Re: [OMPI users] Question about senting short MPI messages using RDMA

2010-01-04 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Mon Jan 04 11:09:10 2010 Subject: [OMPI users] Question about senting short MPI messages using RDMA Hi, guys. As I understand, to send short MPI messages, OpenMPI copies the messages to preallocated buffer and then uses RDMA. I was wondering if we can avoid the overhead of memory copy. If t

[OMPI users] Question about senting short MPI messages using RDMA

2010-01-04 Thread Dong Li
Hi, guys. As I understand, to send short MPI messages, OpenMPI copies the messages to preallocated buffer and then uses RDMA. I was wondering if we can avoid the overhead of memory copy. If the user buffers for short messages are reused a lot, we can just register the user buffer instead of using