Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-07 Thread Jeff Squyres
Thanks Paul! I filed https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1161 with the action of renaming the BTL and included a link to your post with the suggestions. On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:21 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote: Jeff Squyres wrote: On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Ye

Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Paul H. Hargrove
Jeff Squyres wrote: On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Yes, I very much care about backward compatibility of the openib name and MCA parameters... This is, as I see it, the biggest issue with changing the name. Stuff like this has to work: mpirun --mca btl openib,s

Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Yes, I very much care about backward compatibility of the openib name and MCA parameters... This is, as I see it, the biggest issue with changing the name. Stuff like this has to work: mpirun --mca btl openib,self ... mpirun -

Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Friedley
Jeff Squyres wrote: On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Yeah so the HCA querying/selecting will be good to have separate, as well as PD/registration stuff -- for example I copied the mpool rdma callback functions verbatim from the OpenIB BTL to the UD BTL. I don't think QP

Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Yeah so the HCA querying/selecting will be good to have separate, as well as PD/registration stuff -- for example I copied the mpool rdma callback functions verbatim from the OpenIB BTL to the UD BTL. I don't think QP creation is worth shari

Re: [OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Friedley
Jeff Squyres wrote: FYI: at the meeting in Paris this week, we decided that it would be a good idea to consolidate some "utility" IB code into mca/common/of (OpenFabrics) so that it could be shared among multiple components (e.g., some IB-specific collective components). Exactly what wil

[OMPI devel] Consolidating some IB code

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff Squyres
FYI: at the meeting in Paris this week, we decided that it would be a good idea to consolidate some "utility" IB code into mca/common/of (OpenFabrics) so that it could be shared among multiple components (e.g., some IB-specific collective components). Exactly what will be moved into common