However, no decision logic is changed by this commit so default behavior has not changed. This
is only selectable by runtime parameters.
This commit was SVN r18464.
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.
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
switching:
0 0
/ \ \ / \ \
1 \ \ --> 4 \ \
/ \ \ / \ \
3 2 \ 3 2 \
4 1
(duh). The first form is the bmtree suitable for bcast, but the latter is better for reduce.
Updating default decision function accordingly.
This commit was SVN r15422.
- adding linear algorithm with synchronization for gather.
This algorithm prevents congestion at root process, but introduces
synchronization (serializes non-root processes, but allows messages
to arrive from two processes at the same time).
It performed better than binomial and linear algorithms for large message,
and intermediate and large communicator sizes.
- Updating MPI_Gather decision function to reflect performance results
from MX. I will perform more measurements though - so this one can
change.
This commit was SVN r15165.
- Removing "small" message size limit because it really does not relate to the eager size
accross the board.
Now, the leaf nodes in generalized reduce will use blocking send (DEFAULT/ORIGINAL BEHAVIOR)
either when the maximum number of outstanding requests is 0 or
when the total number of segments is less than the maximum number of outstanding requests.
Otherwise, it will send messages using non-blocking synchronized send operation.
This commit was SVN r14572.
This "feature" is disabled by default and it should not affect the current performance.
In case when the message size is large and segment size is smaller than eager size for particular interface,
the leaf nodes in generalized reduce function can overflood parent nodes by sending all segments without
any synchronization. This can cause the parent to have HIGH number of unexpected messages (think 16MB
message with 1KB segments for example). In case of binomial algorithm root node always has at least one
child which is leaf, so this can potentially affect the root's performance significantly [Especially in
large communicators where root may have quite a few children (binomial tree for example)].
When the segment size is bigger than the eager size, rendezvous protocol ensures that this does
not happen so it is not necessary.
Originally, the problem was exposed in "infinite" bucket allocator clean up time for "small" segment sizes
(which may explain some "deadlocks" on Thunderbird tests).
To prevent this, we allow user to specify mca parameter "--mca coll_tuned_reduce_algorithm_max_requests NUM"
this limits number of outstanding messages from a leaf node in generalized reduce to the parent to NUM.
Messages are sent as non-blocking synchrnous messages, so syncronization happens at "wait" time.
The synchronization actually improved performance of pipeline and binomial algorithm for large message sizes
with 1KB segments over MX, but I need to test it some more to make sure it is consistent.
Since there is no easy way to find out what is "the eager" size for particular btl, I set the limit to 4000B.
If message/individual segment size is greater than 4000B - we will not use this feature. This variable may
or may not be exposed as mca parameter later...
I did not have any problems running it and both "default" and "synchronous" tests passed Intel Reduce* tests
up to 80 processes (over MX).
This commit was SVN r14518.
Per discussions with Brian and Ralph, make a slight correction in
where components are installed. Use $pkglibdir, not $libdir/openmpi,
so that when compiled in the orte trunk, components are installed to
the right directory (because the component search patch is checking
$pkglibdir).
This commit was SVN r14345.
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r14289
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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r13912
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/158
In that case, sendcount and sendtype are not valid and we need to use
recvcount and recvtype.
This commit fixes trac:943. Reviewed by Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic.
This commit was SVN r14022.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 943 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/943
- fixing line lengths and some of the comments
- possible bug fix (but I do not think we exposed it in any tests so far)
temporary buffers were allocated as multiples of extent instead of
true_extent + (count -1) * extent.
Everything is still passing Intel tests over tcp and btl mx up to 64 nodes.
This commit was SVN r13956.
Currently 3 algorithms are available:
- non-overlapping, reduce + scatterv, (works for non-commutative operations)
- recursive halving algorithm (copied from basic module)
- ring algorithm (similar to allreduce ring, for large messages)
This commit was SVN r13929.
Algorithm allows user to specify the segment size to be used for computation/communication overlap.
The additional memory requirement for the algorithm is 2 x segment size.
It performed well for (really) large message sizes over MX and it passed intel Allreduce_c and Allreduce_loc_c tests.
This commit was SVN r13832.
- the block sizes are computed in more uniformn way.
The first k blocks may be 1 element larger than the remaining blocks.
The algorithm passed Intel Allreduce_c and Allreduce_loc_c tests, and
IMB-3.2 Allreduce, over TCP and both btl and mtl MX (up to 128 processes).
The algorithm still only supports commutative operations.
This commit was SVN r13738.
outstanding requests can be limited using mca parameters.
The implementation passed Intel, IMB-3.2, and mpi_test_suite tests over
TCP and MX up to 128 processes (64 nodes), on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
It is not activated by default, but it should be useful for really large
communicator sizes.
This commit was SVN r13720.
Implementation passed intel: MPI_Reduce_c , MPI_Reduce_loc_c, and MPI_Reduce_user_c tests
over TCP, BTL MX, and MTL MX, as well as, mpi_test_suite Reduce tests (up to 64 nodes).
The algorithm is still not activated by decision function (will be in the near future).
This commit was SVN r13657.
