RMA Test Cases

LocalConcurrency test cases

Combines different operations with different RMA sync modes to cover all possible conflict/sync variants for local concurrency problems / local buffer races.

Operations / Calls covered:

• Buffer accesses: buffer read, buffer write
• Local buffer write: MPI_Get, MPI_Rget
• Local buffer read: MPI_Put, MPI_Rput, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Get_accumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate, MPI_Fetch_and_op, MPI_Compare_and_swap (Note: MPI_Get_accumulate and others may also write results in another local buffer, but we only consider the reading accesses here.)

Synchronization modes covered:

• Fences: MPI_Win_fence
• Lockall + Flush_all + Unlock_all
• Lockall + Flush_local_all + Unlock_all
• Lock + Flush + Unlock: MPI_Win_(lock|flush|unlock)
• Lock + Unlock
• Requests: MPI_R(put|get|accumulate|get_accumulate) + MPI_Wait
• PSCW
• Currently missing: Lock_all + Unlock_all

Currently missing compared to MBI (for LocalConcurrency):

• Conflict between MPI RMA operation and (non-)blocking P2P, e.g. MPI_Get + MPI_Isend/Send on the same buffer
• The conflicting access could be on a separate buffer or on the window itself (i.e., the window memory itself could be target of a local buffer access).

GlobalConcurrency test cases

Operations / Calls covered:

• Buffer accesses: buffer read, buffer write
• Local buffer read/write: MPI_Put / MPI_Get (we do not consider all other possibilities of local buffer accesses to avoid a test case explosion)
• Remote read: MPI_Get, MPI_Put
• Remote write: MPI_Put, MPI_Rput, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Get_accumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate, MPI_Fetch_and_op, MPI_Compare_and_swap

Synchronization modes covered:

• Fences: MPI_Win_fence
• Lockall + Flush_all + Barrier + Unlock_all
• Lock + Unlock: Exclusive vs. Shared
• Requests: MPI_R(put|get|accumulate|get_accumulate) + MPI_Wait
• PSCW
• Optional (currently missing): Lock + Unlock, Lock_all + Unlock_all

Invalid Argument test cases

• Invalid target rank (-1, >= nranks, ...)
• Invalid buffer (NULL)
• Invalid Datatype (MPI_DATATYPE_NULL, freed data type)
• Invalid window (no window initialized, window freed to early)

Epoch Lifecycle

• RMA access before epoch is opened
• RMA access without closing epoch
• Double open of access epoch (double lock, non-collective fence)
• Mixing RMA access modes (fence + lock)