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cannam@95 57 <h3 class="section">6.9 Avoiding MPI Deadlocks</h3>
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cannam@95 59 <p><a name="index-deadlock-417"></a>
cannam@95 60 An MPI program can <em>deadlock</em> if one process is waiting for a
cannam@95 61 message from another process that never gets sent. To avoid deadlocks
cannam@95 62 when using FFTW's MPI routines, it is important to know which
cannam@95 63 functions are <em>collective</em>: that is, which functions must
cannam@95 64 <em>always</em> be called in the <em>same order</em> from <em>every</em>
cannam@95 65 process in a given communicator. (For example, <code>MPI_Barrier</code> is
cannam@95 66 the canonical example of a collective function in the MPI standard.)
cannam@95 67 <a name="index-collective-function-418"></a><a name="index-MPI_005fBarrier-419"></a>
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cannam@95 69 <p>The functions in FFTW that are <em>always</em> collective are: every
cannam@95 70 function beginning with &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">fftw_mpi_plan</span></samp>&rsquo;, as well as
cannam@95 71 <code>fftw_mpi_broadcast_wisdom</code> and <code>fftw_mpi_gather_wisdom</code>.
cannam@95 72 Also, the following functions from the ordinary FFTW interface are
cannam@95 73 collective when they are applied to a plan created by an
cannam@95 74 &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">fftw_mpi_plan</span></samp>&rsquo; function: <code>fftw_execute</code>,
cannam@95 75 <code>fftw_destroy_plan</code>, and <code>fftw_flops</code>.
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