On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:10:48PM +0200, Matthieu Dorier wrote:

Hi,

I found the solution by investigating the code so I'll post it here in case it can be useful to someone else:

When opening a file, ADIOI_xxx_SetInfo is called to copy the info structure. Unless overwritten by the ADIO backend, it's ADIO_GEN_SetInfo (in src/mpi/romio/adio/common/ad_hints.c) that ends up being called and this function only copies the hints that it knows (e.g. cb_buffer_size). So the solution consists in changing ADIO_GEN_SetInfo or (more appropriately) provide an implementation of ADIOI_xxx_SetInfo that copies custom parameters and the called ADIO_GEN_SetInfo.

Yeah, consider the way ad_pvfs2 deals with this: the function pointers in ad_pvfs2.c point to ADIOI_PVFS2_SetInfo In src/mpi/romio/adio/ad_pvfs2/ad_pvfs2_hints.c , all the PVFS2-specific hints are processed, then it calls ADIOI_GEN_SetInfo (Now that I look at this, maybe the order should be reversed) ==rob

Matthieu

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De: "Matthieu Dorier" <[email protected]> �: [email protected] Envoy�: Lundi 24 Juin 2013 15:46:21 Objet: [mpich-discuss] Problem with ADIOI_Info_get (MPI_Info_get) from the ADIO layer

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Hi,

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I'm implementing an ADIO backend and I'm having problems retrieving values from the MPI_Info attached to the file. On the application side, I have something like this:

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MPI_Info_create(&info); MPI_Info_set(info,"cb_buffer_size","64"); MPI_Info_set(info,"xyz","3"); MPI_File_open(comm, "file", MPI_MODE_WRONLY | MPI_MODE_CREATE, info, &fh);

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then a call to a MPI_File_write, which ends up calling my implementation of ADIOI_xxx_WriteContig. In this function, I try to read back these info:

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int info_flag; char* value = (char *) ADIOI_Malloc((MPI_MAX_INFO_VAL+1)*sizeof(char)); ADIOI_Info_get(fd->info, "xyz", MPI_MAX_INFO_VAL, value,&info_flag); if(info_flag) fprintf(stderr,"xyz = %d\n",atoi(value)); ADIOI_Info_get(fd->info, "cb_buffer_size", MPI_MAX_INFO_VAL, value,&info_flag); if(info_flag) fprintf(stderr,"cb_buffer_size = %d\n",atoi(value));

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I can get the 64 associated to the cb_buffer_size key (which is a reserved hint), but I don't get the second value. Where does the problem come from? I tried everything: re-ordering the calls, changing the name of the key, calling MPI_Info_get in the application to check that the values are properly set (they are)...

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Thanks

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Matthieu Dorier PhD student at ENS Cachan Brittany and IRISA http://people.irisa.fr/Matthieu.Dorier

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