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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi all,
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<div>There is an inconsistency of MPI_WIN_FENCE semantic in MPI 3.0 Standard that makes me confused:</div>
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<div>(1) On P440-P441 it say that "RMA operations on win started by a process after the fence call returns will access their target window only after MPI_WIN_FENCE has been called by the target process". This requires MPI_WIN_FENCE that starts an epoch to act
as an barrier.</div>
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<div>(2) However, (1) contradict with the word at end of P441: "a call to MPI_WIN_FENCE that is known not to end any epoch (in particular a call with assert equal to MPI_MODE_NOPRECEDE) does not necessarily act as a barrier".</div>
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<div>Should the word of (1) add: "when MPI_MODE_NOPRECEDE is not given"?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Xin</div>
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