On 04/17/2013 01:40 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
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.
Okay, that sounds like that might be a compelling reason. The Fedora version
is indeed compiled with thread support (i.e. without --disable-thread-support).
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.
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/libevent/2.0.18/3.fc19/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
checking for epoll_ctl... yes
checking for TAILQ_FOREACH in sys/queue.h... yes
(not sure if this is "kqueue" - I don't see that string anywhere).
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).
Of course.
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