[libfabric-users] 1-n connected endpoints

[Maurizio Drocco]

Hi All,

I am submitting another question raised from integrating libfabric into 
FastFlow.

I need to setup a 1-N communication, in which a single "master" process 
talks to N "slave" processes in a connection-oriented fashion (the 
a3cube provider only supports connection-oriented for message passing).

I found a working solution, but I am not sure it is the best one: the 
master process has N endpoints (created as accepted connections) and 
only a pair (TX/RX) of completion queues. Master posts requests to the 
RX queue and includes as context the index of the respective endpoint, 
so when it "consumes" a RX event it knows the source slave and it can 
re-posts another RX request from the same endpoint.
I guess this works since completion queues are not FIFO, right?

Do you have any comment to improve my solution?

Thank you.

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Maurizio Drocco
PhD Student
University of Torino, department of Computer Science
Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino - Italy