Are you talking about my document? If so, that's no problem at all. If there
are any mistakes in my facts just let me know and I'll change them.

Tim

2009/5/6 Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com>

> Thanks!
>
> Would you mind if I posted this on www.open-mpi.org?
>
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Timothy Hayes wrote:
>
> I uploaded it to http://www.hotshare.net/file/131218-829472246c.html
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's any good or even if it's 100% accurate; but if
>> someone gets any use out of it, that would be good.
>>
>> Tim
>> 2009/4/17 Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com>
>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Timothy Hayes wrote:
>>
>> From what I understand MPI_Send will hit 3 separate layers of code before
>> reaching the socket file descriptors you've found. The PML (Point to Point
>> Messaging Layer) is a layer that bridges the MPI semantics from the
>> underlying point to point communications. The standard PML implementation is
>> called 'ob1' which is what indirectly calls the code you found. MPI_Send
>> should go through pml_isend() or pml_send() which will request a BTL (Byte
>> Transfer Layer) modules from the BML (BTL Management Layer) and invoke the
>> BTL's btl_prepare_src() or btl_alloc() functions before calling the
>> btl_send(). It becomes clearer when you step through it all with a debugger
>> though ;-)
>>
>> If you're interested, I've recently implemented a BTL component of my own
>> and am now writing up a report on the process. It will be ready next week,
>> so if you think it might be useful, just let me know.
>>
>> Ooohh... that would be positively yummy!  We can even host/link to that on
>> www.open-mpi.org.  :-)
>>
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>> Cisco Systems
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