hi Jeff

to answer your question I too find the PSM
1/2 weird and a real mess.  Back to IB verbs?

Howard

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 03.09.2015 um 06:55 schrieb Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>:
> 
> I agree with what George says.
> 
> AFAIK, Red Hat builds Open MPI support for dlopen, so the config file option 
> is probably suitable.
> 
> However, I have to admit that I resent the fact that PSM's poor upgrade path 
> design is forcing both the Open MPI and libfabric communities to have similar 
> confusing conversations (e.g., see 
> https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/issues/1258#issuecomment-137426271).
> 
> Specifically: because of the design of PSM1/PSM2, both Open MPI and libfabric 
> will have to adjust their configury and use dlopen/function pointer 
> indirection to "solve" the problem of supporting both PSM1 and PSM2.
> 
> Does that seem weird to anyone else?
> 
> IMNSHO, if you have to have extremely confusing conversations in multiple 
> software communities explaining your configury, function-pointer-indirection 
> code (i.e., PR https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/pull/1259), compilation, 
> and linking scheme to upgrade to a new library, you're doing it wrong.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 3, 2015, at 7:19 AM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> I might have missed some context when proposing this solution. As Gilles 
>> suggested if you build Open MPI without support for dlopen (configure option 
>> --disable-dlopen) this simple solution will not work because the symbol 
>> conflict issue is generated deep inside the constructors of the 2 libraries.
>> 
>> Yes, the "mtl = ^psm" (or ^psm2 depending on which one you want to disable) 
>> should go in the openmpi-mca-params.conf that gets installed in the 
>> $(sysconfigdir).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> George.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> [I apologize for not threading the email properly. I was not subscribed
>> before and found the conversation in the web archive.]
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am the one who discovered the PSM vs. PSM2 library conflict and
>> proposed the temporary workaround of having two builds of the openmpi
>> package.
>> 
>> George Bosilca wrote:
>>> 3. Except if the distro builds OMPI statically, I see no reason to
>>> have 2 build of OMPI due to conflicting symbols between two shared
>>> libraries that OMPI MCA load willingly. Why a simple "mtl = ^psm" in
>>> the OMPI system wide configuration file is not enough to solve the
>>> issue?
>> 
>> Thank you for this suggestion. It would go into openmpi-mca-params.conf,
>> right? I will try it.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michal
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