[mpich-discuss] Non-blocking Collectives

[Jiri Simsa]

Hi Pavan,

To rephrase, I am interested in understanding when would MPI_Wait() block
indefinitely, waiting for other process to make progress. I believe that
your response answers my question. Thanks again.

--Jiri


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Jiri,
>
>
> On 06/26/2013 03:08 PM, Jiri Simsa wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your quick answer. I am trying to understand the blocking
>> behavior of MPI_Wait in the case of non-blocking collectives. Is it safe
>> to assume that, for a non-blocking collective, MPI_Wait is guaranteed to
>> return once all other processes call the corresponding completion
>> operation (e.g. MPI_Wait or MPI_Test)?
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question.  Are you asking if MPI_WAIT in a
> process is guaranteed to return after some finite amount of time after
> every other process has called MPI_WAIT?  Then, yes.
>
>
> --
> Pavan Balaji
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
>
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