[Mpi3-rma] Next RMA Telecon

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Dec 26 23:21:24 CST 2011


On 12/26/2011 11:15 PM, Torsten Hoefler wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:49:55PM -0600, Pavan Balaji wrote:
> Right, Brian had some arguments why/how this would be either a
> non-scalable implementation (in memory and time) or a burden on the
> implementer. So we didn't want to enforce to have a good implementation
> of this (since our only use-case was solved otherwise).

Sure.  I don't feel strongly about allowing exclusive locks right now. 
I just wanted to get a better understanding of the issue.

But I do think that the lock_type argument should be retained, which is 
an orthogonal issue.

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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