And what will you do for RTE components that aren't ORTE? This really isn't a
feature of a run-time, so it doesn't seem like it should be part of the RTE
interface...
Brian
On Feb 17, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> WHAT: New OMPI_RTE_EVENT_BASE define
>
> WHY: The usnic BTL needs to run some events asynchronously; the ORTE event
> base already exists and is running asynchronously in MPI processes
>
> WHERE: in ompi/mca/rte/rte.h and rte_orte.h
>
> TIMEOUT: COB Friday, 21 Feb 2014
>
> MORE DETAIL:
>
> The WHY line described it pretty well: we want to run some things
> asynchronously in the usnic BTL and we don't really want to re-invent the
> wheel (or add yet another thread in each MPI process). The ORTE event base
> is already there, there's already a thread servicing it, and Ralph tells me
> that it is safe to add our own events on to it.
>
> The patch below adds the new OMPI_RTE_EVENT_BASE #define.
>
>
> diff --git a/ompi/mca/rte/orte/rte_orte.h b/ompi/mca/rte/orte/rte_orte.h
> index 3c88c6d..3ceadb8 100644
> --- a/ompi/mca/rte/orte/rte_orte.h
> +++ b/ompi/mca/rte/orte/rte_orte.h
> @@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ typedef struct {
> } ompi_orte_tracker_t;
> OBJ_CLASS_DECLARATION(ompi_orte_tracker_t);
>
> +/* define the event base that the RTE exports */
> +#define OMPI_RTE_EVENT_BASE orte_event_base
> +
> END_C_DECLS
>
> #endif /* MCA_OMPI_RTE_ORTE_H */
> diff --git a/ompi/mca/rte/rte.h b/ompi/mca/rte/rte.h
> index 69ad488..de10dff 100644
> --- a/ompi/mca/rte/rte.h
> +++ b/ompi/mca/rte/rte.h
> @@ -150,7 +150,9 @@
> * a. OMPI_DB_HOSTNAME
> * b. OMPI_DB_LOCALITY
> *
> - * (g) Communication support
> + * (g) Asynchronous / event support
> + * 1. OMPI_RTE_EVENT_BASE - the libevent base that executes in a
> + * separate thread
> *
> */
>
> @@ -162,6 +164,7 @@
> #include "opal/dss/dss_types.h"
> #include "opal/mca/mca.h"
> #include "opal/mca/base/base.h"
> +#include "opal/mca/event/event.h"
>
> BEGIN_C_DECLS
>
>
>
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