Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 07/07/2013 05:43 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: I've been playing with this some more and have it working, though I need Jeff to help resolve one lingering issue. However, I ran across a couple of things that you folks are going to need to think about for Fedora: 1. the current libevent rpm

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On May 1, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Great! I'll try to take a look at next week. Hold off on this -- Ralph and I looked at this a bit closer, and the work is not quite complete yet (read: it doesn't work). > I noticed another message about using a

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On May 1, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/29/2013 11:04 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> >> On Apr 27, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> On 04/26/2013 08:53 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:40 PM,

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/29/2013 11:04 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 27, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 04/26/2013 08:53 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: So it looks like I will need to shortly be looking

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/26/2013 08:53 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 04/25/2013 04:48 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: Orion -- I would just caution against using Open MPI with a thread-enabled libevent. In most cases, the performance

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/25/2013 04:48 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: >> Orion -- >> >> I would just caution against using Open MPI with a thread-enabled libevent. >> In most cases, the performance impact wouldn't matter, but the

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/25/2013 04:48 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: Orion -- I would just caution against using Open MPI with a thread-enabled libevent. In most cases, the performance impact wouldn't matter, but the whole point of MPI is to be high performance. The current 1.7 series does *not* use a

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

Orion -- I would just caution against using Open MPI with a thread-enabled libevent. In most cases, the performance impact wouldn't matter, but the whole point of MPI is to be high performance. The current 1.7 series does *not* use a thread-enabled libevent because it detracts from

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/17/2013 03:40 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> >> On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > So other than openmpi expecting to work with a specific version of >

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/17/2013 03:40 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: So other than openmpi expecting to work with a specific version of libevent, I'm not seeing compelling reason why bundling is necessary (at least for Fedora packaging). If

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/17/2013 01:40 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> >> On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> On 04/17/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/17/2013 01:40 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 04/17/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Orion Poplawski > wrote: So, would you

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/17/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Orion Poplawski > > wrote: >> >>So, would you be willing to provide more of

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/17/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Orion Poplawski > wrote: So, would you be willing to provide more of the rationale as to why libevent is bundled? Orion, I am NOT an Open MPI developer

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On 04/17/2013 11:49 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: Wouldn't that be something best left to the Fedora folks to decide? They have been bundling OMPI with Fedora for a long time, and knew we were including libevent since the beginning. You are welcome to remind them of it - might be best to see what

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > So, would you be willing to provide more of the rationale as to why > libevent is bundled? Orion, I am NOT an Open MPI developer myself. So please don't take my response as speaking for the community. I found

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

Wouldn't that be something best left to the Fedora folks to decide? They have been bundling OMPI with Fedora for a long time, and knew we were including libevent since the beginning. You are welcome to remind them of it - might be best to see what they have to say before we jump. On Apr 17,

Re: [OMPI devel] Using external libevent

On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm starting to take a look at updating openmpi in Fedora to 1.7. It looks > like openmpi is now bundling a copy of libevent, which is generally forbidden > in Fedora. FWIW, we've always bundled libevent -- ever

[OMPI devel] Using external libevent

I'm starting to take a look at updating openmpi in Fedora to 1.7. It looks like openmpi is now bundling a copy of libevent, which is generally forbidden in Fedora. Is there any work being done on allowing one to compile against an external libevent library? Thanks. -- Orion Poplawski