[Mpi3-rma] [EXTERNAL] Re: Memory barriers in MPI_WIN_LOCK_ALL mode

[Barrett, Brian W]

On 10/30/12 9:00 AM, "Jed Brown" <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Torsten Hoefler <htor at illinois.edu>
>wrote:
>
>>>> I don't think  the target process can guarantee that the PUT is
>>>> visible to a load/store  without an additional memory barrier.
>>> The flush of the source process has to ensure that.
>>
>> How?
>
>See above, mfence.
>
>Even in shared memory, the mfence is useless for guaranteeing visibility
>to any other thread/process. For visibility on architectures that reorder
>loads, the P1 must issue a read memory barrier after seeing the hand wave
>and before reading from the window.

Right, so it's possible that on platforms that require a read barrier
because they reorder loads, the MPI implementation will not be able to
support the unified model.  Or they'll have to have a read barrier before
every get in the unified model or some such thing.

Brian