<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <<a href="mailto:jsquyres@cisco.com">jsquyres@cisco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">We got essentially the same feedback from the OMPI developer community that the tools working group gave: how would a tool find the state pvar to associate the other pvar array slots?<br><br>The answer we're currently using is what we discussed on the tools call: <prefix> is a state variable with enumeration, and all <prefix><name> pvars are expected to use the mapping of that state variable. For exmple, btl_usnic_num_sends will follow the pattern established by the btl_usnic pvar state variable.<br><br>Any other ideas for a convention?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I guess the problem with this (and maybe I'm missing something) is that it will be hard for a tool to know if a particular state variable with an enumeration describes other variables that have the prefix in their names. In other words, how do I know that this state variable is special and not just that some pvars happen to have the same prefix, but there's no relationship between them?</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we could have another variable type? I know you guys are trying to get a release out the door and it doesn't help that we don't have more concrete ideas on this yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Everybody: Please do your homework and try to think of more use cases for this so we come up with a good generic solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Kathryn</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>-- <br>Jeff Squyres<br><a href="mailto:jsquyres@cisco.com">jsquyres@cisco.com</a><br>For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mpiwg-tools mailing list<br>mpiwg-tools@lists.mpi-forum.org<br>http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mpiwg-tools<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>______________________________________________________________<br>Kathryn Mohror, <a href="mailto:kathryn@llnl.gov">kathryn@llnl.gov</a>, <a href="http://people.llnl.gov/mohror1">http://people.llnl.gov/mohror1</a><br>CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA</div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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