[mpich-discuss] multithreaded MPI_IProbe

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

We have a problem caused by this ...



thread 0
  while (!flag) {
    MPI_Iprobe(MPI_ANY_SOURCE, msg->Tag, comm, &flag, &status);
  }



and thread 1
    status = MPI_Send(msg->Data, msg->Length, MPI_UNSIGNED_CHAR, msg->Dest,
        msg->Tag, comm);



so thread 0 just polls for a message, and thread 1 sends one. We expect thread 1 to block until the message is received, but thread 0, is never returning a true flag so we can't receive it.



Is there a reason for this? Are we doing something wrong (multithreaded MPI_IProbe is not entirely safe), or have we found a bug of some kind?



using mpich2-1.4.1p1 on windows7

mpich2-1.5b2 on linux (fedora 17) and both show the same behaviour.



many thanks



JB





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