[mpiwg-ft] Fwd: MPI FT chapter comments (from Bill Gropp)

[Wesley Bland]

Email is probably fine. We just need to make a pass on the full RMA section
again after we've made the changes.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Jim Dinan <james.dinan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there's a good chance we can resolve the "lock" correction over
> email, unless you guys want more discussion on this.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Wesley Bland <wbland at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> I think we started this process during the last meeting. It's still not
>> gone, but it's something we're working on. We should try to schedule a time
>> where (at least) the three of us can get together and go over another draft
>> of the text.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wesley
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jim Dinan <james.dinan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Aurélien Bouteiller <
>>> bouteill at icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> p 597, mid page.  What is "the lock"?  Note that WIN_LOCK/UNLOCK is not
>>>> a mutex - it has to do with the beginning and ending of a passive target
>>>> epoch.
>>>>
>>>> This is a good comment; talking about a "lock" is informal and useful
>>> for discussion, but not good standard-eze.  What we mean here is that a
>>> process has reserved resources associated with an RMA access epoch, and it
>>> cannot release those resources because of a failure.  The particulars of
>>> when resources are reserved, what they are, and how they are released are
>>> only very loosely defined by the MPI spec, so we should try to describe
>>> this using fairly abstract language.
>>>
>>>  ~Jim.
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