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

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