While I'm glad it worked, having it depend on orte progress thread wasn't done
by intent, hence the comment in the configure help output. I'm not seeing any
problems with using that option, but please let us know if you run into
something. It hasn't been as fully tested as we'd like.
On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:10 AM, Elias Rudberg <elias.rudb...@it.uu.se> wrote:
> This has now been solved.
>
> The solution (as suggested by Ralph) is to use the following four configure
> options together:
> ./configure --enable_event_thread_support --enable_opal_multi_threads
> --enable_orte_progress_threads --enable_mpi_thread_multiple
>
> So, apparently the --enable_mpi_thread_multiple option cannot be used by
> itself, it must be combined with the other three options, otherwise
> MPI_Init_thread will hang.
>
> / Elias
>
>
> Quoting Elias Rudberg <elias.rudb...@it.uu.se>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I now tried using --enable-opal-multi-threads (I added an "s" in the end,
>> since "--enable-opal-multi-thread" was not recognized by the configure
>> script).
>>
>> However, my test code still hangs in the same way as before.
>>
>> To be clear, I now configure like this:
>> ./configure --enable-mpi-thread-multiple --enable-opal-multi-threads
>>
>> but the problem remains: MPI_Init_thread still hangs when trying to run the
>> test case with -np 2.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>> Are there other configure options that must be used together with
>> --enable-mpi-thread-multiple to make it work?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Elias
>>
>>
>> Quoting Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>:
>>
>>> Hmmm...well, your code runs fine for me:
>>>
>>> Ralphs-iMac:mpi rhc$ mpirun -n 2 ./thread_init
>>> Calling MPI_Init_thread...
>>> Calling MPI_Init_thread...
>>> MPI_Init_thread returned, provided = 3
>>> MPI_Init_thread returned, provided = 3
>>> Ralphs-iMac:mpi rhc$
>>>
>>> I think the key, however, is that you also have to configure with
>>> --enable-opal-multi-thread.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Elias Rudberg <elias.rudb...@it.uu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I would like to report what seems to be a bug in MPI_Init_thread in
>>>> OpenMPI 1.7.1.
>>>>
>>>> The bug can be reproduced with the following test program
>>>> (test_mpi_thread_support.c):
>>>> ===========================================
>>>> #include <mpi.h>
>>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>>> int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
>>>> int provided = -1;
>>>> printf("Calling MPI_Init_thread...\n");
>>>> MPI_Init_thread(NULL, NULL, MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE, &provided);
>>>> printf("MPI_Init_thread returned, provided = %d\n", provided);
>>>> MPI_Finalize();
>>>> return 0;
>>>> }
>>>> ===========================================
>>>>
>>>> When trying to run this when OpenMPI was configured with
>>>> --enable-mpi-thread-multiple, the program hangs when trying to run using
>>>> anything more than one process.
>>>>
>>>> Steps I use to reproduce this in Ubuntu:
>>>>
>>>> (1) Download openmpi-1.7.1.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> (2) Configure like this:
>>>> ./configure --enable-mpi-thread-multiple
>>>>
>>>> (3) make
>>>>
>>>> (4) Compile test program like this:
>>>> mpicc test_mpi_thread_support.c
>>>>
>>>> (5) Run like this:
>>>> mpirun -np 2 ./a.out
>>>> Then you see the following two lines of output:
>>>> Calling MPI_Init_thread...
>>>> Calling MPI_Init_thread...
>>>> And then it hangs.
>>>>
>>>> MPI_Init_thread did not hang in earlier OpenMPI versions (for example it
>>>> worked in 1.5.* and 1.6.*), so it seems like a bug introduced in 1.7.
>>>>
>>>> The description above shows how I reproduce this in Ubuntu on my local
>>>> desktop computer, but the same problem exists for the OpenMPI 1.7.1
>>>> installation at the UPPMAX computer center where I wan to run my code in
>>>> the end. I don't know all details about how they installed it there, but I
>>>> know they set --enable-mpi-thread-multiple. So maybe it hangs in 1.7.1 on
>>>> any computer as long as you use MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. At least I have not
>>>> seen it work anywhere.
>>>>
>>>> Do you agree that this is a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Elias
>>>>
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