[mvapich-discuss] Buffer size of unexpected receive queue, is
there a way to increase the buffer?
Pavan Balaji
balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Sep 23 06:21:30 EDT 2009
I'm sorry, I'm jet-lagged. I didn't notice that the source rank is changing in the receives. So yes, you would have unexpected messages.
Back to bed!
-- Pavan
----- "Craig Tierney" <Craig.Tierney at noaa.gov> wrote:
> I am trying to figure out a way to increase the
> unexpected receive queue, if it is even possible
> or necessary.
>
> I have code that looks a bit like:
>
> for i=0,npes-1
> msgsize=Some function to determine how much data (even 0) should be
> sent to another PE
> mpi_send(send to process i, msgsize)
> if (msgsize > 0)
> mpi_send(send to process i, data of msgsize bytes)
> done
>
> for i=0,npes-1
> mpi_recv(receive from procss i, msgsize)
> if (msgsize > 0)
> mpi_recv(receive from process i, data of msgsize bytes)
> done
>
> On my job with 864 cores, the code is blocking in here.
> I believe that since the receives are not posted, that I
> am most likely hitting some internal buffer limits. This
> code works on other systems, but they have had to tweak
> internal buffer sizes to get it to work.
>
> I cannot change the code in any way. So I am looking
> for how the size of the unexpected receive queue is set
> and if/how it can be changed.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
>
> --
> Craig Tierney (craig.tierney at noaa.gov)
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