that enabling "local_only" by default could cause excessive
by-NUMA-node paging and/or OOMs (rather than allowing memory
allocations to spill over to other NUMA nodes).
This brought home the very real-world example of people buying servers
with more processors/cores than they need, just to get more memory.
We wouldn't want Badness to occur in such scenarios by default.
Instead, let people turn on "only allow memory allocations on my local
NUMA node" if their application would benefit from it.
This commit was SVN r24648.
After a long period of development with many starts and stops, we
finally got this where we wanted it.
This commit introduces 2 new MCA params (note that the
"maffinity_libnuma_policy" MCA param introduced by r24290 was removed
when libnuma support was removed). Remember that maffinity policies
are only in effect when paffinity is enaabled -- i.e., when processes
are bound to processors!
* '''maffinity_base_alloc_policy:''' Policy that determines how
general memory allocations are bound after MPI_INIT. A value of
"none" means that no memory policy is applied. A value of
"local_only" means that all memory allocations will be restricted
to the local NUMA node where each process is placed. Note that
operating system paging policies are unaffected by this setting.
For example, if "local_only" is used and local NUMA node memory is
exhausted, a new memory allocation may cause paging.
* '''maffinity_base_bind_failure_action:''' What Open MPI will do if
it explicitly tries to bind memory to a specific NUMA location, and
fails. Note that this is a different case than the general
allocation policy described by maffinity_base_alloc_policy. A
value of "warn" means that Open MPI will warn the first time this
happens, but allow the job to continue (possibly with degraded
performance). A value of "error" means that Open MPI will abort
the job if this happens.
This needs at least a little soak time on the trunk before going to
v1.5.
This commit was SVN r24639.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24290 --> open-mpi/ompi@afa654746c
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2698 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2698
Upgrade to hwloc 1.2 (from hwloc 1.1.2). This should fix the problems
Nathan's seeing in #2778.
Let's let this soak on the trunk for a little while and see how LANL's
MTT's work out. If that works, then we can CMR this to v1.5.
This commit was SVN r24635.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2778 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2778
Nth core, so it fell over to try to find the Nth PU.
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hwloc isn't able to find cores on all platforms. Example: PPC64
running RHEL 5.4 (linux kernel 2.6.18) only reports NUMA nodes and
PU's. Fine.
However, note that hwloc_get_obj_by_type() will return NULL in 2
(effectively) different cases:
- no objects of the requested type were found
- the Nth object of the requested type was not found
So first we have to see if we can find *any* cores by looking for the
0th core. If we find it, then try to find the Nth core. Otherwise,
try to find the Nth PU.
This commit was SVN r24632.
Rename the memusage sensor plugin to "resusage" as it will soon be updated to include full process stat monitoring.
Extend the heartbeat sensor to report node and process stats in the heartbeat.
Store the process and node stats in their respective orte_xxx_t object.
This commit was SVN r24629.
released):
backport hwloc r 3416 from trunk: Add cache info entry _after_ checking
that we need one, thanks Andriy Gapon for the fix
This commit was SVN r24612.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r3418 --> open-mpi/ompi@9972663a12
appeared multiple times in ompi_info output (so did others, but this
is the one that was noticed). Ensure that we don't repeat
opal_paffinity_base_register_params() multiple times.
This commit was SVN r24569.
fix will be included in hwloc 1.1.2.
Brad -- can you verify that this fixes the issue for you?
Fixes trac:2732.
This commit was SVN r24450.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2732 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2732
filenames -- don't include the project name ("opal")
* Don't link maffinity/hwloc and paffinity/hwloc against the common
hwloc in the static build case (because this will result in
duplicate symbols)
This commit was SVN r24447.
hopefully, this now compiles for libnuma 0.9.x and libnuma 2.0.x.
Fixes for the strategy discussed in the commit message for r24442
(i.e., check against numa_get_mems_allowed(), which only exists in
libnuma 2.0.x) and the new new new plan on #2698 coming in a separate
commit.
This commit was SVN r24443.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24442 --> open-mpi/ompi@90a8fe4aad
(with libnuma-2.0.4 / LIBNUMA_API_VERSION 2): numa_get_run_node_mask
returns a struct bitmask *.
Whether it's a good idea to blindly pass that on to
numa_set_membind() is another matter: one might want to match against
the list returned by numa_get_mems_allowed(), which may be set by the
outside environment.
Refs trac:2698.
This commit was SVN r24442.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24421 --> open-mpi/ompi@31510e683b
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2698 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2698
what memory node the process is running on (which is guaranteed to be
a good answer because maffinity won't be invoked unless the process is
already bound to a specific processor), and then bind our memory to
that.
Refs trac:2698.
This commit was SVN r24421.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r24290 --> open-mpi/ompi@afa654746c
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2698 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2698
Temporarily remove hwloc's internal version of myriexpress.h. It is
causing a problem when compiling Open MPI with MX support because
hwloc uses AC_CONFIG_HEADER in hwloc's hwloc.m4 to generate
opal/mca/paffinity/hwloc/hwloc/include/hwloc/config.h.
AC_CONFIG_HEADER apparently has the (undocumented) side effect of
adding -I$(top_builddir)/opal/mca/paffinity/hwloc/hwloc/include/hwloc
to OMPI's compilation flags. Hence, when the OMPI MX components are
compiled and #include "myriexpress.h" (or <myriexpress.h>) they see
hwloc's myriexpress.h before the system one. Badness ensures.
This removal is temporary because we need to figure out a better
solution. But for now, OMPI is not using hwloc's myriexpress.h file --
so it's safe to remove. I'll push this issue upstream to hwloc to
figure out a better solution...
This commit was SVN r24354.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2690 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2690
Short Version:
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Event engine needs to be flushed so it does not use old/stale file descriptors.
Long Version:
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The problem was that the restarted process was waiting for the socket to the local daemon to finish establishing during the 'sync' operation. The core problem was that the daemon was sending a header of 36 bytes, but the restarted process only received 35 bytes of the message. So the restarted process became stuck waiting for the last byte to arrive.
After many hours of digging, I figured out that the event engine was using the same file descriptor for its evsig_cb functionality (to signal itself when a signal arrives). So when the daemon wrote in to the new fd the event engine was stealing the first byte (*shakes fist at event engine*) before the recv() could be posted.
The solution is to use the event_reinit() function on restart to re-establish the now-stale file descriptors in the event engine. This seems to have fixed the problem.
A few other minor things:
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* Add a check to make sure the event engine is balanced in its init/finalize
* Add the opal_event_base_close() to the BLCR restart exec function (still not 100% sure it is needed, but there it is).
This commit was SVN r24296.
last December. :-(
Add new MCA param: maffinity_libnuma_policy. Thanks to David
Singleton for the suggestion. Here's the help text about it:
{{{
MCA maffinity: parameter "maffinity_libnuma_policy" (current value:
<loose>, data source: default value)
Binding policy that determines what happens if memory
is unavailable on the local NUMA node. A value of
"strict" means that the memory allocation will fail;
a value of "loose" means that the memory allocation
will spill over to another NUMA node.
}}}
This commit was SVN r24290.
