allocated from mpool memory (which is registered memory for RDMA transports)
This is not a problem for a small jobs, but for a big number of ranks an
amount of waisted memory is big.
This commit was SVN r13921.
* If the text to cite where the problem occurred is "\n", prettyprint
somethign a little nicer so that it's clear that we're talking
about the end of line
* Add a missing help message ("ini file:unknown field"), and display
it a little better (i.e., show the erroneous field, not a
misleading "end of line" marker)
* It's "OpenIB", not "Open IB"
This commit was SVN r13241.
GIDs (there can be more than one) and not GIDs of the HCA on the network. Entry
zero always have to be initialized so we use it, and warn user if there is more
then one port active and default subnet is configured on at least one of them.
This commit was SVN r11815.
addition to my design and testing, it was conceptually approved by
Gil, Gleb, Pasha, Brad, and Galen. Functionally [probably somewhat
lightly] tested by Galen. We may still have to shake out some bugs
during the next few months, but it seems to be working for all the
cases that I can throw at it.
Here's a summary of the changes from that branch:
* Move MCA parameter registration to a new file (btl_openib_mca.c):
* Properly check the retun status of registering MCA params
* Check for valid values of MCA parameters
* Make help strings better
* Otherwise, the only default value of an MCA param that was
changed was max_btls; it went from 4 to -1 (meaning: use all
available)
* Properly prototyped internal functions in _component.c
* Made a bunch of functions static that didn't need to be public
* Renamed to remove "mca_" prefix from static functions
* Call new MCA param registration function
* Call new INI file read/lookup/finalize functions
* Updated a bunch of macros to be "BTL_" instead of "ORTE_"
* Be a little more consistent with return values
* Handle -1 for the max_btls MCA param
* Fixed a free() that should have been an OBJ_RELEASE()
* Some re-indenting
* Added INI-file parsing
* New flex file: btl_openib_ini.l
* New default HCA params .ini file (probably to be expanded over
time by other HCA vendors)
* Added more show_help messages for parsing problems
* Read in INI files and cache the values for later lookup
* When component opens an HCA, lookup to see if any corresponding
values were found in the INI files (ID'ed by the HCA vendor_id
and vendor_part_id)
* Added btl_openib_verbose MCA param that shows what the INI-file
stuff does (e.g., shows which MTU your HCA ends up using)
* Added btl_openib_hca_param_files as a colon-delimited list of INI
files to check for values during startup (in order,
left-to-right, just like the MCA base directory param).
* MTU is currently the only value supported in this framework.
* It is not a fatal error if we don't find params for the HCA in
the INI file(s). Instead, just print a warning. New MCA param
btl_openib_warn_no_hca_params_found can be used to disable
printing the warning.
* Add MTU to peer negotiation when making a connection
* Exchange maximum MTU; select the lesser of the two
This commit was SVN r11182.
mpi_leave_pinned when multiple OpenIB HCA ports are found.
Specifically, if mpi_leave_pinned == 1 and ultiple HCA ports are
found, the MCA parameter btl_openib_max_btls is set to 1. If the MCA
parameter btl_openib_warn_leave_pinned_multi_port is true, emit a
warning that this happened (having an MCA parameter to control the
warning allows users/sysadmins to turn it off instead of being nagged
for every run).
This commit was SVN r10521.
mpi_leave_pinned when multiple OpenIB HCA ports are found.
Specifically, if mpi_leave_pinned == 1 and ultiple HCA ports are
found, the MCA parameter btl_openib_max_btls is set to 1. If the MCA
parameter btl_openib_warn_leave_pinned_multi_port is true, emit a
warning that this happened (having an MCA parameter to control the
warning allows users/sysadmins to turn it off instead of being nagged
for every run).
This commit was SVN r10424.
