DeinoMPI

The Great and Terrible implementation of MPI-2

MPI_Irecv

Begins a nonblocking receive

int MPI_Irecv(
  void *buf,
  int count,
  MPI_Datatype datatype,
  int source,
  int tag,
  MPI_Comm comm,
  MPI_Request *request
);

Parameters

buf: [in] initial address of receive buffer (choice)
count: [in] number of elements in receive buffer (integer)
datatype: [in] datatype of each receive buffer element (handle)
source: [in] rank of source (integer)
tag: [in] message tag (integer)
comm: [in] communicator (handle)
request: [out] communication request (handle)

Remarks

Start a nonblocking receive.

These calls allocate a communication request object and associate it with the request handle (the argument request). The request can be used later to query the status of the communication or wait for its completion.

A nonblocking receive call indicates that the system may start writing data into the receive buffer. The receiver should not access any part of the receive buffer after a nonblocking receive operation is called, until the receive completes.

Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as mallocor other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK) have an additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list. ierris an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the call statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype, MPI_Comm) are of type INTEGERin Fortran.

Errors

All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler (for communicators), MPI_File_set_errhandler (for files), and MPI_Win_set_errhandler (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine MPI_Errhandler_set may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

MPI_SUCCESS: No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_COMM: Invalid communicator. A common error is to use a null communicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank).

MPI_ERR_COUNT: Invalid count argument. Count arguments must be non-negative; a count of zero is often valid.

MPI_ERR_TYPE: Invalid datatype argument. May be an uncommitted MPI_Datatype (see MPI_Type_commit).

MPI_ERR_TAG: Invalid tag argument. Tags must be non-negative; tags in a receive (MPI_Recv, MPI_Irecv, MPI_Sendrecv, etc.) may also be MPI_ANY_TAG. The largest tag value is available through the the attribute MPI_TAG_UB.

MPI_ERR_RANK: Invalid source or destination rank. Ranks must be between zero and the size of the communicator minus one; ranks in a receive (MPI_Recv, MPI_Irecv, MPI_Sendrecv, etc.) may also be MPI_ANY_SOURCE.

MPI_ERR_INTERN: This error is returned when some part of the MPICH implementation is unable to acquire memory.

Example Code

The following sample code illustrates MPI_Irecv.

#include "mpi.h"
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int myid, numprocs, left, right;
    int buffer[10], buffer2[10];
    MPI_Request request;
    MPI_Status status;

    MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numprocs);
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myid);

    right = (myid + 1) % numprocs;
    left = myid - 1;
    if (left < 0)
        left = numprocs - 1;

    MPI_Irecv(buffer, 10, MPI_INT, left, 123, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &request);
    MPI_Send(buffer2, 10, MPI_INT, right, 123, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    MPI_Wait(&request, &status);
    MPI_Finalize();
    return 0;
}

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