[Pvfs2-developers] BMI send implemtations

Pete Wyckoff pw at osc.edu
Tue Aug 29 14:27:32 EDT 2006


atchley at myri.com wrote on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:40 -0400:
> I misspoke. MX does do in-order matching, not delivery. If A posts  
> Recv1 then Recv2 and B posts Send1 and Send2 and both sends can match  
> both receives, A's MX will ensure that Recv1 matches Send1 and Recv2  
> matches Send2.
> 
> It may be, however, that Recv2 completes before Recv1. Would that be  
> an issue? If so, I can keep a completed request queue and return them  
> in BMI_testcontext() in order.

Good they get delivered to the right location.  I believe they can
complete in any order.  An upper layer will wait until it gets the
completed operation it was looking for.

		-- Pete


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