[mpiwg-hybridpm] Hybrid telecon fiasco

Jim Dinan james.dinan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 13:07:30 CDT 2014


Every process in a communicator has its own set of attributes.  Seems
natural that this would be extended to endpoints.  They don't propagate
when the endpoints communicator is created, so you would need to set them
on each endpoint.

 ~Jim.


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
<jsquyres at cisco.com>wrote:

> More to the point -- did we decide that if you create_endpoints and get N
> local communicators out, are there N local copies of each of the
> attributes?  Or just 1 copy?
>
> I.e., does the attribute copy callback get invoked N times or 1 time?
>
> This may be in the text already -- forgive me if it is -- but I should
> think that there should be a symmetry between attribute copy/creation and
> destruction with regards to endpoint-created communicator handles.
>
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 1:21 PM, "Balaji, Pavan" <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 7, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Jim Dinan <james.dinan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dan suggested a third approach where we leave the Comm_free semantic
> unchanged and add a new function, MPI_Comm_free_endpoints(MPI_Comm
> comm_handles[], int my_num_ep), that has symmetry with
> Comm_create_endpoints.  An endpoints communicator can be freed with either
> Comm_free or Comm_free_endpoints.  They differ in their concurrency
> requirement.
> >
> > What happens to the attribute callbacks when you use
> MPI_Comm_free_endpoints?
> >
> >  -- Pavan
> >
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