On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:29:36 +0200 Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to bring some attention to this in devel, not only to > openblas' maintainer (in CC), because there have been some discussions > around BLAS/LAPACK in the past here. > > As Dave Love pointed out in a previous discussion, generally, > parallelization is made at the top level and then you simply call a > single-threaded BLAS/LAPACK implementation. But as it turns out, > openblas is not thread-safe in such a scenario since v0.3.7 at least. > To ensure thread-safety, we need to build single-threaded openblas > with USE_LOCKING=1 [1] (which we don't do now, and we should, > especially if we intend to make this implementation a system-wide > default [2]).
The correct case is to use the OpenMP flavor of OpenBLAS to avoid these issues. If you use the OpenMP library in a sequential program, the BLAS runs in parallel, and if you use the OpenMP library in an OpenMP parallel program the BLAS runs either sequentally (within already-parallel regions) or in parallel (within sequential regions). > So it's clear that things are failing out there, and USE_LOCKING=1 is > a sensible default that we should apply. I didn't find though what's > the performance penalty of setting such a flag. I've toggled USE_LOCKING=1 in openblas-0.3.9-3. > But if that's noticeable, then this is another argument in favour of > providing a proper mechanism for the user to switch the > implementation, as e.g. Debian does. Debian's mechanism for switching the implementations is improper, due to reasons already discussed on this list. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
