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Wesley Bland
4e7ff0bd5e By popular demand the epoch code is now disabled by default.
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.
2011-08-26 22:16:14 +00:00
Wesley Bland
e1ba09ad51 Add a resilience to ORTE. Allows the runtime to continue after a process (or
ORTED) failure. Note that more work will be necessary to allow the MPI layer to
take advantage of this.

Per RFC:
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2011/06/9299.php

This commit was SVN r24815.
2011-06-23 20:38:02 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c3df95dd13 Prevent failure due to race condition during abnormal term
This commit was SVN r24712.
2011-05-19 21:27:05 +00:00
Josh Hursey
8ec85c6b8f Fixes the C/R Automatic Recovery feature when the HNP is also hosting processes locally.
I want to thank Hugo Meyer for reporting this/these bugs.

Notes:
 * Moved over a patch from the stabilization branch that makes sure we close the peer socket in the OOB TCP component fully during shutdown (after the de-registration sync). It also ensures that we free the rml_uri only after we are done communicating with the peer (in the odls_base deregister sync operation).
 * When an error is detected while delivering messages, we really want to bail out of the loop since the error manager is likely mutating the orte_local_children data structure, so it is no longer safe to iterate over in the orte_odls_base_default_deliver_message() function.
 * When the HNP is hosting processes make sure it accounts for processes that may have failed locally in the ErrMgr HNP component by decrementing the num_local_procs. This makes it match the orted ErrMgr component accounting. This is what was causing the modex to fail (the number of participants was wrong on a rolling recovery.
 * The crmig and autor features of the hnp ErrMgr component now check for the jobid from both the 'job' parameter and from the process name (since one may be there and not the other). This caused some additional error messages during startup.
 * If we fail to migrate (e.g., due to invalid node specification), print only the error message, not the error and success messages. This can be misleading.

This commit was SVN r24317.
2011-01-27 20:40:23 +00:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
87d2c9b31d Few fault tolerance updates related to the CIFTS project (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/cifts/)
* Improve the FTB notifier to publish (C/R, process/communication failure) events to the FTB with the
   OMPI jobid as the associated payload.
 * Add notifier calls for C/R events and process status events in SnapC and ErrMgr components.
 * Fix a bug where the SnapC states and process states collide before being thrown out over the notifier.

This commit was SVN r24251.
2011-01-13 20:13:49 +00:00
Ralph Castain
9ea2b196ce Convert the opal_event framework to use direct function calls instead of hiding functions behind function pointers. Eliminate the opal_object_t abstraction of libevent's event struct so it can be directly passed to the libevent functions.
Note: the ompi_check_libfca.m4 file had to be modified to avoid it stomping on global CPPFLAGS and the like. The file was also relocated to the ompi/config directory as it pertains solely to an ompi-layer component.

Forgive the mid-day configure change, but I know Shiqing is working the windows issues and don't want to cause him unnecessary redo work.

This commit was SVN r23966.
2010-10-28 15:22:46 +00:00
Ralph Castain
86c7365e8e Clean up a few initialization issues - don't think these are impacting the shared memory situation as it didn't fix the problem.
Setup the event API to support multiple bases in preparation for splitting the OMPI and ORTE events. Holding here pending shared memory resolution.

This commit was SVN r23943.
2010-10-26 02:41:42 +00:00
Ralph Castain
fceabb2498 Update libevent to the 2.0 series, currently at 2.0.7rc. We will update to their final release when it becomes available. Currently known errors exist in unused portions of the libevent code. This revision passes the IBM test suite on a Linux machine and on a standalone Mac.
This is a fairly intrusive change, but outside of the moving of opal/event to opal/mca/event, the only changes involved (a) changing all calls to opal_event functions to reflect the new framework instead, and (b) ensuring that all opal_event_t objects are properly constructed since they are now true opal_objects.

Note: Shiqing has just returned from vacation and has not yet had a chance to complete the Windows integration. Thus, this commit almost certainly breaks Windows support on the trunk. However, I want this to have a chance to soak for as long as possible before I become less available a week from today (going to be at a class for 5 days, and thus will only be sparingly available) so we can find and fix any problems.

Biggest change is moving the libevent code from opal/event to a new opal/mca/event framework. This was done to make it much easier to update libevent in the future. New versions can be inserted as a new component and tested in parallel with the current version until validated, then we can remove the earlier version if we so choose. This is a statically built framework ala installdirs, so only one component will build at a time. There is no selection logic - the sole compiled component simply loads its function pointers into the opal_event struct.

I have gone thru the code base and converted all the libevent calls I could find. However, I cannot compile nor test every environment. It is therefore quite likely that errors remain in the system. Please keep an eye open for two things:

1. compile-time errors: these will be obvious as calls to the old functions (e.g., opal_evtimer_new) must be replaced by the new framework APIs (e.g., opal_event.evtimer_new)

2. run-time errors: these will likely show up as segfaults due to missing constructors on opal_event_t objects. It appears that it became a typical practice for people to "init" an opal_event_t by simply using memset to zero it out. This will no longer work - you must either OBJ_NEW or OBJ_CONSTRUCT an opal_event_t. I tried to catch these cases, but may have missed some. Believe me, you'll know when you hit it.

There is also the issue of the new libevent "no recursion" behavior. As I described on a recent email, we will have to discuss this and figure out what, if anything, we need to do.

This commit was SVN r23925.
2010-10-24 18:35:54 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4ecd9a0bbe Protect against an obscure race condition that AFAICT only occurs when we are in a loop waiting to recv a message from a peer who is then killed by signal.
This commit was SVN r23662.
2010-08-25 15:35:01 +00:00
Ralph Castain
099c3aad97 Fix a major foopah that broke debugger attach. With the revisions in updating proc state, we dropped the recording of each proc's pid. Thus, attaching debuggers would find a proctable whose pids all equal 0.
This required modification of the errmgr.update_state API so the pid could be passed in to the function that could update the proper data record(s). All calls to that API have been updated as well, but I obviously couldn't test them all.

Thanks to Dong Ahn (LLNL) for catching this problem!

Also fixed debugger daemon cospawn, both for initial launch and attach-while-running modes. Tested and verified on rsh and slurm.

This commit was SVN r23300.
2010-06-24 05:13:53 +00:00
Ralph Castain
7c43d6c0f5 Don't drop a core file when we abort due to a lost connection
This commit was SVN r23199.
2010-05-22 18:09:40 +00:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
afbe3e99c6 * Wrap all the direct error-code checks of the form (OMPI_ERR_* == ret) with
(OMPI_ERR_* = OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE(ret)), since the return value could be a
 SOS-encoded error. The OPAL_SOS_GET_ERR_CODE() takes in a SOS error and returns
 back the native error code.

* Since OPAL_SUCCESS is preserved by SOS, also change all calls of the form
  (OPAL_ERROR == ret) to (OPAL_SUCCESS != ret). We thus avoid having to
  decode 'ret' to get the native error code.

This commit was SVN r23162.
2010-05-17 23:08:56 +00:00
Ralph Castain
306533fdb8 Replace a missing line that shutdown a peer that failed comm.
This commit was SVN r23120.
2010-05-12 18:09:35 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4bd25f587c Begin handling the case of lost connections by having the OOB report it to the errmgr instead of the routed framework. Add an "app" component to t
he errmgr framework so that it can decide how to respond - which for now at least is just to check for lifeline and abort if so.

Add a new error constant to indicate that the error is "unrecoverable" so the oob can know it needs to abort.

This commit was SVN r23112.
2010-05-11 00:34:12 +00:00
Josh Hursey
e4f2d03d28 ErrMgr Framework redesign to better support fault tolerance development activities.
Explained in more detail in the following RFC:
  http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/03/7589.php

This commit was SVN r22872.
2010-03-23 21:28:02 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c877b1a5f8 Silence a compiler warning about no format
This commit was SVN r21951.
2009-09-08 15:03:14 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4adb3ed80f Print out a more meaningful and correct error message
This commit was SVN r21581.
2009-07-01 20:16:15 +00:00
Ralph Castain
87d7d693f0 Add a notifier call when the oob retries are exceeded so sys admins are aware of the problem
This commit was SVN r21405.
2009-06-10 15:17:16 +00:00
Ralph Castain
3815bfbba6 Provide a better error message when the oob cannot send a message after exhausting retries, and then have the proc abort so the job doesn't just hang forever.
Since it could be a daemon that needs to abort, cleanup the abort sequence so the daemon can exit as cleanly as possible.

This commit was SVN r21361.
2009-06-02 23:57:12 +00:00
Rainer Keller
221fb9dbca ... Delayed due to notifier commits earlier this day ...
- Delete unnecessary header files using
   contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
   patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
   inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...

   In total 817 files are touched.
   In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
   where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
   otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
   additions required due to notifier...)

 - To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
   successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
   Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
   Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
   Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled

This commit was SVN r21096.
2009-04-29 01:32:14 +00:00
Rainer Keller
64dcd85ba1 - This one was missing
This commit was SVN r20818.
2009-03-17 22:02:51 +00:00
Rainer Keller
a94438343b - Revert r20740
This commit was SVN r20741.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r20740 --> open-mpi/ompi@2a70618a77
2009-03-05 21:50:47 +00:00
Rainer Keller
2a70618a77 - Second patch, as discussed in Louisville.
Replace short macros in orte/util/name_fns.h
   to the actual fct. call.

 - Compiles on linux/x86-64

This commit was SVN r20740.
2009-03-05 21:14:18 +00:00
Rainer Keller
d81443cc5a - On the way to get the BTLs split out and lessen dependency on orte:
Often, orte/util/show_help.h is included, although no functionality
   is required -- instead, most often opal_output.h, or               
   orte/mca/rml/rml_types.h                                           
   Please see orte_show_help_replacement.sh commited next.            

 - Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
   actually showed two *missing* #include "orte/util/show_help.h"     
   in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c and                  
   in orte/tools/orte-top/orte-top.c                                  
   Manually added these.                                              

   Let's have MTT the last word.

This commit was SVN r20557.
2009-02-14 02:26:12 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
91d302fd67 A bunch of minor ORTE valgrind-inspired memory leak cleanups (reviewed
by Ralph).

This commit was SVN r20544.
2009-02-13 04:14:10 +00:00
Ralph Castain
f54fda489e This is a first step towards supporting fully-routed OOB communications:
1. remove direct routed module (hooray!)

2. add radix tree routed module (binomial remains default)

3. remove duplicate data storage - orteds were storing nidmap and pidmap data in odls, everyone else in ess

4. add ess APIs to update nidmap, add new pidmap - used only by orteds for MPI-2 support

5. modify code to eliminate multiple calls to orte_routed.update_route that recreated info already in ess pidmap. Add ess API to lookup that info instead. Modify routed modules to utilize that capability

6. setup new ability to shutdown orteds without sending back an "ack" message to mpirun - not utilized yet, will require some changes to plm terminate_orteds functions in managed environments (coming soon)

Initial tests indicating that fully routing comm via defined routing trees may not actually have a significant cost for operations like IB QP setup. More tests required to confirm.

This will require an autogen...

This commit was SVN r19866.
2008-10-31 21:10:00 +00:00
Ralph Castain
9613b3176c Effectively revert the orte_output system and return to direct use of opal_output at all levels. Retain the orte_show_help subsystem to allow aggregation of show_help messages at the HNP.
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.
2008-06-09 14:53:58 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
e7ecd56bd2 This commit represents a bunch of work on a Mercurial side branch. As
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.
2008-05-13 20:00:55 +00:00
Josh Hursey
cc83d41ad9 Merge in tmp/jjh-scratch
{{{
 svn merge -r 18218:18240 https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/tmp/jjh-scratch .
}}}

Contains:
 * Primarily a fix for a user reported problem where a cached file descriptor is causing a SIGPIPE on restart.
 * Cleanup some small memory leaks from using mca_base_param_env_var() - Thanks Jeff
 * Cleanup ORTE FT tool compilation in non-FT builds - Thanks Tim P.
 * Cleanup mpi interface with missplaced {{{OPAL_CR_ENTER_LIBRARY}}} - Thanks Terry
 * Some other sundry cleanup items all dealing with C/R functionality in the trunk.

This commit was SVN r18241.
2008-04-23 00:17:12 +00:00
Adrian Knoth
0ddfff4ffe Added new oob-tcp parameter oob_tcp_disable_family.
Like btl_tcp_disable_family, this parameter more or less disables
a whole address family. Though the sockets are still created, the
corresponding information isn't added to the connection strings.

Likewise, we don't try to connect to addresses matching the disabled
address family.

This is particularly important for multidomain clusters, where IPv4 is
oftenly filtered (firewalled), sometimes by simply dropping the packets
instead of rejecting them (thus causing a connection timeout instead of
a quick "no route to host").

This commit was SVN r18163.
2008-04-16 09:22:00 +00:00
Ralph Castain
60d931217f Modify the routed framework to allow greater control/flexibility over response to lost routes and initial wireup of jobs as required by several soon-to-come new modules.
Specifically, add two new APIs:

1. lost_route: allows the OOB to report that a connection has failed, thereby giving the routed module an opportunity to respond appropriately to its topology. Creating the API also allows each routed component to hold its own definition of "lifeline" - in some cases, this may be a single connection, but in others it may be multiple connections. Some modules may choose to re-route messaging if the lifeline or any other connection is lost, while others may choose to abort the job.

Both the tree and unity modules retain the current behavior and abort the job if the lifeline connection is lost, while ignoring other lost connections.

2. get_wireup_info: returns (in a provided buffer) info required to wireup connections for the specified job. Some routed modules do not need to return any info as they can wireup via alternative means, while some need to xchg data with their peers. If info is inserted into the buffer, the plm_base_launch_apps function will xcast the contents to the specified job.

The commit also removes the "lifeline" entry from the orte_process_info struct (and the associated ORTE_PROC_MY_LIFELINE definition) as the lifeline info is now contained within the respective routed module.

This commit was SVN r17969.
2008-03-26 01:00:24 +00:00
Ralph Castain
f8642e9390 Add debug to tell us when we opened a socket and to whom
This commit was SVN r17911.
2008-03-21 15:47:47 +00:00
Ralph Castain
27a73ad9ee Fix a race condition between the orteds and HNP that can cause the orteds to output the "lost lifeline" message.
This has been a long-time problem. I tried to reduce the problem by having the orteds tell the HNP they were finalizing, and having the HNP wait until all orteds had reported or we timed out.

What was observed was that all the orteds were correctly reporting that they are leaving, but the HNP is able to exit before the orteds, thus closing the orteds lifeline socket and generating the error output. This is caused by the fact that the orteds have to whack all remaining session directories, which includes that blasted monster shared memory file! Cleaning up the SM file can take quite a while.

The HNP doesn't have that problem as there is no SM file there! So it gets out first.

What we had done in the past to resolve that problem was put a little test in the OOB that checks to see if we are finalizing. If we are, then we ignore the lifeline connection being lost. That check was still in the code - however, we had lost the line in orte_finalize that set the flag!!

This commit was SVN r17893.
2008-03-20 13:30:51 +00:00
Ralph Castain
ec64bf3da8 Clarify the error output so we can understand if it was a daemon or process that lost its lifeline
This commit was SVN r17880.
2008-03-19 19:06:52 +00:00
Ralph Castain
ff99aa054f In order to prevent orphaned processes when using non-unity routing methods, the procs need to realize that their local daemon is a critical connection - if that connection unexpectedly closes, they need to terminate.
This commit adds definition for a "lifeline" connection. For an HNP, there is no lifeline, so the lifeline proc is NULL. For a daemon, the lifeline is the HNP - the daemon should abort if it loses that connection.

For a proc using unity routed, the lifeline is the HNP since it connects directly to the HNP.

For a proc using tree routed, the lifeline is the local daemon.

Adjusted OOB to call abort if the lifeline (as opposed to HNP) connection is lost.

This commit was SVN r17761.
2008-03-06 15:30:44 +00:00
Tim Prins
5de3e1965e Remove the orte_proc_table. Migrate all users of it to the opal_hash_table and a new name hash function in orte.
Everything should work, however I am unable to compile and test the sctp BTL.

This commit was SVN r17751.
2008-03-05 22:44:35 +00:00
Ralph Castain
d70e2e8c2b Merge the ORTE devel branch into the main trunk. Details of what this means will be circulated separately.
Remains to be tested to ensure everything came over cleanly, so please continue to withhold commits a little longer

This commit was SVN r17632.
2008-02-28 01:57:57 +00:00
George Bosilca
eb71a634c6 Don't forget to initialize the msg_origin field.
This commit was SVN r17055.
2008-01-04 23:24:49 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
c20350b943 Patch submitted by Brian Barrett, inspired by this thread:
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/11/4547.php.

- Better handling of ECONNABORTED from connect on Linux.
- Reduce extraneous output from OOB when TCP connections must
  be retried.

This commit was SVN r16808.
2007-11-30 21:42:15 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
5637c7a5a0 In addition to r16513, this commit fixes trac:1170.
If we cannot resolve the route to the peer that we're trying to send
to, don't queue up the message in the TCP OOB -- instead, return it to
the upper layer (e.g., the RML) and let it decide what to do.

In the case of the routed RML, the tree component will queue it up for
later transmission.  Hence, we don't want the message queued up both
here in the TCP OOB and the tree routed.  Also see some more
discussion / explanation in #1171.

This commit was SVN r16540.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r16513 --> open-mpi/ompi@7ae9589d70

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1170 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1170
2007-10-22 13:46:57 +00:00
Ralph Castain
54b2cf747e These changes were mostly captured in a prior RFC (except for #2 below) and are aimed specifically at improving startup performance and setting up the remaining modifications described in that RFC.
The commit has been tested for C/R and Cray operations, and on Odin (SLURM, rsh) and RoadRunner (TM). I tried to update all environments, but obviously could not test them. I know that Windows needs some work, and have highlighted what is know to be needed in the odls process component.

This represents a lot of work by Brian, Tim P, Josh, and myself, with much advice from Jeff and others. For posterity, I have appended a copy of the email describing the work that was done:

As we have repeatedly noted, the modex operation in MPI_Init is the single greatest consumer of time during startup. To-date, we have executed that operation as an ORTE stage gate that held the process until a startup message containing all required modex (and OOB contact info - see #3 below) info could be sent to it. Each process would send its data to the HNP's registry, which assembled and sent the message when all processes had reported in.

In addition, ORTE had taken responsibility for monitoring process status as it progressed through a series of "stage gates". The process reported its status at each gate, and ORTE would then send a "release" message once all procs had reported in.

The incoming changes revamp these procedures in three ways:

1. eliminating the ORTE stage gate system and cleanly delineating responsibility between the OMPI and ORTE layers for MPI init/finalize. The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info. The allgather is implemented using the orte_grpcomm framework since the BTL's are not active at that point. At the moment, the grpcomm framework only has a "basic" component analogous to OMPI's "basic" coll framework - I would recommend that the MPI team create additional, more advanced components to improve performance of this step.

The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions. We tried to use MPI barriers instead (since the BTL's are active at that point), but - as we discussed on the telecon - these are not currently true barriers so the job would hang when we fell through while messages were still in process. Note that the grpcomm barrier doesn't actually resolve that problem, but Brian has pointed out that we are unlikely to ever see it violated. Again, you might want to spend a little time on an advanced barrier algorithm as the one in "basic" is very simplistic.

Summarizing this change: ORTE no longer tracks process state nor has direct responsibility for synchronizing jobs. This is now done via collective operations within the MPI layer, albeit using ORTE collective communication services. I -strongly- urge the MPI team to implement advanced collective algorithms to improve the performance of this critical procedure.


2. reducing the volume of data exchanged during modex. Data in the modex consisted of the process name, the name of the node where that process is located (expressed as a string), plus a string representation of all contact info. The nodename was required in order for the modex to determine if the process was local or not - in addition, some people like to have it to print pretty error messages when a connection failed.

The size of this data has been reduced in three ways:

(a) reducing the size of the process name itself. The process name consisted of two 32-bit fields for the jobid and vpid. This is far larger than any current system, or system likely to exist in the near future, can support. Accordingly, the default size of these fields has been reduced to 16-bits, which means you can have 32k procs in each of 32k jobs. Since the daemons must have a vpid, and we require one daemon/node, this also restricts the default configuration to 32k nodes.

To support any future "mega-clusters", a configuration option --enable-jumbo-apps has been added. This option increases the jobid and vpid field sizes to 32-bits. Someday, if necessary, someone can add yet another option to increase them to 64-bits, I suppose.

(b) replacing the string nodename with an integer nodeid. Since we have one daemon/node, the nodeid corresponds to the local daemon's vpid. This replaces an often lengthy string with only 2 (or at most 4) bytes, a substantial reduction.

(c) when the mca param requesting that nodenames be sent to support pretty error messages, a second mca param is now used to request FQDN - otherwise, the domain name is stripped (by default) from the message to save space. If someone wants to combine those into a single param somehow (perhaps with an argument?), they are welcome to do so - I didn't want to alter what people are already using.

While these may seem like small savings, they actually amount to a significant impact when aggregated across the entire modex operation. Since every proc must receive the modex data regardless of the collective used to send it, just reducing the size of the process name removes nearly 400MBytes of communication from a 32k proc job (admittedly, much of this comm may occur in parallel). So it does add up pretty quickly.


3. routing RML messages to reduce connections. The default messaging system remains point-to-point - i.e., each proc opens a socket to every proc it communicates with and sends its messages directly. A new option uses the orteds as routers - i.e., each proc only opens a single socket to its local orted. All messages are sent from the proc to the orted, which forwards the message to the orted on the node where the intended recipient proc is located - that orted then forwards the message to its local proc (the recipient). This greatly reduces the connection storm we have encountered during startup.

It also has the benefit of removing the sharing of every proc's OOB contact with every other proc. The orted routing tables are populated during launch since every orted gets a map of where every proc is being placed. Each proc, therefore, only needs to know the contact info for its local daemon, which is passed in via the environment when the proc is fork/exec'd by the daemon. This alone removes ~50 bytes/process of communication that was in the current STG1 startup message - so for our 32k proc job, this saves us roughly 32k*50 = 1.6MBytes sent to 32k procs = 51GBytes of messaging.

Note that you can use the new routing method by specifying -mca routed tree - if you so desire. This mode will become the default at some point in the future.


There are a few minor additional changes in the commit that I'll just note in passing:

* propagation of command line mca params to the orteds - fixes ticket #1073. See note there for details.

* requiring of "finalize" prior to "exit" for MPI procs - fixes ticket #1144. See note there for details.

* cleanup of some stale header files

This commit was SVN r16364.
2007-10-05 19:48:23 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
c1065d8262 - Some more type casts.
This commit was SVN r16087.
2007-09-11 11:28:43 +00:00
Brian Barrett
59524a9009 Fix issue where we set state to SHUTDOWN rather than CONNECTING when we
had to switch socket types.

This commit was SVN r15784.
2007-08-06 22:55:41 +00:00
Rainer Keller
2c5d07217d - Coverity: use snprintf, instead of sprintf....
This commit was SVN r15669.
2007-07-29 11:23:23 +00:00
Brian Barrett
5b9fa7e998 reapply r15517 and r15520, which were removed in r15527 so that I could get
the RML/OOB merge in slightly easier

This commit was SVN r15530.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r15517 --> open-mpi/ompi@41977fcc95
  r15520 --> open-mpi/ompi@9cbc9df1b8
  r15527 --> open-mpi/ompi@2d17dd9516
2007-07-20 02:34:29 +00:00
Brian Barrett
39a6057fc6 A number of improvements / changes to the RML/OOB layers:
* General TCP cleanup for OPAL / ORTE
  * Simplifying the OOB by moving much of the logic into the RML
  * Allowing the OOB RML component to do routing of messages
  * Adding a component framework for handling routing tables
  * Moving the xcast functionality from the OOB base to its own framework

Includes merge from tmp/bwb-oob-rml-merge revisions:

    r15506, r15507, r15508, r15510, r15511, r15512, r15513

This commit was SVN r15528.

The following SVN revisions from the original message are invalid or
inconsistent and therefore were not cross-referenced:
  r15506
  r15507
  r15508
  r15510
  r15511
  r15512
  r15513
2007-07-20 01:34:02 +00:00
Brian Barrett
2d17dd9516 temporarily back our r15517 and 15520 so that I can get the RML / OOB changes
to cleanly apply

This commit was SVN r15527.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r15517 --> open-mpi/ompi@41977fcc95
2007-07-20 01:10:34 +00:00
Ralph Castain
41977fcc95 Remove the cellid field from the orte_process_name_t structure. This only affects a handful of files in itself, but...
Cleanup ALL instances of output involving the printing of orte_process_name_t structures using the ORTE_NAME_ARGS macro so that the number of fields and type of data match. Replace those values with a new macro/function pair ORTE_NAME_PRINT that outputs a string (using the new thread safe data capability) so that any future changes to the printing of those structures can be accomplished with a change to a single point.

Note that I could not possibly find outputs that directly print the orte_process_name_t fields, but only dealt with those that used ORTE_NAME_ARGS. Hence, you may still have a few outputs that bark during compilation. Also, I could only verify those that fall within environments I can compile on, so other environments may yield some minor warnings.

This commit was SVN r15517.
2007-07-19 20:56:46 +00:00
Brian Barrett
1d02b9e7b5 Fix a bunch of issues exposed by Ken Cain in getting Open MPI to work with
VxWorks.  Still some issues remaining, I'm sure.

Refs trac:1010

This commit was SVN r15320.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1010 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1010
2007-07-10 03:46:57 +00:00
Tim Prins
1467558157 Cleanup a couple warnings.
Update svn:ignore

This commit was SVN r15009.
2007-06-12 14:11:06 +00:00