[petsc-dev] Using multiple mallocs with PETSc

[Jed Brown]

Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> writes:

> OpenMP did not prevent OpenCL, 

This programming model isn't really intended for architectures with
persistent caches.

> C11, C++11 

These are basically pthreads, which predates OpenMP.

> or Fortran 2008

A different language and doesn't play well with others.

> from introducing parallelism. Not sure if your comment was meant to be
> serious, 

Partially.  It was just enough to give the appearance of a solution
while not really being a solution.

> but it appears unfounded nonetheless.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:16 AM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>
>> Implementation-defined, but it's exactly the same as malloc, which also
>> doesn't promise unfaulted pages. This is one reason some of us keep saying
>> that OpenMP sucks. It's a shitty standard that obstructs better standards
>> from being created.
>>
>>
>> On March 12, 2017 11:19:49 AM MDT, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 9:00 AM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>
>> Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> writes:
>> > I agree 100% that multithreaded codes that fault pages from the main
>> thread in a NUMA environment are doing something wrong ;-)
>> >
>> > Does calloc *guarantee* pages are not mapped? If I calloc(8), do I get
>> the zero page or part of the arena that's already mapped that is zeroed by
>> the heap manager?
>>
>> Is your argument that calloc() should never be used in multi-threaded code?
>>
>>
>> I never use it for code that I want to behave well in a NUMA environment.
>>
>>
>> If the allocation is larger than MMAP_THRESHOLD (128 KiB by default for
>> glibc) then it calls mmap.  This obviously leaves an intermediate size
>> that could be poorly mapped (assuming 4 KiB pages), but it's also so
>> small that it easily fits in cache.
>>
>>
>> Is this behavior standardized or merely implementation-defined? I'm not
>> interested in writing code that assumes Linux/glibc.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Hammond
>> jeff.science at gmail.com
>> http://jeffhammond.github.io/
>>
>> --
> Jeff Hammond
> jeff.science at gmail.com
> http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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