I'm curious if there are other ideas out there for how to deal with this:

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1965692:



I recently acquired a cheap wintel toy tablet/laptop (a Kano PC), which has a Celeron N4000 processor. I tried running HPL benchmarks on it to figure out how fast the thing is. However, xhpl_openmpi crashed with an illegal instruction. I then installed the MPICH version of HPL, and xhpl_mpich runs fine. The issue is
 thus in OpenMPI.



Looking at the build logs of openmpi-4.1.0-5.fc34.x86_64, I see that it has
been compiled with the -mcx16 flag detected by configure. According to the GCC
 man page



  This option enables GCC to generate "CMPXCHG16B" instructions in

  64-bit code to implement compare-and-exchange operations on 16-byte

  aligned 128-bit objects.  This is useful for atomic updates of data

  structures exceeding one machine word in size.  The compiler uses

  this instruction to implement __sync Builtins.  However, for

  __atomic Builtins operating on 128-bit integers, a library call is

  always used.



However, because the instruction is not available on all x86_64 processors, the
 use of the flag should be disabled in OpenMPI.

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I filed https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/9022 and we seem to have the ability to disable this now. Does this seem like the right solution? It does seem a shame to have to cripple the compile though.

There was mention of setting -march - is that appropriate?

Thanks,
Orion

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