- Take a look at Sean's local SA caching patches. I merged
everything else from Sean's tree, but I'm still undecided about
these. I haven't read them carefully yet, but even aside from that
I don't have a good feeling about whether there's consensus about
this yet. Any opinions about merging, for or against, would be
appreciated here.
Obviously I'm biased here, but we've definitely seen local caching of
path records (PR) greatly improve performance for large MPI job runs.
(Our largest jobs wouldn't run without it.) The development of the
feature was requested and paid for by the US national labs.
Infinicon/Silverstorm/QLogic also had this feature in their IB stack for
scalability reasons as well. PR caching is done in the stack today by
IPoIB.
The implementation is hidden under the current kernel ib_sa interface,
is disabled by default, and automatically fails over to standard PR
queries if needed. Removing the cache later should be fairly easy.
But to be fair, it will be difficult to enable both QoS and local PR
caching. To me, this would be the strongest reason against using it.
However, QoS places additional burden on the SA, which will make scaling
even more challenging.
- Sean
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