change to orte_output has also been reduced by shifting the output of XML-formatted vs human readable messages to an alternative approach.
I have globally replaced the orte_output/ORTE_OUTPUT calls in the code base, as well as the corresponding .h file name. I have test compiled and run this on the various environments within my reach, so hopefully this will prove minimally disruptive.
This commit was SVN r18619.
1. The send path get shorter. The BTL is allowed to return > 0 to specify that the
descriptor was pushed to the networks, and that the memory attached to it is
available again for the upper layer. The MCA_BTL_DES_SEND_ALWAYS_CALLBACK flag
can be used by the PML to force the BTL to always trigger the callback.
Unmodified BTL will continue to work as expected, as they will return OMPI_SUCCESS
which force the PML to have exactly the same behavior as before. Some BTLs have
been modified: self, sm, tcp, mx.
2. Add send immediate interface to BTL.
The idea is to have a mechanism of allowing the BTL to take advantage of
send optimizations such as the ability to deliver data "inline". Some
network APIs such as Portals allow data to be sent using a "thin" event
without packing data into a memory descriptor. This interface change
allows the BTL to use such capabilities and allows for other optimizations
in the future. All existing BTLs except for Portals and sm have this interface
set to NULL.
This commit was SVN r18551.
such, the commit message back to the master SVN repository is fairly
long.
= ORTE Job-Level Output Messages =
Add two new interfaces that should be used for all new code throughout
the ORTE and OMPI layers (we already make the search-and-replace on
the existing ORTE / OMPI layers):
* orte_output(): (and corresponding friends ORTE_OUTPUT,
orte_output_verbose, etc.) This function sends the output directly
to the HNP for processing as part of a job-specific output
channel. It supports all the same outputs as opal_output()
(syslog, file, stdout, stderr), but for stdout/stderr, the output
is sent to the HNP for processing and output. More on this below.
* orte_show_help(): This function is a drop-in-replacement for
opal_show_help(), with two differences in functionality:
1. the rendered text help message output is sent to the HNP for
display (rather than outputting directly into the process' stderr
stream)
1. the HNP detects duplicate help messages and does not display them
(so that you don't see the same error message N times, once from
each of your N MPI processes); instead, it counts "new" instances
of the help message and displays a message every ~5 seconds when
there are new ones ("I got X new copies of the help message...")
opal_show_help and opal_output still exist, but they only output in
the current process. The intent for the new orte_* functions is that
they can apply job-level intelligence to the output. As such, we
recommend that all new ORTE and OMPI code use the new orte_*
functions, not thei opal_* functions.
=== New code ===
For ORTE and OMPI programmers, here's what you need to do differently
in new code:
* Do not include opal/util/show_help.h or opal/util/output.h.
Instead, include orte/util/output.h (this one header file has
declarations for both the orte_output() series of functions and
orte_show_help()).
* Effectively s/opal_output/orte_output/gi throughout your code.
Note that orte_output_open() takes a slightly different argument
list (as a way to pass data to the filtering stream -- see below),
so you if explicitly call opal_output_open(), you'll need to
slightly adapt to the new signature of orte_output_open().
* Literally s/opal_show_help/orte_show_help/. The function signature
is identical.
=== Notes ===
* orte_output'ing to stream 0 will do similar to what
opal_output'ing did, so leaving a hard-coded "0" as the first
argument is safe.
* For systems that do not use ORTE's RML or the HNP, the effect of
orte_output_* and orte_show_help will be identical to their opal
counterparts (the additional information passed to
orte_output_open() will be lost!). Indeed, the orte_* functions
simply become trivial wrappers to their opal_* counterparts. Note
that we have not tested this; the code is simple but it is quite
possible that we mucked something up.
= Filter Framework =
Messages sent view the new orte_* functions described above and
messages output via the IOF on the HNP will now optionally be passed
through a new "filter" framework before being output to
stdout/stderr. The "filter" OPAL MCA framework is intended to allow
preprocessing to messages before they are sent to their final
destinations. The first component that was written in the filter
framework was to create an XML stream, segregating all the messages
into different XML tags, etc. This will allow 3rd party tools to read
the stdout/stderr from the HNP and be able to know exactly what each
text message is (e.g., a help message, another OMPI infrastructure
message, stdout from the user process, stderr from the user process,
etc.).
Filtering is not active by default. Filter components must be
specifically requested, such as:
{{{
$ mpirun --mca filter xml ...
}}}
There can only be one filter component active.
= New MCA Parameters =
The new functionality described above introduces two new MCA
parameters:
* '''orte_base_help_aggregate''': Defaults to 1 (true), meaning that
help messages will be aggregated, as described above. If set to 0,
all help messages will be displayed, even if they are duplicates
(i.e., the original behavior).
* '''orte_base_show_output_recursions''': An MCA parameter to help
debug one of the known issues, described below. It is likely that
this MCA parameter will disappear before v1.3 final.
= Known Issues =
* The XML filter component is not complete. The current output from
this component is preliminary and not real XML. A bit more work
needs to be done to configure.m4 search for an appropriate XML
library/link it in/use it at run time.
* There are possible recursion loops in the orte_output() and
orte_show_help() functions -- e.g., if RML send calls orte_output()
or orte_show_help(). We have some ideas how to fix these, but
figured that it was ok to commit before feature freeze with known
issues. The code currently contains sub-optimal workarounds so
that this will not be a problem, but it would be good to actually
solve the problem rather than have hackish workarounds before v1.3 final.
This commit was SVN r18434.
NOTE: the code provided by PANASAS includes a "switch" that they left incomplete - it doesn't cover all possibilities. Since the value being switched is an enum, this causes problems for the compiler. I added the missing values, but - since Panasas felt they could be ignored - had the switch generate an error if those cases ever occurred.
This commit was SVN r17543.
* Include all the stuff that is necessary for running autogen.sh in a
distribution tarball.
* Remove from config/Makefile.am's EXTRA_DIST that which is
automatically included in the tarball in recent versions of
Automake (i.e., all the m4 files that are acincluded).
* Make ROMIO's configure script look for something that is actually
included in the tarball.
Fixes trac:1025.
This commit was SVN r17505.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1025 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1025
idea at the time, but led to logistical difficulties in importing new
versions of ROMIO:
* We are effectively eliminating the ROMIO file prefix rule hacks in
the ROMIO component, which create symlinks from foo.c to
io_romio_foo.c. In reality, the file name conflict potential will
be small.
* Additionally, we are effectively eliminating the ROMIO function
prefix rule in the ROMIO component. This is another place where
there are generally problems with the merge up new versions of ROMIO
and/or patches from the user community (for their own local builds).
In reality, since other major MPI implementations provides the same
exact symbols, it won't cause any practical problems for users.
In return, we make it ''much'' simpler to apply ROMIO patches to Open
MPI. The problem right now is that any patch will have filenames such
as ad_panfs.c, but Open MPI will only have io_romio_ad_panfs.c, making
things extremely difficult for users. I believe, for example, that
this would make it possible for LANL to have applied their patches
without too much hassle on either their part or our part. It will
also make things easier for OMPI when we/they want to do the next
ROMIO upgrade (this was one of the sources of problems on each
upgrade).
This commit was SVN r17436.
about linkers, have all OPAL, ORTE, and OMPI components '''not'' link
against the OPAL, ORTE, or OMPI libraries.
See ttp://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/10/4220.php for
details (or https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Linkers for a
better-formatted version of the same info).
This commit was SVN r16968.
even look at the status code and basically guarantee that the aio
function was never called, so there's really no point in AC_TRY_RUN
over AC_COMPILE_IFELSE...
This commit was SVN r15033.
single threaded builds. In its default configuration, all this does
is ensure that there's at least a good chance of threads building
based on non-threaded development (since the variable names will be
checked). There is also code to make sure that a "mutex" is never
"double locked" when using the conditional macro mutex operations.
This is off by default because there are a number of places in both
ORTE and OMPI where this alarm spews mega bytes of errors on a
simple test. So we have some work to do on our path towards
thread support.
Also removed the macro versions of the non-conditional thread locks,
as the only places they were used, the author of the code intended
to use the conditional thread locks. So now you have upper-case
macros for conditional thread locks and lowercase functions for
non-conditional locks. Simple, right? :).
This commit was SVN r15011.
* 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
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.
same "restrict" check as the top-level OMPI configure.ac script so
that it will guarantee to always get the same result. Therefore, the
#define for restrict will always have the same value in both
opal_config.h and romioconf.h, and we get 7 less warnings (6 in the IO
ROMIO component, 1 in ROMIO itself) when compiling with icc on Linux
(because PAC_C_RESTRICT and AC_C_RESTRICT would get different values
for the "restrict" #define in this case).
This commit was SVN r14387.
Per discussions with Brian and Ralph, make a slight correction in
where components are installed. Use $pkglibdir, not $libdir/openmpi,
so that when compiled in the orte trunk, components are installed to
the right directory (because the component search patch is checking
$pkglibdir).
This commit was SVN r14345.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r14289
Sorry for configure changes during the day; I totally forgot about
that. :-(
This commit was SVN r14288.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r14286 --> open-mpi/ompi@0083eba18e
The top-level OMPI configure script already checks for "restrict" and
will issue a #define for it. PAC_C_RESTRICT would also check for
restrict, but sometimes come up with a different answer than the
top-level OMPI configure script, thereby resulting in conflicting
#define's for "restrict" (e.g., icc 9.0/9.1 on linux x86-64).
So it's easiest just to remove this test from ROMIO's configure.in
script.
This commit was SVN r14286.
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
components that use configure.m4 for configuration or are always built.
The macro has not been needed since moving to configure types other than
configure.stub
Fixes trac:590
This commit was SVN r13031.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 590 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/590
* Create a new request type: NOOP (described below)
* For all MPI_*_INIT functions, OBJ_NEW an ompi_request_t and set its
type to NOOP
* Ensure that the NOOP requests are OBJ_RELEASE'd when they are done
* MPI_START looks at the request type; if NOOP, just return success. If
not, call the PML start() function
* MPI_STARTALL always pass the entire array of requests back to the PML
(see next point)
* Make the PMLs only process PML requests (i.e., ignore/skip anything
that isn't of type PML -- such as the NOOP requests)
* Add a little more param error checking in STARTALL
This commit was SVN r12338.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 529 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/529
the component is configured successfully. Otherwise, we can end up
trying to run make in the romio directory without any Makefiles. This
really only happens on the targets that recurse into DIST_SUBDIRS - ie
dist, maintainer-clean, and distclean
refs trac:411
This commit was SVN r11807.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 411 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/411
explicitly enabled at run-time with the mca parameter
io_romio_enable_parallel_optimizations set to something non-zero.
This will enable some magic flags in Panasas if the user didn't
set them (either on or off) and do some slightly better things
with strided collective writes.
This commit was SVN r10516.
