Just wanted to give an update. On a workspace with just the predefined
communicators converted to opaque pointers I've ran netpipe and hpcc
performance tests and compared the results before and after the
changes. The differences in performance with 10 sample run was
undetectable.
I've also tested using comm_world that I can have an a.out compile and
link with a non-debug version of the library and then run the a.out
successfully with a debug version of the library. At a simple level
this proves that the change actually does what we believe it should.
I will be completing the rest of handles in the next couple days. Upon
completion I will rerun the same tests above and test running hpcc with
a debug and non-debug version of the library without recompiling.
I believe I am on track to putting this back to the trunk by the end of
next week. So if anyone has any issues with this please speak up.
thanks,
--td
Graham, Richard L. wrote:
No specific test, just an idea how this might impact an app. I am guessing it
won't even be noticable.
Rich
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From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org <devel-boun...@open-mpi.org>
To: Open MPI Developers <de...@open-mpi.org>
Sent: Thu Dec 18 07:13:08 2008
Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: make predefined handles extern to pointers
Richard Graham wrote:
Terry,
Is there any way you can quantify the cost ? This seems reasonable, but
would be nice to get an idea what the performance cost is (and not within a
tight loop where everything stays in cache).
Rich
Ok, I guess that would eliminate any of the simple perf tests like IMB,
netperf, and such. So do you have something else in mind, maybe HPCC?
--td
On 12/16/08 10:41 AM, "Terry D. Dontje" <terry.don...@sun.com> wrote:
WHAT: To make predefined handles extern to pointers instead of an
address of an extern to a structure.
WHY: To make OMPI more backwards compatible in regards to changes to
structures that define predefined handles.
WHERE: In the trunk. ompi/include/mpi.h.in and places in ompi that
directly use the predefined handles.
WHEN: 01/24/2009
TIMEOUT: 01/10/2009
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The point of this change is to improve the odds that an MPI application
does not have to recompile when changes are made to the OMPI library.
In this case specifically the predefined handles that use the structures
for communicators, groups, ops, datatypes, error handlers, win, file,
and info.
An example of the changes for the communicator predefined handles can be
found in the hg tmp workspace at
ssh://www.open-mpi.org/~tdd/hg/predefcompat.
Note, the one downfall that Jeff and I could think of by doing this is
you potentially add one level of indirection but I believe that will be
a small overhead and if you use one of the predefined handles
repetitively (like in a loop) that the address will probably be stored
in a register once and no additional over should be seen due to this change.
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