[ofiwg] completion flags as actually defined by OFI
Jason Gunthorpe
jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Tue Apr 14 10:55:28 PDT 2015
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:41:13PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> *FI_COMPLETION*
> : Indicates that a completion entry should be generated for data
> transfer operations.
>
> *FI_INJECT_COMPLETE*
> *FI_TRANSMIT_COMPLETE*
>From an application perspective, thinking about reliable, I can't tell
what the difference is between FI_INJECT_COMPLETE and FI_TRANSMIT_COMPLETE.
Neither seem to guarentee a completion on the peer? Neither seem to
synchronize with shutdown? Why should an application care?
The shutdown race still exists, one option makes it smaller?
Jason
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