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openmpi/orte/mca/ess/ess.h
Ralph Castain a200e4f865 As per the RFC, bring in the ORTE async progress code and the rewrite of OOB:
*** THIS RFC INCLUDES A MINOR CHANGE TO THE MPI-RTE INTERFACE ***

Note: during the course of this work, it was necessary to completely separate the MPI and RTE progress engines. There were multiple places in the MPI layer where ORTE_WAIT_FOR_COMPLETION was being used. A new OMPI_WAIT_FOR_COMPLETION macro was created (defined in ompi/mca/rte/rte.h) that simply cycles across opal_progress until the provided flag becomes false. Places where the MPI layer blocked waiting for RTE to complete an event have been modified to use this macro.

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I am reissuing this RFC because of the time that has passed since its original release. Since its initial release and review, I have debugged it further to ensure it fully supports tests like loop_spawn. It therefore seems ready for merge back to the trunk. Given its prior review, I have set the timeout for one week.

The code is in  https://bitbucket.org/rhc/ompi-oob2


WHAT:    Rewrite of ORTE OOB

WHY:       Support asynchronous progress and a host of other features

WHEN:    Wed, August 21

SYNOPSIS:
The current OOB has served us well, but a number of limitations have been identified over the years. Specifically:

* it is only progressed when called via opal_progress, which can lead to hangs or recursive calls into libevent (which is not supported by that code)

* we've had issues when multiple NICs are available as the code doesn't "shift" messages between transports - thus, all nodes had to be available via the same TCP interface.

* the OOB "unloads" incoming opal_buffer_t objects during the transmission, thus preventing use of OBJ_RETAIN in the code when repeatedly sending the same message to multiple recipients

* there is no failover mechanism across NICs - if the selected NIC (or its attached switch) fails, we are forced to abort

* only one transport (i.e., component) can be "active"


The revised OOB resolves these problems:

* async progress is used for all application processes, with the progress thread blocking in the event library

* each available TCP NIC is supported by its own TCP module. The ability to asynchronously progress each module independently is provided, but not enabled by default (a runtime MCA parameter turns it "on")

* multi-address TCP NICs (e.g., a NIC with both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, or with virtual interfaces) are supported - reachability is determined by comparing the contact info for a peer against all addresses within the range covered by the address/mask pairs for the NIC.

* a message that arrives on one TCP NIC is automatically shifted to whatever NIC that is connected to the next "hop" if that peer cannot be reached by the incoming NIC. If no TCP module will reach the peer, then the OOB attempts to send the message via all other available components - if none can reach the peer, then an "error" is reported back to the RML, which then calls the errmgr for instructions.

* opal_buffer_t now conforms to standard object rules re OBJ_RETAIN as we no longer "unload" the incoming object

* NIC failure is reported to the TCP component, which then tries to resend the message across any other available TCP NIC. If that doesn't work, then the message is given back to the OOB base to try using other components. If all that fails, then the error is reported to the RML, which reports to the errmgr for instructions

* obviously from the above, multiple OOB components (e.g., TCP and UD) can be active in parallel

* the matching code has been moved to the RML (and out of the OOB/TCP component) so it is independent of transport

* routing is done by the individual OOB modules (as opposed to the RML). Thus, both routed and non-routed transports can simultaneously be active

* all blocking send/recv APIs have been removed. Everything operates asynchronously.


KNOWN LIMITATIONS:

* although provision is made for component failover as described above, the code for doing so has not been fully implemented yet. At the moment, if all connections for a given peer fail, the errmgr is notified of a "lost connection", which by default results in termination of the job if it was a lifeline

* the IPv6 code is present and compiles, but is not complete. Since the current IPv6 support in the OOB doesn't work anyway, I don't consider this a blocker

* routing is performed at the individual module level, yet the active routed component is selected on a global basis. We probably should update that to reflect that different transports may need/choose to route in different ways

* obviously, not every error path has been tested nor necessarily covered

* determining abnormal termination is more challenging than in the old code as we now potentially have multiple ways of connecting to a process. Ideally, we would declare "connection failed" when *all* transports can no longer reach the process, but that requires some additional (possibly complex) code. For now, the code replicates the old behavior only somewhat modified - i.e., if a module sees its connection fail, it checks to see if it is a lifeline. If so, it notifies the errmgr that the lifeline is lost - otherwise, it notifies the errmgr that a non-lifeline connection was lost.

* reachability is determined solely on the basis of a shared subnet address/mask - more sophisticated algorithms (e.g., the one used in the tcp btl) are required to handle routing via gateways

* the RML needs to assign sequence numbers to each message on a per-peer basis. The receiving RML will then deliver messages in order, thus preventing out-of-order messaging in the case where messages travel across different transports or a message needs to be redirected/resent due to failure of a NIC

This commit was SVN r29058.
2013-08-22 16:37:40 +00:00

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*/
/** @file:
*
* The OpenRTE Environment-Specific Services
*
*/
#ifndef ORTE_ESS_H
#define ORTE_ESS_H
#include "orte_config.h"
#include "orte/types.h"
#include "opal/mca/mca.h"
#include "opal/mca/hwloc/base/base.h"
#include "orte/util/proc_info.h"
#include "orte/runtime/runtime.h"
BEGIN_C_DECLS
/*
* API functions
*/
/*
* Initialize the RTE for this environment
*/
typedef int (*orte_ess_base_module_init_fn_t)(void);
/*
* Finalize the RTE for this environment
*/
typedef int (*orte_ess_base_module_finalize_fn_t)(void);
/**
* Abort the current application
*
* Aborts currently running application, NOTE: We do NOT call the
* regular C-library "abort" function, even
* though that would have alerted us to the fact that this is
* an abnormal termination, because it would automatically cause
* a core file to be generated. The "report" flag indicates if the
* function should create an appropriate file to alert the local
* orted that termination was abnormal.
*/
typedef void (*orte_ess_base_module_abort_fn_t)(int status, bool report);
/**
* Handle fault tolerance updates
*
* @param[in] state Fault tolerance state update
*
* @retval ORTE_SUCCESS The operation completed successfully
* @retval ORTE_ERROR An unspecifed error occurred
*/
typedef int (*orte_ess_base_module_ft_event_fn_t)(int state);
/*
* the standard module data structure
*/
struct orte_ess_base_module_3_0_0_t {
orte_ess_base_module_init_fn_t init;
orte_ess_base_module_finalize_fn_t finalize;
orte_ess_base_module_abort_fn_t abort;
orte_ess_base_module_ft_event_fn_t ft_event;
};
typedef struct orte_ess_base_module_3_0_0_t orte_ess_base_module_3_0_0_t;
typedef struct orte_ess_base_module_3_0_0_t orte_ess_base_module_t;
/*
* the standard component data structure
*/
struct orte_ess_base_component_2_0_0_t {
mca_base_component_t base_version;
mca_base_component_data_t base_data;
};
typedef struct orte_ess_base_component_2_0_0_t orte_ess_base_component_2_0_0_t;
typedef struct orte_ess_base_component_2_0_0_t orte_ess_base_component_t;
/*
* Macro for use in components that are of type ess
*/
#define ORTE_ESS_BASE_VERSION_3_0_0 \
MCA_BASE_VERSION_2_0_0, \
"ess", 3, 0, 0
/* Global structure for accessing ESS functions */
ORTE_DECLSPEC extern orte_ess_base_module_t orte_ess; /* holds selected module's function pointers */
END_C_DECLS
#endif