The "-x var=val" cannot be placed into mca params file.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Mike Dubman <mi...@dev.mellanox.co.il>wrote:

> yes, it is expected that the "string" value should be quoted. will clarify
> it in the help message and man page. Thanks for spotting.
>
> The underlying libraries used from OMPI
> (mxm,psm,hcoll,glibc,pmi2,slurm,...) all have shell environment variables
> to control their behave.
>
> It is unreasonable to expose mca parameter for every library tunable used
> from ompi, but for most frequently used ones.
>
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
>> If you are expecting the user to put quotes around the string, then you
>> better tell them that in the help message. Otherwise, they would do what I
>> did - simply list the envars with a space in-between, and everything fails.
>>
>> Also, you need to update mpirun.1in to reflect this new option or else
>> nobody will know about it :-)
>>
>> However, looking at your example leaves me totally puzzled. Why are these
>> not just MCA params to begin with, in which case we don't need another
>> duplicate mechanism for setting them?
>>
>> We should only be setting envars that have nothing to do with OMPI, not
>> setting OMPI-related envars - anything OMPI related is supposed to be an
>> MCA param.
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Mike Dubman <mi...@dev.mellanox.co.il>wrote:
>>
>>>  not sure what you mean, could you please provide example?
>>>
>>> comma is used often as part of the value, here is a example:
>>>
>>> -mca base_env_list "HCOLL_BCOL=basesmuma,mlnx_p2p HCOLL_SBGP=basesmuma,p2p
>>> HCOLL_ML_USE_KNOMIAL_ALLREDUCE=1"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This change just looks wrong - you can't split the variables on a
>>>> "space" as there is no way to know how many variables there might be, and
>>>> thus how to parse the rest of the cmd line. At best, you need a
>>>> comma-delimited list.
>>>>
>>>> Please fix this!
>>>> Ralph
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:14 PM, <svn-commit-mai...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Author: miked (Mike Dubman)
>>>>> Date: 2014-04-01 17:14:31 EDT (Tue, 01 Apr 2014)
>>>>> New Revision: 31302
>>>>> URL: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/changeset/31302
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> opal: add mca param to control ranks env variables
>>>>>
>>>>> add -mca base_env_list "var1=val1 var2=val2 ..." mca parameter that
>>>>> can be used in mca param files
>>>>> or with -am app.conf mpirun commandline to set rank env variables with
>>>>> mca mechanism
>>>>>
>>>>> fixed by Elena, reviewed by Miked
>>>>>
>>>>> cmr=v1.8.1:reviewer=ompi-rm1.8
>>>>>
>>>>> Text files modified:
>>>>>    trunk/opal/mca/base/help-mca-var.txt |     5 +++++
>>>>>    trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c   |    36
>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>    trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.h   |     2 ++
>>>>>    trunk/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.c   |     2 ++
>>>>>    4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified: trunk/opal/mca/base/help-mca-var.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- trunk/opal/mca/base/help-mca-var.txt        Tue Apr  1 16:57:12
>>>>> 2014        (r31301)
>>>>> +++ trunk/opal/mca/base/help-mca-var.txt        2014-04-01 17:14:31
>>>>> EDT (Tue, 01 Apr 2014)      (r31302)
>>>>> @@ -121,3 +121,8 @@
>>>>>
>>>>>    Value:      %s
>>>>>    Source:     %s
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +[incorrect-env-list-param]
>>>>> +The format of mca_base_env_list parameter is incorrect. It should be
>>>>> +VAR1=VAL1 VAR2=VAL2 VAR3=VAL3 ...
>>>>> +  Value:      %s
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified: trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c  Tue Apr  1 16:57:12 2014
>>>>>  (r31301)
>>>>> +++ trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c  2014-04-01 17:14:31 EDT (Tue,
>>>>> 01 Apr 2014)      (r31302)
>>>>> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
>>>>>  static char *mca_base_var_override_file = NULL;
>>>>>  static char *mca_base_var_file_prefix = NULL;
>>>>>  static char *mca_base_param_file_path = NULL;
>>>>> +static char *mca_base_env_list = NULL;
>>>>>  static bool mca_base_var_suppress_override_warning = false;
>>>>>  static opal_list_t mca_base_var_file_values;
>>>>>  static opal_list_t mca_base_var_override_values;
>>>>> @@ -259,6 +260,41 @@
>>>>>      return OPAL_SUCCESS;
>>>>>  }
>>>>>
>>>>> +int mca_base_var_process_env_list(char ***context_env)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +    int i, ret;
>>>>> +    char** tokens;
>>>>> +    char* ptr;
>>>>> +    char* param, *value;
>>>>> +    ret = mca_base_var_register ("opal", "mca", "base", "env_list",
>>>>> +                                 "Set SHELL env variables",
>>>>> +                                 MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_STRING, NULL, 0,
>>>>> 0, OPAL_INFO_LVL_3,
>>>>> +                                 MCA_BASE_VAR_SCOPE_READONLY,
>>>>> &mca_base_env_list);
>>>>> +    if ((0 > ret) || (NULL == mca_base_env_list)) {
>>>>> +        return ret;
>>>>> +    }
>>>>> +    tokens = opal_argv_split(mca_base_env_list, ' ');
>>>>> +    if (NULL != tokens) {
>>>>> +        for (i = 0; NULL != tokens[i]; i++) {
>>>>> +            if (NULL == (ptr = strchr(tokens[i], '='))) {
>>>>> +                opal_show_help("help-mca-var.txt",
>>>>> "incorrect-env-list-param",
>>>>> +                        true, mca_base_env_list);
>>>>> +                opal_argv_free(tokens);
>>>>> +                return OPAL_ERROR;
>>>>> +            } else {
>>>>> +                param = strdup(tokens[i]);
>>>>> +                value = strchr(param, '=');
>>>>> +                *value = '\0';
>>>>> +                value++;
>>>>> +                opal_setenv(param, value, false, context_env);
>>>>> +                free(param);
>>>>> +            }
>>>>> +        }
>>>>> +        opal_argv_free(tokens);
>>>>> +    }
>>>>> +    return OPAL_SUCCESS;
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>>  static int mca_base_var_cache_files(bool rel_path_search)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>      char *tmp;
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified: trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.h
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.h  Tue Apr  1 16:57:12 2014
>>>>>  (r31301)
>>>>> +++ trunk/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.h  2014-04-01 17:14:31 EDT (Tue,
>>>>> 01 Apr 2014)      (r31302)
>>>>> @@ -716,6 +716,8 @@
>>>>>   */
>>>>>  OPAL_DECLSPEC int mca_base_var_dump(int vari, char ***out,
>>>>> mca_base_var_dump_type_t output_type);
>>>>>
>>>>> +OPAL_DECLSPEC int mca_base_var_process_env_list(char ***context_env);
>>>>> +
>>>>>  END_C_DECLS
>>>>>
>>>>>  #endif /* OPAL_MCA_BASE_VAR_H */
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified: trunk/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.c
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- trunk/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.c  Tue Apr  1 16:57:12 2014
>>>>>  (r31301)
>>>>> +++ trunk/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.c  2014-04-01 17:14:31 EDT (Tue,
>>>>> 01 Apr 2014)      (r31302)
>>>>> @@ -1628,6 +1628,8 @@
>>>>>          goto cleanup;
>>>>>      }
>>>>>      mca_base_cmd_line_process_args(&cmd_line, app_env,
>>>>> &global_mca_env);
>>>>> +    mca_base_var_process_env_list(app_env);
>>>>> +
>>>>>
>>>>>      /* Is there an appfile in here? */
>>>>>
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