>
> Well I've tried OMPI on ofed-1.2 udapl today and it doesn't work. I'm
> debugging now.
>
Here's part of the problem (from ompi/btl/udapl/btl_udapl.c):
/* TODO - big bad evil hack! */
/* uDAPL doesn't ever seem to keep track of ports with addresses. This
becomes a problem when we use dat_ep_query() to obtain a remote address
on an endpoint. In this case, both the DAT_PORT_QUAL and the sin_port
field in the DAT_SOCK_ADDR are 0, regardless of the actual port. This is
a problem when we have more than one uDAPL process per IA - these
processes will have exactly the same address, as the port is all
we have to differentiate who is who. Thus, our uDAPL EP -> BTL EP
matching algorithm will break down.
So, we insert the port we used for our PSP into the DAT_SOCK_ADDR for
this IA. uDAPL then conveniently propagates this to where we need it.
*/
((struct sockaddr_in*)attr.ia_address_ptr)->sin_port = htons(port);
((struct sockaddr_in*)&btl->udapl_addr.addr)->sin_port = htons(port);
The OMPI code stuffs the port chosen by udapl for a listening endpoint
into the ia address memory (which is owned by the udapl layer btw).
There's a slight problem with that: The OFA udapl openib_cma code binds
cm_id's to this ia_address regularly. When an hca is opened, a cm_id is
bound to this address to obtain the local hca port number and gid that
is being used. In addition, a cm_id is bound to this address each time
an endpoint is created (either at ep_create time or ep_connect time).
So that ia_address field is used by the dapl cm to create local
cm_ids... Since the port was always zero, the rmda-cma would choose a
unique port for each cm_id bound to that address.
But OMPI sets a the port field to non-zero, the rdma_cma fails all the
subsequent rdma_bind_addr() calls since the port is already in use.
Perhaps this hack really is a workaround for a DAPL bug where somebodies
dapl wasn't tracking port numbers correctly?
I think there are three issues here:
1) OMPI shouldn't be stepping on the ia_address.
2) OFA udapl should probably be explicitly binding local cm_ids to port
zero.
3) dat_ep_query() should be returning the correct port numbers...
I'm going to run a few experiments:
1) remove the OMPI hack and see if things work fine for OFA udapl.
Perhaps OFA udapl correctly tracks ports on endpoints?
2) leave OMPI as-is and change OFA udapl to not assume the ia_addr
sockaddr has a 0 port in it.
Steve.
