communication library should use to initialize itself.
Ralph will champion this change back with an RFC if there is a realistic
need/use case from the community.
This commit was SVN r32361.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r32355 --> open-mpi/ompi@c903917f47
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.
We have been getting several requests for new collectives that need to be inserted in various places of the MPI layer, all in support of either checkpoint/restart or various research efforts. Until now, this would require that the collective id's be generated at launch. which required modification
s to ORTE and other places. We chose not to make collectives reusable as the race conditions associated with resetting collective counters are daunti
ng.
This commit extends the collective system to allow self-generation of collective id's that the daemons need to support, thereby allowing developers to request any number of collectives for their work. There is one restriction: RTE collectives must occur at the process level - i.e., we don't curren
tly have a way of tagging the collective to a specific thread. From the comment in the code:
* In order to allow scalable
* generation of collective id's, they are formed as:
*
* top 32-bits are the jobid of the procs involved in
* the collective. For collectives across multiple jobs
* (e.g., in a connect_accept), the daemon jobid will
* be used as the id will be issued by mpirun. This
* won't cause problems because daemons don't use the
* collective_id
*
* bottom 32-bits are a rolling counter that recycles
* when the max is hit. The daemon will cleanup each
* collective upon completion, so this means a job can
* never have more than 2**32 collectives going on at
* a time. If someone needs more than that - they've got
* a problem.
*
* Note that this means (for now) that RTE-level collectives
* cannot be done by individual threads - they must be
* done at the overall process level. This is required as
* there is no guaranteed ordering for the collective id's,
* and all the participants must agree on the id of the
* collective they are executing. So if thread A on one
* process asks for a collective id before thread B does,
* but B asks before A on another process, the collectives will
* be mixed and not result in the expected behavior. We may
* find a way to relax this requirement in the future by
* adding a thread context id to the jobid field (maybe taking the
* lower 16-bits of that field).
This commit includes a test program (orte/test/mpi/coll_test.c) that cycles 100 times across barrier and modex collectives.
This commit was SVN r32203.
I recently found a case where ompi_mpi_abort() segv's:
{{{
$ mpirun --mca btl non_existent_btl_name ...
}}}
In this case, the BML init fails because we have no paths to any
peers. It calls ompi_mpi_abort(), but this is before ompi_comm_self
has been setup. ompi_mpi_abort() assumes that if the comm parameter
is != NULL, it can be used. But since we aborted so early in
MPI_INIT, that's a false assumption.
(note that this isn't happening on v1.8 because the check for
INIT/FINALIZE in ompi_mpi_abort() is a little different. Hence: this
is a trunk issue -- at least for now)
When fixing this problem, I noticed a few other problems in ompi_mpi_abort():
* the group access was incorrect (it didn't use accessor functions)
* it wasn't clear that ORTE's ompi_rte_abort_peers() returns
NOT_IMPLEMENTED and falls through down to ompi_rte_abort()
* the check for my proc in the communicator was a little more
complicated than necessary
* the logic for checking for aborts early in MPI_INIT wasn't right
* some comments were stale
* the hostname output in error messages would be NULL if MPI_FINALIZE
had been invoked
* it was possible to abort, but still exit with a 0 status
This commit fixes all of the above problems, and makes the logic a
little more straightforward. Thanks to Ralph Castain and George
Bosilca for the assists with this patch.
This commit was SVN r32125.
Based on extensive discussions before/at the June 2014 developer's
meeting, put a lengthy comment explaining a second reason why we
''must'' use an RTE barrier during MPI_FINALIZE and
MPI_COMM_DISCONNECT (i.e., unreliable transports). Slightly explain
more the original reason why we do this, too (BTLs can lie/buffer a
message without actually injecting it on the network).
This commit was SVN r32095.
This commit fixes leaks of bml endpoints in finalize. A summary of the
bugs/fixes is below.
1) ompi_mpi_finalize used ompi_proc_all to get the list of procs but
never released the reference to them (ompi_proc_all called
OBJ_RETAIN on all the procs returned). When calling del_procs at
finalize it should suffice to call ompi_proc_world which does not
increment the reference count.
2) del_procs is called BEFORE ompi_comm_finalize. This leaves the
references to the procs from calling the pml_add_comm
function. The fix is to reorder the calls to do omp_comm_finalize,
del_procs, pml_finalize instead of del_procs, pml_finalize,
ompi_comm_finalize.
3) The check in del_procs in r2 checked for a reference count of
1. This is incorrect. At this point there should be 2 references:
1 from ompi_proc, and another from the add_procs. The fix is to
change this check to look for a reference count of 22. This check
makes me extremely uncomforable as nothing will call del_procs if
the reference count of a procs is not 2 when del_procs is
called. Maybe there should be an assert since this is a developer
error IMHO.
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=bosilca
This commit was SVN r31782.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
This commit fixes three leaks:
- bml/r2: fix leak of del_procs in mca_bml_r2_del_procs
- Release the modex data in btl/scif, btl/ugni, and btl/vader
- ompi_mpi_finalize: close the allocator framework
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=jsquyres
This commit was SVN r31778.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
So track that the rte has reached that point, and only emit the new message if it is accurate.
Note that we still generate a TON of output for a minor error:
Ralphs-iMac:examples rhc$ mpirun -n 3 -mca btl sm ./hello_c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
At least one pair of MPI processes are unable to reach each other for
MPI communications. This means that no Open MPI device has indicated
that it can be used to communicate between these processes. This is
an error; Open MPI requires that all MPI processes be able to reach
each other. This error can sometimes be the result of forgetting to
specify the "self" BTL.
Process 1 ([[50239,1],2]) is on host: Ralphs-iMac
Process 2 ([[50239,1],2]) is on host: Ralphs-iMac
BTLs attempted: sm
Your MPI job is now going to abort; sorry.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** An error occurred in MPI_Init
*** on a NULL communicator
*** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
*** and potentially your MPI job)
*** An error occurred in MPI_Init
*** on a NULL communicator
*** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
*** and potentially your MPI job)
*** An error occurred in MPI_Init
*** on a NULL communicator
*** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
*** and potentially your MPI job)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPI_INIT has failed because at least one MPI process is unreachable
from another. This *usually* means that an underlying communication
plugin -- such as a BTL or an MTL -- has either not loaded or not
allowed itself to be used. Your MPI job will now abort.
You may wish to try to narrow down the problem;
* Check the output of ompi_info to see which BTL/MTL plugins are
available.
* Run your application with MPI_THREAD_SINGLE.
* Set the MCA parameter btl_base_verbose to 100 (or mtl_base_verbose,
if using MTL-based communications) to see exactly which
communication plugins were considered and/or discarded.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
Primary job terminated normally, but 1 process returned
a non-zero exit code.. Per user-direction, the job has been aborted.
-------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero status, thus causing
the job to be terminated. The first process to do so was:
Process name: [[50239,1],2]
Exit code: 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Ralphs-iMac.local:23227] 2 more processes have sent help message help-mca-bml-r2.txt / unreachable proc
[Ralphs-iMac.local:23227] Set MCA parameter "orte_base_help_aggregate" to 0 to see all help / error messages
[Ralphs-iMac.local:23227] 2 more processes have sent help message help-mpi-runtime / mpi_init:startup:pml-add-procs-fail
Ralphs-iMac:examples rhc$
Hopefully, we can agree on a way to reduce this verbage!
This commit was SVN r31686.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/04/14496.php
Revamp the opal database framework, including renaming it to "dstore" to reflect that it isn't a "database". Move the "db" framework to ORTE for now, soon to move to ORCM
This commit was SVN r31557.
Also added some missing values and sentinels.
cmr=v1.8:ticket=trac:4470
This commit was SVN r31263.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r31260 --> open-mpi/ompi@69036437b7
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4470 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4470
NOTE: launch performance will be absolutely awful if you do this with BTLs that aren't configured to modex_recv on first message!
Even with "modex on demand", we still have to do a barrier in place of the modex - we simply don't move any data around, which does reduce the time impact. The barrier is required to ensure that the other proc has in fact registered all its BTL info and therefore is prepared to hand over a complete data package. Otherwise, you may not get the info you need. In addition, the shared memory BTL can fail to properly rendezvous as it expects the barrier to be in place.
This behavior will *only* take effect under the following conditions:
1. launched via mpirun
2. #procs is greater than ompi_hostname_cutoff, which defaults to UINT32_MAX
3. mca param rte_orte_direct_modex is set to 1. At the moment, we are having problems getting this param to register properly, so only the first two conditions are in effect. Still, the bottom line is you have to *want* this behavior to get it.
The planned next evolution of this will be to make the direct modex be non-blocking - this will require two fixes:
1. if the remote proc doesn't have the required info, then let it delay its response until it does. This means we need a way for the MPI layer to tell the RTE "I am done entering modex data".
2. adjust the SM rendezvous logic to loop until the required file has been created
Creating a placeholder to bring this over to 1.7.5 when ready.
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=hjelmn:subject=Enable direct modex at scale
This commit was SVN r30259.
pkg{data,lib,includedir}, use our own ompi{data,lib,includedir}, which is
always set to {datadir,libdir,includedir}/openmpi. This will keep us from
having help files in prefix/share/open-rte when building without Open MPI,
but in prefix/share/openmpi when building with Open MPI.
This commit was SVN r30140.
* automatically retrieve the hostname (and all RTE info) for all procs during MPI_Init if nprocs < cutoff
* if nprocs > cutoff, retrieve the hostname (and all RTE info) for a proc upon the first call to modex_recv for that proc. This would provide the hostname for debugging purposes as we only report errors on messages, and so we must have called modex_recv to get the endpoint info
* BTLs are not to call modex_recv until they need the endpoint info for first message - i.e., not during add_procs so we don't call it for every process in the job, but only those with whom we communicate
My understanding is that only some BTLs have been modified to meet that third requirement, but those include the Cray ones where jobs are big enough that launch times were becoming an issue. Other BTLs would hopefully be modified as time went on and interest in using them at scale arose. Meantime, those BTLs would call modex_recv on every proc, and we would therefore be no worse than the prior behavior.
This commit revises the MPI-RTE interface to pass the ompi_proc_t instead of the ompi_process_name_t for the proc so that the hostname can be easily inserted. I have advised the ORNL folks of the change.
cmr=v1.7.4:reviewer=jsquyres:subject=Fix thread deadlock
This commit was SVN r29931.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r29917 --> open-mpi/ompi@1a972e2c9d
Reworked ompi_info tool to be close with orte_info implementation.
ompi_info_register_types(), ompi_info_close_components() and
ompi_info_show_ompi_version() are moved to runtime/ompi_info_support.c.
Added runtime/oshmem_info_support layer that exports following api to be
used into oshmem_info tool as
oshmem_info_register_types()
oshmem_info_register_framework_params()
oshmem_info_close_components()
oshmem_info_show_oshmem_version()
These functions call ompi_info_support related interfaces as long as
Oshmem supports Open MPI/SHMEM combination.
Now orte_info/ompi_info/oshmem_info have identical implementation approach.
Possible improvement:
OSHMEM processing of --config option is the same as OMPI`s (code is duplicated).
Probably list of info_support interfaces can be extended by xxx_info_do_config().
developed by Igor, reviewed by miked
This commit was SVN r29429.
Fix two problems that surfaced when using direct launch under SLURM:
1. locally store our own data because some BTLs want to retrieve
it during add_procs rather than use what they have internally
2. cleanup MPI_Abort so it correctly passes the error status all
the way down to the actual exit. When someone implemented the
"abort_peers" API, they left out the error status. So we lost
it at that point and *always* exited with a status of 1. This
forces a change to the API to include the status.
cmr:v1.7.3:reviewer=jsquyres:subject=Fix MPI_Abort and modex_recv for direct launch
This commit was SVN r29405.
the fortran handle. Use a seperate opal_pointer_array to keep track of
the fortran handles of communicators.
This commit also fixes a bug in ompi_comm_idup where the newcomm was not
set until after the operation completed.
cmr=v1.7.4:reviewer=jsquyres:ticket=trac:3796
This commit was SVN r29342.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 3796 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3796
MPI_Comm_idup.
As part of this work I implemented a basic request scheduler in
ompi/comm/comm_request.c. This scheduler might be useful for more
than just communicator requests and could be moved to ompi/request
if there is a demand. Otherwise I will leave it where it is.
Added a non-blocking version of ompi_comm_set to support ompi_comm_idup.
The call makes a recursive call to comm_dup and a non-blocking version
was needed. To simplify the code the blocking version calls the nonblocking
version and waits on the resulting request if one exists.
cmr=v1.7.4:reviewer=jsquyres:ticket=trac:3796
This commit was SVN r29334.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 3796 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3796
*** THIS RFC INCLUDES A MINOR CHANGE TO THE MPI-RTE INTERFACE ***
Note: during the course of this work, it was necessary to completely separate the MPI and RTE progress engines. There were multiple places in the MPI layer where ORTE_WAIT_FOR_COMPLETION was being used. A new OMPI_WAIT_FOR_COMPLETION macro was created (defined in ompi/mca/rte/rte.h) that simply cycles across opal_progress until the provided flag becomes false. Places where the MPI layer blocked waiting for RTE to complete an event have been modified to use this macro.
***************************************************************************************
I am reissuing this RFC because of the time that has passed since its original release. Since its initial release and review, I have debugged it further to ensure it fully supports tests like loop_spawn. It therefore seems ready for merge back to the trunk. Given its prior review, I have set the timeout for one week.
The code is in https://bitbucket.org/rhc/ompi-oob2
WHAT: Rewrite of ORTE OOB
WHY: Support asynchronous progress and a host of other features
WHEN: Wed, August 21
SYNOPSIS:
The current OOB has served us well, but a number of limitations have been identified over the years. Specifically:
* it is only progressed when called via opal_progress, which can lead to hangs or recursive calls into libevent (which is not supported by that code)
* we've had issues when multiple NICs are available as the code doesn't "shift" messages between transports - thus, all nodes had to be available via the same TCP interface.
* the OOB "unloads" incoming opal_buffer_t objects during the transmission, thus preventing use of OBJ_RETAIN in the code when repeatedly sending the same message to multiple recipients
* there is no failover mechanism across NICs - if the selected NIC (or its attached switch) fails, we are forced to abort
* only one transport (i.e., component) can be "active"
The revised OOB resolves these problems:
* async progress is used for all application processes, with the progress thread blocking in the event library
* each available TCP NIC is supported by its own TCP module. The ability to asynchronously progress each module independently is provided, but not enabled by default (a runtime MCA parameter turns it "on")
* multi-address TCP NICs (e.g., a NIC with both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, or with virtual interfaces) are supported - reachability is determined by comparing the contact info for a peer against all addresses within the range covered by the address/mask pairs for the NIC.
* a message that arrives on one TCP NIC is automatically shifted to whatever NIC that is connected to the next "hop" if that peer cannot be reached by the incoming NIC. If no TCP module will reach the peer, then the OOB attempts to send the message via all other available components - if none can reach the peer, then an "error" is reported back to the RML, which then calls the errmgr for instructions.
* opal_buffer_t now conforms to standard object rules re OBJ_RETAIN as we no longer "unload" the incoming object
* NIC failure is reported to the TCP component, which then tries to resend the message across any other available TCP NIC. If that doesn't work, then the message is given back to the OOB base to try using other components. If all that fails, then the error is reported to the RML, which reports to the errmgr for instructions
* obviously from the above, multiple OOB components (e.g., TCP and UD) can be active in parallel
* the matching code has been moved to the RML (and out of the OOB/TCP component) so it is independent of transport
* routing is done by the individual OOB modules (as opposed to the RML). Thus, both routed and non-routed transports can simultaneously be active
* all blocking send/recv APIs have been removed. Everything operates asynchronously.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
* although provision is made for component failover as described above, the code for doing so has not been fully implemented yet. At the moment, if all connections for a given peer fail, the errmgr is notified of a "lost connection", which by default results in termination of the job if it was a lifeline
* the IPv6 code is present and compiles, but is not complete. Since the current IPv6 support in the OOB doesn't work anyway, I don't consider this a blocker
* routing is performed at the individual module level, yet the active routed component is selected on a global basis. We probably should update that to reflect that different transports may need/choose to route in different ways
* obviously, not every error path has been tested nor necessarily covered
* determining abnormal termination is more challenging than in the old code as we now potentially have multiple ways of connecting to a process. Ideally, we would declare "connection failed" when *all* transports can no longer reach the process, but that requires some additional (possibly complex) code. For now, the code replicates the old behavior only somewhat modified - i.e., if a module sees its connection fail, it checks to see if it is a lifeline. If so, it notifies the errmgr that the lifeline is lost - otherwise, it notifies the errmgr that a non-lifeline connection was lost.
* reachability is determined solely on the basis of a shared subnet address/mask - more sophisticated algorithms (e.g., the one used in the tcp btl) are required to handle routing via gateways
* the RML needs to assign sequence numbers to each message on a per-peer basis. The receiving RML will then deliver messages in order, thus preventing out-of-order messaging in the case where messages travel across different transports or a message needs to be redirected/resent due to failure of a NIC
This commit was SVN r29058.
So shift the cutoff param to the MPI layer, and have it solely determine whether or not we call modex_recv on the hostname. If comm_world is of size greater than the cutoff, then we don't automatically retrieve the hostname when we build the ompi_proc_t for a process - instead, we fill the hostname entry on first call to modex_recv for that process.
The param is now "ompi_hostname_cutoff=N", where N=number of procs for cutoff.
Refs trac:3729
This commit was SVN r29056.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 3729 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3729
* add a new MCA param orte_hostname_cutoff to specify the number of nodes at which we stop including hostnames. This defaults to INT_MAX => always include hostnames. If a value is given, then we will include hostnames for any allocation smaller than the given limit.
* remove ompi_proc_get_hostname. Replace all occurrences with a direct link to ompi_proc_t's proc_hostname, protected by appropriate "if NULL"
* modify the OMPI-ORTE integration component so that any call to modex_recv automatically loads the ompi_proc_t->proc_hostname field as well as returning the requested info. Thus, any process whose modex info you retrieve will automatically receive the hostname. Note that on-demand retrieval is still enabled - i.e., if we are running under direct launch with PMI, the hostname will be fetched upon first call to modex_recv, and then the ompi_proc_t->proc_hostname field will be loaded
* removed a stale MCA param "mpi_keep_peer_hostnames" that was no longer used anywhere in the code base
* added an envar lookup in ess/pmi for the number of nodes in the allocation. Sadly, PMI itself doesn't provide that info, so we have to get it a different way. Currently, we support PBS-based systems and SLURM - for any other, rank0 will emit a warning and we assume max number of daemons so we will always retain hostnames
This commit was SVN r29052.
George and I were talking about ORTE's error handling the other day in regards to the right way to deal with errors in the updated OOB. Specifically, it seemed a bad idea for a library such as ORTE to be aborting the job on its own prerogative. If we lose a connection or cannot send a message, then we really should just report it upwards and let the application and/or upper layers decide what to do about it.
The current code base only allows a single error callback to exist, which seemed unduly limiting. So, based on the conversation, I've modified the errmgr interface to provide a mechanism for registering any number of error handlers (this replaces the current "set_fault_callback" API). When an error occurs, these handlers will be called in order until one responds that the error has been "resolved" - i.e., no further action is required - by returning OMPI_SUCCESS. The default MPI layer error handler is specified to go "last" and calls mpi_abort, so the current "abort" behavior is preserved unless other error handlers are registered.
In the register_callback function, I provide an "order" param so you can specify "this callback must come first" or "this callback must come last". Seemed to me that we will probably have different code areas registering callbacks, and one might require it go first (the default "abort" will always require it go last). So you can append and prepend, or go first. Note that only one registration can declare itself "first" or "last", and since the default "abort" callback automatically takes "last", that one isn't available. :-)
The errhandler callback function passes an opal_pointer_array of structs, each of which contains the name of the proc involved (which can be yourself for internal errors) and the error code. This is a change from the current fault callback which returned an opal_pointer_array of just process names. Rationale is that you might need to see the cause of the error to decide what action to take. I realize that isn't a requirement for remote procs, but remember that we will use the SAME interface to report RTE errors internal to the proc itself. In those cases, you really do need to see the error code. It is legal to pass a NULL for the pointer array (e.g., when reporting an internal failure without error code), so handlers must be prepared for that possibility. If people find that too burdensome, we can remove it.
Should we ever decide to create a separate callback path for internal errors vs remote process failures, or if we decide to do something different based on experience, then we can adjust this API.
This commit was SVN r28852.
This patch reshape the way we deal with topologies completely. Where
our topologies were mainly storage components (they were not capable
of creating the new communicator), the new version is built around a
[possibly] common representation (in mca/topo/topo.h), but the functions
to attach and retrieve the topological information are specific to each
component. As a result the ompi_create_cart and ompi_create_graph functions
become useless and have been removed.
In addition to adding the internal infrastructure to manage the topology
information, it updates the MPI interface, and the debuggers support and
provides all Fortran interfaces.
This commit was SVN r28687.
