As I understand it, but thats a question for the omp mailing list.
Cheers
Lex
On 22 September 2010 12:18, Qingpeng Niu <niuqingpeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you for quick reponse. But I am a little confused about you mentioned.
> Do you mean the following two loop has difference and i should use the A but
> not B?
> [A]
> #pragma omp parallel
>
> {
> #pragma omp for
> for(1...100)
>
> {
> }
> }
> [B]
> #pragma omp parallel for
>
> for(1..100)
> {
>
> }
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 September 2010 11:39, Qingpeng Niu <niuqingpeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi, Lex
>> > Thank you for responding me second time. I am touched. Sorry i forgot
>> > one
>> > line.
>> > They are not shared by each thread.
>> > There is a
>> > gh=pdt_a[i].gh;
>> > in the second parallel for.
>> > Therefore they are seperated. But only add with g hash table it will
>> > stop
>> > there. If i comment the g hash table code in second loop, it will not
>> > stop.
>> > I think it should be some problem with glib.
>>
>> omp parallel runs the whole block in a thread, ie each thread loops
>> through all the hashes, so they are shared. Use omp for to make each
>> loop iteration a separate thread.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>> > Qingpeng Niu
>> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 22 September 2010 02:31, Qingpeng Niu <niuqingpeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I do a parallel open mp for which used shared data of g_hash_table.
>> >> > Program
>> >> > do fine with the first parallel for loop but the third parallel for
>> >> > loop
>> >> > program will stop there and never be entered.
>> >> > g_thread_init(NULL);
>> >> > ..............
>> >> > #pragma omp parallel for private(i) shared(pdt_a)
>> >> > for(i=0;i<psize;i++)
>> >> > {
>> >> > .............
>> >> > pdt_a[i].gh = g_hash_table_new(g_str_hash,
>> >> > compare_strings);
>> >> > ............
>> >> > }
>> >> > #pragma omp parallel for private(i)
>> >> > shared(pdt_a,pit_a,lines,psize,nbuckets)
>> >> > for(i=0;i<psize;i++)
>> >> > {
>> >> > for....
>> >> > lookup = g_hash_table_lookup(gh, input);
>> >> > .....................
>> >> > g_hash_table_insert(gh, data, p_data);
>> >> > .....................
>> >> > g_hash_table_replace(gh,strdup(input),p_data);
>> >> > }
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> It is not clear from this code if the hash tables are shared between
>> >> threads or if each thread has its own.
>> >>
>> >> If they are shared then you need to do the locking, from Gthread
>> >> documentation : "After calling g_thread_init(), GLib is completely
>> >> thread safe (all global data is automatically locked), but individual
>> >> data structure instances are not automatically locked for performance
>> >> reasons. So, for example you must coordinate accesses to the same
>> >> GHashTable from multiple threads."
>> >>
>> >> If they are not shared then this is a question for the openmp ML not
>> >> the glib ML.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Lex
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > #pragma omp parallel for private(i) // this parallel for will not
>> >> > be
>> >> > entered. Program will stop here and halt.
>> >> > for(i=0;i<psize;i++)
>> >> > --
>> >> > Qingpeng Niu
>> >> > Department of Computer Science and Engineering at OSU
>> >> >
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