I talked to Pasha about the change. He suggests fragments are 2-byte aligned to save space. I suspect that on 64-bit platforms the fragment size is already a multiple of 8 bytes so this change will likely only affect 32-bit systems (which is where the bus error is occurring).
-Nathan
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:39:09PM +0000, Joshua Ladd wrote:
> I would hold off, if possible, until I can investigate the issue. I don't, off-hand, know why the 2-byte alignment, although I would suspect it's for performance reasons.
>
>
> Josh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces@open-mpi.org [mailto:devel-bounces@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:35 PM
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> Subject: [OMPI devel] openib fragment alignment
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> Arrgh. I think you're going to make me eat my words (http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2013/02/12143.php).
>
> I just recently lost my access to InfiniBand test gear, so I can't test this myself. Hypothetically, it should be fine. But throwing in an untested change literally right before a release without IB vendor say-so really, really gives me pause...
>
> Mellanox?
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Open MPI <bugs@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
> > #3519: Move r28083 to v1.6 branch
> > -----------------------------------+--------------------------
> > Reporter: hjelmn | Owner: hjelmn
> > Type: changeset move request | Status: new
> > Priority: major | Milestone: Open MPI 1.6
> > Version: trunk |
> > -----------------------------------+--------------------------
> > (In [28083]) btl/openib: don't align fragments on 2 byte boundaries
> > (changed to 8)
> >
> > cmr:v1.6,v1.7
> >
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