[petsc-users] thread model

[Mohammad Mirzadeh]

Hum ... That did not help. I found this -threadcomm_affinities
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 but that also did nothing. Is that option any relevant?

Another question: the linux box I'm testing on has 2 quad-cores (8
cores/2 sockets). If I run the code with mpirun -np 8, I get about 3X which
makes sense to me. However, If I run with either pthread (which seems to
use all cores) or openmp (which always defaults to 1 no matter what) I get
the same performance as serial. Does this mean there is something messed up
with the hardware and/or how mpi/openmp/pthread is set up?


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Shri <abhyshr at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Nov 2, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > To use the new thread model in PETSc, does it suffice to run the code
> with the following?
> >
> > -threadcomm_type <openmp/pthread> -threadcomm_nthreads <#>
> >
> > When I run the code with openmp, only 1 processor/core is active
> (looking at top). When using pthread, all cores are active. Am I missing
> something?
> OpenMP defaults to binding all threads to a single core if the cpu
> affinity is not specified explicitly. If you
> are using GNU OpenMP then you can bind the threads to specific cores using
> the environment variable GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libgomp/GOMP_005fCPU_005fAFFINITY.html
> If you are some other OpenMP implementation then check its manual to see
> how to set cpu affinity.
>
> Shri
>
>
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