Initializing a DIMES Client in DataSpaces mode

[melrom]

In

File: common_dataspaces.c Function: int common_dspaces_init(int num_peers, int appid, void *comm, const char *parameters) Relevant Code:

#ifdef DS_HAVE_DIMES
    dimes_c = dimes_client_alloc(dcg);
    if (dimes_c == NULL) {
        uloga("%s(): failed to init DIMES.\n", __func__);
        return err;
    }
#endif

While the user probably is none the wiser, we are actually executing code from dimes_client.c (specifically the function dimes_client_alloc). Running DataSpaces in debug mode, one actually receives the message:

'dc_alloc(3:2:45830:701)': init ok.
dimes_client_alloc(): OK.

While this part is wrapped in a debug flag, the part about calling dimes_client_alloc occurs either way. Basically, DS_HAVE_DIMES is just universally set to 1 when someone compiles DataSpaces with the flag --enable-dimes (see config.log after compiling #define DS_HAVE_DIMES 1).

However, when the code is running in DataSpaces mode, we shouldn't need to be calling code for a dimes client. As it stands from the code, it looks like we always alloc both ds and dimes if a user has compiled with DIMES and then just use common_put_sync for dimes puts instead of just common_put, which I assume means that DataSpaces and DIMES are always running together if the user has compiled with DIMES and just DIMES is waiting for local puts/updates.

Even if there are no code modifications needed or desired, we should revisit the documentation of this -- whether we want --enable-dimes to imply that anytime you run our code, you are running DataSpaces + DIMES together.