You are right Dave, FUNNELED allows the application to have multiple
threads but only the man thread calls MPI.
An OpenMP/MPI hybrid program that makes MPI calls only in between parallel
sections is usually a FUNNELED user of MPI
Thanks
Dick Treumann - MPI Team
IBM Systems & Technology Group
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From: Dave Goodell <good...@mcs.anl.gov>
To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org>
Date: 03/03/2010 03:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] MPI_Init() and MPI_Init_thread()
Sent by: users-boun...@open-mpi.org
On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Richard Treumann wrote:
> If the application will make MPI calls from multiple threads and
> MPI_INIT_THREAD has returned FUNNELED, the application must be
> willing to take the steps that ensure there will never be concurrent
> calls to MPI from the threads. The threads will take turns - without
> fail.
>
Minor nitpick: if the implementation returns FUNNELED, only the main
thread (basically the thread that called MPI_INIT_THREAD, see MPI-2.2
pg 386 for def'n) may make MPI calls. Dick's paragraph above is
correct if you replace FUNNELED with SERIALIZED.
-Dave
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