[petsc-dev] BG hang still broken in petsc-maint!

[Barry Smith]

On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
>> 
>>   Derek reported that the maint branch on Blue-Gene still hangs due to the .petscrc business! WTF? Come on guys, this was supposed to have been fixed months ago.
>> 
> 
> Works with master - but not maint?

  He has not tried master

> 
> The relavent commits are in maint (and petsc-3.4.3) - so I'm not sure
> what the issue is.

   The issue is that the “commits” in maint don’t work?  Please try a build with maint ….


   Barry

> 
> Satish
> 
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> 
> balay at asterix /home/balay/petsc (maint)
> $ git log --merges --grep=bgq
> commit 3b778056deceb36e04d69cacb7fdbb47c6629cc8
> Merge: 099d3e5 3a01836
> Author: Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date:   Wed Oct 9 08:48:47 2013 -0500
> 
>    Merge branch 'jed/options-insert-bcast-bgq' into maint
> 
>    Attempt to work around BG/Q MPI_Bcast bug.  It is unknown whether it is
>    successful, but this uses fewer communications so it should not be
>    worse.
> 
>    * jed/options-insert-bcast-bgq:
>      PetscOptionsInsertFile: combine Bcasts for alias and values
> 
> commit 2a08145f31bf26ef86d11056c9adcbe6b71cd7b9
> Merge: d96a3a3 1ea3218
> Author: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date:   Thu Aug 29 10:41:24 2013 -0500
> 
>    Merge branch 'balay/fix-deadlock-on-bgq' into maint
> balay at asterix /home/balay/petsc (maint)