[OMPI devel] fast path MPI_Sendrecv

2008-12-21 Thread Eugene Loh
I've been looking at a "fast path" for sends and receives. This is like the sendi function, which attempts to send "immediately", without creating a bulky PML send request (which would be needed if, say, the send had to be progressed over multiple user MPI calls). One can do something similar

Re: [OMPI devel] shared-memory allocations

2008-12-21 Thread Eugene Loh
Richard Graham wrote: Re: [OMPI devel] shared-memory allocations It does not make a difference who allocates it, what makes a difference is who touches it first. Fair enough, but the process that allocates it right away starts to initialize it.  So, each circular buffer is set up (alloc