[argobots-discuss] Argobots ABT_eventual_set too slow

[Iwasaki, Shintaro]

Hi, Houjun,

Please use ABT_xstream_set_cpubind or ABT_xstream_set_affinity.
You can also disable the xstream affinity by setting ABT_SET_AFFINITY=no.

Thanks,
Shintaro

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 18:08 Shintaro Iwasaki <wleaf.iwashi at gmail.com<mailto:wleaf.iwashi at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi, Houjun,

Please use ABT_xstream_set_cpubind or ABT_xstream_set_affinity.
You can also disable the xstream affinity by setting ABT_SET_AFFINITY=no.

Thanks,
Shintaro

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:27 PM Houjun Tang via discuss <discuss at lists.argobots.org<mailto:discuss at lists.argobots.org>> wrote:
Hi Pavan,

Yes, the argobots and execution are under my control, but I'm having issues to use pthread_setaffinity_np(), I added some code from the example in http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_getaffinity_np.3.html, but it seems it is only supported by the GNU compilers as I have to add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to the beginning of the code. But the application is usually compile with Intel compilers on NERSC machines, so it won't work in that case. I'm not very familiar with the thread binding related things, is there any other ways to do it?


Thanks,
Houjun Tang

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:24 PM Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov<mailto:balaji at anl.gov>> wrote:
Hi Houjun,

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Houjun Tang <htang4 at lbl.gov<mailto:htang4 at lbl.gov>> wrote:
> I have tried different things as you suggested, and it seems setting OMP_PROC_BIND=false (previously it is set to "spread") can solve the problem. With that variable set, ABT_eventual_set() takes similar time (under 0.00001 seconds) to when OpenMP is disabled. So maybe it's because the Argobots threads and OpenMP threads are executing on the same core and causes the slowdown?

That's a good find.  Yes, it looks like the OpenMP runtime is forcing the pthread to a specific core, so any child threads created by that thread would also be bound to the same core.

Presumably the argobots thread and execution stream are under your control.  Can you unset the binding in your execution stream when you create it?  You can use pthread_setaffinity_np, although that needs to be executed inside your ULT.

  -- Pavan

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