We recognize that this means other users of OPAL will need to "wrap" the opal_process_name_t if they desire to abstract it in some fashion. This is regrettable, and we are looking at possible alternatives that might mitigate that requirement. Meantime, however, we have to put the needs of the OMPI community first, and are taking this step to restore hetero and SPARC support.
1. It's actually hashing now, whereas the old OPAL hash table was not. Thus, it is a bug fix for and, as such, should be included in the 1.8 series.
2. It is dynamic and can grow and shrink the number of buckets in accordance with job size, whereas the old OPAL hash table had a fixed number of buckets which resulted in poor retrieval performance at large scale.
This scheme has been deployed in the field on very large H.P./Mellanox systems and has been demonstrated to significantly decrease job start-up time (~ 20% improvement) when launching applications directly with srun in SLURM environments. However, neither SLURM nor direct launch are prerequisites to take advantage of this change as any entity that utilizes OPAL hash table objects can benefit (at least partially) from this contribution.
different macros, one for each project. Therefore, now we have OPAL_DECLSPEC,
ORTE_DECLSPEC and OMPI_DECLSPEC. Please use them based on the sub-project.
This commit was SVN r11270.
- 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.
