[Mpi-forum] MPI_Mprobe workaround

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Jul 13 2012, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>
>There is no known workaround that addresses all of the problems with
>MPI Probe and MPI Iprobe in multi-threaded MPI applications.
>
>Are there nuances regarding the use of MPI that I have missed?  Do the
>real-world use cases have too much to do in the "/* ? */" to make this
>viable?

Quite a lot do.  Anything with lazy execution may handle any outstanding
operations, and anything with eager execution may do the transfer in the
Irecv.  Not all I/O transports support asynchronicity.

But, realistically, anyone who goes beyond MPI_THREAD_FUNNELED is writing
non-portable code, because MPI specifies more than can be implemented
using what POSIX actually defines.  Inter alia, POSIX does not define any
mechanism for synchronising signals between threads, and I have exposed
inconsistencies.  Just like passive one-sided communication.

But I agree that it should be viable on at least some systems, some MPIs
and some transports.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.