[Openmp-dev] Enabling OMPT by default

Jonas Hahnfeld via Openmp-dev openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Dec 18 05:56:04 PST 2017


Does it pass the tests? I doubt that because it needs modifications as 
Joachim pointed out (had to do the same for PPC64).

Jonas

Am 2017-12-18 14:52, schrieb Pawel Osmialowski:
> Guys,
> 
> For more than a year I was always building libomp with
> -DLIBOMP_OMPT_SUPPORT=ON for our AArch64 machines and I'd happily see
> it enabled by default.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 14:23 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
>> Adding Paul, maybe he can help here. Though switching the default
>> for
>> x86/x86_64 and ppc64 doesn't mean it has to work on AArch64 for the
>> 6.0
>> release, it will just stay deactivated as for MIPS(64).
>> 
>> Jonas
>> 
>> Am 2017-12-18 13:02, schrieb Cownie, James H via Openmp-dev:
>> > The ARM folks should chip in. This should clearly be tested on
>> > AARCH64
>> > as well!
>> >
>> > -- Jim
>> >
>> > Jim Cownie <james.h.cownie at intel.com>
>> > SSG/DPD/TCAR (Technical Computing, Analyzers, and Runtimes)
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>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Openmp-dev [mailto:openmp-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On
>> > Behalf
>> > Of Joachim Protze via Openmp-dev
>> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 11:58 AM
>> > To: Openmp-dev <openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org>
>> > Subject: [Openmp-dev] Enabling OMPT by default
>> >
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > OpenMP 5.0 will introduce OMPT, the OpenMP tools interface. The
>> > current
>> > implementation in the LLVM/OpenMP runtime is at the level of
>> > OpenMP
>> > TR6,
>> > as published in November (with some known issues, were we have
>> > patches
>> > under review).
>> > Currently, this feature is deactivated by default
>> > (LIBOMP_OMPT_SUPPORT).
>> > According to overhead measurements performed by Intel and on some
>> > of
>> > our
>> > machines, this feature introduces a worst case runtime overhead of
>> > ~4%,
>> > but for most cases basically no overhead.
>> > As I understood, some of the build-bots run the tests when the
>> > feature
>> > is enabled. We locally test the changes continuously with different
>> > compiler versions (icc/gcc/clang), but only on x86_64 architecture.
>> > Further, this feature was tested on ppc64.
>> >
>> > How should we proceed to enable this feature by default, and get it
>> > tested on other architectures?
>> > For the 6.0 release, I would like to enable OMPT at least for the
>> > supported platforms x86/x86_64 and ppc64.
>> >
>> >
>> > We would also appreciate collaboration with vendors/users of other
>> > platforms, to ensure the code is running there.
>> >
>> > Typically, only the architecture specific offset needs to be added:
>> > https://github.com/llvm-mirror/openmp/blob/master/runtime/test/ompt
>> > /callback.h#L95
>> >
>> > Looking forward to your feedback,
>> >
>> > Joachim
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