WHAT: Open our low-level communication infrastructure by moving all necessary components (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool) down in OPAL
All the components required for inter-process communications are currently deeply integrated in the OMPI layer. Several groups/institutions have express interest in having a more generic communication infrastructure, without all the OMPI layer dependencies. This communication layer should be made available at a different software level, available to all layers in the Open MPI software stack. As an example, our ORTE layer could replace the current OOB and instead use the BTL directly, gaining access to more reactive network interfaces than TCP. Similarly, external software libraries could take advantage of our highly optimized AM (active message) communication layer for their own purpose. UTK with support from Sandia, developped a version of Open MPI where the entire communication infrastucture has been moved down to OPAL (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool). Most of the moved components have been updated to match the new schema, with few exceptions (mainly BTLs where I have no way of compiling/testing them). Thus, the completion of this RFC is tied to being able to completing this move for all BTLs. For this we need help from the rest of the Open MPI community, especially those supporting some of the BTLs. A non-exhaustive list of BTLs that qualify here is: mx, portals4, scif, udapl, ugni, usnic.
This commit was SVN r32317.
We were still leaking 1) file descriptors for data files, and 2) some
control files. I fixed both of these leaks and everything is looking
good. This should fix the bug where we are running out of file
descriptors when running the loop_spawn test. I also too the
opportunity to refactor the code a bit to make the mapping/unmapping
simpler. This should help avoid these sorts of issues in the future.
Depends on #4678
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=manjugv
This commit was SVN r31893.
Basesmuma was vallocing space for control data then mmapping over that
data. Nothing in the code suggests any need for mmapping a specific
address so I did the following to remove the leak:
- Removed the valloc of the buffer space
- ftruncate the mmaped file to ensure there is sufficient memory to
allocate space for the control data.
Ideally this code should be using opal/shmem but that is a larger
change. Keeping it simple for now.
cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=manjugv
This commit was SVN r31822.
This is hot-fix patch for the issue reported by Ralph.
In future we plan to restructure ml data structure layout.
Tested by Nathan.
cmr=v1.7.5:ticket=trac:4158
This commit was SVN r30619.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4158
Several changes are contained in this commit:
- Clean up tabs and trailing whitespaces
- Use consistent indentation in changed files
- Remove unused code. None of the removed code will ever have been
used in a trunk build.
- Clean up the smcm code quite a bit
- Do not fflush stderr and use opal_output instead of fprintf.
These changes have been tested on Cray XE-6 and PSM systems.
cmr=v1.7.5:ticket=trac:4158
This commit was SVN r30533.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 4158 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4158
Features:
- Support for an override parameter file (openmpi-mca-param-override.conf).
Variable values in this file can not be overridden by any file or environment
value.
- Support for boolean, unsigned, and unsigned long long variables.
- Support for true/false values.
- Support for enumerations on integer variables.
- Support for MPIT scope, verbosity, and binding.
- Support for command line source.
- Support for setting variable source via the environment using
OMPI_MCA_SOURCE_<var name>=source (either command or file:filename)
- Cleaner API.
- Support for variable groups (equivalent to MPIT categories).
Notes:
- Variables must be created with a backing store (char **, int *, or bool *)
that must live at least as long as the variable.
- Creating a variable with the MCA_BASE_VAR_FLAG_SETTABLE enables the use of
mca_base_var_set_value() to change the value.
- String values are duplicated when the variable is registered. It is up to
the caller to free the original value if necessary. The new value will be
freed by the mca_base_var system and must not be freed by the user.
- Variables with constant scope may not be settable.
- Variable groups (and all associated variables) are deregistered when the
component is closed or the component repository item is freed. This
prevents a segmentation fault from accessing a variable after its component
is unloaded.
- After some discussion we decided we should remove the automatic registration
of component priority variables. Few component actually made use of this
feature.
- The enumerator interface was updated to be general enough to handle
future uses of the interface.
- The code to generate ompi_info output has been moved into the MCA variable
system. See mca_base_var_dump().
opal: update core and components to mca_base_var system
orte: update core and components to mca_base_var system
ompi: update core and components to mca_base_var system
This commit also modifies the rmaps framework. The following variables were
moved from ppr and lama: rmaps_base_pernode, rmaps_base_n_pernode,
rmaps_base_n_persocket. Both lama and ppr create synonyms for these variables.
This commit was SVN r28236.
It appears the problem was not with the command line parser but the rsh plm. I don't know why this problem was not occuring before the command line parser changes but it appears to be resolved now.
This commit was SVN r27527.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27451 --> open-mpi/ompi@d59034e6ef
r27456 --> open-mpi/ompi@ecdbf34937
The project includes following components and frameworks:
- ML Collective component
- NETPATTERNS and COMMPATTERNS common components
- BCOL framework
- SBGP framework
Note: By default the ML collective component is disabled. In order to enable
new collectives user should bump up the priority of ml component (coll_ml_priority)
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Primary Contributors (in alphabetical order):
Ishai Rabinovich (Mellanox)
Joshua S. Ladd (ORNL / Mellanox)
Manjunath Gorentla Venkata (ORNL)
Mike Dubman (Mellanox)
Noam Bloch (Mellanox)
Pavel (Pasha) Shamis (ORNL / Mellanox)
Richard Graham (ORNL / Mellanox)
Vasily Filipov (Mellanox)
This commit was SVN r27078.
