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Give each communicator its own Collective Clock - #552
This PR fixes the checkpoint hangs of the Collective Clock (seq_num.cpp) that come from how it names communicators and when its drain stops.
One clock per communicator, with a unique ID (second commit). The 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 name in the KVDB, but different rank sets often had one 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.
Communicators of one rank 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, as the number of gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank, and sends it to the other members with one 8-byte MPI_Bcast in new_virt_comm(). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the target, the communicator's descriptor holds its gid and points to its clock, and MPI_COMM_SELF gets a descriptor at MPI_Init. So the clock and the P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in one place (get_comm_desc()), and the P2P drain names communicators by gid alone. MPI_Comm_free still counts on the communicator's clock (#545). The clock stays until a drain completes, and then the drain erases the clocks of the communicators that no longer exist. The sequence numbers now go to the KVDB as 64-bit values; they were truncated to 32 bits.
Other fixes:
MPI_Comm_create_group was counted on the parent's clock, but only the group's members call it, so the drain never stopped. It now enters the critical section without a count.
Unread target messages. A process that passed its target sent the new target with MPI_Send, and a member read it only while it waited in commit_begin() or commit_finish(). So the drain could stop while a message was unread, and after a call that returns at once, such as MPI_Ibarrier or MPI_Comm_free, the other members never made the call. Now the targets go through the KVDB: a process that passes its target only records it, each drain round uploads the recorded targets, and if any process uploaded one, all processes download their targets and the drain continues. The checkpoint threads move all targets, so the drain no longer waits for an application thread to read a message.
Clocks made during a drain attempt had the target 0, because the attempt downloaded the targets at its start. A process that made one downloads its targets again in its next drain round, and the round reads whether the process is in a critical section together with its targets, under seq_num_lock.
Cleanup (first commit): commit_begin() and commit_finish() returned at once in the state RESTART_REPLAY, so that restart did not count the MPI calls that it replayed from a log. Restart no longer replays logged calls (it rebuilds the MPI objects from their descriptors in the lower half), so the state is removed, with the unused RESTART_RETORE.
Tests: nbc_order, comm_self, comm_create_group and comm_free_order.
Costs, with 4 or 8 ranks on one host:
Collectives are unchanged.
Making and freeing a communicator under MANA takes about 1.5 µs more than on main, mostly the MPI_Bcast.
A drain round makes 2 more KVDB requests on each rank. In a round in which a process passed its target, every rank downloads all its targets again, and the drain takes one more round.
Each communicator freed since the last checkpoint costs two KVDB requests on each rank: after 10,000 frees, a checkpoint takes 1.2 to 1.7 s more with 4 ranks and 2.2 s more with 8. A checkpoint without freed communicators takes as long as on main (0.04 to 0.06 s).
Testing
On Fedora 44 with MPICH 5.0.1, and in an Ubuntu 26.04 container with Open MPI 5.0.10 (CI's Open MPI job):
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Suite, MPICH, polling / MANA_P2P_WAIT=blocking
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Suite, Open MPI, polling / blocking
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nbc_order, comm_self, comm_create_group
first checkpoint does not complete
pass
comm_free_order, 4 cycles
3 of 3 runs hang at a checkpoint
30 of 30 runs
The 4 new tests, comm_free, communicators, cartesian, p2p_ssend_comm, 4 cycles
10 of 10 runs polling, 5 of 5 blocking
Delay of 2 ms in new_virt_comm() on non-leaders; a pair made and freed at once, 4 cycles
20 of 20 runs; 2 of 10 without the fix for new clocks
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Virtual communicator IDs now use leader-generated gids, and sequence tracking uses per-communicator clocks. Drain synchronization accounts for target messages and communicator-free barriers. P2P drain records use gids and predefined communicator identifiers.
Changes: Communicator identity and drain coordination
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Summary
Gid assignment and communicator identity mpi-proxy-split/virtual_id.h, mpi-proxy-split/virtual_id.cpp
Virtual communicators receive gids generated from a creation counter and leader rank. Their descriptors store a clock pointer, and lookup uses the gid.
Per-communicator sequence and drain tracking mpi-proxy-split/seq_num.h, mpi-proxy-split/seq_num.cpp
Sequence counts, targets, and synchronized counts are tracked per communicator. Drain completion also checks target-message counts.
Communicator lifecycle and validation mpi-proxy-split/mpi-wrappers/mpi_comm_wrappers.cpp, mpi-proxy-split/mpi_plugin.cpp, mpi-proxy-split/seq_num.cpp, mpi-proxy-split/test/*, mpi-proxy-split/test/Makefile, mpi-proxy-split/test/autotest.py
Communicator-free barriers retain clocks until completion. MPI_Comm_create_group uses an uncounted critical-section entry. Four tests cover nonblocking barrier order, MPI_COMM_SELF, group creation, and communicator-free ordering.
sequenceDiagram
participant MPIWrapper
participant CommClock
participant KVDB
MPIWrapper->>CommClock: enter counted or uncounted section
CommClock->>CommClock: update sequence and target state
CommClock->>KVDB: publish convergence and message totals
KVDB->>CommClock: provide rank totals
CommClock->>CommClock: determine drain completion
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mpickpt/mana#529: Defines predefined and virtual communicator names in the P2P drain code that this change updates to use gids and predefined flags.
mpickpt/mana#547: Adds an attempt field to target messages; this change adds the communicator gid to the target-message format and receive logic.
mpickpt/mana#551: Changes communicator clock registration in new_virt_comm(), which this change replaces with per-communicator clocks and leader-generated gids.
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The change is mergeable with bounded follow-up: handle failed gid broadcasts and free-barrier initiation under returning MPI error handlers. The suggested tests improve checkpoint regression coverage; the former rank-list retention concern is resolved.
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Bound the memory retained for rank lists.
211-212: Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff
Bound the memory retained for rank lists.
rank_lists keeps a copy of every distinct rank list and never removes an entry. Memory grows with the total size of all distinct memberships, not only their count. A job that creates many large communicators with different memberships can grow process memory steadily. Any fix must keep each ID unique, because the KVDB merges Collective Clocks by ID.
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Bound memory retained by the rank_lists mapping in virtual_id.cpp, which
currently stores every distinct rank list indefinitely. Use a bounded retention
strategy for rank-list memberships while ensuring IDs are never reused,
including after an entry is evicted, so KVDB cannot merge clocks for different
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The table is now keyed by the sorted ranks (ab56d95), so communicators of the same ranks in another order share one entry, one clock and one KVDB key, as they did with the old ggid. A program that renumbers MPI_COMM_WORLD with MPI_Comm_split in each iteration makes no rank list after MPI_Init.
Removing the entries of rank lists that have no live communicator will be a follow-up PR. After a successful drain, all members of a list have freed the same communicators, so they drop the same entries, and the counter never gives an ID again. That also bounds seq_num and target, which already keep one entry per rank list.
Force-pushed a new design. The rank-list table is gone: each communicator now has its own clock and a gid that its leader makes (serial × world size + the leader's world rank), and this PR replaces #551. It also fixes MPI_Comm_create_group, sends only changed clocks to the KVDB, and makes the drain wait until every target message is read. The description is updated. The earlier review threads refer to the old code.
Test coverage for the divergent window depends on checkpoint timing the test does not control.
The test sets up the window with fixed sleeps, but the runner chooses checkpoint times. A run can print PASS without any checkpoint landing in the window. The test still runs the free and MPI_Ibarrier ordering on every iteration, so this is a gap in regression coverage, not a broken test. Closing the gap needs a signal from the test program to the runner. The runner would use that signal to place a checkpoint in the window. No signal path is established yet, so no code change is proposed here.
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No code change is requested: the `MPI_Comm_free` and `MPI_Ibarrier` ordering in
this test already runs on every iteration, and reliable checkpoint coverage
requires a test-to-runner signal path that is not established here.
Add a point-to-point test that uses MPI_COMM_SELF.
comm_self.c calls only MPI_Barrier on MPI_COMM_SELF. No test in the repository sends or receives on MPI_COMM_SELF. This PR changes how the checkpoint P2P drain encodes predefined communicators (commName and commByName in p2p_drain_send_recv.cpp). No test exercises that path for MPI_COMM_SELF, so the suite would not detect an encoding error there.
Add a test that posts a nonblocking send to rank 0 on MPI_COMM_SELF. Keep the message in flight across a checkpoint, then receive it and check the payload. Register the test the same way as the existing tests.
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Make the nbc_order test confirm that a checkpoint lands in its 2 ms sleep, or record whether one did.
The divergent-order case runs only in the usleep(2000) between the two MPI_Ibarrier calls. The harness triggers checkpoints independently of that loop position. A passing run therefore does not show that the window was exercised. Consider having the test ensure the window is hit, or having it record whether a checkpoint fell in the window, so that a PASS shows the scenario ran.
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Update the divergent-order test around the two MPI_Ibarrier calls to ensure a
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- Around line 379-381: Update PMPI_Comm_free to check the return value from
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- Around line 271-274: Check the return value of NEXT_FUNC(Bcast) in the gid
broadcast flow before assigning desc->gid or registering the communicator clock.
Use the existing ASSERT pattern used for Comm_dup to stop the operation when the
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Check the Ibarrier return value before the request is used.
PMPI_Comm_free ignores the return value of NEXT_FUNC(Ibarrier). The request is still used on both paths. On MPI_SUCCESS, free_comm_clock stores it as the clock's free barrier. On failure, the code calls Wait on it. If the initiation fails, the request may not be valid. The later MPI_Test in test_free_barriers can then fail its MPI_SUCCESS assertion, and the failure is never reported at the call site.
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Update PMPI_Comm_free to check the return value from NEXT_FUNC(Ibarrier) before
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gid starts at 0 on every rank. Only the leader assigns make_gid(...). If Bcast fails under a returning error handler, the call returns and the function continues. A non-root that did not receive the value keeps gid == 0, stores it in desc->gid, and registers its clock with add_comm_clock(gid). The leader's gid differs from 0 in most cases, so the communicator's members can end up with different identities. The failure is not reported. A non-root that received the value before the error keeps the correct gid.
Logging the error alone would not prevent the mismatch, because the function would still register the gid. The check must stop the operation, as the existing ASSERT on Comm_dup does.
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Check the return value of NEXT_FUNC(Bcast) in the gid broadcast flow before
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commit_begin() and commit_finish() returned at once in the state
RESTART_REPLAY, so that restart did not count the MPI calls that it
replayed from a log. Restart no longer replays logged calls. It makes
the communicators, groups, datatypes and operations again from their
descriptors with the lower half's calls (reconstruct_descriptors()),
and it posts the pending receives again with the lower half's
MPI_Irecv. The file wrappers that restore_mpi_files() calls do not
call commit_begin(), and the application's threads stay suspended until
DMTCP_EVENT_RESTART ends. So no call in that state reaches
commit_begin().
The state is removed, together with RESTART_RETORE, which nothing used.
The restart hook keeps mana_state at CKPT_P2P until it sets RUNNING, as
the resume hook does.
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.
Only the members of the group call MPI_Comm_create_group, but
commit_begin() counted it on the clock of the parent communicator. So
the counts of that clock differed between the members and the other
processes, and a drain never stopped: the first checkpoint did not
complete.
MPI_Comm_create_group now enters the critical section without a count
(commit_begin_uncounted()). It still waits, like commit_begin(), while
a drain attempt runs and the process reached its targets: otherwise it
could enter the lower half after the drain stopped. The critical
section is enough to make the new communicator exist on all members or
on none at a checkpoint. A member can complete the call only after all
members have entered it, and the drain does not stop while a member is
in it.
new_virt_comm() now calls MPI_Bcast, so the wrapper keeps checkpoints
out of the lower half around it, as the other wrappers do.
A process that passed its target during a drain attempt sent the new
target to the other members of the communicator with MPI_Send
(seq_num_broadcast()). A member read the message only while it waited
in commit_begin() or commit_finish(), and until then it reported that
it reached its targets. So the drain could stop while a message was
unread, and the member then did not make the call that the other
members had made. A blocking collective is safe, because the process
that passed its target stays in its critical section until the others
join it. But after a call that returns at once, such as MPI_Ibarrier
or MPI_Comm_free, the other members never made the call: the barrier
never completed, or the restart hung.
Now a process that passes its target only records the clock. At the
start of each drain round, the checkpoint thread uploads the sequence
numbers of the recorded clocks to the KVDB, and the round adds how many
it uploaded. If any process uploaded one, all processes download their
targets after the round's barrier, and the drain continues. The drain
stops only in a round in which no process uploaded a target, all
reached their targets, and none was in a critical section. A process
that reached its targets in that round can pass one only after its
targets rise, and they rise only in a download.
The checkpoint threads thus move all targets, and the drain no longer
depends on an application thread reading a message. A waiting process
still calls MPI_Iprobe, so that the MPI library progresses the
non-blocking collectives that the other members wait for.
A drain attempt shares the sequence numbers in the KVDB at its start,
and each process downloads the targets of the clocks that it has then.
A member that was still in the call that made a communicator made the
clock after that, with the target 0. So it reported that it reached
its targets, while the other members had already made calls on the
communicator before the attempt started, and the drain could stop. A
delay of 2 ms in new_virt_comm() on the members other than rank 0 made
a test that makes a pair and frees it at once hang after a restart in 8
of 10 runs.
add_comm_clock() now records that a process added a clock during a
drain attempt, and its next drain round downloads its targets again. A
process adds a clock in a critical section. So the round also reads
whether the process is in a critical section under seq_num_lock,
together with its targets: a round that does not see the new clock then
sees the critical section. With the delay, 20 of 20 runs passed.
nbc_order starts an MPI_Ibarrier on two communicators with the same
ranks, in a different order on even and odd ranks, which MPI permits.
On main, its first checkpoint does not complete.
comm_create_group makes a communicator of the even ranks with
MPI_Comm_create_group in each iteration, and then calls MPI_Allreduce
on MPI_COMM_WORLD. On main, its first checkpoint does not complete.
comm_free_order frees one communicator and starts an MPI_Ibarrier on
another, in a different order on even and odd ranks, which MPI
permits. On main, 3 of 3 runs hung at a checkpoint. Without "Send
drain targets through the KVDB", 1 of 10 runs hung.
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Replaces #551.
Summary
This PR fixes the checkpoint hangs of the Collective Clock (
seq_num.cpp) that come from how it names communicators and when its drain stops.One clock per communicator, with a unique ID (second commit). The clock kept one clock for each set of world ranks, named by
generate_ggid(), a 32-bit XOR of a hash of each rank:MPI_COMM_SELFhad the name 0 on every rank.MPI_Ibarrieron 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, as the number of gids that it made before, times the world size, plus its world rank, and sends it to the other members with one 8-byte
MPI_Bcastinnew_virt_comm(). The clocks are one map from gid to the sequence number and the target, the communicator's descriptor holds its gid and points to its clock, andMPI_COMM_SELFgets a descriptor atMPI_Init. So the clock and the P2P drain find every communicator's gid, clock and members in one place (get_comm_desc()), and the P2P drain names communicators by gid alone.MPI_Comm_freestill counts on the communicator's clock (#545). The clock stays until a drain completes, and then the drain erases the clocks of the communicators that no longer exist. The sequence numbers now go to the KVDB as 64-bit values; they were truncated to 32 bits.Other fixes:
MPI_Comm_create_groupwas counted on the parent's clock, but only the group's members call it, so the drain never stopped. It now enters the critical section without a count.MPI_Send, and a member read it only while it waited incommit_begin()orcommit_finish(). So the drain could stop while a message was unread, and after a call that returns at once, such asMPI_IbarrierorMPI_Comm_free, the other members never made the call. Now the targets go through the KVDB: a process that passes its target only records it, each drain round uploads the recorded targets, and if any process uploaded one, all processes download their targets and the drain continues. The checkpoint threads move all targets, so the drain no longer waits for an application thread to read a message.seq_num_lock.Cleanup (first commit):
commit_begin()andcommit_finish()returned at once in the stateRESTART_REPLAY, so that restart did not count the MPI calls that it replayed from a log. Restart no longer replays logged calls (it rebuilds the MPI objects from their descriptors in the lower half), so the state is removed, with the unusedRESTART_RETORE.Tests:
nbc_order,comm_self,comm_create_groupandcomm_free_order.Costs, with 4 or 8 ranks on one host:
MPI_Bcast.Testing
On Fedora 44 with MPICH 5.0.1, and in an Ubuntu 26.04 container with Open MPI 5.0.10 (CI's Open MPI job):
MANA_P2P_WAIT=blockingnbc_order,comm_self,comm_create_groupcomm_free_order, 4 cyclescomm_free,communicators,cartesian,p2p_ssend_comm, 4 cyclesnew_virt_comm()on non-leaders; a pair made and freed at once, 4 cycles