This creates a really bad scaling behavior. Users have found a nearly 20% launch time differential between mpirun and PMI, with PMI being the slower method. Some of the problem is attributable to poor exchange algorithms in RM's like Slurm and Alps, but we make things worse by calling "get" so many times.
Nathan (with a tad advice from me) has attempted to alleviate this problem by reducing the number of "get" calls. This required the following changes:
* upon first request for data, have the OPAL db pmi component fetch and decode *all* the info from a given remote proc. It turned out we weren't caching the info, so we would continually request it and only decode the piece we needed for the immediate request. We now decode all the info and push it into the db hash component for local storage - and then all subsequent retrievals are fulfilled locally
* reduced the amount of data by eliminating the exchange of the OMPI_ARCH value if heterogeneity is not enabled. This was used solely as a check so we would error out if the system wasn't actually homogeneous, which was fine when we thought there was no cost in doing the check. Unfortunately, at large scale and with direct launch, there is a non-zero cost of making this test. We are open to finding a compromise (perhaps turning the test off if requested?), if people feel strongly about performing the test
* reduced the amount of RTE data being automatically fetched, and fetched the rest only upon request. In particular, we no longer immediately fetch the hostname (which is only used for error reporting), but instead get it when needed. Likewise for the RML uri as that info is only required for some (not all) environments. In addition, we no longer fetch the locality unless required, relying instead on the PMI clique info to tell us who is on our local node (if additional info is required, the fetch is performed when a modex_recv is issued).
Again, all this only impacts direct launch - all the info is provided when launched via mpirun as there is no added cost to getting it
Barring objections, we may move this (plus any required other pieces) to the 1.7 branch once it soaks for an appropriate time.
This commit was SVN r29040.
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.
Notes:
- This commit also eliminates the need for an available components list in use
in several frameworks. None of the code in question was making use of the
priority field of the priority component list item so these extra lists were
removed.
- Cleaned up selection code in several frameworks to sort lists using opal_list_sort.
- Cleans up the ompi/orte-info functions. Expose the functions that construct the
list of params so they can be used elsewhere.
patches for mtl/portals4 from brian
missed a few output variables in openib
This commit was SVN r28241.
Features:
- Support for an override parameter file (openmpi-mca-param-override.conf).
Variable values in this file can not be overridden by any file or environment
value.
- Support for boolean, unsigned, and unsigned long long variables.
- Support for true/false values.
- Support for enumerations on integer variables.
- Support for MPIT scope, verbosity, and binding.
- Support for command line source.
- Support for setting variable source via the environment using
OMPI_MCA_SOURCE_<var name>=source (either command or file:filename)
- Cleaner API.
- Support for variable groups (equivalent to MPIT categories).
Notes:
- Variables must be created with a backing store (char **, int *, or bool *)
that must live at least as long as the variable.
- Creating a variable with the MCA_BASE_VAR_FLAG_SETTABLE enables the use of
mca_base_var_set_value() to change the value.
- String values are duplicated when the variable is registered. It is up to
the caller to free the original value if necessary. The new value will be
freed by the mca_base_var system and must not be freed by the user.
- Variables with constant scope may not be settable.
- Variable groups (and all associated variables) are deregistered when the
component is closed or the component repository item is freed. This
prevents a segmentation fault from accessing a variable after its component
is unloaded.
- After some discussion we decided we should remove the automatic registration
of component priority variables. Few component actually made use of this
feature.
- The enumerator interface was updated to be general enough to handle
future uses of the interface.
- The code to generate ompi_info output has been moved into the MCA variable
system. See mca_base_var_dump().
opal: update core and components to mca_base_var system
orte: update core and components to mca_base_var system
ompi: update core and components to mca_base_var system
This commit also modifies the rmaps framework. The following variables were
moved from ppr and lama: rmaps_base_pernode, rmaps_base_n_pernode,
rmaps_base_n_persocket. Both lama and ppr create synonyms for these variables.
This commit was SVN r28236.
ompi_show_help, because opal_show_help is replaced with an
aggregating version when using ORTE, so there's no reason to
directly call orte_show_help.
This commit was SVN r28051.
r27987 - MTL MXM: ver. 2.0 interface changes.
This commit was SVN r28026.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27987 --> open-mpi/ompi@2735658d81
flags, and mca flags are kept seperate until the very end. The main configure
wrapper flags should now be modified by using the OPAL_WRAPPER_FLAGS_ADD
macro. MCA components should either let <framework>_<component>_{LIBS,LDFLAGS}
be copied over OR set <framework>_<component>_WRAPPER_EXTRA_{LIBS,LDFLAGS}.
The situations in which WRAPPER CPPFLAGS can be set by MCA components was
made very small to match the one use case where it makes sense.
This commit was SVN r27950.
Reasoning: The old behavior was a little confusing. mca_base_components_open does not open an output stream so it is a little unexpected that mca_base_components_close does. To add to this several frameworks (that don't use mca_base_components_close) failed to close their output in the framework close function and others closed their output a second time. This change is an improvement to the symantics of mca_base_components_open/close as they are now symetric in their functionality.
This commit was SVN r27570.
- fix the Fortran layer to use new macros to convert Fortran-to-C status
- change the C internals to pull out old OMPI_SET_STATUS* macros
Also, change name of "status" argument in topo_test_f.c to "topo_type".
This commit was SVN r27403.
where the MX BTL and MTL are stepping on each other regarding the
mpool. Thanks to Yong Qin for assistance in tracking this down.
This commit was SVN r26698.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 3130 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3130
Update all the orte ess components to remove their associated APIs for retrieving proc data. Update the grpcomm API to reflect transfer of set/get modex info to the db framework.
Note that this doesn't recreate the old GPR. This is strictly a local db storage that may (at some point) obtain any missing data from the local daemon as part of an async methodology. The framework allows us to experiment with such methods without perturbing the default one.
This commit was SVN r26678.
* Properly set message to MPI_MESSAGE_NULL in the right places
* Fix double free of buffer for non-contiguous blocking sends
* Remove useless debugging output
This commit was SVN r26604.
* Need to look at slot count before flowcontrol for sending to prevent
race in restart
* Need to free pending request fragments when done with the request
* A number of branch prediction optimizations for error conditions
This commit was SVN r26430.
event on the ME. The events we're likely to see are LINK (the ME was
added to the match list), PUT (weird to see first, but means that the ME
was linked to the match list and then matched), or PUT_OVERFLOW, meaning
the message was unexpected.
This commit was SVN r26199.
together, so implement all functions in the MTL interface for all
MTLs. The only places NULL was still being set was for add_comm/del_comm,
and matched probe, both of which are straight forward to implement (or
return ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, since the PML can't emulate matched probe).
This commit was SVN r26194.
the ompi_message_t structure to properly initialize convertor (the peer
is available in the request in OB1, and wasn't needed when I did the
original implementation).
* Implement matched probe for the Portals4 MTL and add NULL function pointers
for the other MTLs.
* Add add_comm and del_comm functions to portals4 MTL so that direct call
almost works again.
* Add NEWS item that we've implemented matched probe
This commit was SVN r26180.
* split eq into send and receive eqs so that we can control the number
of outstanding events in send eq and ensure we never lose an ack
* Shouldn't ever truncate on short unexpected receive bocks, so don't set
the truncate bit
* Track active vs. waiting for free short unexpected receive blocks so
to ensure an active short unexpected receive block is posted coming out
of flow control. Also allow creation of "temporary" blocks which should
be released once FREE event is received.
* Slight reorganization of some code in preparation for more flow control
work.
This commit was SVN r26174.
* Only print returnable errors when verbose=1. Still print errors when
we're going to abort, since those obviously aren't returnable
This commit was SVN r25213.
* hdr_data now includes opcount and length for all messages, which is the match
bits for long and rndv messages
* Re-add probe implementation
This commit was SVN r25207.
they only add the context id to the tag selection of the underlying
messaging meachinsm.
We would like to enable an MTL to maintain its own context data
per-communicator. This way an MTL will be able to queue incoming eager
messages and rendezvous requests per-communicator basis.
The MTL will be allowed to override comm->c_pml_comm member,
since it's unused in pml_cm anyway.
This commit was SVN r24858.
Rather than try to support a bunch of lightweight environments like I did
with the Portals3 code, always use the "modex" and hack the grpcomm for
the SHMEM implementation to return the right nid/pid for a remote
process by "magic".
This commit was SVN r24733.
* mtl_mx_board: allow selection of specific MX NIC/board to use. <0
means "use any board".
* mtl_mx_endpoint: allow selection of specific MX endpoint to use.
<0 means "use any endpoint".
This commit was SVN r23996.
This is a fairly intrusive change, but outside of the moving of opal/event to opal/mca/event, the only changes involved (a) changing all calls to opal_event functions to reflect the new framework instead, and (b) ensuring that all opal_event_t objects are properly constructed since they are now true opal_objects.
Note: Shiqing has just returned from vacation and has not yet had a chance to complete the Windows integration. Thus, this commit almost certainly breaks Windows support on the trunk. However, I want this to have a chance to soak for as long as possible before I become less available a week from today (going to be at a class for 5 days, and thus will only be sparingly available) so we can find and fix any problems.
Biggest change is moving the libevent code from opal/event to a new opal/mca/event framework. This was done to make it much easier to update libevent in the future. New versions can be inserted as a new component and tested in parallel with the current version until validated, then we can remove the earlier version if we so choose. This is a statically built framework ala installdirs, so only one component will build at a time. There is no selection logic - the sole compiled component simply loads its function pointers into the opal_event struct.
I have gone thru the code base and converted all the libevent calls I could find. However, I cannot compile nor test every environment. It is therefore quite likely that errors remain in the system. Please keep an eye open for two things:
1. compile-time errors: these will be obvious as calls to the old functions (e.g., opal_evtimer_new) must be replaced by the new framework APIs (e.g., opal_event.evtimer_new)
2. run-time errors: these will likely show up as segfaults due to missing constructors on opal_event_t objects. It appears that it became a typical practice for people to "init" an opal_event_t by simply using memset to zero it out. This will no longer work - you must either OBJ_NEW or OBJ_CONSTRUCT an opal_event_t. I tried to catch these cases, but may have missed some. Believe me, you'll know when you hit it.
There is also the issue of the new libevent "no recursion" behavior. As I described on a recent email, we will have to discuss this and figure out what, if anything, we need to do.
This commit was SVN r23925.
This merges the branch containing the revamped build system based around converting autogen from a bash script to a Perl program. Jeff has provided emails explaining the features contained in the change.
Please note that configure requirements on components HAVE CHANGED. For example. a configure.params file is no longer required in each component directory. See Jeff's emails for an explanation.
This commit was SVN r23764.
status structure or the _ucount field in the status structure.
On 64-bit sparc, the macros resolve into integer array assignments.
For all others, they are just simple assignments. This fixes
possible BUS errors seen when running on the SPARC processor.
This bug was introduced when the _count field changed from an int
into a size_t. See the changes to request.h for additional details.
This commit fixes trac:2514.
This commit was SVN r23554.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2514 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2514
step is the configure and Fortran mojo that Jeff will put in. Until then I
guess the Fortran interface is broken (at least all functions using the hidden
count firld in the MPI_Status).
This commit was SVN r23467.
#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE to 128. This name has a conflict on NetBSD,
and it seems kinda odd to have a header file that ''only'' defines a
single value. Also, we'll soon be raising hwloc to be a first-class
item, so having this file around seemed kinda weird.
Therefore, I replaced CACHE_LINE_SIZE with opal_cache_line_size, an
int (in opal/runtime/opal_init.c and opal/runtime/opal.h) on the
rationale that we can fill this in at runtime with hwloc info (trunk
and v1.5/beyond, only). The only place we ''needed'' a compile-time
CACHE_LINE_SIZE was in the BTL SM (for struct padding), so I made a
new BTL_SM_ preprocessor macro with the old CACHE_LINE_SIZE value
(128). That use isn't suitable for run-time hwloc information,
anyway.
This commit was SVN r23349.
#if defined (c_plusplus)
defined (__cplusplus)
followed by
extern "C" {
and the closing counterpart by BEGIN_C_DECLS and END_C_DECLS.
Notable exceptions are:
- opal/include/opal_config_bottom.h:
This is our generated code, that itself defines BEGIN_C_DECL and
END_C_DECL
- ompi/mpi/cxx/mpicxx.h:
Here we do not include opal_config_bottom.h:
- Belongs to external code:
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.c
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.h
- opal/include/opal/prefetch.h:
Has C++ specific macros that are protected:
- Had #if ... } #endif _and_ END_C_DECLS (aka end up with 2x
END_C_DECLS)
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib.h
- opal/event/event.h has #ifdef __cplusplus as BEGIN_C_DECLS...
- opal/win32/ompi_process.h: had extern "C"\n {...
opal/win32/ompi_process.h: dito
- ompi/mca/btl/pcie/btl_pcie_lex.l: needed to add *_C_DECLS
ompi/mpi/f90/test/align_c.c: dito
- ompi/debuggers/msgq_interface.h: used #ifdef __cplusplus
- ompi/mpi/f90/xml/common-C.xsl: Amend
Tested on linux using --with-openib and --with-mx
The following do not contain either opal_config.h, orte_config.h or
ompi_config.h
(but possibly other header files, that include one of the above):
ompi/mca/bml/r2/bml_r2_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/mx/btl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_eager_rdma.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_proc.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm.h
ompi/mca/pml/cm/pml_cm_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/csum/pml_csum_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/example/pml_example.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_rdmafrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/v/pml_v_output.h
opal/include/opal/prefetch.h
opal/mca/timer/aix/timer_aix.h
opal/util/qsort.h
test/support/components.h
This commit was SVN r21855.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
(aka w/o --mca pml cm), make sure PtlEQGet will actually work
on ompi_mtl_portals.ptl_eq_h -- do so without adding code to
ompi_mtl_portals_progress.
Otherwise we abort() with
[nid09979:32503] ompi_mtl_portals_finalize: Going to call ompi_mtl_portals_progress
[nid09979:32503] Error returned from PtlEQGet. Error code - 14
[nid09979:32502] Signal: Aborted (6)
[nid09979:32502] Signal code: (-6)
This commit was SVN r21761.
OMPI
and a language agnostic part in OPAL. The convertor is completely
moved into OPAL. This offers several benefits as described in RFC
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2009/07/6387.php
namely:
- Fewer basic types (int* and float* types, boolean and wchar
- Fixing naming scheme to ompi-nomenclature.
- Usability outside of the ompi-layer.
- Due to the fixed nature of simple opal types, their information is
completely
known at compile time and therefore constified
- With fewer datatypes (22), the actual sizes of bit-field types may be
reduced
from 64 to 32 bits, allowing reorganizing the opal_datatype
structure, eliminating holes and keeping data required in convertor
(upon send/recv) in one cacheline...
This has implications to the convertor-datastructure and other parts
of the code.
- Several performance tests have been run, the netpipe latency does not
change with
this patch on Linux/x86-64 on the smoky cluster.
- Extensive tests have been done to verify correctness (no new
regressions) using:
1. mpi_test_suite on linux/x86-64 using clean ompi-trunk and
ompi-ddt:
a. running both trunk and ompi-ddt resulted in no differences
(except for MPI_SHORT_INT and MPI_TYPE_MIX_LB_UB do now run
correctly).
b. with --enable-memchecker and running under valgrind (one buglet
when run with static found in test-suite, commited)
2. ibm testsuite on linux/x86-64 using clean ompi-trunk and ompi-ddt:
all passed (except for the dynamic/ tests failed!! as trunk/MTT)
3. compilation and usage of HDF5 tests on Jaguar using PGI and
PathScale compilers.
4. compilation and usage on Scicortex.
- Please note, that for the heterogeneous case, (-m32 compiled
binaries/ompi), neither
ompi-trunk, nor ompi-ddt branch would successfully launch.
This commit was SVN r21641.
OMPI_* to OPAL_*. This allows opal layer to be used more independent
from the whole of ompi.
NOTE: 9 "svn mv" operations immediately follow this commit.
This commit was SVN r21180.
Nothing notable, except mtl_base_datatype.h -- Undo change from r21096:
Yes, we should not include datatype_internal.h, but we did and we have to:
we derefence desc, and get an incomplete type, otherwise.
This commit was SVN r21103.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r21096 --> open-mpi/ompi@221fb9dbca
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
Anyway, this is blocking the move: do not include pml.h
if not really needed, aka none of the following used:
mca_pml
MCA_PML_CALL
OMPI_ANY_TAG
OMPI_ANY_SOURCE
OMPI_PROC_NULL
- Notable exceptions (deleting in one header->adding):
- ompi/mca/mtl/psm/
- ompi/mca/osc/rdma/
- ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib_endpoint.c depended on
pml_base_sendreq.h
- Tested on Linux/x86-64, this time including make check
(thanks Jeff and Ralph)
This commit was SVN r20725.
get bitten by header depending on having already included
the corresponding [opal|orte|ompi]_config.h header.
When separating, things like [OPAL|ORTE|OMPI]_DECLSPEC
are missed.
Script to add the corresponding header in front of all following
(taking care of possible #ifdef HAVE_...)
- Including some minor cleanups to
- ompi/group/group.h -- include _after_ #ifndef OMPI_GROUP_H
- ompi/mca/btl/btl.h -- nclude _after_ #ifndef MCA_BTL_H
- ompi/mca/crcp/bkmrk/crcp_bkmrk_btl.c -- still no need for
orte/util/output.h
- ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvreq.c -- no need for mpool.h
- ompi/mca/btl/btl.h -- reorder to fit
- ompi/mca/bml/bml.h -- reorder to fit
- ompi/runtime/ompi_mpi_finalize.c -- reorder to fit
- ompi/request/request.h -- additionally need ompi/constants.h
- Tested on linux/x86-64
This commit was SVN r20720.
anyhow -- if oob functionality is neededm then orte/mca/oob/oob.h
Nevertheless compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration
This commit was SVN r20641.
Often, orte/util/show_help.h is included, although no functionality
is required -- instead, most often opal_output.h, or
orte/mca/rml/rml_types.h
Please see orte_show_help_replacement.sh commited next.
- Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
actually showed two *missing* #include "orte/util/show_help.h"
in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c and
in orte/tools/orte-top/orte-top.c
Manually added these.
Let's have MTT the last word.
This commit was SVN r20557.
guarantee local progress, my opinion is we don't need to do anything
special for complete sends. Perhaps I'm wrong on that one, in which
case this implementation of send_complete is not quite right.
* Give a slightly better error message when a catchall is hit, so that
we can at least know *which* catchall is hit.
This commit was SVN r19456.
* add "register" function to mca_base_component_t
* converted coll:basic and paffinity:linux and paffinity:solaris to
use this function
* we'll convert the rest over time (I'll file a ticket once all
this is committed)
* add 32 bytes of "reserved" space to the end of mca_base_component_t
and mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t to make future upgrades
[slightly] easier
* new mca_base_component_t size: 196 bytes
* new mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t size: 36 bytes
* MCA base version bumped to v2.0
* '''We now refuse to load components that are not MCA v2.0.x'''
* all MCA frameworks versions bumped to v2.0
* be a little more explicit about version numbers in the MCA base
* add big comment in mca.h about versioning philosophy
This commit was SVN r19073.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1392 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1392
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.
1. The send path get shorter. The BTL is allowed to return > 0 to specify that the
descriptor was pushed to the networks, and that the memory attached to it is
available again for the upper layer. The MCA_BTL_DES_SEND_ALWAYS_CALLBACK flag
can be used by the PML to force the BTL to always trigger the callback.
Unmodified BTL will continue to work as expected, as they will return OMPI_SUCCESS
which force the PML to have exactly the same behavior as before. Some BTLs have
been modified: self, sm, tcp, mx.
2. Add send immediate interface to BTL.
The idea is to have a mechanism of allowing the BTL to take advantage of
send optimizations such as the ability to deliver data "inline". Some
network APIs such as Portals allow data to be sent using a "thin" event
without packing data into a memory descriptor. This interface change
allows the BTL to use such capabilities and allows for other optimizations
in the future. All existing BTLs except for Portals and sm have this interface
set to NULL.
This commit was SVN r18551.
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.
about linkers, have all OPAL, ORTE, and OMPI components '''not'' link
against the OPAL, ORTE, or OMPI libraries.
See ttp://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/10/4220.php for
details (or https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Linkers for a
better-formatted version of the same info).
This commit was SVN r16968.
ompi_mtl_portals_finalize(). Previous code was cleaning up Portals resources
that hadn't been allocated, which caused valid handles used elsewhere to be
freed, which broke cnos_barrier() for the Portals btl.
This commit was SVN r16801.
than just the PML/BTLs these days. Also clean up the code so that it
handles the situation where not all nodes register information for a given
node (rather than just spinning until that node sends information, like
we do today).
Includes r15234 and r15265 from the /tmp/bwb-modex branch.
This commit was SVN r15310.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r15234
r15265
