Unfortunately, I think that this is a known problem with INTERCOMM_MERGE and
COMM_SPAWN parents and children:
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2904
On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Rodrigo Oliveira wrote:
> Hi there, I tried to understand the behavior Thatyene said and I think is a
> bug in open mpi implementation.
>
> I do not know what exactly is happening because I am not an expert in ompi
> code, but I could see that when one process define its color as
> MPI_UNDEFINED, one of the processes on the inter-communicator blocks in the
> call to the function bellow:
>
> /* Step 3: set up the communicator */
> /* --------------------------------------------------------- */
> /* Create the communicator finally */
> rc = ompi_comm_set ( &newcomp, /* new comm */
> comm, /* old comm */
> my_size, /* local_size */
> lranks, /* local_ranks */
> my_rsize, /* remote_size */
> rranks, /* remote_ranks */
> NULL, /* attrs */
> comm->error_handler,/* error handler */
> (pass_on_topo)?
> (mca_base_component_t *)comm->c_topo_component:
> NULL, /* topo component */
> NULL, /* local group */
> NULL /* remote group */
> );
>
> This function is called inside ompi_comm_split, in the file
> ompi/communicator/comm.c
>
> Is there a solution for this problem in some revision? I insist in this
> problem because I need to use this function for a similar purpose.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Thatyene Louise Alves de Souza Ramos
> <thaty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems the split is blocking when must return MPI_COMM_NULL, in the case I
> have one process with a color that does not exist in the other group or with
> the color = MPI_UNDEFINED.
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Rodrigo Oliveira <rsilva.olive...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi Thatyene,
>
> I took a look in your code and it seems to be logically correct. Maybe there
> is some problem when you call the split function having one client process
> with color = MPI_UNDEFINED. I understood you are trying to isolate one of the
> client process to do something applicable only to it, am I wrong? According
> to open mpi documentation, this function can be used to do that, but it is
> not working. Anyone have any idea about what can be?
>
> Best regards
>
> Rodrigo Oliveira
>
>
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