Nathan,

Thank you for your reply. I opened an issue: https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/4434

Thanks,
Joseph

On 11/02/2017 01:04 PM, Nathan Hjelm wrote:
Hmm, though I thought we also make calls to opal_progress () in your case 
(calling MPI_Win_lock on self). Open a bug on github and I will double-check.

On Nov 1, 2017, at 9:54 PM, Nathan Hjelm <hje...@me.com> wrote:

This is a known issue when using osc/pt2pt. The only way to get progress is to 
enable (it is not on by default) it at the network level (btl). How this is 
done depends on the underlying transport.

-Nathan

On Nov 1, 2017, at 9:49 PM, Joseph Schuchart <schuch...@hlrs.de> wrote:

All,

I came across what I consider another issue regarding progress in Open MPI: 
consider one process (P1) polling locally on a regular window (W1) for a local 
value to change (using MPI_Win_lock+MPI_Get+MPI_Win_unlock) while a second 
process (P2) tries to read from a memory location in a dynamic window (W2) on 
process P1 (using MPI_Rget+MPI_Wait, other combinations affected as well). P2 
will later update the memory location waited on by P1. However, the read on the 
dynamic window stalls as the (local) read on W1 on P1 does not trigger progress 
on the dynamic window W2, causing the application to deadlock.

It is my understanding that process P1 should guarantee progress on any 
communication it is involved in, irregardless of the window or window type, and 
thus the communication should succeed. Is this assumption correct? Or is P1 
required to access W2 as well to ensure progress? I can trigger progress on W2 
on P1 by adding a call to MPI_Iprobe but that seems like a hack to me. Also, if 
both W1 and W2 are regular (allocated) windows the communication succeeds.

I am attaching a small reproducer, tested with Open MPI release 3.0.0 on a 
single GNU/Linux node (Linux Mint 18.2, gcc 5.4.1, Linux 4.10.0-38-generic).

Many thanks in advance!

Joseph
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