George --

Any idea why it isn't failing on the v1.8 branch?  The only major difference I 
see between mpi/c/start.c between trunk and v1.8 is your change.



On Apr 24, 2014, at 2:08 PM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:

> r31524 is fixing this corner case. The problem was that persistent
> request with MPI_RPOC_NULL were never activated, so the wait* function
> was taking the if corresponding to inactive requests.
> 
>  George.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet
> <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Here is attached an oversimplified version of the MPI_Recv_init_null_c
>> test from the
>> intel test suite.
>> 
>> the test works fine with v1.6, v1.7 and v1.8 branches but fails with the
>> trunk.
>> 
>> i wonder wether the bug is in OpenMPI or the test itself.
>> 
>> on one hand, we could consider there is a bug in OpenMPI :
>> status.MPI_SOURCE should be MPI_PROC_NULL since we explicitly posted a
>> recv request with MPI_PROC_NULL.
>> 
>> on the other hand, (mpi specs, chapter 3.7.3 and
>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3475)
>> we could consider the returned value is not significant, and hence
>> MPI_Wait should return an
>> empty status (and empty status has source=MPI_ANY_SOURCE per the MPI specs).
>> 
>> for what it's worth, this test is a success with mpich (e.g.
>> status.MPI_SOURCE is MPI_PROC_NULL).
>> 
>> 
>> what is the correct interpretation of the MPI specs and what should be
>> done ?
>> (e.g. fix OpenMPI or fix/skip the test ?)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Gilles
>> 
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