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Ralph Castain
f1951e7ccd If we are abnormally terminating, then don't wait for orteds to report back. Send them a "halt_vm" command, which instructs them to kill their local procs and immediately terminate, doing their best to cleanup on the way out.
Also do a little cleanup on debug output in rshbase.

This commit was SVN r25033.
2011-08-09 17:42:19 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
f43862420c Convert the bad dos line endings to unix style for all windows related files.
This commit was SVN r24137.
2010-12-02 12:08:08 +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
Shiqing Fan
199df1eadf Rename a few var names.
This commit was SVN r23959.
2010-10-27 11:52:57 +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
40a2bfa238 WARNING: Work on the temp branch being merged here encountered problems with bugs in subversion. Considerable effort has gone into validating the branch. However, not all conditions can be checked, so users are cautioned that it may be advisable to not update from the trunk for a few days to allow MTT to identify platform-specific issues.
This merges the branch containing the revamped build system based around converting autogen from a bash script to a Perl program. Jeff has provided emails explaining the features contained in the change.

Please note that configure requirements on components HAVE CHANGED. For example. a configure.params file is no longer required in each component directory. See Jeff's emails for an explanation.

This commit was SVN r23764.
2010-09-17 23:04:06 +00:00
Ralph Castain
12cd07c9a9 Start reducing our dependency on the event library by removing at least one instance where we use it to redirect the program counter. Rolf reported occasional hangs of mpirun in very specific circumstances after all daemons were done. A review of MTT results indicates this may have been happening more generally in a small fraction of cases.
The problem was tracked to use of the grpcomm.onesided_barrier to control daemon/mpirun termination. This relied on messaging -and- required that the program counter jump from the errmgr back to grpcomm. On rare occasions, this jump did not occur, causing mpirun to hang.

This patch looks more invasive than it is - most of the affected files simply had one or two lines removed. The essence of the change is:

* pulled the job_complete and quit routines out of orterun and orted_main and put them in a common place

* modified the errmgr to directly call the new routines when termination is detected

* removed the grpcomm.onesided_barrier and its associated RML tag

* add a new "num_routes" API to the routed framework that reports back the number of dependent routes. When route_lost is called, the daemon's list of "children" is checked and adjusted if that route went to a "leaf" in the routing tree

* use connection termination between daemons to track rollup of the daemon tree. Daemons and HNP now terminate once num_routes returns zero

Also picked up in this commit is the addition of a new bool flag to the app_context struct, and increasing the job_control field from 8 to 16 bits. Both trivial.

This commit was SVN r23429.
2010-07-17 21:03:27 +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
Shiqing Fan
76726f6094 Update a few module configuration for Windows.
This commit was SVN r23104.
2010-05-05 12:22:04 +00:00
Ralph Castain
2ff1ae13e1 Create a new "heartbeat" module in the sensor framework and move the plm_base heartbeat code there. Add new proc and job states for heartbeat_failed. Remove the "heartbeat" cmd line option for orted as this is now done automatically if the --enable-heartbeat configure option is set.
This commit was SVN r23102.
2010-05-05 00:48:43 +00:00
Ralph Castain
efbb5c9b7c Revamp the errmgr framework to provide a greater range of optional behaviors, including different behaviors for daemons, and remove several looping messages across the code base:
* add hnp and orted modules to the errmgr framework. The HNP module contains much of the code that was in the errmgr base since that code could only be executed by the HNP anyway.

* update the odls to report process states directly into the active errmgr module, thus removing the need to send messages looped back into the odls cmd processor. Let the active errmgr module decide what to do at various states.

* remove the code to track application state progress from the plm_base_launch_support.c code. Update the plm modules to call the errmgr directly when a launch fails.

* update the plm_base_receive.c code to call the errmgr with state updates from remote daemons

* update the routed modules to reflect that process state is updated in the errmgr

* ensure that the orted's open the errmgr and select their appropriate module

* add new pretty-print utilities to print process and job state. Move the pretty-print of time info to a globally-accessible place

* define a global orte_comm function to send messages from orted's to the HNP so that others can overlay the standard RML methods, if desired.

* update the orterun help output to reflect that the "term w/o sync" error message can result from three, not two, scenarios

This commit was SVN r23023.
2010-04-23 04:44:41 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
db747e4390 Remove the old timing parameter but using orte_timing instead. Thanks for Rainer.
This commit was SVN r22775.
2010-03-04 15:00:03 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
4a3f42d159 Correctly initialize the CCP command line buffer.
This commit was SVN r22721.
2010-02-26 15:53:00 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
7a5a5ce024 Add a global option for inputing the head node name for Windows CCP trough command line.
This commit was SVN r22688.
2010-02-23 19:42:51 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
872a4047ba Fix the bug that caused by ADD_DEPENDENCIES() from different version of CMake.
In CMake 2.6 and earlier, this function add dependencies for targets and also link the target libraries automatically, but in CMake 2.8,this behavior has been changed, i.e. it will only add the dependencies but no link, which will cause linking errors at compilation time.

This commit was SVN r22405.
2010-01-14 18:10:20 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
7dff65cbc9 Clean up a little bit.
Add an option for setting up the job name.

This commit was SVN r22053.
2009-10-06 07:52:43 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
fb777134cf Adjust the command string length.
This commit was SVN r21905.
2009-08-27 13:42:55 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
ffd55631bc Deal with the case when the prefix is NULL.
This commit was SVN r21902.
2009-08-27 13:11:18 +00:00
Rainer Keller
8e1b23779f - Replace combinations of
#if defined (c_plusplus)
          defined (__cplusplus)
   followed by
      extern "C" {
   and the closing counterpart by BEGIN_C_DECLS and END_C_DECLS.

   Notable exceptions are:
    - opal/include/opal_config_bottom.h:
      This is our generated code, that itself defines BEGIN_C_DECL and
      END_C_DECL
    - ompi/mpi/cxx/mpicxx.h:
      Here we do not include opal_config_bottom.h:                                 
    - Belongs to external code:                                                    
      opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.c        
      opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.h        
    - opal/include/opal/prefetch.h:
      Has C++ specific macros that are protected:                                  

    - Had #if ... } #endif  _and_ END_C_DECLS (aka end up with 2x
      END_C_DECLS)
      ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib.h
    - opal/event/event.h has #ifdef __cplusplus as BEGIN_C_DECLS...
    - opal/win32/ompi_process.h: had extern "C"\n {...
      opal/win32/ompi_process.h: dito
    - ompi/mca/btl/pcie/btl_pcie_lex.l: needed to add *_C_DECLS
      ompi/mpi/f90/test/align_c.c: dito
    - ompi/debuggers/msgq_interface.h: used #ifdef __cplusplus
    - ompi/mpi/f90/xml/common-C.xsl: Amend

   Tested on linux using --with-openib and --with-mx

   The following do not contain either opal_config.h, orte_config.h or
   ompi_config.h
   (but possibly other header files, that include one of the above):
      ompi/mca/bml/r2/bml_r2_ft.h
      ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_proc.h
      ompi/mca/btl/mx/btl_mx_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_frag.h
      ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_proc.h
      ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib_mca.h
      ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_frag.h
      ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_proc.h
      ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_ft.h
      ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_proc.h
      ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_proc.h
      ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_eager_rdma.h
      ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_mca.h
      ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_proc.h
      ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx.h
      ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm.h
      ompi/mca/pml/cm/pml_cm_component.h
      ompi/mca/pml/csum/pml_csum_comm.h
      ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_comm.h
      ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_component.h
      ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvfrag.h
      ompi/mca/pml/example/pml_example.h
      ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_comm.h
      ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_component.h
      ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_endpoint.h
      ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_rdmafrag.h
      ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_recvfrag.h
      ompi/mca/pml/v/pml_v_output.h
      opal/include/opal/prefetch.h
      opal/mca/timer/aix/timer_aix.h
      opal/util/qsort.h
      test/support/components.h

This commit was SVN r21855.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
2009-08-20 11:42:18 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
bce2f44154 Update related .windows files with proper compiling properties, in order to have a successful DSO build.
This commit was SVN r21805.
2009-08-12 08:55:58 +00:00
George Bosilca
3e971e61f3 The system headers are supposed to be protected by #ifdef and not by #if.
This commit was SVN r21700.
2009-07-16 18:27:33 +00:00
Ralph Castain
b97f885c00 Restore the original API to terminate individual processes instead of the entire job. This was originally removed as we didn't at that time know how to take advantage of it. Some of us are now working on proactive resilience methods that move procs prior to node failure, so this is now a required API. Modify the odls, plm, and orted functions to support this new functionality.
Continue work on the resilient mapper, completing support for fault groups.

This commit was SVN r21639.
2009-07-13 02:29:17 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
656ec00611 Remove the definition of _WIN32_DCOM. It only enables DCOM when _WIN32_WINNT is less then 0x400 (Win 95, 98), and we are supporting 0x502(Win XP) and above in Open MPI. Thanks George for pointing this out.
This commit was SVN r21555.
2009-06-27 23:36:25 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
6ba25951b4 Add a separate function for reading remote registry, so that it could be easily reused.
Add two options for plm process module, i.e. remote_env_prefix for getting OMPI prefix on remote computer by reading its user environment variable (OPENMPI_HOME), and remote_reg_prefix is similar, but it reads the registry on the remote computer. Reading remote env prefix has a higher priority than reading reg prefix, so that user can use their own installation of OMPI.

This commit was SVN r21538.
2009-06-26 13:35:45 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
07f7fe1a1b Add two CCP params, for user specifying stdout and stderr to files.
This commit was SVN r21521.
2009-06-25 09:03:50 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
6750657a97 Change the way that we detect cluster nodes status and clean up the CCP components.
Normally, any non-windows nodes should return  NodeStatus_Unreachable, but that's not true. We have noticed that Scientific Linux cluster nodes, which are in the same subnet as the Windows nodes, return NodeStatus_PendingApproval value, and the RAS CCP takes them as Windows nodes. So let's just use the "Ready" nodes.

This commit was SVN r21510.
2009-06-24 19:15:15 +00:00
Ralph Castain
0336460b0a Continue implementation of resilient operations by supporting reuse of jobids for restarted procs. Ensure that restarted processes have valid node and local ranks, and that node rank values are passed to direct-launched processes.
This commit was SVN r21385.
2009-06-06 01:08:47 +00:00
Ralph Castain
f139cfd28a Fully enable the use of static ports to minimize connections on mpirun. When static ports are provided, daemons will automatically use routes defined by the selected routed module to callback to mpirun during startup, thus elimating the dedicated daemon-to-mpirun connection. Therefore, the total number of connections on mpirun will equal the fanout of the routed module (instead of #nodes in job).
Add a new tm ess module that exploits this capability.

Update the various plm modules to enable it - just a minor change reflecting an added param to a plm base function.

Additional fixes included:

1. remove an erroneous cleanup of session directories in the tool finalize procedure - tools don't create session directories to begin with!

2. fix a duplicate free when attempting to execute a non-existent app

3. cleanup an typo in the comm utilities 

4. fix comm_spawn - was perturbed by the changes in pack/unpack of orte_job_t to properly support orte-ps

Been tested on slurm and tm machines, using all tests in orte/test/mpi. May run into issue with command line length on large jobs due to inclusion of node info to support static ports - will fix this next with addition of regexp generator to compress that info.

This commit was SVN r21248.
2009-05-16 04:15:55 +00:00
Ralph Castain
c45ff0d59f Take the next step towards fully utilizing static ports for the daemons to eliminate the initial "phone home" to mpirun by modifying the orted termination procedure to eliminate the need for a full barrier-like operation. Instead, we add a "onesided" barrier to the grpcomm framework API that releases the orted once it has completed its own contribution to the barrier - i.e., the orteds now exit as the "ack" message rolls up towards mpirun instead of sending the "ack" directly to mpirun.
This causes the orteds in the routing tree to remain alive until all termination "acks" from orteds below them have passed through. Thus, if we use static ports, we no longer require a direct orted-to-mpirun connection.

Also modify the binomial routed module so it conforms to what all the other routed modules do and have all messages pass along the routing tree instead of short-circuiting between orteds. This further reduces the number of ports being opened on backend nodes.

This commit was SVN r21203.
2009-05-11 14:11:44 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
cd565923d3 Completely remove ltdl support for Windows build.
This commit was SVN r21170.
2009-05-05 18:59:13 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4be24521aa Modify the orte_process_info structure to handle a broader range of process types by replacing the individual booleans with a 32-bit bitmap. Use a set of #define's to define the individual bits, and a set of matching macros to test for them. Update the orte code base to use the macros instead of the booleans.
Minor mod to the ompi layer to use the new #define's - just one-line name replacements.

This commit was SVN r21144.
2009-05-04 11:07:40 +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
Shiqing Fan
4067d739b4 Add a new CMake module for finding Windows CCP libraries, so that we can remove the library files in the source tree.
This commit was SVN r21071.
2009-04-24 16:51:31 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
d8f61695cd Remove a few .ompi_ignore, and add configure scripts, so that the source files of these components will be put into the tarball.
This commit was SVN r21070.
2009-04-24 16:49:01 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
3d4e0472d6 Add windows support files into the tarball, including .windows, CMakeLists.txt files, and CMake modules. Thanks to Jeff for testing it on Linux.
This commit was SVN r21069.
2009-04-24 16:39:33 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
ddc82f3831 Correct the output global variables.
This commit was SVN r20745.
2009-03-06 15:31:12 +00:00
Rainer Keller
ec0ed48718 - Revert r20739
This commit was SVN r20742.

The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
  r20739 --> open-mpi/ompi@781caee0b6
2009-03-05 21:56:03 +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
781caee0b6 - First of two or three patches, in orte/util/proc_info.h:
Adapt orte_process_info to orte_proc_info, and
   change orte_proc_info() to orte_proc_info_init().
 - Compiled on linux-x86-64
 - Discussed with Ralph

This commit was SVN r20739.
2009-03-05 20:36:44 +00:00
Rainer Keller
04567d3af0 - Header orte/mca/errmgr/errmgr.h is not needed.
Once again compiles fine with -Wimplicit-function-declaration   

This commit was SVN r20640.
2009-02-26 04:05:30 +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
Shiqing Fan
8673f19f50 - 2/4 commit for Windows Visual Studio and CCP support:
changes to the already existing ccp components
  event/win32.c: merge old FD handling into new
  opal_installdirs_windows.c:fix the registry handling

This commit was SVN r20109.
2008-12-10 21:01:54 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
a5281f0434 - 1/4 commit for Windows Visual Studio and CCP support:
CMakeLists and .windows files.
  In contribs preconfigured and precompiled parts.

This commit was SVN r20108.
2008-12-10 20:59:20 +00:00
Jeff Squyres
f4ba25cf3c Remove linking components against ORTE and OPAL libs. This was
removed from all other components long ago; I'm not sure how these
survived.

This commit was SVN r19956.
2008-11-08 00:56:57 +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
9b8473fdbf Cleanup orted cmd line - we don't need to pass nodenames, and shouldn't pass heartbeat unless the orted is going to use it. This helps shorten the cmd line for future use.
Cleanup when an orted actually opens the PLM. Unfortunately, some unmentionable people are pushing head node environs out to remote nodes, causing the daemons to think they are the HNP. This helps prevent the confusion.

This commit was SVN r19518.
2008-09-08 15:45:11 +00:00
Shiqing Fan
cd6ff74d89 Update the ccp module:
rename the get_cluster_message function for both ras/plm.
  use _umask instead of umask.
  add WIN32_DCOM definition to support Windows Vista.

This commit was SVN r19470.
2008-09-01 16:35:38 +00:00
Ralph Castain
4e0f34a062 When we hit an error prior to actually launching daemons, it would be nice if orterun didn't bark about daemons failing to launch, mpirun detecting a job failed, etc.
Add a new job state to indicate that we never attempted to launch. Flag such a scenario and avoid hitting all the other error messages.

This commit was SVN r19366.
2008-08-19 15:19:30 +00:00
Ralph Castain
a62b2a0150 Per the July technical meeting:
Standardize the handling of the orte launch agent option across PLMs. This has been a consistent complaint I have received - each PLM would register its own MCA param to get input on the launch agent for remote nodes (in fact, one or two didn't, but most did). This would then get handled in various and contradictory ways.

Some PLMs would accept only a one-word input. Others accepted multi-word args such as "valgrind orted", but then some would error by putting any prefix specified on the cmd line in front of the incorrect argument.

For example, while using the rsh launcher, if you specified "valgrind orted" as your launch agent and had "--prefix foo" on you cmd line, you would attempt to execute "ssh foo/valgrind orted" - which obviously wouldn't work.

This was all -very- confusing to users, who had to know which PLM was being used so they could even set the right mca param in the first place! And since we don't warn about non-recognized or non-used mca params, half of the time they would wind up not doing what they thought they were telling us to do.

To solve this problem, we did the following:

1. removed all mca params from the individual plms for the launch agent

2. added a new mca param "orte_launch_agent" for this purpose. To further simplify for users, this comes with a new cmd line option "--launch-agent" that can take a multi-word string argument. The value of the param defaults to "orted".

3. added a PLM base function that processes the orte_launch_agent value and adds the contents to a provided argv array. This can subsequently be harvested at-will to handle multi-word values

4. modified the PLMs to use this new function. All the PLMs except for the rsh PLM required very minor change - just called the function and moved on. The rsh PLM required much larger changes as - because of the rsh/ssh cmd line limitations - we had to correctly prepend any provided prefix to the correct argv entry.

5. added a new opal_argv_join_range function that allows the caller to "join" argv entries between two specified indices

Please let me know of any problems. I tried to make this as clean as possible, but cannot compile all PLMs to ensure all is correct.

This commit was SVN r19097.
2008-07-30 18:26:24 +00:00