[mpich-discuss] problem with MPI_SCATTERV

Junchao Zhang jczhang at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Nov 28 17:13:23 CST 2013


The second scounts in your code is suspicious.
According to
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/www/www3/MPI_Scatterv.html,
 sendcnts and recvcnt are of different types.


--Junchao Zhang


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I ran into a problem with MPI_SCATTERV. When the sendcounts (scounts in
> code) is the same for every process, it works fine, but if the sendcounts
> is different (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4 for 4 processes, respectively),  there will
> be error as follows:
>
> Fatal error in PMPI_Scatterv: Message truncated, error stack:
> PMPI_Scatterv(376)................: MPI_Scatterv(sbuf=0000000000000000,
> scnts=0000000000E16CD0, displs=0000000000E16CA0,
>  MPI_INT, rbuf=0000000002BD0050, rcount=1, MPI_INT, root=0,
> MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed
> MPIR_Scatterv_impl(187)...........:
> MPIR_Scatterv(144)................:
> MPIDI_CH3U_Receive_data_found(129): Message from rank 0 and tag 6
> truncated; 16 bytes received but buffer size is 4
>
> The code is simple as follows:
>
> call MPI_SCATTERV(ja_in, *scounts*, displs, MPI_INT, ja, *scounts*,
> MPI_INT, 0, comm , ierr)
>
> ja_in is allocated for process #0 and ja is allocated for every process.
> The size of ja_in and ja is big enough to hold large dataset.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Danyang
>
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