Just reviewing your description (I'll look at your branch later), I don't anticipate any conflicts with my work. Looks pretty clean to me.
I'll contact you offlist to discuss timing with the orte threading rfc so we avoid causing each other some integration pain. Thanks! On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Joshua Hursey wrote: > WHAT: > Checkpoint/Restart-based automatic recovery and process migration, advanced > checkpoint storage, C/R-enabled debugging, MPI Extension API for C/R, and > some bug fixes. > > WHY: > This commit includes a variety of checkpoint/restart advancements that have > been pending on a temporary branch for a long while. Users have been waiting > on many of these bug fixes and advancements for a while now. More details > below. > > WHERE: > http://bitbucket.org/jjhursey/ompi-cr-recos > Last sync'ed to trunk in r23536 (July 31, 2010) > > WHEN: > Move into the trunk in the next two weeks. Then into the 1.5 series with the > ORTE refresh (Ticket #2471). > > TIMEOUT: > Aug 10, 2010 @ teleconf (commit at COB) > > DOCUMENTATION > Following public site will be fully updated upon commit: > http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft > Temporary documentation site (will be taken down upon commit): > http://osl.iu.edu/~jjhursey/research/ft-www-preview > Man page documentation will be updated soon. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The changes may seem large but are isolated to a C/R components and > frameworks except where they are wired into the infrastructure. > > This commit brings in a variety of pending features and bug fixes that have > been accumulating over the past 8-12 months. Highlights are below (full > change log at bottom): > * Added C/R-enabled Debugging Support > * Added a Stable Storage framework for advanced checkpoint storage techniques > * Added checkpoint caching and compression support > * Added two C/R-based recovery policies > * C/R-based Process Migration (API and ompi-migrate tool activated) > * C/R-based Automatic Recovery > * Added a variety of C/R MPI Extensions functions (e.g., Checkpoint, Restart, > Migrate) > * Added C/R progress meters to File Movement (FileM), Stable Storage > (SStore), and Snapshot Coordination (SnapC) frameworks > > While this RFC is pending I plan to clean up the man page documentation for > these features and update copyrights in the code base. > > > > Change Log: > ----------- > Major Changes: > -------------- > * Added C/R-enabled Debugging support. > Enabled with the --enable-crdebug flag. See the following website for more > information: > http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/crdebug/ > * Added Stable Storage (SStore) framework for checkpoint storage > * 'central' component does a direct to central storage save > * 'stage' component stages checkpoints to central storage while the > application continues execution. > * 'stage' supports offline compression of checkpoints before moving > (sstore_stage_compress) > * 'stage' supports local caching of checkpoints to improve automatic > recovery (sstore_stage_caching) > * Added Compression (compress) framework to support > * Add two new ErrMgr recovery policies > * {{{crmig}}} C/R Process Migration > * {{{autor}}} C/R Automatic Recovery > * Added the {{{ompi-migrate}}} command line tool to support the {{{crmig}}} > ErrMgr component > * Added CR MPI Ext functions (enable them with {{{--enable-mpi-ext=cr}}} > configure option) > * {{{OMPI_CR_Checkpoint}}} (Fixes #2342) > * {{{OMPI_CR_Restart}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_Migrate}}} (may need some more work for mapping rules) > * {{{OMPI_CR_INC_register_callback}}} (Fixes #2192) > * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_start}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_checkpoint}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_end}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_checkpoint_callback}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_restart_callback}}} > * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_continue_callback}}} > * The ErrMgr predicted_fault() interface has been changed to take an > opal_list_t of ErrMgr defined types. This will allow us to better support a > wider range of fault prediction services in the future. > * Add a progress meter to: > * FileM rsh (filem_rsh_process_meter) > * SnapC full (snapc_full_progress_meter) > * SStore stage (sstore_stage_progress_meter) > * Added 2 new command line options to ompi-restart > * --showme : Display the full command line that would have been exec'ed. > * --mpirun_opts : Command line options to pass directly to mpirun. (Fixes > #2413) > * Deprecated some MCA params: > * crs_base_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_stage_local_snapshot_dir > * snapc_base_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, use > sstore_base_global_snapshot_dir > * snapc_base_global_shared deprecated, use sstore_stage_global_is_shared > * snapc_base_store_in_place deprecated, replaced with different components > of SStore > * snapc_base_global_snapshot_ref deprecated, use > sstore_base_global_snapshot_ref > * snapc_base_establish_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, never well supported > * snapc_full_skip_filem deprecated, use sstore_stage_skip_filem > > Minor Changes: > -------------- > * Fixes #1924 : {{{ompi-restart}}} now recognizes path prefixed checkpoint > handles and does the right thing. > * Fixes #2097 : {{{ompi-info}}} should now report all available CRS components > * Fixes #2161 : Manual checkpoint movement. A user can 'mv' a checkpoint > directory from the original location to another and still restart from it. > * Fixes #2208 : Honor various TMPDIR varaibles instead of forcing {{{/tmp}}} > * Move {{{ompi_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to > {{{orte_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to be more flexible in where this should > be set. > * opal_crs_base_metadata_write* functions have been moved to SStore to > support a wider range of metadata handling functionality. > * Cleanup the CRS framework and components to work with the SStore framework. > * Cleanup the SnapC framework and components to work with the SStore > framework (cleans up these code paths considerably). > * Add 'quiesce' hook to CRCP for a future enhancement. > * We now require a BLCR version that supports {{{cr_request_file()}}} or > {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}} in order to make the code more maintainable. > Note that {{{cr_request_file}}} has been deprecated since 0.7.0, so we prefer > to use {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}}. > * Add optional application level INC callbacks (registered through the CR MPI > Ext interface). > * Increase the {{{opal_cr_thread_sleep_wait}}} parameter to 1000 microseconds > to make the C/R thread less aggressive. > * {{{opal-restart}}} now looks for cache directories before falling back on > stable storage when asked. > * {{{opal-restart}}} also support local decompression before restarting > * {{{orte-checkpoint}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the > metadata > * {{{orte-restart}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata > * Remove the {{{orte-restart}}} preload option. This was removed since the > user only needs to select the 'stage' component in order to support this > functionality. > * Since the '-am' parameter is saved in the metadata, {{{ompi-restart}}} no > longer hard codes {{{-am ft-enable-cr}}}. > * Fix {{{hnp}}} ErrMgr so that if a previous component in the stack has > 'fixed' the problem, then it should be skipped. > * Make sure to decrement the number of 'num_local_procs' in the orted when > one goes away. > * odls now checks the SStore framework to see if it needs to load any > checkpoint files before launching (to support 'stage'). This separates the > SStore logic from the --preload-[binary|files] options. > * Add unique IDs to the named pipes established between the orted and the app > in SnapC. This is to better support migration and automatic recovery > activities. > * Improve the checks for 'already checkpointing' error path. > * A a recovery output timer, to show how long it takes to restart a job > * Do a better job of cleaning up the old session directory on restart. > * Add a local module to the autor and crmig ErrMgr components. These small > modules prevent the 'orted' component from attempting a local recovery (Which > does not work for MPI apps at the moment) > * Add a fix for bounding the checkpointable region between MPI_Init and > MPI_Finalize. > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
