[mpich-discuss] multithreaded MPI_IProbe

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

Jeff + list

MPI_Send actually is blocking, and MPI_Iprobe is always returning false. The message is neither sent, nor received.

My question should have been...is this to be expected, or could there be a bug in mpich?

Thanks

JB

-----Original Message-----
From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Jeff Hammond
Sent: 13 July 2012 16:31
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] multithreaded MPI_IProbe

If you want MPI_Send to block until the message is received, you need to use MPI_Ssend.

You may also wish to read
http://www.unixer.de/publications/img/mprobe-proposal-rev4.pdf
regarding the multithreaded use of MPI_Probe.

There's no guarantee that either of my comments resolves your issue.

Jeff

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
> We have a problem caused by this ...
>
>
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> thread 0
>
>   while (!flag) {
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>     MPI_Iprobe(MPI_ANY_SOURCE, msg->Tag, comm, &flag, &status);
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>   }
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>
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> and thread 1
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>     status = MPI_Send(msg->Data, msg->Length, MPI_UNSIGNED_CHAR, 
> msg->Dest,
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>         msg->Tag, comm);
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>
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> 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.
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>
>
> 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?
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>
>
> using mpich2-1.4.1p1 on windows7
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> mpich2-1.5b2 on linux (fedora 17) and both show the same behaviour.
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>
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> many thanks
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>
>
> JB
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