Re: [OMPI users] Buffered sends are evil?

2015-04-03 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Yes. I think the blog post gives 10 excellent reasons why. :-) > On Apr 3, 2015, at 2:40 AM, Lei Shi wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to use buffered sends. Read a blog said it is evil, > http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/top-10-reasons-why-buffered-sends-are-evil > > Is it true or not? Thank

[OMPI users] Buffered sends are evil?

2015-04-03 Thread Lei Shi
Hello, I want to use buffered sends. Read a blog said it is evil, http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/top-10-reasons-why-buffered-sends-are-evil Is it true or not? Thanks! Sincerely Yours, Lei Shi -

Re: [OMPI users] Buffered sends

2007-03-22 Thread George Bosilca
This problem is not related to Open MPI. Is related to the way you use MPI. In fact there are 2 problems: 1. Buffered sends will copy the data into the attached buffer. In your case, I think this only add one more memcpy operation to the critical path, which might partially explain the imp

[OMPI users] Buffered sends

2007-03-22 Thread Michael
Is there known issue with buffered sends in OpenMPI 1.1.4? I changed a single send which is called thousands of times from MPI_SEND (& MPI_ISEND) to MPI_BSEND (& MPI_IBSEND) and my Fortran 90 code slowed down by a factor of 10. I've looked at several references and I can't see where I'm mak