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Fixed new communicators resetting the clock - #551
The Collective Clock (seq_num.cpp) keeps one sequence number and one target for each group of world ranks (its ggid), so all the communicators over the same ranks share them. But new_virt_comm() set both to 0 whenever a communicator was made, since 20bf903 (Virtual ID for open mpi); before, an existing clock was kept.
So a rank that made a communicator over a group again looked to drain_mpi_collective() as if it had done no collectives on that group, and the drain could stop while one rank of the group still held a communicator that its peer had already freed. At restart, reconstruct_descriptors() then rebuilt that communicator on one rank alone: that rank waited in MPI_Comm_create_group, while its peers waited at the MPI:Reset-Drain-Send-Recv-Counters barrier.
cartesian does this: each iteration it makes a row communicator with MPI_Cart_sub and frees it. Its restart hung about one run in four, with rank 0 in MPI_Comm_create_group for a 2-rank row communicator. In a live process, that row's clock was at 1 while the world's was at 235.
new_virt_comm() now makes the clock only if the group has none (emplace). init_world_comm() still resets it, at MPI_Init.
Testing
On Ubuntu 26.04 with MPICH 5.0.1 (ch4:ucx), on one host:
Without the fix
With the fix
cartesian, 4 cycles
Hung at the 4th restart of run 4; 3 of 4 runs passed
25 of 25 runs passed
Suite, polling
47 of 47
Suite, MANA_P2P_WAIT=blocking
47 of 47
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Fixed an issue where creating a virtual communicator could reset existing tracking state. Existing values are now preserved, helping maintain consistent behavior when communicator identifiers are reused.
mpickpt/mana#545: Addresses collective-clock drain behavior involving the target reset in new_virt_comm().
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The change addresses clock resets, but colliding communicator groups can still make checkpointing hang, with preserved counts worsening the failure. Resolve the clock-identity issue before merging unless this workload-dependent risk is explicitly accepted.
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The Collective Clock keeps one sequence number and one target for each
group of world ranks (the ggid), and so for all the communicators over
those ranks. But new_virt_comm() set both to 0 whenever a communicator
was made, since 20bf903; before, an existing clock was kept. So a rank
that made a communicator over a group again looked to
drain_mpi_collective() as if it had done no collectives on that group,
and the drain could stop while one rank of the group still held a
communicator that its peer had freed. The restart then rebuilt that
communicator on one rank alone: it waited in MPI_Comm_create_group while
its peers waited at the MPI:Reset-Drain-Send-Recv-Counters barrier.
cartesian does this: each iteration it makes a row communicator with
MPI_Cart_sub and frees it. Its restart hung about one run in four, rank 0
in MPI_Comm_create_group for a row communicator; in a live process the
row's clock was at 1.
new_virt_comm() now makes the clock only if the group has none.
init_world_comm() still resets it, at MPI_Init.
Tested on Ubuntu 26.04 with MPICH 5.0.1: without the fix, cartesian
hung at the fourth restart of its fourth run of 4 cycles; with it,
cartesian passes 25 runs of 4 cycles, and the suite passes, 47 of 47,
both by default and with MANA_P2P_WAIT=blocking.
Closing in favor of #552, which replaces this change. In #552 each communicator gets its own Collective Clock and an ID that is unique in the job, so making a communicator never changes the clock of another one.
The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The P2P drain names communicators by gid too.
MPI_Comm_free removes the communicator's clock, but its last sequence
number goes to the KVDB in each drain attempt until a drain completes.
So a member that did not free the communicator yet continues until it
frees it too (mpickpt#545). At the end of a drain, all members made the same
number of calls on the communicator, so all of them freed it.
An application thread now adds and removes clocks while the checkpoint
thread can read them, so a drain round reads them under seq_num_lock.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The P2P drain names communicators by gid too.
MPI_Comm_free removes the communicator's clock, but its last sequence
number goes to the KVDB in each drain attempt until a drain completes.
So a member that did not free the communicator yet continues until it
frees it too (mpickpt#545). At the end of a drain, all members made the same
number of calls on the communicator, so all of them freed it.
An application thread now adds and removes clocks while the checkpoint
thread can read them, so a drain round reads them under seq_num_lock.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The descriptor of a communicator holds its gid and its clock.
MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at
MPI_Init, so the clock and the P2P drain find every communicator's gid,
clock and members in its descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain
names communicators by gid alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
upload_seq_num() now sends the sequence numbers to the KVDB as 64-bit
values. It stored them in an unsigned int, so after 2^32 collectives on
a communicator, the maximum in the KVDB could be lower than the count of
a process that was ahead.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
upload_seq_num() now sends the sequence numbers to the KVDB as 64-bit
values. It stored them in an unsigned int, so after 2^32 collectives on
a communicator, the maximum in the KVDB could be lower than the count of
a process that was ahead.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
upload_seq_num() now sends the sequence numbers to the KVDB as 64-bit
values. It stored them in an unsigned int, so after 2^32 collectives on
a communicator, the maximum in the KVDB could be lower than the count of
a process that was ahead.
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The Collective Clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named
by generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank. The drain
merges the counts of all ranks by that name in the KVDB, but different
sets often had the same name. On 2 nodes of 128 ranks, 8 pairs of the
communicators that join a local rank across the nodes have one name,
such as {21, 149} and {82, 210}. MPI_COMM_SELF had the name 0 on every
rank. In addition, the communicators of one set shared a clock, but MPI
fixes the order of collectives only on each communicator. If even ranks
start MPI_Ibarrier on X and then on Y, and odd ranks on Y and then on X,
the drain can stop with each barrier started on half of the ranks.
Now each communicator has its own clock and an ID that is unique in the
job, its gid. The communicator's rank 0 makes the gid: the number of
gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank. It
sends the gid to the other members with an MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm().
A new communicator thus always gets a new clock, so no clock is reset
(mpickpt#551). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the
target of the communicator, and the descriptor of a communicator holds
its gid and points to its clock. MPI_COMM_SELF, which has no
virtual-ID entry, gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the
P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in its
descriptor (get_comm_desc()). The P2P drain names communicators by gid
alone.
MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (mpickpt#545), and the
clock stays until a drain completes. At the end of a drain, all
members made the same number of calls on the communicator, so all of
them freed it, and the drain erases the clocks of the communicators
that no longer exist. The drain erases clocks while application
threads wait in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and an application
thread can add a clock while a drain runs. So commit_finish() and the
drain rounds now check the targets under seq_num_lock, and
receive_target(), now the one copy of the code that reads a target
message, raises the target under it.
upload_seq_num() now sends the sequence numbers to the KVDB as 64-bit
values. It stored them in an unsigned int, so after 2^32 collectives on
a communicator, the maximum in the KVDB could be lower than the count of
a process that was ahead.
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Summary
The Collective Clock (
seq_num.cpp) keeps one sequence number and one target for each group of world ranks (its ggid), so all the communicators over the same ranks share them. Butnew_virt_comm()set both to 0 whenever a communicator was made, since 20bf903 (Virtual ID for open mpi); before, an existing clock was kept.So a rank that made a communicator over a group again looked to
drain_mpi_collective()as if it had done no collectives on that group, and the drain could stop while one rank of the group still held a communicator that its peer had already freed. At restart,reconstruct_descriptors()then rebuilt that communicator on one rank alone: that rank waited inMPI_Comm_create_group, while its peers waited at theMPI:Reset-Drain-Send-Recv-Countersbarrier.cartesiandoes this: each iteration it makes a row communicator withMPI_Cart_suband frees it. Its restart hung about one run in four, with rank 0 inMPI_Comm_create_groupfor a 2-rank row communicator. In a live process, that row's clock was at 1 while the world's was at 235.new_virt_comm()now makes the clock only if the group has none (emplace).init_world_comm()still resets it, atMPI_Init.Testing
On Ubuntu 26.04 with MPICH 5.0.1 (ch4:ucx), on one host:
cartesian, 4 cyclesMANA_P2P_WAIT=blockingSummary by CodeRabbit