This commit adds support for placing the send memory segment in a
traditional shared memory segment when XPMEM is not available. The
current default is to reserve 4MB for shared memory on each process.
The latest benchmarks show vader performing better than sm on both
Intel and AMD CPUs.
For large messages vader will now use CMA if it is available (and
XPMEM is not).
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=jsquyres
This commit was SVN r30123.
This commit improved the small message latency and bandwidth when using
the vader btl. These improvements should make performance competative
with other MPI implementations.
This commit was SVN r28760.
value to signal that the operation of retrieving the element from the free list
failed. However in this case the returned pointer was set to NULL as well, so the
error code was redundant. Moreover, this was a continuous source of warnings when
the picky mode is on.
The attached parch remove the rc argument from the OMPI_FREE_LIST_GET and
OMPI_FREE_LIST_WAIT macros, and change to check if the item is NULL instead of
using the return code.
This commit was SVN r28722.
