On 13 February 2014 15:33, Matthias Troyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > In orders to use MPI in a multi-threaded environment, even when only one > thread uses MPI, you need to request the necessary level of thread support > in the environment constructor. Then you'd an check whether your MPI > implementation supports multi threading. Note that using MPI the way you do > need not work even though it seems safe at first sight. One reason is that > your MPI implementation might use threads internally to support, e.g. > nonblocking calls and those threads might not be compatible with your > threads. > > Matthias > > So in my case, as I have a main thread that doesn't call MPI, and another purposely created user thread to call MPI lib, the mode is MPI_THREAD_FUNNELLED ? as boost 1.54 doesn't have the level in the enviroment ctor, I need to explicitly call the underlying MPI::Init_thread(MPI_THREAD_FUNNELED). once I move to 1.55, I'll use the env ctor. thanks
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