Looking at your command line, did you remember to set -mca
mpi_paffinity_alone 1? If not, we won't set affinity on the processes.
On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
----- "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
Could you check this? You can run a trivial job using the -npernode x
option, where x matched the #cores you were allocated on the nodes.
If you do this, do we bind to the correct cores?
Nope, I'm afraid it doesn't - submitted a job asking
for 4 cores on one node and was allocated cores 0-3 in
the cpuset.
Grep'ing the strace output for anything mentioning affinity shows:
[csamuel@tango027 CPI]$ fgrep affinity cpi-trace.txt
11412 execve("/usr/local/openmpi/1.3.3-gcc/bin/mpiexec", ["mpiexec",
"--mca", "paffinity", "linux", "-npernode", "4", "/home/csamuel/
Sources/Tests/CPI/"...], [/* 56 vars */]) = 0
11412 sched_getaffinity(0, 128, { f }) = 8
11412 sched_setaffinity(0, 8, { 0 }) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
11416 sched_getaffinity(0, 128, <unfinished ...>
11416 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11416 sched_setaffinity(0, 8, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
11416 <... sched_setaffinity resumed> ) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
11414 sched_getaffinity(0, 128, <unfinished ...>
11414 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11414 sched_setaffinity(0, 8, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
11414 <... sched_setaffinity resumed> ) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
11413 sched_getaffinity(0, 128, <unfinished ...>
11413 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11413 sched_setaffinity(0, 8, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
11413 <... sched_setaffinity resumed> ) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
11415 sched_getaffinity(0, 128, <unfinished ...>
11415 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11415 sched_setaffinity(0, 8, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
11415 <... sched_setaffinity resumed> ) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
11413 sched_getaffinity(11413, 8, <unfinished ...>
11415 sched_getaffinity(11415, 8, <unfinished ...>
11413 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11415 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11414 sched_getaffinity(11414, 8, <unfinished ...>
11414 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
11416 sched_getaffinity(11416, 8, <unfinished ...>
11416 <... sched_getaffinity resumed> { f }) = 8
I can confirm that it's not worked by checking what
plpa-taskset says about a process (for example 11414):
[root@tango027 plpa-taskset]# ./plpa-taskset -cp 11414
pid 11414's current affinity list: 0-3
According to the manual page:
EFAULT A supplied memory address was invalid.
This is on a dual socket quad core AMD Shanghai system
running the 2.6.28.9 kernel (not had a chance to upgrade
recently).
Will do some more poking around after lunch.
cheers,
Chris
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