[petsc-dev] [PATCH] Threadcomm: Add #include <sched.h> for cpu_set_t

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu May 1 16:08:56 CDT 2014


BTW: were you using petsc-3.4? The code code appears to be reworked in
petsc-dev [and thats recommend for threads usage]

Satish

On Thu, 1 May 2014, Satish Balay wrote:

> I believe this include is pulled in from pthreadclasses
> 
> openmp.py as:     self.deps = [self.pthreadclasses]
> 
> Is this a real dependency?
> 
> If so configure should enforce this.. [Its not doing this due to the
> way configureLibrary() is used here]
> 
> The following would be the fix.. [which gives a generic error message
> for pthreadclasses - this could be misleading..
> 
> >>>>>>
> Did not find package PTHREADCLASSES needed by openmp.
> Enable the package using --with-pthreadclasses or --download-pthreadclasses
> <<<<
> 
> $ git diff
> diff --git a/config/PETSc/packages/openmp.py b/config/PETSc/packages/openmp.py
> index a7c3fd5..b18978b 100644
> --- a/config/PETSc/packages/openmp.py
> +++ b/config/PETSc/packages/openmp.py
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class Configure(PETSc.package.NewPackage):
>    def configureLibrary(self):
>      ''' Checks for -fopenmp compiler flag'''
>      ''' Needs to check if OpenMP actually exists and works '''
> +    self.checkDependencies()
>      self.setCompilers.pushLanguage('C')
>      #
>      for flag in ["-fopenmp", # Gnu
> diff --git a/config/PETSc/packages/pthreadclasses.py b/config/PETSc/packages/pthreadclasses.py
> index b09e51c..08a8260 100644
> --- a/config/PETSc/packages/pthreadclasses.py
> +++ b/config/PETSc/packages/pthreadclasses.py
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class Configure(PETSc.package.NewPackage):
>      return
>  
>    def configureLibrary(self):
> +    self.checkDependencies()
>      if not self.pthread.found:
>         raise RuntimeError('Pthreads not found, pthread classes needs pthreads to run')
>      self.found = 1
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>
> 
> But then openmp.py has the following indicating pthreadclasses is optional..
> 
>     # OpenMP threadprivate variables are not supported on all platforms (for e.g on MacOS).
>     # Hence forcing to configure additionally with --with-pthreadclasses so that pthread
>     # routines pthread_get/setspecific() can be used instead.
>     if not self.checkCompile('#include <omp.h>\nint a;\n#pragma omp threadprivate(a)\n','') and not self.pthreadclasses.found:
>       raise RuntimeError('OpenMP threadprivate variables not found. Configure additionally with --with-pthreadclasses=1')
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Thu, 1 May 2014, Eric Bavier wrote:
> 
> > I ran into a problem compiling petsc when configured with
> > "--with-openmp=1" on my system.  This patch seems to fix it.  Comments
> > welcome.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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