Re: [OMPI devel] issue with group sentinel values

2015-09-11 Thread George Bosilca
Before containing the pointer to ompi_proc_t the group is composed of the inverse vpid (the negative assumption comes from here). Thus we cannot use the last bit, as the vpid might use it. If we shift the vpid to the left by 1, we can use the last bit as the sentinel. George. On Fri, Sep 11, 2

[OMPI devel] issue with group sentinel values

2015-09-11 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Nathan, i am experiencing some issues and i found commit 0bf06de3f1444f469303e47752430ec9b423b33f https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/0bf06de3f1444f469303e47752430ec9b423b33f and the following are very likely the root cause. i experience this on a linux sparc system only. Per the commit