On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com >> <mailto:or...@cora.nwra.com>> wrote: >> >> So, would you be willing to provide more of the rationale as to why >> libevent is bundled? >> >> >> >> Orion, >> >> I am NOT an Open MPI developer myself. So please don't take my response as >> speaking for the community. >> >> I found the following file useful in understanding WHY libevent is currently >> bundled in Open MPI: >> https://svn.open-mpi.org/source/xref/ompi-trunk/opal/mca/event/base/README.openmpi >> >> -Paul >> > > Thanks, that was helpful. From what I read there, it does not appear that > libevent is not being modified in a meaningful way as it would apply to > Fedora. In Fedora, all applications would be built against the same > libevent, so that should not be an issue. It depends upon how libevent was configured. For example, if Fedora configures libevent with thread support enabled, then the MPI job will see an unnecessary performance impact. Our users notice such things. At the very least, we'd have to detect how libevent was configured so we could (a) abort if it isn't the right minimum version, and (b) adjust behavior to reflect the configuration and capabilities of the libevent version being used. Complicated, and probably not what users would expect. > And assuming that the Fedora libevent properly detects kqueue and epoll (if > applicable) that should be okay. I would suggest checking that assumption before committing to it. > Also, have this improvements been submitted back to libevent? Yes, though I can't say with certainty if/when they were adopted. In some cases, the libevent folks see this as being too application-specific - i.e., we need things to behave a certain way, but not everybody does. > > Finally, while openmpi may not need to make use of the dns, http, and rpc > events, would it be problematic if they were present in the library? No - just increases the memory footprint, but does no real harm. > > So other than openmpi expecting to work with a specific version of libevent, > I'm not seeing compelling reason why bundling is necessary (at least for > Fedora packaging). If there is, please let me know. I'd hate to make a Fedora-specific change and then have users complain because of things like performance degradation on that platform. As Jeff pointed out, this is how we've distributed OMPI on every platform since day one - I'm not hearing a compelling reason to change that policy. We'd have to discuss any such request at our next weekly meeting (Tues mornings). > > Thanks! > > -- > Orion Poplawski > Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 > NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 > 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com > Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
