Torgny,
We have one know issue in openib btl that it related to IPROBE -
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1362
Theoretical it maybe source cause of the performance degradation, but
for me the performance difference sounds too big.
* Do you know what is typical message size for this application?
* Did you enable live pinned ? (--mca mpi_leave_pinned 1) ?
Also I recommend you to read this FAQ -
http://netmirror.org/mirror/open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tuning#running-perf-numbers
Pasha
Torgny Faxen wrote:
Pasha,
no collectives are being used.
A simple grep in the code reveals the following MPI functions being used:
MPI_Init
MPI_wtime
MPI_COMM_RANK
MPI_COMM_SIZE
MPI_BUFFER_ATTACH
MPI_BSEND
MPI_PACK
MPI_UNPACK
MPI_PROBE
MPI_GET_COUNT
MPI_RECV
MPI_IPROBE
MPI_FINALIZE
where MPI_IPROBE is the clear winner in terms of number of calls.
/Torgny
Pavel Shamis (Pasha) wrote:
Do you know if the application use some collective operations ?
Thanks
Pasha
Torgny Faxen wrote:
Hello,
we are seeing a large difference in performance for some
applications depending on what MPI is being used.
Attached are performance numbers and oprofile output (first 30
lines) from one out of 14 nodes from one application run using
OpenMPI, IntelMPI and Scali MPI respectively.
Scali MPI is faster the other two MPI:s with a factor of 1.6 and 1.75:
ScaliMPI: walltime for the whole application is 214 seconds
OpenMPI: walltime for the whole application is 376 seconds
Intel MPI: walltime for the whole application is 346 seconds.
The application is running with the main send receive commands being:
MPI_Bsend
MPI_Iprobe followed by MPI_Recv (in case of there being a message).
Quite often MPI_Iprobe is being called just to check whether there
is a certain message pending.
Any idea on tuning tips, performance analysis, code modifications to
improve the OpenMPI performance? A lot of time is being spent in
"mca_btl_sm_component_progress", "btl_openib_component_progress" and
other internal routines.
The code is running on a cluster with 140 HP ProLiant DL160 G5
compute servers. Infiniband interconnect. Intel Xeon E5462
processors. The profiled application is using 144 cores on 18 nodes
over Infiniband.
Regards / Torgny
=====================================================================================================================0
OpenMPI 1.3b2
=====================================================================================================================0
Walltime: 376 seconds
CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated)
Profiling through timer interrupt
samples % image name app name
symbol name
668288 22.2113 mca_btl_sm.so rco2.24pe
mca_btl_sm_component_progress
441828 14.6846 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
step_
335929 11.1650 libmlx4-rdmav2.so rco2.24pe
(no symbols)
301446 10.0189 mca_btl_openib.so rco2.24pe
btl_openib_component_progress
161033 5.3521 libopen-pal.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
opal_progress
157024 5.2189 libpthread-2.5.so rco2.24pe
pthread_spin_lock
99526 3.3079 no-vmlinux no-vmlinux
(no symbols)
93887 3.1204 mca_btl_sm.so rco2.24pe
opal_using_threads
69979 2.3258 mca_pml_ob1.so rco2.24pe
mca_pml_ob1_iprobe
58895 1.9574 mca_bml_r2.so rco2.24pe
mca_bml_r2_progress
55095 1.8311 mca_pml_ob1.so rco2.24pe
mca_pml_ob1_recv_request_match_wild
49286 1.6381 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
tracer_
41946 1.3941 libintlc.so.5 rco2.24pe
__intel_new_memcpy
40730 1.3537 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
scobi_
36586 1.2160 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
state_
20986 0.6975 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
diag_
19321 0.6422 libmpi.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
PMPI_Unpack
18552 0.6166 libmpi.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
PMPI_Iprobe
17323 0.5757 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
clinic_
16194 0.5382 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
k_epsi_
15330 0.5095 libmpi.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
PMPI_Comm_f2c
13778 0.4579 libmpi_f77.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
mpi_iprobe_f
13241 0.4401 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
s_recv_
12386 0.4117 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
growth_
11699 0.3888 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
testnrecv_
11268 0.3745 libmpi.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
mca_pml_base_recv_request_construct
10971 0.3646 libmpi.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
ompi_convertor_unpack
10034 0.3335 mca_pml_ob1.so rco2.24pe
mca_pml_ob1_recv_request_match_specific
10003 0.3325 libimf.so rco2.24pe
exp.L
9375 0.3116 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
subbasin_
8912 0.2962 libmpi_f77.so.0.0.0 rco2.24pe
mpi_unpack_f
=====================================================================================================================0
Intel MPI, version 3.2.0.011/
=====================================================================================================================0
Walltime: 346 seconds
CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated)
Profiling through timer interrupt
samples % image name app name
symbol name
486712 17.7537 rco2 rco2
step_
431941 15.7558 no-vmlinux no-vmlinux
(no symbols)
212425 7.7486 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3U_Recvq_FU
188975 6.8932 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3I_RDSSM_Progress
172855 6.3052 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3I_read_progress
121472 4.4309 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3I_SHM_read_progress
64492 2.3525 libc-2.5.so rco2
sched_yield
52372 1.9104 rco2 rco2
tracer_
48621 1.7735 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
.plt
45475 1.6588 libmpiif.so.3.2 rco2
pmpi_iprobe__
44082 1.6080 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPID_Iprobe
42788 1.5608 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3_Stop_recv
42754 1.5595 libpthread-2.5.so rco2
pthread_mutex_lock
42190 1.5390 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
PMPI_Iprobe
41577 1.5166 rco2 rco2
scobi_
40356 1.4721 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3_Start_recv
38582 1.4073 libdaplcma.so.1.0.2 rco2
(no symbols)
37545 1.3695 rco2 rco2
state_
35597 1.2985 libc-2.5.so rco2
free
34019 1.2409 libc-2.5.so rco2
malloc
31841 1.1615 rco2 rco2
s_recv_
30955 1.1291 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
__I_MPI___intel_new_memcpy
27876 1.0168 libc-2.5.so rco2
_int_malloc
26963 0.9835 rco2 rco2
testnrecv_
23005 0.8391 libpthread-2.5.so rco2
__pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt
22290 0.8131 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPID_Segment_manipulate
22086 0.8056 libmpi.so.3.2 rco2
MPIDI_CH3I_read_progress_expected
19146 0.6984 rco2 rco2
diag_
18250 0.6657 rco2 rco2
clinic_
=====================================================================================================================0
Scali MPI, version 3.13.10-59413
=====================================================================================================================0
Walltime:
CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated)
Profiling through timer interrupt
samples % image name app name
symbol name
484267 30.0664 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
step_
111949 6.9505 libmlx4-rdmav2.so rco2.24pe
(no symbols)
73930 4.5900 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_rq_handle_body
57846 3.5914 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
invert_decode_header
55836 3.4667 libpthread-2.5.so rco2.24pe
pthread_spin_lock
53703 3.3342 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
tracer_
40934 2.5414 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
scobi_
40244 2.4986 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_request_probe_handler
37399 2.3220 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
state_
30455 1.8908 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
invert_matchandprobe
29707 1.8444 no-vmlinux no-vmlinux
(no symbols)
29147 1.8096 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
FMPI_scafun_Iprobe
27969 1.7365 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
decode_8_u_64
27475 1.7058 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_rq_anysrc_fair_one
25966 1.6121 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_uxq_probe
24380 1.5137 libc-2.5.so rco2.24pe
memcpy
22615 1.4041 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
.plt
21172 1.3145 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
diag_
20716 1.2862 libc-2.5.so rco2.24pe
memset
18565 1.1526 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
openib_wrapper_poll_cq
18192 1.1295 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
clinic_
17135 1.0638 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
PMPI_Iprobe
16685 1.0359 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
k_epsi_
16236 1.0080 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
PMPI_Unpack
15563 0.9662 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_r_rq_append
14829 0.9207 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_rq_test_finished
13349 0.8288 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
s_recv_
12490 0.7755 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
flop_matchandprobe
12427 0.7715 libibverbs.so.1.0.0 rco2.24pe
(no symbols)
12272 0.7619 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
scafun_rq_handle
12146 0.7541 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
growth_
10175 0.6317 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
wrp2p_test_finished
9888 0.6139 libimf.so rco2.24pe
exp.L
9179 0.5699 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
subbasin_
9082 0.5639 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
testnrecv_
8901 0.5526 libmpi.so rco2.24pe
openib_wrapper_purge_requests
7425 0.4610 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
scobimain_
7378 0.4581 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
scobi_interface_
6530 0.4054 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
setvbc_
6471 0.4018 libfmpi.so rco2.24pe
pmpi_iprobe
6341 0.3937 rco2.24pe rco2.24pe
snap_
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