of individual regions (each region is a multiple of page size in
length), and each process claims its own regions by binding it to its
local memory. Each process would end up membining something like 16
individual regions in the overall shmem segment.
There were two errors in this code relating to the memory affinity
pinning. Some combination of these two errors would lead to kernel
panics (!) on my RHEL 6.2 x86_64 machines when used with mmap'ed
shared memory (not posix or sysv shared memory, curiously enough):
1. The shared memory segment is initially divided into two regions:
control and data. The control starts at the beginning of the shmem
segment, the data starts after that. The data portion, unfortunately,
was ''not'' aligned to a page. So all the multiple-of-page-size
regions that we divvy up were also not alined on page boundaries. And
therefore all the regions we tried to membind were not on page
boundaries.
The solution was to ensure that the data portion started on a page
boundary. Then all of the individual regions were on page boundaries,
too.
That being said, in my tests, Linux mbind() fails gracefully when the
address is not on a page boundary. So I'm not sure how this worked at
all / led to a kernel panic...
2. There was some bad pointer math that resulted in membinding regions
larger than they should have been, resulting in region overlaps.
There were definitely overlaps between regions in the same process;
it's likely that there were overlaps between regions of multiple
processes, too -- I'm not sure (and don't care to figure out :-) ).
The solution was to fix the pointer math so that each region membinds
exactly only itself and no neighboring/overlapping regions.
cmr:v1.7.2:reviewer=samuel
This commit was SVN r28442.
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.
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.
pml/v:
- If vprotocol is not being used vprotocol_include_list is leaked. Assume vprotocol never takes ownership (see below) and always free the string.
coll/ml:
- (patch verified) calling mca_base_param_lookup_string after mca_base_param_reg_string is unnecessary. The call to mca_base_param_lookup_string causes the value returned by mca_base_param_reg_string to be leaked.
- Need to free mca_coll_ml_component.config_file_name on component close.
btl/openib:
- calling mca_base_param_lookup_string after mca_base_param_reg_string is unnecessary. The call to mca_base_param_lookup_string causes the value returned by mca_base_param_reg_string to be leaked.
vprotocol/base:
- There was no way for pml/v to determine if vprotocol took ownership of vprotocol_include_list. Fix by always never ownership (use strdup).
mca/base:
- param_lookup will result in storage->stringval to be a newly allocated string if the mca parameter has a string value. ensure this string is always freed.
cmr:v1.7
This commit was SVN r27569.
It appears the problem was not with the command line parser but the rsh plm. I don't know why this problem was not occuring before the command line parser changes but it appears to be resolved now.
This commit was SVN r27527.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27451 --> open-mpi/ompi@d59034e6ef
r27456 --> open-mpi/ompi@ecdbf34937
* Only register the progress function on first call to a non-blocking
collective operation, to try to reduce overall performance impact
* Fix tag management in roll-over case
This commit was SVN r27498.
ompi/mca/sbgp/basesmsocket
orte/mca/rmaps/lama
Remove stale configure.params files from the sbgp framework as the OMPI build system no longer looks at those files.
This commit was SVN r27377.
The project includes following components and frameworks:
- ML Collective component
- NETPATTERNS and COMMPATTERNS common components
- BCOL framework
- SBGP framework
Note: By default the ML collective component is disabled. In order to enable
new collectives user should bump up the priority of ml component (coll_ml_priority)
=============================================
Primary Contributors (in alphabetical order):
Ishai Rabinovich (Mellanox)
Joshua S. Ladd (ORNL / Mellanox)
Manjunath Gorentla Venkata (ORNL)
Mike Dubman (Mellanox)
Noam Bloch (Mellanox)
Pavel (Pasha) Shamis (ORNL / Mellanox)
Richard Graham (ORNL / Mellanox)
Vasily Filipov (Mellanox)
This commit was SVN r27078.
technically this is a necessary thing to do, it wasn't a tragedy that
we didn't have it because err was initialize to 0 in the beginning of
the functions where this problem occurred. Also, OMPI will likely
abort if one of the MCA_PML_CALLs actually incurs an error (or, even
if it doesn't, MPI doesn't define the behavior anyway ;-) ).
But looking forward to an FT-aware world, fixing this issue is a Good
Thing. Many thanks to Hristo Iliev for pointing out the issue.
This commit was SVN r27070.
alignment, which typically causes problems on SPARC. Further, the pointer
manipulation to access elements in a round schedule was clumsy. This change
introduces macros to facilitate addressing and make it more portable.
This commit was SVN r26802.
* Use proper tag space (the negatives below the blocking communicators)
instead of the point-to-point space
* Use the PML interface instead of the MPI interface, since the MPI
interface 1) shouldn't be used by components and 2) doesn't like
negative tags
This commit was SVN r26693.
* Remove paffinity, maffinity, and carto frameworks -- they've been
wholly replaced by hwloc.
* Move ompi_mpi_init() affinity-setting/checking code down to ORTE.
* Update sm, smcuda, wv, and openib components to no longer use carto.
Instead, use hwloc data. There are still optimizations possible in
the sm/smcuda BTLs (i.e., making multiple mpools). Also, the old
carto-based code found out how many NUMA nodes were ''available''
-- not how many were used ''in this job''. The new hwloc-using
code computes the same value -- it was not updated to calculate how
many NUMA nodes are used ''by this job.''
* Note that I cannot compile the smcuda and wv BTLs -- I ''think''
they're right, but they need to be verified by their owners.
* The openib component now does a bunch of stuff to figure out where
"near" OpenFabrics devices are. '''THIS IS A CHANGE IN DEFAULT
BEHAVIOR!!''' and still needs to be verified by OpenFabrics vendors
(I do not have a NUMA machine with an OpenFabrics device that is a
non-uniform distance from multiple different NUMA nodes).
* Completely rewrite the OMPI_Affinity_str() routine from the
"affinity" mpiext extension. This extension now understands
hyperthreads; the output format of it has changed a bit to reflect
this new information.
* Bunches of minor changes around the code base to update names/types
from maffinity/paffinity-based names to hwloc-based names.
* Add some helper functions into the hwloc base, mainly having to do
with the fact that we have the hwloc data reporting ''all''
topology information, but sometimes you really only want the
(online | available) data.
This commit was SVN r26391.
algorithm to pairwise exchange instead of the default one. This might
improve the scheduling and relax the pressure on the network.
This commit was SVN r26246.
zeroes);
if so, use it for bit-operations like opal_cube_dim and opal_hibit.
Implement two versions of power-of-two.
In case of opal_next_poweroftwo, this reduces the average execution
time from 83 cycles to 4 cycles (Intel Nehalem, icc, -O2, inlining,
measured rdtsc, with loop over 2^27 values).
Numbers for other functions are similar (but of course heavily depend
on the usage, e.g. opal_hibit() with a start of 4 does not save
much). The bsr instruction on AMD Opteron is also not as fast.
- Replace various places where the next power-of-two is computed.
Tested on Intel Nehalem Cluster with openib, compilers GNU-4.6.1 and
Intel-12.0.4 using mpi_testsuite -t "Collective" with 128 processes.
This commit was SVN r25270.
To enable the epochs and the resilient orte code, use the configure flag:
--enable-resilient-orte
This will define both:
ORTE_ENABLE_EPOCH
ORTE_RESIL_ORTE
This commit was SVN r25093.
