[Pvfs2-developers] Re: noncontig-test

[Rob Ross]

we've talked about this off-and-on for quite some time, providing a 
mechanism for sending an unexpected message that sets the server up to 
receive a large incoming request. is it time to implement this?

rob

Robert Latham wrote:

> - a way to announce to PVFS "hey, i'm about to send you a giant
>   request".  I'm 100% ok with a rendezvous approach if those
>   additional messages mean a single call to PVFS_sys_io