Jeff

 

Yes, I am calling MPI_Init_thread() with MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. And I have enabled thread and mpi_threads while configuring OpenMPI. BTW, I am using OpenMPI 1.4.2.

 

It will be helpful to know if this is a design constraint or some implementation defect.

 

Regards

Ananda

 

Ananda B Mudar, PMP

Senior Technical Architect

Wipro Technologies

Ph: 972 765 8093

ananda.mudar@wipro.com

Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Question about barrier()
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-02 09:53:53

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I'd have to check to be sure, but I'm pretty sure that it's because we've activated lots of locks that aren't there in single-threaded mode.

I say this because I *assume* you mean that when you use MPI_INIT_THREAD, you mean that you're actually calling it with MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. Calling MPI_INIT should be exactly equivalent to calling MPI_INIT_THREAD with MPI_THREAD_SINGLE.

On Nov 1, 2010, at 12:46 PM, <ananda.mudar_at_[hidden]> <ananda.mudar_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have the following small program where the rank-0 process does sleep and then all the processes perform barrier().
> #include "mpi.h"
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> int rank, nprocs;
>
> MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
> MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&nprocs);
> MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&rank);
> if ( rank == 0) sleep(60);
> MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
> printf("Hello, world. I am %d of %d\n", rank, nprocs);fflush(stdout);
> MPI_Finalize();
> return 0;
> }
>
> When I run this program on two nodes consuming 16 cores, I see that the non rank-0 processes which are in wait mode for rank-0 process to complete barrier() are consuming only user time. I was expecting this behavior and there are no questions about it.
>
> However if I initialize MPI threads by replacing MPI_Init() with MPI_Init_thread(), I see quite a different behavior of this program. While rank-0 process is sleeping, all non rank-0 processes seem to be spending time in kernel mode (thus increasing system time) instead of waiting in user mode.
>
> Following is the sar output on the node where rank-0 process is running
> Node1> sar 2 10
> Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5-perfctr (Node1) 10/29/2010
>
> 02:33:51 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 02:33:53 PM all 6.69 0.00 80.88 0.00 0.00 12.44
> 02:33:55 PM all 6.56 0.00 81.00 0.00 0.00 12.44
> 02:33:57 PM all 6.62 0.00 80.89 0.00 0.00 12.49
> 02:33:59 PM all 6.68 0.00 80.89 0.00 0.00 12.43
> 02:34:01 PM all 6.69 0.00 81.00 0.00 0.00 12.31
> 02:34:03 PM all 6.75 0.00 80.76 0.00 0.00 12.49
> 02:34:05 PM all 6.75 0.00 80.82 0.00 0.00 12.43
> 02:34:07 PM all 6.75 0.00 81.19 0.00 0.00 12.06
> 02:34:09 PM all 6.93 0.00 80.64 0.00 0.00 12.43
> 02:34:11 PM all 6.75 0.00 80.81 0.00 0.00 12.44
> Average: all 6.72 0.00 80.89 0.00 0.00 12.40
>
> And following is the sar output on the second node:
> Node2> sar 2 10
> Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5-perfctr (Node2) 10/29/2010
>
> 02:33:48 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 02:33:50 PM all 6.37 0.00 93.63 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:33:52 PM all 6.19 0.00 93.81 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:33:54 PM all 6.31 0.00 93.69 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:33:56 PM all 6.50 0.00 93.50 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:33:58 PM all 6.81 0.00 93.19 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:34:00 PM all 6.56 0.00 93.44 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:34:02 PM all 6.50 0.00 93.50 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:34:04 PM all 6.50 0.00 93.50 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:34:06 PM all 6.56 0.00 93.44 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 02:34:08 PM all 6.68 0.00 93.32 0.00 0.00 0.00
> Average: all 6.50 0.00 93.50 0.00 0.00 0.00
>
> Can someone please explain the difference in behavior of barrier() call when I use MPI_Init() vs MPI_Init_thread()?
>
> Thanks
> Ananda
>
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