[ofiwg] noob questions

[Barrett, Brian]

That likely means that something failed in initializing the OFI provider.  Without seeing the debugging output John mentioned, it's really hard to say *why* it failed to initialize.  There are many reasons, including not being able to conform to a bunch of provider assumptions that Open MPI has on its providers.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Fry <DFry at lightfleet.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 2:01 PM
To: "Barrett, Brian" <bbarrett at amazon.com>, "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty at intel.com>, "Byrne, John (Labs)" <john.l.byrne at hpe.com>, "ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org" <ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org>
Subject: Re: [ofiwg] noob questions

    When I tried --mca pml cm it complains that "PML cm cannot be selected".  Maybe I needed to enable cm when I configured openmpi?  I didn't specifically enable or disable it.  It could also be that my getinfo routine doesn't have a capability set properly. 
    
    my latest command line was:
    mpirun --mca pml cm --mca mtl ofi --mca mtl_ofi_provider_include "lf;ofi_rxm" ./mpi_latency (where lf is my provider)
    
    Thanks for the pointers, I will do some more debugging on my end.
    
    Don
    ________________________________________
    From: Barrett, Brian <bbarrett at amazon.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:53 PM
    To: Hefty, Sean; Byrne, John (Labs); Don Fry; ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org
    Subject: Re: [ofiwg] noob questions
    
    You can force Open MPI to use libfabric as its transport by adding "-mca pml cm -mca mtl ofi" to the mpirun command line.
    
    Brian
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: ofiwg <ofiwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org> on behalf of "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty at intel.com>
    Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 12:52 PM
    To: "Byrne, John (Labs)" <john.l.byrne at hpe.com>, Don Fry <DFry at lightfleet.com>, "ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org" <ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org>
    Subject: Re: [ofiwg] noob questions
    
        My guess is that OpenMPI has an internal socket transport that it is using.  You likely need to force MPI to use libfabric, but I don't know enough about OMPI to do that.
    
        Jeff (copied) likely knows the answer here, but you may need to create him a new meme for his assistance.
    
        - Sean
    
        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: ofiwg <ofiwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org> On Behalf Of Byrne, John (Labs)
        > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:26 AM
        > To: Don Fry <DFry at lightfleet.com>; ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org
        > Subject: Re: [ofiwg] noob questions
        >
        > You only mention the dgram and msg types and the mtl_ofi component wants rdm. If you
        > don’t support rdm, I would have expected your getinfo routine to return error -61.  You
        > can try using the ofi_rxm provider with your provider to add rdm support, replacing
        > verbs in “--mca mtl_ofi_provider_include verbs;ofi_rxm” with your provider.
        >
        >
        >
        > openmpi transport selection is complex. Adding insane levels of verbosity can help you
        > understand what is happening. I tend to use: --mca mtl_base_verbose 100 --mca
        > btl_base_verbose 100 --mca pml_base_verbose 100
        >
        >
        >
        > John Byrne
        >
        >
        >
        > From: ofiwg [mailto:ofiwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Don Fry
        > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:54 AM
        > To: ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org
        > Subject: [ofiwg] noob questions
        >
        >
        >
        > I have written a libfabric provider for our hardware and it passes all the fabtests I
        > expect it to (dgram and msg).  I am trying to run some MPI tests using libfabrics under
        > openmpi (4.0.2).  When I run a simple ping-pong test using mpirun it sends and receives
        > the messages using the tcp/ip protocol.  It does call my fi_getinfo routine, but
        > doesn't use my provider send/receive routines.  I have rebuilt the libfabric library
        > disabling sockets, then again --disable-tcp, then --disable-udp, and fi_info reports
        > fewer and fewer providers until it only lists my provider, but each time I run the mpi
        > test, it still uses the ip protocol to exchange messages.
        >
        >
        >
        > When I configured openmpi I specified --with-libfabric=/usr/local/ and the libfabric
        > library is being loaded and executed.
        >
        >
        >
        > I am probably doing something obviously wrong, but I don't know enough about MPI or
        > maybe libfabric, so need some help. If this is the wrong list, redirect me.
        >
        > ​
        >
        > Any suggestions?
        >
        > Don
    
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