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Ralph Castain
869041f770 Purge whitespace from the repo 2015-06-23 20:59:57 -07:00
Adrian Reber
f45dd069bd FT: fix compilation using --with-ft (1/5)
Enabling the FT code breaks compilation (again). This series
tries to fix the compiler errors. This is again only fixing
the compiler errors without any warranty that the result
might actually support FT again.

This first patch moves orte_cr_continue_like_restart from ORTE
to opal_cr_continue_like_restart in OPAL. This only leaves three
calls from OPAL to ORTE in the FT code. As it is not yet 100%
clear how to handle these calls the code orte_sstore.set_attr()
has been #ifdef'd out for now.
2015-03-11 14:23:33 +01:00
Nathan Hjelm
cf377db823 MCA/base: Add new MCA variable system
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.
2013-03-27 21:09:41 +00:00
Ralph Castain
fceabb2498 Update libevent to the 2.0 series, currently at 2.0.7rc. We will update to their final release when it becomes available. Currently known errors exist in unused portions of the libevent code. This revision passes the IBM test suite on a Linux machine and on a standalone Mac.
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.
2010-10-24 18:35:54 +00:00
Josh Hursey
77792c937d When we checkpoint with the --stop option, be sure to write out all the metadata before clearing the storage handle.
Here we tried to write out the session directory marker after we sync the directory, which happens early in the case of --stop.

Thanks to Ananda Mudar for noticing the bug.

This commit was SVN r23627.
2010-08-18 20:44:03 +00:00
Josh Hursey
e12ca48cd9 A number of C/R enhancements per RFC below:
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/07/8240.php

Documentation:
  http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/

Major Changes: 
-------------- 
 * Added C/R-enabled Debugging support. 
   Enabled with the --enable-crdebug flag. See the following website for more information: 
   http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/crdebug/ 
 * Added Stable Storage (SStore) framework for checkpoint storage 
   * 'central' component does a direct to central storage save 
   * 'stage' component stages checkpoints to central storage while the application continues execution. 
     * 'stage' supports offline compression of checkpoints before moving (sstore_stage_compress) 
     * 'stage' supports local caching of checkpoints to improve automatic recovery (sstore_stage_caching) 
 * Added Compression (compress) framework to support 
 * Add two new ErrMgr recovery policies 
   * {{{crmig}}} C/R Process Migration 
   * {{{autor}}} C/R Automatic Recovery 
 * Added the {{{ompi-migrate}}} command line tool to support the {{{crmig}}} ErrMgr component 
 * Added CR MPI Ext functions (enable them with {{{--enable-mpi-ext=cr}}} configure option) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Checkpoint}}} (Fixes trac:2342) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Restart}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Migrate}}} (may need some more work for mapping rules) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_INC_register_callback}}} (Fixes trac:2192) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_start}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_checkpoint}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_end}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_checkpoint_callback}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_restart_callback}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_continue_callback}}} 
 * The ErrMgr predicted_fault() interface has been changed to take an opal_list_t of ErrMgr defined types. This will allow us to better support a wider range of fault prediction services in the future. 
 * Add a progress meter to: 
   * FileM rsh (filem_rsh_process_meter) 
   * SnapC full (snapc_full_progress_meter) 
   * SStore stage (sstore_stage_progress_meter) 
 * Added 2 new command line options to ompi-restart 
   * --showme : Display the full command line that would have been exec'ed. 
   * --mpirun_opts : Command line options to pass directly to mpirun. (Fixes trac:2413) 
 * Deprecated some MCA params: 
   * crs_base_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_stage_local_snapshot_dir 
   * snapc_base_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_dir 
   * snapc_base_global_shared deprecated, use sstore_stage_global_is_shared 
   * snapc_base_store_in_place deprecated, replaced with different components of SStore 
   * snapc_base_global_snapshot_ref deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_ref 
   * snapc_base_establish_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, never well supported 
   * snapc_full_skip_filem deprecated, use sstore_stage_skip_filem 

Minor Changes: 
-------------- 
 * Fixes trac:1924 : {{{ompi-restart}}} now recognizes path prefixed checkpoint handles and does the right thing. 
 * Fixes trac:2097 : {{{ompi-info}}} should now report all available CRS components 
 * Fixes trac:2161 : Manual checkpoint movement. A user can 'mv' a checkpoint directory from the original location to another and still restart from it. 
 * Fixes trac:2208 : Honor various TMPDIR varaibles instead of forcing {{{/tmp}}} 
 * Move {{{ompi_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to {{{orte_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to be more flexible in where this should be set. 
 * opal_crs_base_metadata_write* functions have been moved to SStore to support a wider range of metadata handling functionality. 
 * Cleanup the CRS framework and components to work with the SStore framework. 
 * Cleanup the SnapC framework and components to work with the SStore framework (cleans up these code paths considerably). 
 * Add 'quiesce' hook to CRCP for a future enhancement. 
 * We now require a BLCR version that supports {{{cr_request_file()}}} or {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}} in order to make the code more maintainable. Note that {{{cr_request_file}}} has been deprecated since 0.7.0, so we prefer to use {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}}. 
 * Add optional application level INC callbacks (registered through the CR MPI Ext interface). 
 * Increase the {{{opal_cr_thread_sleep_wait}}} parameter to 1000 microseconds to make the C/R thread less aggressive. 
 * {{{opal-restart}}} now looks for cache directories before falling back on stable storage when asked. 
 * {{{opal-restart}}} also support local decompression before restarting 
 * {{{orte-checkpoint}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata 
 * {{{orte-restart}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata 
 * Remove the {{{orte-restart}}} preload option. This was removed since the user only needs to select the 'stage' component in order to support this functionality. 
 * Since the '-am' parameter is saved in the metadata, {{{ompi-restart}}} no longer hard codes {{{-am ft-enable-cr}}}. 
 * Fix {{{hnp}}} ErrMgr so that if a previous component in the stack has 'fixed' the problem, then it should be skipped. 
 * Make sure to decrement the number of 'num_local_procs' in the orted when one goes away. 
 * odls now checks the SStore framework to see if it needs to load any checkpoint files before launching (to support 'stage'). This separates the SStore logic from the --preload-[binary|files] options. 
 * Add unique IDs to the named pipes established between the orted and the app in SnapC. This is to better support migration and automatic recovery activities. 
 * Improve the checks for 'already checkpointing' error path. 
 * A a recovery output timer, to show how long it takes to restart a job 
 * Do a better job of cleaning up the old session directory on restart. 
 * Add a local module to the autor and crmig ErrMgr components. These small modules prevent the 'orted' component from attempting a local recovery (Which does not work for MPI apps at the moment) 
 * Add a fix for bounding the checkpointable region between MPI_Init and MPI_Finalize. 

This commit was SVN r23587.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1924 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1924
  Ticket 2097 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2097
  Ticket 2161 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2161
  Ticket 2192 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2192
  Ticket 2208 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2208
  Ticket 2342 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2342
  Ticket 2413 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2413
2010-08-10 20:51:11 +00:00
Josh Hursey
76ecb7d2fe Make sure to initialize orte_process_info.proc_type properly on restart. Otherwise the application will have type 'NONE' instead of 'APP'.
This commit was SVN r21217.
2009-05-12 14:14:05 +00:00
Rainer Keller
221fb9dbca ... Delayed due to notifier commits earlier this day ...
- 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.
2009-04-29 01:32:14 +00:00
Rainer Keller
ec0ed48718 - Revert r20739
This commit was SVN r20742.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r20739 --> open-mpi/ompi@781caee0b6
2009-03-05 21:56:03 +00:00
Rainer Keller
781caee0b6 - First of two or three patches, in orte/util/proc_info.h:
Adapt orte_process_info to orte_proc_info, and
   change orte_proc_info() to orte_proc_info_init().
 - Compiled on linux-x86-64
 - Discussed with Ralph

This commit was SVN r20739.
2009-03-05 20:36:44 +00:00
Rainer Keller
04567d3af0 - Header orte/mca/errmgr/errmgr.h is not needed.
Once again compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration   

This commit was SVN r20640.
2009-02-26 04:05:30 +00:00
Rainer Keller
96e1b9b747 - Header orte/mca/rml/rml.h is not needed if no occurence of orte_rml
or ORTE_RML.
   As the others compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration

This commit was SVN r20639.
2009-02-26 03:52:31 +00:00
Rainer Keller
d81443cc5a - On the way to get the BTLs split out and lessen dependency on orte:
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.
2009-02-14 02:26:12 +00:00
Ralph Castain
9613b3176c Effectively revert the orte_output system and return to direct use of opal_output at all levels. Retain the orte_show_help subsystem to allow aggregation of show_help messages at the HNP.
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.
2008-06-09 14:53:58 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c992e99035 Remove the tags from orte_output_open and the filtering operation from orte_output - this will be handled differently to improve the XML output interface
This commit was SVN r18557.
2008-06-03 14:24:01 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
e7ecd56bd2 This commit represents a bunch of work on a Mercurial side branch. As
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.
2008-05-13 20:00:55 +00:00
Josh Hursey
cc83d41ad9 Merge in tmp/jjh-scratch
{{{
 svn merge -r 18218:18240 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/tmp/jjh-scratch .
}}}

Contains:
 * Primarily a fix for a user reported problem where a cached file descriptor is causing a SIGPIPE on restart.
 * Cleanup some small memory leaks from using mca_base_param_env_var() - Thanks Jeff
 * Cleanup ORTE FT tool compilation in non-FT builds - Thanks Tim P.
 * Cleanup mpi interface with missplaced {{{OPAL_CR_ENTER_LIBRARY}}} - Thanks Terry
 * Some other sundry cleanup items all dealing with C/R functionality in the trunk.

This commit was SVN r18241.
2008-04-23 00:17:12 +00:00
Josh Hursey
55044c3c4f A fix from resulting from r17944. Need to make sure we go through
orte_proc_info_finalize properly so the 'init' flag is set on restart.

This is a bit cleaner anyway, esp since the GPR is gone.

This commit was SVN r17978.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r17944 --> open-mpi/ompi@ec76fe4fe4
2008-03-26 14:13:33 +00:00
Ralph Castain
dc7f45dafd Remove the obsolete and largely unused orte_system_info structure. The only fields that were used in that struct were nodeid and nodename - these have been transferred to the orte_process_info structure.
Only one place used the user name field - session_dir, when formulating the name of the top-level directory. Accordingly, the code for getting the user's id has been moved to the session_dir code.

This commit was SVN r17926.
2008-03-23 23:10:15 +00:00
Josh Hursey
3b4073e32c This commit fixes the checkpoint/restart functionality on the trunk. Included in this commit are:
* Extension to the ESS framework to support C/R
 * Fixed support for {{{snapc_base_establish_global_snapshot_dir}}}
 * Fixed FileM support
 * Misc. minor code modifications

There are some outstanding visability issues that I want to fix next.

This commit was SVN r17725.
2008-03-05 04:57:23 +00:00
Ralph Castain
d70e2e8c2b Merge the ORTE devel branch into the main trunk. Details of what this means will be circulated separately.
Remains to be tested to ensure everything came over cleanly, so please continue to withhold commits a little longer

This commit was SVN r17632.
2008-02-28 01:57:57 +00:00
Josh Hursey
7437f37e96 This commit contains the following:
* Fix some missing includes in a few places.
 * Add the cr_request() functionality to the BLCR CRS component.
   We are now dependent upon the 0.6.* series of BLCR.
 * Made the CR notification mechanism a registered function.
   This way we can have an OPAL-only version and it can be replaced at
   runtime with the ORTE version.
 * Add a 'opal_cr_allow_opal_only' parameter that will enable OPAL-only
   CR functionality when the user wants it. Default: Disabled.
 * Fix the placement of a checkpoint request check in MPI_Init
 * Pull the OPAL notification mechanism into the SnapC framework.
   * We no longer fork/exec the 'opal-checkpoint' command for local
   checkpointing, the Local coordinator in the orted does this directly.
   * The Local and Application coordinator talk together bypassing the OPAL
   notifiation mechanism.
   * Optimized the Local <-> App Coordinator communication.
   * Improved the structure used to track vpid_snapshots in the local coord.
 * Fix a race condition in which an application under heavy communication load
   may produce an inconsistent global checkpoint.

This commit was SVN r16389.
2007-10-08 20:53:02 +00:00
Ralph Castain
54b2cf747e These changes were mostly captured in a prior RFC (except for #2 below) and are aimed specifically at improving startup performance and setting up the remaining modifications described in that RFC.
The commit has been tested for C/R and Cray operations, and on Odin (SLURM, rsh) and RoadRunner (TM). I tried to update all environments, but obviously could not test them. I know that Windows needs some work, and have highlighted what is know to be needed in the odls process component.

This represents a lot of work by Brian, Tim P, Josh, and myself, with much advice from Jeff and others. For posterity, I have appended a copy of the email describing the work that was done:

As we have repeatedly noted, the modex operation in MPI_Init is the single greatest consumer of time during startup. To-date, we have executed that operation as an ORTE stage gate that held the process until a startup message containing all required modex (and OOB contact info - see #3 below) info could be sent to it. Each process would send its data to the HNP's registry, which assembled and sent the message when all processes had reported in.

In addition, ORTE had taken responsibility for monitoring process status as it progressed through a series of "stage gates". The process reported its status at each gate, and ORTE would then send a "release" message once all procs had reported in.

The incoming changes revamp these procedures in three ways:

1. eliminating the ORTE stage gate system and cleanly delineating responsibility between the OMPI and ORTE layers for MPI init/finalize. The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info. The allgather is implemented using the orte_grpcomm framework since the BTL's are not active at that point. At the moment, the grpcomm framework only has a "basic" component analogous to OMPI's "basic" coll framework - I would recommend that the MPI team create additional, more advanced components to improve performance of this step.

The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions. We tried to use MPI barriers instead (since the BTL's are active at that point), but - as we discussed on the telecon - these are not currently true barriers so the job would hang when we fell through while messages were still in process. Note that the grpcomm barrier doesn't actually resolve that problem, but Brian has pointed out that we are unlikely to ever see it violated. Again, you might want to spend a little time on an advanced barrier algorithm as the one in "basic" is very simplistic.

Summarizing this change: ORTE no longer tracks process state nor has direct responsibility for synchronizing jobs. This is now done via collective operations within the MPI layer, albeit using ORTE collective communication services. I -strongly- urge the MPI team to implement advanced collective algorithms to improve the performance of this critical procedure.


2. reducing the volume of data exchanged during modex. Data in the modex consisted of the process name, the name of the node where that process is located (expressed as a string), plus a string representation of all contact info. The nodename was required in order for the modex to determine if the process was local or not - in addition, some people like to have it to print pretty error messages when a connection failed.

The size of this data has been reduced in three ways:

(a) reducing the size of the process name itself. The process name consisted of two 32-bit fields for the jobid and vpid. This is far larger than any current system, or system likely to exist in the near future, can support. Accordingly, the default size of these fields has been reduced to 16-bits, which means you can have 32k procs in each of 32k jobs. Since the daemons must have a vpid, and we require one daemon/node, this also restricts the default configuration to 32k nodes.

To support any future "mega-clusters", a configuration option --enable-jumbo-apps has been added. This option increases the jobid and vpid field sizes to 32-bits. Someday, if necessary, someone can add yet another option to increase them to 64-bits, I suppose.

(b) replacing the string nodename with an integer nodeid. Since we have one daemon/node, the nodeid corresponds to the local daemon's vpid. This replaces an often lengthy string with only 2 (or at most 4) bytes, a substantial reduction.

(c) when the mca param requesting that nodenames be sent to support pretty error messages, a second mca param is now used to request FQDN - otherwise, the domain name is stripped (by default) from the message to save space. If someone wants to combine those into a single param somehow (perhaps with an argument?), they are welcome to do so - I didn't want to alter what people are already using.

While these may seem like small savings, they actually amount to a significant impact when aggregated across the entire modex operation. Since every proc must receive the modex data regardless of the collective used to send it, just reducing the size of the process name removes nearly 400MBytes of communication from a 32k proc job (admittedly, much of this comm may occur in parallel). So it does add up pretty quickly.


3. routing RML messages to reduce connections. The default messaging system remains point-to-point - i.e., each proc opens a socket to every proc it communicates with and sends its messages directly. A new option uses the orteds as routers - i.e., each proc only opens a single socket to its local orted. All messages are sent from the proc to the orted, which forwards the message to the orted on the node where the intended recipient proc is located - that orted then forwards the message to its local proc (the recipient). This greatly reduces the connection storm we have encountered during startup.

It also has the benefit of removing the sharing of every proc's OOB contact with every other proc. The orted routing tables are populated during launch since every orted gets a map of where every proc is being placed. Each proc, therefore, only needs to know the contact info for its local daemon, which is passed in via the environment when the proc is fork/exec'd by the daemon. This alone removes ~50 bytes/process of communication that was in the current STG1 startup message - so for our 32k proc job, this saves us roughly 32k*50 = 1.6MBytes sent to 32k procs = 51GBytes of messaging.

Note that you can use the new routing method by specifying -mca routed tree - if you so desire. This mode will become the default at some point in the future.


There are a few minor additional changes in the commit that I'll just note in passing:

* propagation of command line mca params to the orteds - fixes ticket #1073. See note there for details.

* requiring of "finalize" prior to "exit" for MPI procs - fixes ticket #1144. See note there for details.

* cleanup of some stale header files

This commit was SVN r16364.
2007-10-05 19:48:23 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
8f10c285ef Fix Coverity CID 466: remove unused variable / dead code.
This commit was SVN r15998.
2007-08-29 01:25:03 +00:00
Brian Barrett
39a6057fc6 A number of improvements / changes to the RML/OOB layers:
* General TCP cleanup for OPAL / ORTE
  * Simplifying the OOB by moving much of the logic into the RML
  * Allowing the OOB RML component to do routing of messages
  * Adding a component framework for handling routing tables
  * Moving the xcast functionality from the OOB base to its own framework

Includes merge from tmp/bwb-oob-rml-merge revisions:

    r15506, r15507, r15508, r15510, r15511, r15512, r15513

This commit was SVN r15528.

The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
  r15506
  r15507
  r15508
  r15510
  r15511
  r15512
  r15513
2007-07-20 01:34:02 +00:00
Brian Barrett
508da4e959 OS X apparently really doesn't like shared libraries with unresolvable
symbols in them and environ is defined only in the final application
(probably in crt1.o).  Apple provides a function for getting at the
environment, so use that instead if it's available.

This commit was SVN r14857.
2007-06-05 03:03:59 +00:00
Josh Hursey
596062d34b Seems that the recent changes in the sds and oob exposed some invalid
assumptions in the FT restart code for the ORTE layer.

This fixes those problems by having the RML completely shutdown and 
restart the OOB framework (instead of just the module as before).
This makes it much easier to manage, and maintainable as the OOB
changes in the future.

The SDS now does communication as part of its startup procedure, so
we need to make sure we restart the RML before the SDS so that it can
communicate properly.

OOB base [close|open] used a static bool to determine if they have
been called previously or not. I needed to expose this boolean so 
that I can close() then open() the oob base in the restart procedure.
The functionality has not changed, we just now have the ability to 
open/close the framework as many times as we need to as long as we
always call them in that order. (So calling open twice in a row is not allowed
as before, it is only allowed if you open(), close(), then open() again).

Things seem to be working now.

This commit was SVN r14515.
2007-04-25 19:51:52 +00:00
George Bosilca
f2a6b9394f Deal with the include spree. Protect "environ" on Windows.
Some others minors modifications in order to make it
compile [again] on Windows.

This commit was SVN r14188.
2007-04-01 16:16:54 +00:00
Josh Hursey
dadca7da88 Merging in the jjhursey-ft-cr-stable branch (r13912 : HEAD).
This merge adds Checkpoint/Restart support to Open MPI. The initial
frameworks and components support a LAM/MPI-like implementation.

This commit follows the risk assessment presented to the Open MPI core
development group on Feb. 22, 2007.

This commit closes trac:158

More details to follow.

This commit was SVN r14051.

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The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/158
2007-03-16 23:11:45 +00:00