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.
* Various cosmetic/style updates in the btl sm
* Clean up concept of mpool module (I think that code was written way
back when the concept of "modules" was fuzzy)
* Bring over some old fixes from the /tmp/timattox-sm-coll/ tree to
fix potential segv's when mmap'ed regions were at different
addresses in different processes (thanks Tim!).
* Change sm coll to no longer use mpool as its main source of shmem;
rather, just mmap its own segment (because it's fixed size --
there was nothing to be gained by using mpool; shedding the use of
mpool saved a lot of complexity in the sm coll setup). This
effectively made Tim's fixes moot (because now everything is an
offset into the mmap that is computed locally; there are no global
pointers). :-)
* Slightly updated common/sm to allow making mmap's for a specific
set of procs (vs. ''all'' procs in the process). This potentially
allows for same-host-inter-proc mmaps -- yay!
* Fixed many, many things in the coll sm (particularly in reduce):
* Fixed handling of MPI_IN_PLACE in reduce and allreduce
* Fixed handling of non-contiguous datatypes in reduce
* Changed the order of reductions to go from process (n-1)'s data
to process 0's data, because that's how all other OMPI coll
components work
* Fixed lots of usage of ddt functions
* When using a non-contiguous datatype, if the root process is not
(n-1), now we used a 2nd convertor to copy from shmem to the rbuf
(saves a memory copy vs. what was done before)
* Lots and lots of little cleanups, clarifications, and minor
optimizations (although still more could be done -- e.g., I think
the use of write memory barriers is fairly sub-optimal; they
could be ganged together at the root, for example)
I'm marking this as "fixes trac:1988" and closing the ticket; if something
is still broken, we can re-open the ticket.
This commit was SVN r21967.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1988 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1988
- 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.
* 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.
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.
used at nce (up to one unique collective module per collective function).
Matches r15795:15921 of the tmp/bwb-coll-select branch
This commit was SVN r15924.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r15795
r15921
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.
The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
r13912
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/158
shared memory segments
* make sure to properly unlink the collectives sm bootstrap area at
shutdown
* Add missing / in the path for the mpool shared memory segment
* make sure to release the common_mmap structure in the SM btl
after unlinking the file during shutdown
This commit was SVN r10886.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
lower the default priority to 0 so that it's not active unless you
specifically ask for it (this component needs more testing by people
other than me before we unleash it on the public).
This commit was SVN r7545.
- finally added "in use" flags -- one flag protects a set of segments
- these flags now used in bcast to protect (for example) when a
message is so long that the root loops around the segments and has
to re-use old segments -- now it knows that it has to wait until the
non-root processes have finished with that set of segments before it
can start using them
- implement allreduce as a reduce followed by a bcast (per discussion
with rich)
- removed some redundant data on various data structures
- implemented query MCA param ("coll_sm_shared_mem_used_data") that
tells you how much shared memory will be used for a given set of MCA
params (e.g., number of segments, etc.). For example:
ompi_info --mca coll_sm_info_num_procs 4 --param coll sm | \
grep shared_mem_used_data
tells you that for the default MCA param values (as of r7172), for 4
processes, sm will use 548864 bytes of shared memory for its data
transfer section
- remove a bunch of .c files from the Makefile.am that aren't
implemented yet (i.e., all they do is return ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)
Now on to the big Altix to test that this stuff really works...
This commit was SVN r7205.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r7172 --> open-mpi/ompi@bc72a7722b
- bcast now works properly for root!=0 and multi-fragment messages
- destroy mpool when communicator is destroyed
Still need to implement:
- "in use" flags for groups of fragments so that "wrapping around" in
the data segment doesn't overwrite not-yet-read data
- ensure that shared memory isn't removed before all processes have
finished with it (e.g., during COMM_FREE)
This commit was SVN r7172.
much time) and somewhat-lame implementation of barrier (need to
precompute some more stuff rather than calculate it every time).
Checkpointing so I can try this on another machine...
This commit was SVN r6985.
multiple components to share a single mpool module (e.g., the
ptl/btl and coll sm components).
- Re-tool the ptl, btl, and coll sm components to first look for the
target mpool module, and if they don't find it, to create it.
- coll sm component now correctly identifies when it is supposed to
run or not (i.e., if all the processes in the communicator are on
the same host). Now we just need to fill in some algorithms. :-)
This commit was SVN r6530.
- After long discussions and ruminations on how we run components in
LAM/MPI, made the decision that, by default, all components included
in Open MPI will use the version number of their parent project
(i.e., OMPI or ORTE). They are certaint free to use a different
number, but this simplification makes the common cases easy:
- components are only released when the parent project is released
- it is easy (trivial?) to distinguish which version component goes
with with version of the parent project
- removed all autogen/configure code for templating the version .h
file in components
- made all ORTE components use ORTE_*_VERSION for version numbers
- made all OMPI components use OMPI_*_VERSION for version numbers
- removed all VERSION files from components
- configure now displays OPAL, ORTE, and OMPI version numbers
- ditto for ompi_info
- right now, faking it -- OPAL and ORTE and OMPI will always have the
same version number (i.e., they all come from the same top-level
VERSION file). But this paves the way for the Great Configure
Reorganization, where, among other things, each project will have
its own version number.
So all in all, we went from a boatload of version numbers to
[effectively] three. That's pretty good. :-)
This commit was SVN r6344.
