cid's are in fact not recycled in the block algorithm. The problem is
that comm_free is not collective, so you can not make any assumptions
whether other procs have also released that communicator.
But nevertheless, a cid in the communicator structure is a uint32_t, so
it should not hit the 16k limit there yet. this is not new, so if there
is a discrepancy between what the comm structure assumes that a cid is
and what the pml assumes, than this was in the code since the very first
days of Open MPI...
Thanks
Edgar
Brian W. Barrett wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ralph Castain wrote:
We seem to have hit a problem here - it looks like we are seeing a
built-in limit on the number of communicators one can create in a
program. The program basically does a loop, calling MPI_Comm_split each
time through the loop to create a sub-communicator, does a reduce
operation on the members of the sub-communicator, and then calls
MPI_Comm_free to release it (this is a minimized reproducer for the real
code). After 64k times through the loop, the program fails.
This looks remarkably like a 16-bit index that hits a max value and then
blocks.
I have looked at the communicator code, but I don't immediately see such
a field. Is anyone aware of some other place where we would have a limit
that would cause this problem?
There's a maximum of 32768 communicator ids when using OB1 (each PML can
set the max contextid, although the communicator code is the part that
actually assigns a cid). Assuming that comm_free is actually properly
called, there should be plenty of cids available for that pattern.
However, I'm not sure I understand the block algorithm someone added to
cid allocation - I'd have to guess that there's something funny with
that routine and cids aren't being recycled properly.
Brian
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