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https://bitbucket.org/rolfv/ompi-trunk-cuda-rfc2



From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf 
Of Rolf vandeVaart
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:45 PM
To: Open MPI Developers
Subject: [OMPI devel] RFC: Second Try: Add support to send/receive CUDA device 
memory directly

WHAT: Second try to add support to send data directly from CUDA device memory 
via MPI calls.

TIMEOUT: 4/26/2011

DETAILS: Based on all the feedback (thanks to everyone who looked at it),  I 
have whittled down what I hope to accomplish with this RFC.  There were 
suggestions to better modularize the CUDA registration code so I will take a 
look at that separately.  Since the registration code is a performance feature, 
it will be dropped from this RFC and investigated separately.  This 
significantly reduced the changes being proposed here.  With this RFC, all the 
changes are isolated in datatype and convertor code.   As mentioned before, the 
changes mostly boil down to replacing memcpy with cuMemcpy when moving the data 
to or from a CUDA device buffer.

Per suggestions, the choice to disable the large memory RDMA now happens on a 
per message basis.  This is done by adding a flag to the convertor which tells 
the BTLs that an intermediate buffer is needed when dealing with device memory.

As before, this code would be enabled via a configure option.  A mostly 
completed version is viewable on bitbucket although I know the configure code 
is sorely lacking.

This is the new list of changed files.

M       opal/config/opal_configure_options.m4
A       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_cuda.c
A       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_cuda.h
M       opal/datatype/opal_convertor.h
M       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_copy.c
M       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_unpack.c
M       opal/datatype/Makefile.am
M       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_pack.h
M       opal/datatype/opal_convertor.c
M       opal/datatype/opal_datatype_unpack.h
M       ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_sendreq.h

Thanks,
Rolf

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