From: George Bosilca <bosi...@eecs.utk.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:54:47 -0500
Your interpretation of the MPI standard is way too optimistic.
The text I quoted seemed completely clear to me. However, it was
pointed out to me that MPI 2.0, 6.7.2 (in a section about one-sided
communication that is not otherwise relevant) says
A similar issue is whether such progress must occur while a process is
busy computing, or blocked in a non- MPI call.... Then, according to
one interpretation of the MPI standard, process 0 must return from the
complete call after a bounded delay, even if process 1 does not reach
any MPI call in this period of time. According to another
interpretation, the complete call may block until process 1 reaches
the wait call, or reaches another MPI call.... The MPI forum decided
not to decide which interpretation of the standard is the correct one,
since the issue is very contentious, and a decision would have much
impact on implementors but less impact on users.
So I guess one could say that the 2.0 standard is now explicitly vague
on this subject.
Ken
