I concur with Brian, you should not expect the runtime to provide a default
event base, especially if you want some level of quality-of-service out of it.
Moreover, with the soon-to-happen move of the BTLs down in OPAL this approach
will definitively not be suitable.
George.
On Feb 18, 2014, at 07:03 , Brian Barrett <br...@bbarrett.org> wrote:
> 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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