<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi,<div><br></div><div>Is there any hope that the currently non-standard generalized request interface (MPIX_Grequest_*) in mpich eventually becomes part of the standard (or something that looks like this API)?</div><div>I just spent two days hopelessly trying to develop something with the standard generalized requests, but gave up: this API is basically useless unless a thread is used to do the MPI_Grequest_complete.</div><div><br></div><div>For information, what I was trying to do was a custom version of MPI_Iprobe that takes an MPI_Request* parameter instead of a int* flag and an MPI_Status*, in order to be able to call MPI_{Wait,Test}{all,any,some} on requests generated by different types of non-blocking operations including MPI_Iprob. (btw, is there a reason why MPI_Iprob doesn't have this signature already? That would have make more sense, in my opinion).</div><div><br><div><span name="x"></span><font size="2"><font size="3">Matthieu Dorier<br>
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