Re: [Starpu-devel] StarPU on IBM Power8 systems

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>]

vedran.novakovic@stfc.ac.uk, on mar. 20 juin 2017 15:10:32 +0000, wrote:
> Unless some debugging flags that XL compilers don't understand are removed, 
> as with:
> 
> find . -name 'Makefile' -exec sed -i -e 's/\-gdwarf\-2//g' -e 's/\-g3/-g/g' 
> {} \;
> 
> (i.e., -gdwarf-2 -g3 to -g)

Erf, yes, we blindly pass these debugging options to the compiler.

> FAIL: datawizard/variable_size
> FAIL: disk/mem_reclaim
> FAIL disk/mem_reclaim (exit status: 1)

> [starpu][starpu_unistd_o_direct_global_async_write][assert failure] The 
> unistd_o_direct variant can only write a multiple of page size 65536 Bytes 
> (Here 2183168). Use the non-o_direct unistd variant if your data is not a 
> multiple of 65536

These are more or less expected: we only tested on systems with pagesize
= 4096. It's actually the test which needs to be fixed, starpu itself
works fine.

Samuel