When did you tested last? I have no idea what is broken so it is difficult to 
assess the complexity of the fix. Let’s try to find the last working “version” 
and then run a dihcotomic test to  find the culprit (with s hopefully).

  George.


On Apr 28, 2014, at 09:05 , Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:

> No, it looks like something has broken it since I last tested. Sorry about 
> the confusion.
> 
> On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet 
> <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> wrote:
> 
>> I might have misunderstood Jeff's comment :
>> 
>>> The broken part(s) is(are) likely somewhere in the datatype and/or PML code 
>>> (my guess).  Keep in mind that my only testing of this feature is in 
>>> *homogeneous* mode -- i.e., I compile with --enable-heterogeneous and then 
>>> run tests on homogeneous machines.  Meaning: it's not only broken for 
>>> actual heterogeneity, it's also broken in the "unity"/homogeneous case.
>> 
>> Unfortunatly, a trivial send/recv can hang in this case 
>> (--enable-heterogeneous and homogenous cluster of little endian procs).
>> 
>> i opened #4568 https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4568 in order to 
>> track this issue
>> (uninitialized data can cause a hang with this config)
>> 
>> trunk is affected, v1.8 is very likely affected too
>> 
>> Gilles
>> 
>> On 2014/04/28 12:22, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> I think you misunderstood his comment. It works fine on a homogeneous 
>>> cluster, even with --enable-hetero. I've run it that way on my cluster.
>>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet 
>>> <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> According to Jeff's comment, OpenMPI compiled with
>>>> --enable-heterogeneous is broken even in an homogeneous cluster.
>>>> 
>>>> as a first step, MTT could be ran with OpenMPI compiled with
>>>> --enable-heterogenous and running on an homogeneous cluster
>>>> (ideally on both little and big endian) in order to identify and fix the
>>>> bug/regression.
>>>> /* this build is currently disabled in the MTT config of the
>>>> cisco-community cluster */
>>>> 
>>>> Gilles
>>>> 
>> 
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