Josh,
Your patch (r24551) looks fine. I think you should make a CMR for the 1.4 and
1.5.
Thanks,
george.
On Mar 22, 2011, at 09:04 , Joshua Hursey wrote:
> George,
>
> I agree that it is difficult to come up with a good scenario, outside of
> resilience, in which MPI_Probe would return an error (other than a bad
> argument type of error - which does currently work). I agree with your
> assessment of the value of the return code, and that it should trigger the
> error handler. I just wanted to confirm that there was not something I was
> missing.
>
> I will commit a patch to fix this (it is just a couple lines in pml/ob1) for
> the trunk. I don't know if we need to push it to the release branches just
> yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:17 PM, George Bosilca wrote:
>
>> Josh,
>>
>> If we don't take in account resilience I would not expect MPI_Probe to have
>> that many opportunities to return errors. However, in order to keep the
>> implementation consistent (with the other MPI functions) I would abide to
>> the following.
>>
>> MPI_ERROR_IN_STATUS is only for calls taking multiple requests as input, so
>> I don't think this should be applied to the MPI_Probe. I would expect the
>> return to be equal to status.MPI_ERROR (similar to only other function
>> working on a single request, such as MPI_Test).
>>
>> It better trigger the error-handler attached to the communicator, as
>> explicitly requested by the MPI standard (section 8.3).
>>> A user can associate error handlers to three types of objects:
>>> communicators, windows, and files. The specified error handling routine
>>> will be used for any MPI exception that occurs during a call to MPI for the
>>> respective object.
>>
>> george.
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2011, at 16:50 , Joshua Hursey wrote:
>>
>>> If MPI_Probe() encounters an error causing it to exit with the
>>> 'status.MPI_ERROR' set, say:
>>> ret = MPI_Probe(MPI_ANY_SOURCE, MPI_ANY_TAG, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &status);
>>>
>>> Should it return an error? So should it return:
>>> - ret = status.MPI_ERROR
>>> - ret = MPI_ERROR_IN_STATUS
>>> - ret = MPI_SUCCESS
>>> Additionally, should it trigger the error handler on the communicator?
>>>
>>> In Open MPI, it will always return MPI_SUCCESS (pml_ob1_iprobe.c:74), but
>>> it feels like this is wrong. I looked to the MPI standard for some insight,
>>> but could not find where it addresses the return code of MPI_Probe.
>>>
>>> Can anyone shed some light on this topic for me?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Josh
>>>
>>>
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>>> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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>> every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as
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>> proceed in improvement."
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