Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Leif Lindholm
Correct. > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com] > Sent: 04 May 2012 14:49 > To: Leif Lindholm > Cc: Evan Clinton; Peter Robinson; Open MPI Developers > Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 > > Ok. I'm parsing t

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
Ok. I'm parsing this to mean: v1.6 can proceed without further changes. There may be further changes that may be desirable for 1.6.x, however. Right? On May 4, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote: >>> It causes no problems on/for the systems supported by trunk before >> the patch went in -

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Leif Lindholm
> > It causes no problems on/for the systems supported by trunk before > the patch went in - it just means that in some situations it doesn't > work on/for the systems enabled by that patch. > > I'm having trouble parsing that. :-) Sorry :) > Does this mean that we put in the patch, but it will

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 4, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > It causes no problems on/for the systems supported by trunk before the patch > went in - it just means that in some situations it doesn't work on/for the > systems enabled by that patch. I'm having trouble parsing that. :-) Does this mean tha

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Leif Lindholm
012 11:51 > To: Evan Clinton > Cc: Peter Robinson; Leif Lindholm; Open MPI Developers > Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 > > What I need to know in the immediate future is: does this affect the > new patch that we just put in the 1.6rc2 tarball? > > http://

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
What I need to know in the immediate future is: does this affect the new patch that we just put in the 1.6rc2 tarball? http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2012/05/10968.php Meaning: I want to release 1.6 in the immediate future. Is this a blocker? If so, how fast can we get a f

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-02 Thread Evan Clinton
What I mean to say is that, as far as I can tell, in Open MPI's configure stuff there's a switch based on what it detects the host processor as (and this detection could be overridden by specifying the --host= thing); this is probably not the best way to do it. (sorry for the double-post again, da

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-02 Thread Evan Clinton
> The Fedora guys are having trouble building the armv5tel variant (well, they > did before this patch too, but... :) > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=790343&name=build.log Ah, I think the problem is that the build system is not playing nicely with cross-compiles (which it

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-05-02 Thread Leif Lindholm
Evan Clinton > Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 > > My only question mark was with regards to the lack of out-of-line > assembly implementations for the older architecture versions (as in "I > don't know whether people would care about that or not").

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > My only question mark was with regards to the lack of out-of-line assembly > implementations for the older architecture versions (as in "I don't know > whether people would care about that or not"). > > It does apply cleanly-ish (non-interacti

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-30 Thread Leif Lindholm
know if any further drops off 1.5 are planned? / Leif From: Jeff Squyres [jsquy...@cisco.com] Sent: 30 April 2012 21:19 To: Leif Lindholm Cc: Evan Clinton; Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 I'm good with it as long

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Squyres
7;m happy for this to go in - Jeff? > > / >Leif > >> -Original Message- >> From: nave.notn...@gmail.com [mailto:nave.notn...@gmail.com] On Behalf >> Of Evan Clinton >> Sent: 30 April 2012 05:12 >> To: Leif Lindholm >> Cc: Open MPI Developers; Je

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-30 Thread Leif Lindholm
; Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 > > Thanks again for the comments. > > >> Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory > >> barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything > >> extra. >

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-30 Thread Evan Clinton
Thanks again for the comments. >> Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory >> barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything >> extra. > > Fair enough - but could you put a comment to this effect into the patch? Comment added. > But I'm still not too ha

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-26 Thread Leif Lindholm
On 04/25/12 01:50, Evan Clinton wrote: - The v5 code doesn't actually make use of the kuser helper barriers in its versions of opal_atomic_cmpset_acq/rel. Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything extra.

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-24 Thread Evan Clinton
Hi Leif, thanks for the comments. > - The v5 code doesn't actually make use of the kuser helper barriers > in its versions of opal_atomic_cmpset_acq/rel. Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything extra. > -

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-24 Thread Leif Lindholm
9 April 2012 16:21 > To: Open MPI Developers; Leif Lindholm > Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5 > > Thanks Evan! > > (sorry for the delay in replying -- I was on vacation all last week and > I'm *still* catching up...) > > Lief -- does this look good t

Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH] Open MPI on ARMv5

2012-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Squyres
Thanks Evan! (sorry for the delay in replying -- I was on vacation all last week and I'm *still* catching up...) Lief -- does this look good to you? On Apr 13, 2012, at 11:13 PM, Evan Clinton wrote: > At present Open MPI only supports ARMv7 processors. Attached is a > patch against current t