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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/mpi.scm3
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-psm2-priority.patch21
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/mpi.scm b/gnu/packages/mpi.scm
index 79ee948765..5fde6efae4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/mpi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/mpi.scm
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ bind processes, and much more.")
(version-major+minor version)
"/downloads/openmpi-" version ".tar.bz2"))
(sha256
- (base32 "0ms0zvyxyy3pnx9qwib6zaljyp2b3ixny64xvq3czv3jpr8zf2wh"))))
+ (base32 "0ms0zvyxyy3pnx9qwib6zaljyp2b3ixny64xvq3czv3jpr8zf2wh"))
+ (patches (search-patches "openmpi-psm2-priority.patch"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(inputs
`(("hwloc" ,hwloc-2 "lib")
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-psm2-priority.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-psm2-priority.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9dd558010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/openmpi-psm2-priority.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+PSM2 is the only valid implementation for OmniPath (OPA). UCX also
+supports OmniPath, but it does so via Verbs, thus getting much lower
+performance (typically 3 GiB/s instead of 10 GiB/s).
+
+To work around that, give the mtl_psm2 component a higher priority
+than the pml_ucx component.
+
+See <https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.open-mpi.org/msg33581.html>.
+
+--- openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm2/mtl_psm2_component.c 2019-11-15 17:06:15.142076840 +0100
++++ openmpi-4.0.2/ompi/mca/mtl/psm2/mtl_psm2_component.c 2019-11-15 17:06:22.242009379 +0100
+@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ ompi_mtl_psm2_component_register(void)
+ setenv("PSM2_DEVICES", "self,shm", 0);
+ }
+
+- param_priority = 40;
++ param_priority = 55;
+ (void) mca_base_component_var_register (&mca_mtl_psm2_component.super.mtl_version,
+ "priority", "Priority of the PSM2 MTL component",
+ MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0,
+