Re: [OMPI users] knem support in ompi

2013-09-04 Thread George Bosilca
Small messages, i.e. their length is under btl_sm_eager_limit, always use normal SM. KNEM usage is restricted only for messages over either the eager size or the btl_sm_knem_dma_min (if KNEM supports DMA). George. On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:47 , Alina Sklarevich wrote: > Hi, > > I am building

[OMPI users] knem support in ompi

2013-09-04 Thread Alina Sklarevich
Hi, I am building ompi v1.6 with knem support and I see that when knem is enabed from the command line it is used for all message sizes in SM btl. There is no threshold for when to start using knem - starting which message size. This makes the performance of small messages worse since it also uses