What program are you using for the benchmark? Are you using the xpmem
branch in my github? For my testing I used a stock ubuntu 3.13 kernel
but I have not full stress-tested my xpmem branch.

I will see if I can reproduce and fix the hang.

-Nathan

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:32:26PM +0100, Tobias Kloeffel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> currently I am benchmarking the different single copy mechanisms
> knem/cma/xpmem on a Xeon E5 V3 machine.
> I am using openmpi 1.8.4 with the CMA patch for vader.
> 
> While it turns out that xpmem is the clear winner (reproducing Nathan
> Hjelm's results) I always ran into a problem at the mpi finalizing step. At
> this step, at least one process hangs, and can't be killed anymore. To get
> rid of the hanging process, the server has to be rebooted.
> 
> The applications finish successfully.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't find any further development of the xpmem module. Is
> this bug known to anyone? What kernel versions do you use?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Tested kernel versions:
> 3.11.25-desktop (openSUSE)
> 3.18.9 (vanilla)
> 3.19.1 (vanilla)
> 
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