sync in ncmpi_end_indep_data()
Wei-keng Liao
wkliao at ece.northwestern.edu
Thu Sep 20 14:46:47 CDT 2007
In file mpinetcdf.c, function ncmpi_end_indep_data(), MPI_File_sync() is
called. I don't think this is necessary. Flushing dirty data may be needed
if pnetcdf implemented a caching layer internally. However, this file sync
should be flusing data from pnetcdf caching layer (if it is implemented)
to the file system, not application clients to the file servers (or disks)
as MPI_File_sync() will do.
This file sync makes IOR performance bad for pnetcdf independent data
mode.
Wei-keng
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