[Openmp-dev] Default value for OpenMP thread stacksize

[Simone Atzeni via Openmp-dev]

It looks though the LLVM OpenMP runtime has two different stack size for x86 (4096kb) and power (1024kb), so I thought that this is not implementation related but maybe architecture dependent?

Anyway, makes sense to set the OMP_STACKSIZE.

Thanks.
Simone

From: Cownie, James H <james.h.cownie at intel.com>
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 5:05 PM
To: Simone Atzeni <satzeni at nvidia.com>
Cc: openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org
Subject: RE: Default value for OpenMP thread stacksize

I do not know what the default OpenMP stack size is on PPC, but the rest of your logic seems sound, and setting OMP_STACKSIZE seems entirely reasonable.
The standard says that the default stack size is "implementation defined", so it is entirely reasonable that different implementations have different default values.

-- Jim

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Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 3:58 PM
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Subject: [Openmp-dev] Default value for OpenMP thread stacksize

HI all,

What's the default size for the stack of the OpenMP threads in x86 and and ppc64 in the OpenMP runtime?

I have a Fortran program which allocates more than a 1MB on the stack for each thread. On x86 runs correctly, but on ppc64 it seg faults.
I am seeing that each thread in x86 has a stacksize of 4096kb while on ppc64 is 1024kb.
If I increase the stacksize with OMP_STACKSIZE the program runs correctly also on Power, but it fails if I only set "ulimit -s unlimited", which make sense since ulimit should only change the stacksize for the main thread but not for the other threads.

Is this the expected behavior and the correct solution is to set OMP_STACKSIZE?

Thanks.
Simone
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