[mpi3-coll] Nonblocking collectives standard draft

[Christian Siebert]

Greg Bronevetsky wrote:
> 
>> There is already a ticket for MPI-2.2 to deprecate it. However, there
>> was some discussion. We will discuss this again at the next meeting.
>> Until then, I just leave the text as is. Please let me know if you have
>> a proposal for better wording.
> 
> Yes, that sounds best. The issue with the ticket is that it breaks 
> existing programs and therefore doesn't work for 2.2. However, if we 
> agree that MPI_Request_free is a bad idea, we can push for its removal 
> as part of the 3.0 working groups. If we succeed, we won't need to worry 
> about this text.
Not necessarily - we could try to deprecate it in 2.2, in order to 
remove it in 3.0.

However, if you all already think that MPI_Request_free is bad, then 
what do you think about the evil MPI_Cancel?

Best regards,
    Christian

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