How about
--enable-mpi-threads ==> --enable-multi-threads
ENABLE_MPI_THREADS ==> ENABLE_MULTI_THREADS
Essentially, s/mpi/multi/ig. This gives us "progress thread" support and
"multi thread" support. Similar, but different.
Another possibility instead of "mpi" could be "concurrent".
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote:
> Jeff -
>
> I think the idea is ok, but I think the name needs some thought. There's
> currently two ways to have the lower layers be thread safe -- enabling MPI
> threads or progress threads. The two can be done independently -- you can
> disable MPI threads and still enable thread support by enabling progress
> threads.
>
> So either that behavior would need to change or we need a better name (in my
> opinion...).
>
> Brian
>
> On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> > WHAT: Rename --enable-mpi-threads and ENABLE_MPI_THREADS to
> > --enable-thread-safety and ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY, respectively
> > (--enable-mpi-threads will be maintained as a synonym to
> > --enable-thread-safety for backwards compat, of course).
> >
> > WHY: Other projects are starting to use ORTE and OPAL without OMPI. The
> > fact that thread safety in OPAL and ORTE requires a configure switch with
> > "mpi" in the name is very non-intuitive.
> >
> > WHERE: A bunch of places in the code; see attached patch.
> >
> > WHEN: Next Friday COB
> >
> > TIMEOUT: COB, Friday, Feb 5, 2010
> >
> > ------------------------
> >
> > More details:
> >
> > Cisco is starting to investigate using ORTE and OPAL in various threading
> > scenarios -- without the OMPI layer. The fact that you need to enable
> > thread safety in ORTE/OPAL with a configure switch that has the word "mpi"
> > in it is extremely counter-intuitive (it bit some of our engineers very
> > badly, and they were mighty annoyed!!).
> >
> > Since this functionality actually has nothing to do with MPI (it's actually
> > the other way around -- MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE needs this functionality), we
> > really should rename this switch and the corresponding AC_DEFINE -- I
> > suggest:
> >
> > --enable|disable-thread-safety
> > ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY
> >
> > Of course, we need to keep the configure switch
> > "--enable|disable-mpi-threads" for backwards compatibility, so that can be
> > a synonym to --enable-thread-safety.
> >
> > See the attached patch (the biggest change is in
> > opal/config/opal_config_threads.m4). If there are no objections, I'll
> > commit this next Friday COB.
> >
> > --
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