On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 20:16:36 +0200 Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > No, this is exactly the wrong way around. You should use the serial > > library for code that you want to be running in serial (this way you > > can get several instances of the program running efficiently), and > > the pthreads version if you want to run the BLAS/LAPACK regions in > > parallel (but are somehow opposed to OpenMP!).. > > I think I'm more confused than before. :D > > > > The question of the default is a hard one. What happens if a > > > multithreaded application that does not use OpenMP is linked with > > > the OpenMP build of OpenBLAS? > > > > Then you get too much parallellism, i.e. every call to OpenBLAS will > > launch several threads, and this will naturally ruin your scaling. > > So would you say that openblas-serial is the most sensible > system-wide default?
THERE SHOULD BE NO SYSTEM-WIDE DEFAULT. The thing is that the maintainer needs to be able to pick the correct flavor. If you use the wrong one, you may seriously handicap performance. But, if one *needs* a system-wide default, in my opinion it should be the OpenMP version, since it plays well together with both sequential and OpenMP parallel programs. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
