On Jun 14, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Nguyen Toan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a MPI program as follows:
> -------------------
> int main(){
> MPI_Init();
> ......
> for (i=0; i<10000; i++) {
> my_atomic_func();
> }
> ...
> MPI_Finalize();
> return 0;
> }
> --------------------
>
> The runtime of this program mainly involves in running the loop and
> my_atomic_func() takes a little bit long.
> Here I want my_atomic_func() to be operated atomically, but the timing of
> checkpointing (by running ompi-checkpoint command) may be in the middle of
> my_atomic_func() operation and hence ompi-restart may fail to restart
> correctly.
>
> So my question is:
> + At the checkpoint time (executing ompi-checkpoint), is there a way to let
> OpenMPI wait until my_atomic_func() finishes its operation?
We do not currently have an external function to declare a critical section
during which a checkpoint should not be taken. I filed a ticket to make one
available. The link is below if you would like to follow its progress:
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2487
I have an MPI Extension interface for C/R that I will be bringing into the
trunk in the next few weeks. I should be able to extend it to include this
feature. But I can't promise a deadline, just that I will update the ticket
when it is available.
In the mean time you might try to use the BLCR interface to define critical
sections. If you are using the C/R thread then this may work (though I have not
tried it):
cr_enter_cs()
cr_leave_cs()
> + How does ompi-checkpoint operate to checkpoint MPI threads?
We depend on the Checkpoint/Restart Service (e.g., BLCR) to capture the whole
process image including all threads. So BLCR will capture the state of all
threads when we take the process checkpoint.
-- Josh
>
> Regards,
> Nguyen Toan
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