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