On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, George Bosilca wrote:
On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Pavel Shamis (Pasha) wrote:
Jeff Squyres wrote:
I guess reading the graph that Pasha sent is difficult; Pasha -- can
you send the actual numbers?
Ok here is the numbers on my machines:
0 bytes
mvapich with header caching: 1.56
mvapich without header caching: 1.79
ompi 1.2: 1.59
So on zero bytes ompi not so bad. Also we can see that header caching
decrease the mvapich latency on 0.23
1 bytes
mvapich with header caching: 1.58
mvapich without header caching: 1.83
ompi 1.2: 1.73
And here ompi make some latency jump.
In mvapich the header caching decrease the header size from
56bytes to
12bytes.
What is the header size (pml + btl) in ompi ?
The match header size is 16 bytes, so it looks like ours is already
optimized ...
Pasha -- Is your build of Open MPI built with --disable-
heterogeneous? If not, our headers all grow slightly to support
heterogeneous operations. For the heterogeneous case, a 1 byte
message includes:
16 bytes for the match header
4 bytes for the Open IB header
1 byte for the payload
----
21 bytes total
If you are using eager RDMA, there's an extra 4 bytes for the RDMA
length in the footer. Without heterogeneous support, 2 bytes get
knocked off the size of the match header, so the whole thing will be
19 bytes (+ 4 for the eager RDMA footer).
There are also considerably more ifs in the code if heterogeneous is
used, especially on x86 machines.
Brian
