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remove reference to ummunotifiers in README
Signed-off-by: Howard Pritchard <[email protected]>
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Mellanox InfiniBand plugin driver is created. The problem is fixed
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OFED v1.1 (and later).
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- Better memory management support is available for OFED-based
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transports using the "ummunotify" Linux kernel module. OFED memory
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managers are necessary for better bandwidth when re-using the same
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buffers for large messages (e.g., benchmarks and some applications).
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Unfortunately, the ummunotify module was not accepted by the Linux
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kernel community (and is still not distributed by OFED). But it
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still remains the best memory management solution for MPI
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applications that used the OFED network transports. If Open MPI is
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able to find the <linux/ummunotify.h> header file, it will build
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support for ummunotify and include it by default. If MPI processes
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then find the ummunotify kernel module loaded and active, then their
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memory managers (which have been shown to be problematic in some
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cases) will be disabled and ummunotify will be used. Otherwise, the
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same memory managers from prior versions of Open MPI will be used.
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The ummunotify Linux kernel module can be downloaded from:
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http://lwn.net/Articles/343351/
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- The use of fork() with OpenFabrics-based networks (i.e., the openib
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BTL) is only partially supported, and only on Linux kernels >=
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v2.6.15 with libibverbs v1.1 or later (first released as part of

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