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 The modex stage gate (STG1) has been replaced by a collective operation in the modex itself that performs an allgather on the required modex info.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The other stage gates have been replaced by orte_grpcomm barrier functions.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.
in all cases. This is now done in the oob tcp open function.
As a result, the unregistering have to be done in the close
function.
This commit was SVN r15603.
* 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.
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r15511
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r15513
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.
Short description: major changes include -
1. singletons now fork/exec a local daemon to manage their operations.
2. the orte daemon code now resides in libopen-rte
3. daemons no longer use the orte triggering system during startup. Instead, they directly call back to their parent pls component to report ready to operate. A base function to count the callbacks has been provided.
I have modified all the pls components except xcpu and poe (don't understand either well enough to do it). Full functionality has been verified for rsh, SLURM, and TM systems. Compile has been verified for xgrid and gridengine.
This commit was SVN r15390.
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
the multiple threads accessing the OOB/registry asynchronously via the
callbacks. The quickest solution (but definitively not the cleanest) is
to serialize these callbacks in such a way that at any given time
only one thread can execute a callbacks.
This commit was SVN r15086.
through the win dll using multiple threads, we have to insure that
the oob callbacks happens only in a synchronous way or really bad
things happens with the current design (blocking messages from a receive
callback).
This commit was SVN r15069.
single threaded builds. In its default configuration, all this does
is ensure that there's at least a good chance of threads building
based on non-threaded development (since the variable names will be
checked). There is also code to make sure that a "mutex" is never
"double locked" when using the conditional macro mutex operations.
This is off by default because there are a number of places in both
ORTE and OMPI where this alarm spews mega bytes of errors on a
simple test. So we have some work to do on our path towards
thread support.
Also removed the macro versions of the non-conditional thread locks,
as the only places they were used, the author of the code intended
to use the conditional thread locks. So now you have upper-case
macros for conditional thread locks and lowercase functions for
non-conditional locks. Simple, right? :).
This commit was SVN r15011.
structures in the system. Instead of using memcmp, use the ns function.
This won't cause a problem as long as all three elements of the name are
ints, but if they have different sizes, alignment and padding rules
can cause memcmp() to compare padding space, which rarely holds a sane
value.
This commit was SVN r14998.
Rename the oob_tcp_include and oob_tcp_exclude MCA parameters to be
oob_tcp_if_include and oob_tcp_if_exclude (to match the convention
with btl_tcp_if_[in|ex]clude). Keep "hidden" synonyms oob_tcp_include
and oob_tcp_exclude in case anyone is actually using them (and some
users undoubtedly are), but do not have them show up in ompi_info
--param output. Instead, the new "oob_tcp_if_*" names will show up in
ompi_info output.
This commit was SVN r14746.
The primary change that underlies all this is in the OOB. Specifically, the problem in the code until now has been that the OOB attempts to resolve an address when we call the "send" to an unknown recipient. The OOB would then wait forever if that recipient never actually started (and hence, never reported back its OOB contact info). In the case of an orted that failed to start, we would correctly detect that the orted hadn't started, but then we would attempt to order all orteds (including the one that failed to start) to die. This would cause the OOB to "hang" the system.
Unfortunately, revising how the OOB resolves addresses introduced a number of additional problems. Specifically, and most troublesome, was the fact that comm_spawn involved the immediate transmission of the rendezvous point from parent-to-child after the child was spawned. The current code used the OOB address resolution as a "barrier" - basically, the parent would attempt to send the info to the child, and then "hold" there until the child's contact info had arrived (meaning the child had started) and the send could be completed.
Note that this also caused comm_spawn to "hang" the entire system if the child never started... The app-failed-to-start helped improve that behavior - this code provides additional relief.
With this change, the OOB will return an ADDRESSEE_UNKNOWN error if you attempt to send to a recipient whose contact info isn't already in the OOB's hash tables. To resolve comm_spawn issues, we also now force the cross-sharing of connection info between parent and child jobs during spawn.
Finally, to aid in setting triggers to the right values, we introduce the "arith" API for the GPR. This function allows you to atomically change the value in a registry location (either divide, multiply, add, or subtract) by the provided operand. It is equivalent to first fetching the value using a "get", then modifying it, and then putting the result back into the registry via a "put".
This commit was SVN r14711.
* Move ipv6comat.h code into opal_config_bottom.h and change into some
more intelligent testing of structures
* Change opal's if interface to use sockaddr instead of sockaddr_storage,
as the RFCs suggest we do
* Move the networking code in opal that isn't directly related to if
detection into net.h
* Add quicky function to get the port out of either a sockaddr_in
or sockaddr_in6, saving a bunch of code in the oob.
* Update TCP oob and btl with new interface
This commit was SVN r14679.
assumptions in the FT restart code for the ORTE layer.
This fixes those problems by having the RML completely shutdown and
restart the OOB framework (instead of just the module as before).
This makes it much easier to manage, and maintainable as the OOB
changes in the future.
The SDS now does communication as part of its startup procedure, so
we need to make sure we restart the RML before the SDS so that it can
communicate properly.
OOB base [close|open] used a static bool to determine if they have
been called previously or not. I needed to expose this boolean so
that I can close() then open() the oob base in the restart procedure.
The functionality has not changed, we just now have the ability to
open/close the framework as many times as we need to as long as we
always call them in that order. (So calling open twice in a row is not allowed
as before, it is only allowed if you open(), close(), then open() again).
Things seem to be working now.
This commit was SVN r14515.
- make opal_sockaddr2str() take a sockaddr_storage instead of a sockaddr_in6
so that it works for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and remove a whole bunch
of #ifs in the OOOB code.
- Fix a compiler warning in the TCP BTL due to run-time determined
array size by making it a dynamicly allocated array.
- Fix the unpacking code of IPv4 addresses when using IPv6 support, so
that the address is in the correct location (instead of in an IPv6
structure, use an IPv4 structure). Refs trac:1005.
This commit was SVN r14514.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1005 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1005
Per discussions with Brian and Ralph, make a slight correction in
where components are installed. Use $pkglibdir, not $libdir/openmpi,
so that when compiled in the orte trunk, components are installed to
the right directory (because the component search patch is checking
$pkglibdir).
This commit was SVN r14345.
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* Remove the connect() timeout code, as it had some nasty race conditions
when connections were established as the trigger was firing. A better
solution has been found for the cluster where this was needed, so just
removing it was easiest.
* When a fatal error (too many connection failures) occurs, set an error
on messages in the queue even if there isn't an active message. The
first message to any peer will be queued without being active (and
so will all subsequent messages until the connection is established),
and the orteds will hang until that first message completes. So if
an orted can never contact it's peer, it will never exit and just sit
waiting for that message to complete.
* Cover an interesting RST condition in the connect code. A connection
can complete the three-way handshake, the connector can even send
some data, but the server side will drop the connection because it
can't move it from the half-connected to fully-connected state because
of space shortage in the listen backlog queue. This causes a RST to
be received first time that recv() is called, which will be when waiting
for the remote side of the OOB ack. In this case, transition the
connection back into a CLOSED state and try to connect again.
* Add levels of debugging, rather than all or nothing, each building on
the previous level. 0 (default) is hard errors. 1 is connection
error debugging info. 2 is all connection info. 3 is more state
info. 4 includes all message info.
* Add some hopefully useful comments
This commit was SVN r14261.
OPAL_FREE_LIST_WAIT/RETURN will not use locks in a non-threaded build
conditionaly use locks if non-threaded around the OPAL_FREE_LIST_WAIT/RETURN
seems to fix the issue
Tested at 4K processes and seems to work..
This commit was SVN r14135.
listen thread, but we're not the HNP. This is better than not starting up
any listen mode, which is what we were doing before :/
This commit was SVN r14133.
This merge adds Checkpoint/Restart support to Open MPI. The initial
frameworks and components support a LAM/MPI-like implementation.
This commit follows the risk assessment presented to the Open MPI core
development group on Feb. 22, 2007.
This commit closes trac:158
More details to follow.
This commit was SVN r14051.
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The following Trac tickets were found above:
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its bigger than the timeout for the connect() call, just don't register
the handler by default and fall back to connect() timing out. Should give
much happier performance on big clusters.
This commit was SVN r13639.
the connect() timeout, so that we'll use that rather than our own timeout by
defualt. There timeout was set low for Big Red, but causes problems for very
large clusters, as there's no way to wire them up in 10 seconds most of the
time.
This commit was SVN r13062.
components that use configure.m4 for configuration or are always built.
The macro has not been needed since moving to configure types other than
configure.stub
Fixes trac:590
This commit was SVN r13031.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 590 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/590
I know it's just a technicality, but it is time to address such things rather than just letting them continue to propagate. :-)
This commit was SVN r12954.
I found only two places that were looking at the tokens:
1. the odls - we used the tokens to separately process the globals container data from everything else. In this case, I left the subscription that returned the globals data alone, but "stripped" the subscription that returned the launch data for the procs. These subscriptions have nothing to do with the xcast message.
2. the pml_base_modex - the callback function was getting process names from the returned tokens. Actually, this function was doing a very bad thing - it was assuming that the first token returned was *always* the process name. This is currently true, but is one of those assumptions that someone could have easily changed - and suddenly found the system inexplicably failing. I modified the function to (a) get the name sent back to us, (b) "stripped" the value structures of tokens and segment strings, and (c) correctly obtained process names from the returned values. I also reindented the heck out of the code so it was legible (at least, to my old eyes).
This commit was SVN r12813.
because they are in ORTE, not OMPI. Also, remove the ORTE_PROCESS_NAME macros
in iof base as they are duplicates of the ones that were in ns_types, which
meant that bad things happened if you changed what an orte_process_name_t
looked like.
This commit was SVN r12646.
Accordingly, there are new APIs to the name service to support the ability to get a job's parent, root, immediate children, and all its descendants. In addition, the terminate_job, terminate_orted, and signal_job APIs for the PLS have been modified to accept attributes that define the extent of their actions. For example, doing a "terminate_job" with an attribute of ORTE_NS_INCLUDE_DESCENDANTS will terminate the given jobid AND all jobs that descended from it.
I have tested this capability on a MacBook under rsh, Odin under SLURM, and LANL's Flash (bproc). It worked successfully on non-MPI jobs (both simple and including a spawn), and MPI jobs (again, both simple and with a spawn).
This commit was SVN r12597.
packing a sockaddr_in, as there are some endianness and padding issues
with sending a sockaddr_in. Note that the sin_port and sin_addr are
already in network byte order, which is why we pack them as a byte
string.
Refs trac:493
This commit was SVN r12301.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
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seed value have something set to true. Allow selection of the listen
type to thread if (and only if) the process is the HNP...
This commit was SVN r12105.
__DARWIN_ALIGN_POWER define from the last release of the OS X compiler
toolchain. The bug in net/if.h, however, is still there. So look
for the hints that we're on a 64 bit Apple PowerPC instead.
* If we don't find a buffer size that works by 10MB, we're never
going to. So add some code to limit the buffer size we'll try
so that we don't fall into an infinite loop
* Detect errors in opal_ifcount in the oob init code
Refs trac:420
This commit was SVN r11825.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 420 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/420
We were still waiting the entire duration of the timeout before we figured out that a connect() was successful. Re-introduce adding the peer_send_event so that we detect immediately when a connect() completes.
Also make sure to delete the timeout event in complete_connect().
Fixed a struct timeval initialization warning reported by Jeff.
Remove an erroneous opal_output().
This commit was SVN r11724.
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Each 's' partition has its own TCP network. It's fine to use this network for jobs that fit inside the partition, but the TCP OOB errors when trying to connect across two partitions, because there are two disjoint networks. Each node also has another TCP network connecting ALL nodes together.
So the solution is to actually try all the available TCP interfaces on a node, instead of erroring when the first one fails.
Also, the default TCP connect() timeout is way too long (5 minutes) - use our own timeout mechanism, with the timeout value expressed as an MCA parameter.
This commit was SVN r11718.
- use the OPAL functions for PATH and environment variables
- make all headers C++ friendly
- no unamed structures
- no implicit cast.
Plus a full implementation for the orte_wait functions.
This commit was SVN r11347.
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.
Clean up the remainder of the size_t references in the runtime itself. Convert to orte_std_cntr_t wherever it makes sense (only avoid those places where the actual memory size is referenced).
Remove the obsolete oob barrier function (we actually obsoleted it a long time ago - just never bothered to clean it up).
I have done my best to go through all the components and catch everything, even if I couldn't test compile them since I wasn't on that type of system. Still, I cannot guarantee that problems won't show up when you test this on specific systems. Usually, these will just show as "warning: comparison between signed and unsigned" notes which are easily fixed (just change a size_t to orte_std_cntr_t).
In some places, people didn't use size_t, but instead used some other variant (e.g., I found several places with uint32_t). I tried to catch all of them, but...
Once we get all the instances caught and fixed, this should once and for all resolve many of the heterogeneity problems.
This commit was SVN r11204.
r10841, so revert it (and it's fixes) out. Will bring back once cleaned up from
the code used in the tbird experiment
This commit was SVN r10991.
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handler before the write() and de-register it afterwards. Determine
if the write() succeeded or failed by the return of write().
This commit was SVN r10858.
than $(LN_S). This causes problems with with Windows and probably
elsewhere (re: #200). So use a slightly different trick to get the
right header selected for the MEMCPY and TIMER components.
* Using the same trick used to solve the AC_CONFIG_LINKS problem,
stop using a separate header file for direct calling in the
PML and MTL. This lets me remove some icky code in ompi_mca.m4
that was more fragile than I really liked.
This commit was SVN r10841.
Since Jeff and I are going to a branch for T-bird, we have restored the trunk to its prior state to avoid any possibility of disturbing it.
This commit was SVN r10774.
Please report any abnormal behavior during launch, though, as we would like to understand what (if any) impact is seen. I couldn't see any on small jobs (the modulo functions render this number down pretty low).
This commit was SVN r10763.
copy of the receive buffer based on the iovec struct that may have been updated
during partial reads to reflect the current offset. Need to make the copy using
the base address of the buffer.
Thanks to Sven Stork for finding this.
This should be backported to 1.0.X and 1.1.X branches.
This commit was SVN r9749.
thread, which will do progress independently of MPI. So in this case we
have to call opal_event_loop instead of opal_progress.
This commit was SVN r9551.
event library (since the event library has its own thread). So when
we are using progress threads, we really want to call opal_event_loop()
and not opal_progres().
This commit was SVN r9549.
- moved hton64 and ntoh64 from the bunch of places it had been copied
into one header file
- properly set and use the btl_tcp's nbo option to put things in
network byte order on the wire if both sides don't have the same
endianness
- Put the OB1 PML's headers (with a couple exceptions I need to discuss
with Tim) in network byte order on the wire if both sides don't have
the same endianness
- since it was needed for the TCP BTL, move the orte_process_name_t
HTON and NTOH macros from the TCP OOB to ns_types.h
This commit was SVN r9145.
- 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.
intended to include the OMPI_DEBUG_ZERO call).
These debugging statements should not have affected correcteness
because the value of 78 will be overridden in the read() and the
assert()/abort() stuff will only be triggered on an error which should
never happen (i.e., the error should have been handled by the prior if
conditional). But still, thise code should not be there.
This commit was SVN r8649.
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some orted's to stall on locks in the MPI Dynamics cases. Since it
is not essentual that we call these functions, they can so away.
Unlock the peer lock when aborting. This causes a potential deadlock
in do_waitall [see comment in code]. This was causing orteds to
deadlock at times when the seed had terminated. With proper interleaving
and timing the orted was deadlocking. This seems to have fixed this in
my stress testing with MPI 2 Dynamics.
This commit was SVN r7539.
with the mutex locked and as this function will call oob_send which will call the lookup again
... we will deadlock as the mutex is already lock. The solution is to release the mutex before
going into the subscription. Then of course the logic to remote the item when something went
wrong with the subscrition is a little bit more complex.
This commit was SVN r7429.
However we do want to do a bit of cleanup on the node before we exit,
specificly clean out the session directory. I also had a couple of the
subsystems that don't depend upon peers (which is key) clean up as well.
Pedantic formatting issue in oob_tcp.h
This commit was SVN r7387.
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, instead of the deprecated version.
* Work around dumbness in modern AC_INIT that requires the version
number to be set at autoconf time (instead of at configure time, as
it was before). Set the version number, minus the subversion r number,
at autoconf time. Override the internal variables to include the r
number (if needed) at configure time. Basically, the right thing
should always happen. The only place it might not is the version
reported as part of configure --help will not have an r number.
* Since AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE taks a list of options, no need to specify
them in all the Makefile.am files.
* Addes support for subdir-objects, meaning that object files are put
in the directory containing source files, even if the Makefile.am is
in another directory. This should start making it feasible to
reduce the number of Makefile.am files we have in the tree, which
will greatly reduce the time to run autogen and configure.
This commit was SVN r7211.
CTRL-C'd.
We were calling orte_finalize recursively which caused a segv when it tried to
use a freed framework (orte_rmgr in this case).
I added a status flag to orte_universe_info to indicate where we are in the code.
This was needed to determine if we should call orte_abort or not when shutting
down in the tcp oob.
This commit was SVN r7160.
Here's the huge registry check-in you've all been waiting for with baited breath. The revised version sends a single message to all processes at the various stage gates, thus making the startup much more scalable. I could provide you with all the tawdry details, but won't for now - you are welcome to ask, though, and I'll merrily bore your ears to tears.
In addition, the commit contains the following:
1. set the ignore properties on ompi/debuggers and orte/mca/pls/poe
2. Added simplified subscribe and put functions to the registry's API. I have also converted all of the ompi functions that registered subscriptions to the new API, and caught their associated put's as well.
In a follow-on commit, I'll be adding support for George's hetero arch registry subscription (wanted to get this one in first).
This commit was SVN r7118.
This required a little fiddling with a number of areas. Biggest problem was that it uncovered a potential for an infinite loop to be created in the registry. If a callback function modified the registry, the registry checked the triggers to see if anything had fired. Well, if the original callback was due to a trigger firing, that condition hadn't changed - so the trigger fired again....which caused the callback to be called, which modified the registry, which checked the triggers, etc. etc.
Triggers are now checked and then "flagged" as being "in process" so that the registry will NOT recheck that trigger until all callbacks have been processed. Tried doing this with subscriptions as well, but that caused a problem - when we release processes from a stagegate, they (at the moment) immediately place data on the registry that should cause a subscription to fire. Unfortunately, the system will just hang if that subscription doesn't get processed. So, I have left the subscription system alone - any callback function that modifies the registry in a fashion that will fire a subscription will indeed fire that subscription. We'll have to see if this causes problems - it shouldn't, but a careless user could lock things up if the callback generates a callback to itself.
Also fixed the code that placed a process' RML contact info on the registry to eliminate the leading '/' from the string.
This commit was SVN r6684.
1. Modify the registry to eliminate redundant data copying for startup messages.
2. Revise the subscription/trigger system to avoid redundant storage of triggers and subscriptions. This dramatically reduces the search time when a registry action occurs - to illustrate the point, there are now only a handful of triggers on the system for each job. Before, there were a handful of triggers for each PROCESS in the job, all of which had to be checked every time something happened on the registry. This is much, much faster now.
3. Update all subscriptions to the new format. There are now "named" subscriptions - this allows you to "name" a subscription that all the processes will be using. The first one to hit the registry actually defines the subscription. From then on, any subsequent "subscribes" to the same name just cause that process to "attach" to the existing subscription. This keeps the number of subscriptions being tracked by the registry to a minimum, while ensuring that each process still gets notified.
4. Do the same for triggers.
Also fixed a duplicate subscription problem that was causing people to receive data equal to the number of processes times the data they should have received from a trigger/subscription. Sorry about that... :-( ...but it's all better now!
Uncovered a situation where the modex data seems to be getting entered on the registry a second time - the latter time coming after the compound command has been "fired", thereby causing all the subscriptions to fire. Asked Tim and Jeff to look into this.
Second phase of the changes will involve modifying the xcast system so that the same message gets sent to all processes. This will further reduce the message traffic, and - once we have a true "broadcast" version of xcast - really speed things up and improve scalability.
This commit was SVN r6542.
sockaddr_in - seems to be a good indicator)
* disable util/if code if no inet devices (again, no sockaddr_in)
* add enable/disable flag to disable stacktrace pretty-print code
(defaults to enabled). Seems there's something funky going on with
the preprocessor on Red Storm that was causing problems - this was
the easiest fix
* clean up a bunch of the configure.m4 files to remove bogus comments,
properly comment them, fix the dumb logic for happy/unhappy
* Create a macro for testing both header and library for a package,
since we seem to do this kind of test quite often. Handles the
-I and -L search paths properly (including stripping out /usr and
/usr/local if not needed)
* Converted mvapi components to configure.m4, using the nice new
ompi_check_package macro (above)
This commit was SVN r6454.
* rename ompi_malloc to opal_malloc
* rename ompi_numtostr to opal_numtostr
* start of rename of ompi_environ to opal_environ
This commit was SVN r6332.
