[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint] [OMPI users] Deadlock in OpenMPI 1.8.3 and PETSc 3.4.5

[Barry Smith]

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> From: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquyres at cisco.com>
> To: Open MPI User's List <users at open-mpi.org>
> Date: December 19, 2014 at 8:05:19 AM CST
> Cc: "petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov" <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [petsc-maint] [OMPI users] Deadlock in OpenMPI 1.8.3 and PETSc 3.4.5
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> On Dec 19, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote:
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>> More specifically, George's change can lead to inconsistency/incorrectness in the presence of multiple threads simultaneously executing attribute actions on a single entity.
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> Actually -- it's worse than I first thought.  This change can lead to inconsistencies/incorrectness even with a single thread, if that thread adds or removes attributes on the same entity from which a callback is currently being invoked.
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> Jeff Squyres
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