Hello Hui --

The polling thread on each node processes Active Messages which are inbound to 
that node.  Among other things, we use these to implement the executeOn 
operations that underlie on-stmts.

greg


> On Aug 29, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Hui Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm wondering what a polling task does in multi-locale Chapel? I see a thread 
> is created for comm_task_wrapper which ends up calling "polling" in Chapel 
> communication layer, and it costs some time, what's the purpose of it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Best regards
> 
> 
> Hui Zhang
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