Re: [OMPI devel] PLM consistency: priority

2008-07-17 Thread Jeff Squyres
FWIW -- we talked about this a bunch in the Louisville and have some ideas. More details coming in meeting wrapup notes... On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Ralph H Castain wrote: Ummm...I actually was talking about the "PLM", not the "PML". But I believe what you suggest concurs with what I

Re: [OMPI devel] PLM consistency: priority

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
Ummm...I actually was talking about the "PLM", not the "PML". But I believe what you suggest concurs with what I said. In the PLM, you could still provide multiple components you want considered, though it has less meaning there. My suggestion really is only that we eliminate the params to adjust

Re: [OMPI devel] PLM consistency: priority

2008-07-11 Thread Aurélien Bouteiller
We don't want the user to have to select by hand the best PML. The logic inside the current selection process selects the best pml for the underlying network. However changing the priority is pretty meaningless from the user's point of view. So while retaining the selection process

[OMPI devel] PLM consistency: priority

2008-07-11 Thread Ralph H Castain
Okay, another fun one. Some of the PLM modules use MCA params to adjust their relative selection priority. This can lead to very unexpected behavior as which module gets selected will depend on the priorities of the other selectable modules - which changes from release to release as people