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users-boun...@open-mpi.org wrote on 05/25/2010 12:03:11 AM:
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> [OMPI users] About the necessity of cancelation of pending
> communication and the use of buffer
>
> Yves Caniou
>
> to:
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> Open MPI Users
>
> 05/25/2010 12:04 AM
>
> Sent by:
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> users-boun...@open-mpi.org
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> Please respond to yves.caniou, Open MPI Users
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have 2 questions on the use of the MPI API:
>
> 1 ** Do I have to cancel Irecv() and Isend() operations before calling
> MPI_Finalize() in the case of when MPI_Finalize() is called, I know for
sure
> that the application has finished to compute the result, and must exit?
>
> A silly example would be an iterative code that Isends() a value given a
> proba, and checks if it receives a value given another proba. At the end,
> each prints a value. There's no synchronization. Do I have to track all
> Isend() and cancel them before calling MPI_Finalize()?
The MPI Standard requires that all posted communications be locally
complete before a call to MPI_Finalize. That means every non blocking send
or receive must be MPI_WAITed (or successful TESTed). If the matching
operation will never be posted because the program has done all it needs
to, then you must both MPI_CANCEL those operations and MPI_WAIT them.
This is what the standard requires but that does not mean a particular MPI
implementation will fail if you ignore the rule. If you want to write
portable MPI code, obey the rule.
>
> 2 ** When I use a Isend() operation, the manpage says that I can't use
the
> buffer until the operation completes.
> What happens if I use an Isend() operation in a function, with a buffer
> declared inside the function?
> Do I have to Wait() for the communication to finish before returning, or
to
> declare the buffer as a global variable?
I see somebody answered this part.
>
> Thank you!
>
> .Yves.
>
> --
> Yves Caniou
> Associate Professor at Université Lyon 1,
> Member of the team project INRIA GRAAL in the LIP ENS-Lyon,
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