On Wed, 21 May 2008, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On May 21, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Don Kerr wrote:
>
>> Just want to make sure what I think I see is true:
>>
>> Linux build. openib btl requires ptmalloc2 and ptmalloc2 requires
>> posix
>> threads, is that correct?
>
> ptmalloc2 is not *required* by the openib btl. But it is required on
> Linux if you want to use the mpi_leave_pinned functionality. I see
> one function call to __pthread_initialize in the ptmalloc2 code -- it
> *looks* like it's a function of glibc, but I don't know for sure.
There's actually more than that, it's just buried a bit. There's a whole
bunch of thread-specific data stuff, which is wrapped so that different
thread packages can be used (although OMPI only supports pthreads). The
wrappers are in ptmalloc2/sysdeps/pthreads.
Brian
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