Re: [myrinet] Re: Re: Fast Directed Writes

Patrick Geoffray <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.myrinet.general
Organization Myricom Inc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:30:02PM -0700, Jarek Nieplocha wrote:
> 
> > You imply that Myrinet provides in-order delivery of not only
> > messages but also all the packets the message is composed of. Is it
> > true in 100% of the cases?
> 
> Good point. I'm not sure, and it's not easy to test because it doesn't
> happen very often. Can someone who actually understands GM answer?

On Intel, all of the packets composing a message are delivered in-order. 
It's not the case for Directed_send on Lanai4 when the message is not 
64-bits aligned (and on Irix and Solaris using consitent DMA).

On all architecture, GM guarantees that the last byte is written last.

Patrick

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