On Oct 3, 2012, at 10:22 AM, George Bosilca wrote:
> In the case such a functionality become necessary, I would suggest we use a
> mechanism similar to the attributes in MPI (but without the multi-language
> mess). That will allow whoever want to attach data to a hwloc node, to do it
> without the mess of dealing with reserving a slot. It might require a little
> bit more memory, but so far the number of nodes in the HWLOC data is limited.
You mean something like putting this in opal/mca/hwloc/base/base.h:
typedef enum {
OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_RMAPS_BASE,
OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_BTL_OPENIB,
OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_GEORGE_STUFF,
OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_JEFF_STUFF,
/* ... */
OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_MAX
} opal_hwloc_base_userdata_consumers_t;
And then:
0. if any new upper-level consumer wants to hang stuff off hwloc userdata, they
just add another enum
1. hwloc base hangs a (void *opal[OPAL_HWLOC_BASE_MAX]) off each hwloc obj
2. each upper level consumer uses their enum to set/get their stuff
Is that what you're thinking?
> george.
>
> On Oct 3, 2012, at 16:13 , Jeff Squyres <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> WHAT: allowing multiple entities in the OMPI code base to hang data off
>> hwloc_obj->userdata
>>
>> WHY: anticipating that more parts of the OMPI code base will be using the
>> hwloc data
>>
>> WHERE: hwloc base
>>
>> WHEN: no real hurry; Ralph and I just identified the potential for this
>> issue this morning. We're not aware of it being an actual problem (yet).
>>
>> MORE DETAIL:
>>
>> The rmaps base (in mpirun) is currently hanging its own data off various
>> objects in the hwloc topology tree. However, it should be noted that the
>> hwloc topology tree is a global data structure in each MPI processes;
>> multiple upper-level entities in the ORTE and OMPI layers may want to hang
>> their own userdata off hwloc objects.
>>
>> Ralph and I figured that some functionality could be added to the hwloc base
>> to hang a opal_pointer_array off each hwloc object; each array value will be
>> a (void*). Then upper-level entities can reserve a slot in all the pointer
>> arrays and store whatever they want in their (void*) slot.
>>
>> For example, if the openib BTL wants to use the hwloc data and hang its own
>> userdata off hwloc objects, it can call the hwloc base and reserve a slot.
>> The hwloc base will say "Ok, you can have slot 7". Then the openib BTL can
>> always use slot 7 in the opal_pointer_array off any hwloc object.
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable?
>>
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