Re: [OMPI devel] Non-blocking modex

2007-10-08 Thread Josh Hursey
Yeah the non-blocking interface has some fault tolerance benefits as Brian mentioned. We are not quite far enough along to use it yet. I think that we might need to extend it a bit, but I haven't looked at it in enough detail to say how exactly at the moment. So I would say for the moment l

Re: [OMPI devel] Non-blocking modex

2007-10-08 Thread Tim Prins
I don't think so (in fact the bookkeeping overhead of the non-blocking receive is a slight detriment). Right now modex information is only exchanged during init and during spawn/dynamics operations (and I do not see that changing at any point soon). So I think the only use of the non-blocking rec

Re: [OMPI devel] Non-blocking modex

2007-10-08 Thread Brian Barrett
On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Andrew Friedley wrote: Tim Prins wrote: Hi, I am working on implementing the RSL. Part of this is changing the modex to use the process attribute system in the RSL. I had designed this system to to include a non-blocking interface. However, I have looked again

Re: [OMPI devel] Non-blocking modex

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew Friedley
Tim Prins wrote: Hi, I am working on implementing the RSL. Part of this is changing the modex to use the process attribute system in the RSL. I had designed this system to to include a non-blocking interface. However, I have looked again and noticed that nobody is using the non-blocking mod