figure it out at runtime (really meaning: we'll still default to "0"
unless something explicitly overrides to 1, such as the openib BTL).
This way, ompi_info doesn't confusingly report mpi_leave_pinned==0 for
mpi_leave_pinned, but we end up running with mpi_leave_pinned==1.
Fixes trac:1502.
This commit was SVN r19571.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1502 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1502
* use "warn_on_fork" instead of "do_not_warn_on_fork" -- i.e.,
use positive logic instead of negative logic
* ensure that pthread_atfork() is only called once
* amended the error message to include the hostname, PID, and
MPI_COMM_WORLD rank of the offender
* ensure that the warn_fork_cb() function is only defined if
HAVE_PTHREAD_H so that we don't get a compiler warning if it isn't
used
This commit was SVN r19204.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r19196 --> open-mpi/ompi@277e4ac292
This is setup so that it only is issued once (as opposed to every time they do it), and goes through orte_show_help so the user doesn't get hammered by #procs copies of the warning. In addition, there is a new MCA param (can't have too many!) to shut the warning off altogether.
This closes ticket #1244
This commit was SVN r19196.
put the name of the file that set them if they were set by file. This is of great assistance to support personnel trying to understand why a user is having pro
blems.
Coordinated with Jeff.
This commit was SVN r19111.
Short version: remove opal_paffinity_alone and restore
mpi_paffinity_alone. ORTE makes various information available for the
MPI layer to decide what it wants to do in terms of processor
affinity.
Details:
* remove opal_paffinity_alone MCA param; restore mpi_paffinity_alone
MCA param
* move opal_paffinity_slot_list param registration to paffinity base
* ompi_mpi_init() calls opal_paffinity_base_slot_list_set(); if that
succeeds use that. If no slot list was set, see if
mpi_paffinity_alone was set. If so, bind this process to its Node
Local Rank (NLR). The NLR is the ORTE-maintained slot ID; if you
COMM_SPAWN to a host in this ORTE universe that already has procs
on it, the NLR for the new job will start at N (not 0). So this is
slightly better than mpi_paffinity_alone in the v1.2 series.
* If a slot list is specified *and* mpi_paffinity_alone is set, we
display an error and abort.
* Remove calls from rmaps/rank_file component to register and lookup
opal_paffinity mca params.
* Remove code in orte/odls that set affinities - instead, have them
just pass a slot_list if it exists.
* Cleanup the orte/odls code that determined
oversubscribed/want_processor as these were just opposites of each
other.
This commit was SVN r18874.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1383 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1383
Lenny and I went back and forth on whether we should simply register
another "mpi_paffinity_alone" MCA param and then try to figure out
which one was set in ompi_mpi_init, but there was difficulty in
figuring out what to do. So it seemed like the Right Thing to do was
to implement what was committed in r18770; then we could tell where
MCA parameters were set from and you could do Better Things (this is
also useful in the openib BTL, where parameters can be set either via
MCA parameter or via an INI file).
But after that was done, it seemed only a few steps further to
actually implement two new features in the MCA params area:
* Synonyms (where one MCA param name is a synonym for another)
* Allow MCA params and/or their synonyms to be marked as "deprecated"
(printing out warnings if they are used)
These features have actually long been discussed/desired, and I had
some time in airports and airplanes recently where I could work in
this stuff on a standalone laptop. So I did it. :-)
This commit introduces these two new features, and then uses them to
register mpi_paffinity_alone as a non-deprecated synonym for
opal_paffinity_alone. A few other random points in this commit:
* Add a few error checks for conditions that were not checked before
* Correct some comments in mca_base_params.h
* Add a few comments in strategic places
* ompi_info now prints additional information:
* for any MCA parameter that has synonyms, it lists all the
synonyms
* synonyms are also output as 1st-class MCA params, but with an
additional attribute indicating that they have a "parent"
* all MCA param name (both "real" or "synonym") will output an
attribute indicating whether it is deprecated or not. A synonym
is deprecated if it iself is marked as deprecated (via the
mca_base_param_regist_syn() or mca_base_param_register_syn_name()
functions) or if its "parent" MCA parameter is deprecated
This commit was SVN r18859.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r18770 --> open-mpi/ompi@8efe67e08c
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1383 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1383
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.
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.
Update the rsh tree spawn capability so we spawn the next wave of daemons before launching our own local procs.
Add an ability to encode nodenames for large clusters with contiguous node name numbering schemes - this allows communication of all node names in a few bytes instead of tens-of-bytes/node.
This commit was SVN r18338.
1. applied prefix rule to functions and variables of RMAPS rank_file component
2. cleaned ompi_mpi_init.c from paffinity code
3. paffinity code moved to new opal/mca/paffinity/base/paffinity_base_service.c file
4. added opal_paffinity_slot_list mca parameter
This commit was SVN r18019.
The commit has been tested for C/R and Cray operations, and on Odin (SLURM, rsh) and RoadRunner (TM). I tried to update all environments, but obviously could not test them. I know that Windows needs some work, and have highlighted what is know to be needed in the odls process component.
This represents a lot of work by Brian, Tim P, Josh, and myself, with much advice from Jeff and others. For posterity, I have appended a copy of the email describing the work that was done:
As we have repeatedly noted, the modex operation in MPI_Init is the single greatest consumer of time during startup. To-date, we have executed that operation as an ORTE stage gate that held the process until a startup message containing all required modex (and OOB contact info - see #3 below) info could be sent to it. Each process would send its data to the HNP's registry, which assembled and sent the message when all processes had reported in.
In addition, ORTE had taken responsibility for monitoring process status as it progressed through a series of "stage gates". The process reported its status at each gate, and ORTE would then send a "release" message once all procs had reported in.
The incoming changes revamp these procedures in three ways:
1. eliminating the ORTE stage gate system and cleanly delineating responsibility between the OMPI and ORTE layers for MPI init/finalize. The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info. The allgather is implemented using the orte_grpcomm framework since the BTL's are not active at that point. At the moment, the grpcomm framework only has a "basic" component analogous to OMPI's "basic" coll framework - I would recommend that the MPI team create additional, more advanced components to improve performance of this step.
The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions. We tried to use MPI barriers instead (since the BTL's are active at that point), but - as we discussed on the telecon - these are not currently true barriers so the job would hang when we fell through while messages were still in process. Note that the grpcomm barrier doesn't actually resolve that problem, but Brian has pointed out that we are unlikely to ever see it violated. Again, you might want to spend a little time on an advanced barrier algorithm as the one in "basic" is very simplistic.
Summarizing this change: ORTE no longer tracks process state nor has direct responsibility for synchronizing jobs. This is now done via collective operations within the MPI layer, albeit using ORTE collective communication services. I -strongly- urge the MPI team to implement advanced collective algorithms to improve the performance of this critical procedure.
2. reducing the volume of data exchanged during modex. Data in the modex consisted of the process name, the name of the node where that process is located (expressed as a string), plus a string representation of all contact info. The nodename was required in order for the modex to determine if the process was local or not - in addition, some people like to have it to print pretty error messages when a connection failed.
The size of this data has been reduced in three ways:
(a) reducing the size of the process name itself. The process name consisted of two 32-bit fields for the jobid and vpid. This is far larger than any current system, or system likely to exist in the near future, can support. Accordingly, the default size of these fields has been reduced to 16-bits, which means you can have 32k procs in each of 32k jobs. Since the daemons must have a vpid, and we require one daemon/node, this also restricts the default configuration to 32k nodes.
To support any future "mega-clusters", a configuration option --enable-jumbo-apps has been added. This option increases the jobid and vpid field sizes to 32-bits. Someday, if necessary, someone can add yet another option to increase them to 64-bits, I suppose.
(b) replacing the string nodename with an integer nodeid. Since we have one daemon/node, the nodeid corresponds to the local daemon's vpid. This replaces an often lengthy string with only 2 (or at most 4) bytes, a substantial reduction.
(c) when the mca param requesting that nodenames be sent to support pretty error messages, a second mca param is now used to request FQDN - otherwise, the domain name is stripped (by default) from the message to save space. If someone wants to combine those into a single param somehow (perhaps with an argument?), they are welcome to do so - I didn't want to alter what people are already using.
While these may seem like small savings, they actually amount to a significant impact when aggregated across the entire modex operation. Since every proc must receive the modex data regardless of the collective used to send it, just reducing the size of the process name removes nearly 400MBytes of communication from a 32k proc job (admittedly, much of this comm may occur in parallel). So it does add up pretty quickly.
3. routing RML messages to reduce connections. The default messaging system remains point-to-point - i.e., each proc opens a socket to every proc it communicates with and sends its messages directly. A new option uses the orteds as routers - i.e., each proc only opens a single socket to its local orted. All messages are sent from the proc to the orted, which forwards the message to the orted on the node where the intended recipient proc is located - that orted then forwards the message to its local proc (the recipient). This greatly reduces the connection storm we have encountered during startup.
It also has the benefit of removing the sharing of every proc's OOB contact with every other proc. The orted routing tables are populated during launch since every orted gets a map of where every proc is being placed. Each proc, therefore, only needs to know the contact info for its local daemon, which is passed in via the environment when the proc is fork/exec'd by the daemon. This alone removes ~50 bytes/process of communication that was in the current STG1 startup message - so for our 32k proc job, this saves us roughly 32k*50 = 1.6MBytes sent to 32k procs = 51GBytes of messaging.
Note that you can use the new routing method by specifying -mca routed tree - if you so desire. This mode will become the default at some point in the future.
There are a few minor additional changes in the commit that I'll just note in passing:
* propagation of command line mca params to the orteds - fixes ticket #1073. See note there for details.
* requiring of "finalize" prior to "exit" for MPI procs - fixes ticket #1144. See note there for details.
* cleanup of some stale header files
This commit was SVN r16364.
mpi_show_mpi_alloc_mem_leaks
When activated, MPI_FINALIZE displays a list of memory allocations
from MPI_ALLOC_MEM that were not freed by MPI_FREE_MEM (in each MPI
process).
* If set to a positive integer, display only that many leaks.
* If set to a negative integer, display all leaks.
* If set to 0, do not show any leaks.
This commit was SVN r15736.
wireup. For small clusters or clusters with decent ARP lookup and
connect times, this will have marginal impact. For systems with either
bad ARP lookup times or long connect times, increasing this number
to something much closer to SOMAXCONN (128 on most modern machines) will
result in a faster OOB wireup. Don't set higher than SOMAXCONN or you
can end up with lots of connect() retries and we'll end up slower.
This commit was SVN r14742.
* Don't need the 2 process case -- we'll send an extra message, but
at very little cost and less code is better.
* Use COMPLETE sends instead of STANDARD sends so that the connection
is fully established before we move on to the next connection. The
previous code was still causing minor connection flooding for huge
numbers of processes.
* mpi_preconnect_all now connects both OOB and MPI layers. There's
also mpi_preconnect_mpi and mpi_preconnect_oob should you want to
be more specific.
* Since we're only using the MCA parameters once at the beginning
of time, no need for global constants. Just do the quick param
lookup right before the parameter is needed. Save some of that
global variable space for the next guy.
Fixes trac:963
This commit was SVN r14553.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 963 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/963
1. if the user has specified sched_yield, we simply do what we are told
2. if they didn't specify anything, try to get the number of processors on this node. Note that we already now get the number of local procs in our job that are sharing this node - that now comes in through the proc callback and is stored in the ompi_proc_t structures.
3. if we can get the number of processors, compare that to the number of local procs from my job that are sharing my node. If the number of local procs exceeds the number of processors, then set sched_yield to true. If not, then be a hog and set sched_yield to false
4. if we can't get the number of processors, default to conservative behavior and set sched_yield to true.
Note that I have not yet dealt with the need to dynamically adjust this setting as more processes are added via comm_spawn. So far, we are *only* looking within our own job. Given that we have now moved this logic to mpi_init (and away from the orteds), it isn't yet clear to me how a process will be informed about the number of procs in *other* jobs that are also sharing this node.
Something to continue to ponder.
This commit was SVN r13430.
needlessly registered in multiple different places, and none of them
had a good help string. There was also an inconsistent check for
setting both mpi_leave_pinned and mpi_leave_pinned_pipeline (i.e., it
was only in ob1). This commit moves the registration of these params
to one central place (ompi/runtime/ompi_mpi_params.c, with all other
mpi_* MCA params) and uses globals to propagate the values as
relevant. The error check was also moved to the central location to
ensure that we can consistency everywhere.
This commit was SVN r13226.
r10877:
add warm up connection option.. of course this only warms up the first
eager btl but this should be adequate for now..
r10881:
Consulted with Galen and did a few things:
- Fix the algorithm to actually make the connections that we want
- Rename the MCA param to mpi_preconnect_all
- Cleanup the code a bit:
- move the logic to a separate .c file
- check return codes properly
This commit was SVN r11114.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r10877
r10877
r10881
r10881
(which is currently the default, although we may argue over this later
:-) ), a new field in the ompi_proc_t named proc_hostname will have
the string hostname of that peer. If 0, this field will be NULL.
This allows for printing nicer error messages in environments where
peer hostnames are not otherwise easily obtainable, such as the mvapi
BTL (requested by Sandia, who has both a *huge* number of nodes and
6GB of RAM per node, so they don't care about the extra memory usage
;-) ).
This commit was SVN r9902.
MPI_ABORT. From the ompi_info output:
MCA mpi: parameter "mpi_abort_delay" (current value: "0")
If nonzero, print out an identifying message when
MPI_ABORT is invoked (hostname, PID of the process
that called MPI_ABORT) and delay for that many seconds
before exiting (a negative delay value means to never
abort). This allows attaching of a debugger before
quitting the job.
MCA mpi: parameter "mpi_abort_print_stack" (current value: "0")
If nonzero, print out a stack trace when MPI_ABORT is
invoked
This commit was SVN r9487.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
- Separate out the registration of the MCA params into a standalong
function that is invoked by ompi_mpi_init() (so that ompi_info can
see these params)
- Rename the params to "mpi_ddt_*" instead of "datatype_*" so that
they fit into the common naming scheme
This commit was SVN r8196.
to opal_progress() to use the timers instead of a tick count for deciding
whether to call the event loop or not. Currently supported platforms are:
- solaris (x86 / sparc)
- Linux (x86 / x86_64 / IA64)
- Mac OS X (x86 / Power PC)
This commit was SVN r6922.
that this ORTE job is the only one on the nodes involved, and if
told what processors to assign the processes to, will bind MPI
processes to specific processors.
- Convert #include's to new style
- Convert some <tab>'s to spaces
This commit was SVN r6904.
- new preferred API calls for registering MCA parameters are
mca_base_param_reg_{int|string} and
mca_base_param_reg_{int|string}_name.
- See opal/mca/base/mca_base_param.h for docs on new calls.
- Can now register and lookup a value at the same time.
- Can now mark a parameter "read only" at registration time
- Can now mark a parameter "internal" at registration time
- Can now associate a help message with the parameter at registration
time; displayed in the ompi_info output.
The old API calls are still available for backwards compatibility
(mca_base_param_register_{int|string}. They will eventually be
removed -- all developers are encouraged to use the new APIs from here
on out and replace any old calls with the new API.
Some params were also renamed -- the previous convention of using
"base_" as a prefix for any param that was not associated with a
component is henceforth deprecated. Instead, use one of the following
prefixes:
mca: for anything in the MCA base itself
opal: for anything in OPAL
orte: for anything in ORTE
mpi: for anything in OMPI
This commit was SVN r6698.
* mpi_show_mca_params
If set to true, this turns on the dumping of all MCA parameters when MPI_INIT is called.
Only the 'rank 0' processes will print the parameters.
* mpi_show_mca_params_file
(This value is only used if the first argument is set to true) If this value is non-NULL
it specifies the file to put the dump into. This file can then be used as input to mpirun
for debugging purposes. If this value is not set (and mpi_show_mca_params is set) then
the parameters are dumped to stdout.
This commit was SVN r6401.
