Does this need to be CMR'ed to 1.4 and/or 1.5?

On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:

> Okay, I fixed this in r24536.
> 
> Sorry for the problem, Damien - thanks for catching it! Went unnoticed 
> because the folks at the Labs always use IB.
> 
> 
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> 
>> I believe I see the problem - and why it wouldn't show up for IB. It looks 
>> like the hier module passes an incorrect flag to the modex unpack function, 
>> which causes that function to place the modex values as attributes assigned 
>> to the node instead of a process, rather than placing the values into the 
>> modex database. So when you look up a value, you get a single value for the 
>> entire node.
>> 
>> Works for IB because the interface info is at the node level. Doesn't work 
>> for TCP because the "interface" info is at the proc level.
>> 
>> Since it was only tested on IB before, this didn't show up. Should be easy 
>> to fix.
>> 
>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:37 PM, George Bosilca wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I just checked and IB does work correctly. But then I remembered that IB 
>>>> is different, the connection are peer based, so they don't happens during 
>>>> the modex exchange. The data is exchanged over RML messages, but outside 
>>>> the modex.
>>> 
>>> Not quite.  The openib BTL does use the modex to send around connection 
>>> information.  The actual connections are made lazily -- just like the TCP 
>>> BTL -- but the OOB CPC (i.e., the default connection mode in the openib 
>>> BTL) uses RML to do the 2/3 way handshake.  That's all.
>>> 
>>> But the point here is: the openib BTL does rely on the modex.
>>> 
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