[Lustre-discuss] [mpich-discuss] adio lustre patch

[pascal.deveze at bull.net]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:09:28AM -0700, Martin Pokorny wrote:

> I took a look at the ADIO Lustre driver last week in an attempt to make
> collective I/O work for my application. I believe that I've gotten the
> driver to do the right thing now. With the following patch all of the
> tests under romio/test pass in my environment. My application, which
> requires reasonably complex file views, also appears to write correct
> files now on a Lustre filesystem using collective I/O.

> Problems in the noncontig and i_noncontig tests are fixed by changes to
> ad_lustre_wrstr.c. Basically, I made changes to that file so that it now
> more closely matches adio/common/ad_write_str.c. The only differences in
> these files should now be in the Lustre-specific parts. Problems in the
> large_array test are fixed in ad_lustre_aggregate.c and
> ad_lustre_wrcoll.c. The major problem was in the handling of the
> "buf_idx" arrays, which were not correctly tracking the data out of a
> process's data buffer being sent to multiple other processes. My tests
> involved four MPI nodes, four Lustre OSTs and both four and eight MPI
> processes.

> I also patched ad_lustre_aggregate in its calculation of
> "avail_cb_nodes" as previously provided by Pascal Deveze. I don't know
> whether that has had any effect on my changes, since I did no testing
> without Pascal's changes.

> There are some other changes, such as formatting and the addition of
> some assertions. They are included in the attached patch, but I could
> take them out if desired.

> The patch should apply cleanly to sources out of a fresh mpich2-1.2.1
> tarball. I'm not an old hand at MPI, so please review my patch carefully.

Hi, I will review your modifications these next days. On my side, I also
made some
debugging and enhancements. I have some time to help to make the adio
lustre
driver run correctly.

Pascal