Better, but still having issues at lots of outstanding messages:

mpirun -np 2 -mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 -mca btl_mvapi_flags 2 mpi_bandwidth 1000 131072
131072  669.574904 (MillionBytes/sec)   638.556389(MegaBytes/sec)

mpirun -np 2 -mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 -mca btl_mvapi_flags 2 mpi_bandwidth 10000 131072
131072  115.873284 (MillionBytes/sec)   110.505375(MegaBytes/sec)

Sorry to be such a pain... We need the speed of MVAPICH with the threading support of OpenMPI...

-Mike


Tim S. Woodall wrote:

Mike,

There appears to be an issue in our mvapi get protocol. To temporarily
disable this:

/u/twoodall> orterun -np 2 -mca mpi_leave_pinned 1 -mca btl_mvapi_flags 2 ./bw 
25 131072
131072  801.580272 (MillionBytes/sec)   764.446518(MegaBytes/sec)


Mike Houston wrote:
What's the ETA, or should I try grabbing from cvs?

-Mike

Tim S. Woodall wrote:


Mike,

I believe was probably corrected today and should be in the
next release candidate.

Thanks,
Tim

Mike Houston wrote:



Woops, spoke to soon. The performance quoted was not actually going between nodes. Actually using the network with the pinned option gives:

[0,1,0][btl_mvapi_component.c:631:mca_btl_mvapi_component_progress] [0,1,1][btl_mvapi_component.c:631:mca_btl_mvapi_component_progress] Got error : VAPI_WR_FLUSH_ERR, Vendor code : 0 Frag : 0xb74a1c18Got error : VAPI_WR_FLUSH_ERR, Vendor code : 0 Frag : 0xb73e1720

repeated many times.

-Mike

Mike Houston wrote:



That seems to work with the pinning option enabled. THANKS! Now I'll go back to testing my real code. I'm getting 700MB/s for messages >=128KB. This is a little bit lower than MVAPICH, 10-20%, but still pretty darn good. My guess is that I can play with the setting more to tweak up performance. Now if I can get the tcp layer working, I'm pretty much good to go.

Any word on an SDP layer? I can probably modify the tcp layer quickly to do SDP, but I thought I would ask.

-Mike

Tim S. Woodall wrote:





Hello Mike,

Mike Houston wrote:






When only sending a few messages, we get reasonably good IB performance, ~500MB/s (MVAPICH is 850MB/s). However, if I crank the number of messages up, we drop to 3MB/s(!!!). This is with the OSU NBCL mpi_bandwidth test. We are running Mellanox IB Gold 1.8 with 3.3.3 firmware on PCI-X (Couger) boards. Everything works with MVAPICH, but we really need the thread support in OpenMPI.

Ideas? I noticed there are a plethora of runtime options configurable for mvapi. Do I need to tweak these to get performacne up?



You might try running w/ the:

mpirun -mca mpi_leave_pinned 1

Which will cause mvapi port to maintain an mru cache of registrations,
rather than dynamically pinning/unpinning memory.

If this does not resolve the BW problems, try increasing the
resources allocated to each connection:

-mca btl_mvapi_rd_min 128
-mca btl_mvapi_rd_max 256

Also can you forward me a copy of the test code or a reference to it?

Thanks,
Tim
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