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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-mtl-priorities.patch')
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1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-mtl-priorities.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-mtl-priorities.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fd76594ddd --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-mtl-priorities.patch @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +PSM2 is the only valid implementation for OmniPath (OPA). UCX also +supports OmniPath, but it does so via Verbs, thus getting much lower +performance (typically 3 GiB/s instead of 10 GiB/s). + +To work around that, give the mtl_psm2 component a higher priority +than the pml_ucx component. + +See <https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.open-mpi.org/msg33581.html>. + +--- openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm2/mtl_psm2_component.c 2019-11-15 17:06:15.142076840 +0100 ++++ openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm2/mtl_psm2_component.c 2019-11-15 17:06:22.242009379 +0100 +@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ ompi_mtl_psm2_component_register(void) + setenv("PSM2_DEVICES", "self,shm", 0); + } + +- param_priority = 40; ++ param_priority = 55; + (void) mca_base_component_var_register (&mca_mtl_psm2_component.super.mtl_version, + "priority", "Priority of the PSM2 MTL component", + MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0, + +Likewise for PSM: we want InfiniPath to be taken care of by PSM, not by UCX, +since UCX achieves worse performance. + +--- openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_component.c ++++ openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_component.c +@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ ompi_mtl_psm_component_register(void) + + + /* set priority high enough to beat ob1's default */ +- param_priority = 30; ++ param_priority = 54; + (void) mca_base_component_var_register (&mca_mtl_psm_component.super.mtl_version, + "priority", "Priority of the PSM MTL component", + MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0, |