Commit from a long-standing Mercurial tree that ended up incorporating a lot of things:
* A few fixes for CPC interface changes in all the CPCs
* Attempts (but not yet finished) to fix shutdown problems in the IB CM CPC
* #1319: add CTS support (i.e., initiator guarantees to send first message; automatically activated for iWARP over the RDMA CM CPC)
* Some variable and function renamings to make this be generic (e.g., alloc_credit_frag became alloc_control_frag)
* CPCs no longer post receive buffers; they only post a single receive buffer for the CTS if they use CTS. Instead, the main BTL now posts the main sets of receive buffers.
* CPCs allocate a CTS buffer only if they're about to make a connection
* RDMA CM improvements:
* Use threaded mode openib fd monitoring to wait for for RDMA CM events
* Synchronize endpoint finalization and disconnection between main thread and service thread to avoid/fix some race conditions
* Converted several structs to be OBJs so that we can use reference counting to know when to invoke destructors
* Make some new OBJ's have opal_list_item_t's as their base, thereby eliminating the need for the local list_item_t type
* Renamed many variables to be internally consistent
* Centralize the decision in an inline function as to whether this process or the remote process is supposed to be the initiator
* Add oodles of OPAL_OUTPUT statements for debugging (hard-wired to output stream -1; to be activated by developers if they want/need them)
* Use rdma_create_qp() instead of ibv_create_qp()
* openib fd monitoring improvements:
* Renamed a bunch of functions and variables to be a little more obvious as to their true function
* Use pipes to communicate between main thread and service thread
* Add ability for main thread to invoke a function back on the service thread
* Ensure to set initiator_depth and responder_resources properly, but putting max_qp_rd_ataom and ma_qp_init_rd_atom in the modex (see rdma_connect(3))
* Ensure to set the source IP address in rdma_resolve() to ensure that we select the correct OpenFabrics source port
* Make new MCA param: openib_btl_connect_rdmacm_resolve_timeout
* Other improvements:
* btl_openib_device_type MCA param: can be "iw" or "ib" or "all" (or "infiniband" or "iwarp")
* Somewhat improved error handling
* Bunches of spelling fixes in comments, VERBOSE, and OUTPUT statements
* Oodles of little coding style fixes
* Changed shutdown ordering of btl; the device is now an OBJ with ref counting for destruction
* Added some more show_help error messages
* Change configury to only build IBCM / RDMACM if we have threads (because we need a progress thread)
This commit was SVN r19686.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1210 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1210
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.
