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This branch provides a refactor of the original libfabric implementation. The code here branched off of libfabric-sarus.

This PR removes the #ifdef USE_LIBFABRIC flags in almost all places. We use the curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) to switch between the verbs and libfabric implementations during template instantiation at compile time. See my final report here for more details.

Note that the current state of this branch is broken. The linker is failing:

[ 38%] Linking CXX executable bin/executor
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/executor.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/g++  -Wall -Wextra  -pthread -g -DSPDLOG_ACTIVE_LEVEL=SPDLOG_LEVEL_DEBUG  CMakeFiles/executor.dir/server/executor/cli.cpp.o CMakeFiles/executor.dir/se
rver/executor/fast_executor.cpp.o CMakeFiles/executor.dir/server/executor/functions.cpp.o -o bin/executor  _deps/spdlog-build/libspdlogd.a librdmalib.a librfaa
slib.a -ldl librdmalib.a _deps/spdlog-build/libspdlogd.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfabric.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librdmacm.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gn
u/libibverbs.so
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/executor.dir/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp.o: in function `server::LibfabricThread::thread_work(int)':
/home/ubuntu/rfaas-refactor/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp:360: undefined reference to `rdmalib::LibfabricScatterGatherElement::LibfabricScatterGatherElemen
t()'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/ubuntu/rfaas-refactor/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp:384: undefined reference to `rdmalib::LibfabricScatterGatherElement::LibfabricScatte
rGatherElement()'
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/executor.dir/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp.o: in function `server::VerbsThread::thread_work(int)':
/home/ubuntu/rfaas-refactor/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp:438: undefined reference to `rdmalib::VerbsScatterGatherElement::VerbsScatterGatherElement()'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/ubuntu/rfaas-refactor/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp:469: undefined reference to `rdmalib::VerbsScatterGatherElement::VerbsScatterGatherE
lement()'
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/executor.dir/server/executor/fast_executor.cpp.o: in function `rdmalib::impl::Buffer<rdmalib::Buffer<char, ibverbs>, ibverbs>::sge(unsi
gned int, unsigned int) const':
/home/ubuntu/rfaas-refactor/rdmalib/include/rdmalib/buffer.hpp:77: undefined reference to `rdmalib::VerbsScatterGatherElement::VerbsScatterGatherElement(unsign
ed long, unsigned int, unsigned int)'

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We might need to link both ibverbs and libfabric in order to build the binary, which is not desirable. There might be a way around this, though.

rfaaslib and rdmalib do successfully link and compile. However, since the executor does not currently link, I was unable to execute or run end-to-end tests of rFaaS on the CSCS machines, which is why I am opening this PR as a draft.

While refactoring, I did not change any program semantics. There are no architecture changes or optimizations. This was merely a source code transformation, and does not change how rFaaS actually works. I just swapped the conditional compilation pattern from using #ifdefs to using CRTP, which is much more sustainable in the long term.

See #36 for some initial code review and requested changes. Hopefully we'll get this code up and running soon!

marchrap added 30 commits March 22, 2022 17:12
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