In abusive MPI communication patterns, sending a UDP ping only once a
second may not be sufficient -- all the UDP pings may be dropped. So
increase the frequency of the pings to every quarter second, and allow
more total pings to be sent.
Total timeout time is still the same (10 seconds) -- we'll just now
try 40 times (i.e., once every quarter second) as opposed to 10 times
(i.e., once a second). Testing has shown that this frequency allows
the connectivity checker to always succeed even in the many-to-one
abusive communication patterns.
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=dgoodell
This commit was SVN r31602.
We don't use this functionality any more; we use the transport_type
and device name to identify usnic devices. It's slightly easier
because we can transport_type+name from ibv_device_open() and don't
have to do an additional ibv_query_device() to get its attributes.
Reviewed by Dave Goodell.
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=ompi-rm1.7
This commit was SVN r30882.
Follow on to SVN trunk r30850: consolidate the ibv_create_ah() calls
into a single loop, MPI_WAITALL-style. That is, call the (effectively
non-blocking) ibv_create_ah() for each endpoint. If we get
NULL+EAGAIN, it means that the UDP ARP is still ongoing down in the
kernel, so just try again later. We put these all into a single loop
because it allows us to parallelize the ARP progress in the kernel.
cmr=v1.7.5:ticket=trac:4253
This commit was SVN r30879.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r30850 --> open-mpi/ompi@3641500442
r30852 --> open-mpi/ompi@4e282a3295
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4253 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4253
Basically: since usnic is a connectionless transport, we do not get
OS-provided services "for free" that connection-oriented transports
get, namely: "hey, I wasn't able to make a connection to peer X", and
"hey, your connection to peer X has died."
This connectivity-checker runs in a separate progress thread in the
usnic BTL in local rank 0 on each server. Upon first send in any
process, the connectivty-checker agent will send some UDP pings to the
peer to ensure that we can reach it. If we can't, we'll abort the job
with a nice show_help message.
There's a lengthy comment in btl_usnic_connectivity.h explains the
scheme and how it works.
Reviewed by Dave Goodell.
cmr=v1.7.5:ticket=trac:4253
This commit was SVN r30860.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4253 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4253
1. Fix ompi_info memory leak in usnic BTL: do not allocate memory in
the component register function, because ompi_info only calls the
component register function and then dlclose's the component -- it
does not call component finalize. Instead, defer parsing the MCA
param (and alloc'ing memory) until the component init function so
that any allocated memory can be freed in the component close
function.
1. Also add a new check to ensure that we actually have some part
numbers to check. Add a show_help message if we don't find any
vendor part IDs to check.
1. Add a verbose output if usnic disqualifies itself from selection
because THREAD_MULTIPLE was specified.
cmr=v1.7.5:reviewer=dgoodell
This commit was SVN r30073.
If we need to use a convertor, go back to stashing that convertor in the
frag and populating segments "on the fly" (in
ompi_btl_usnic_module_progress_sends). Previously we would pack into a
chain of chunk segments at prepare_src time, unnecessarily consuming
additional memory.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Reese Faucette <rfaucett@cisco.com>
This commit was SVN r29592.
This BTL accesses the Cisco usNIC Linux device via the Linux verbs
API via Unreliable Datagram queue pairs. A few noteworthy points:
* This BTL does most of its own fragmentation; it tells the PML that
it has a very high max_send_size (much higher than the network
MTU).
* Since UD fragments are, by definition, unreliable, the usnic BTL
handles all of its own reliability via a sliding window approach
using the opal_hotel construct and many tricks stolen from the
corpus of knowledge surrounding efficient TCP.
* There is a fun PML latency-metric based optimization for NUMA
awareness of short messages.
* Note that this is ''not'' a generic UD verbs BTL; it is specific to
the Cisco usNIC device.
This commit was SVN r28879.
