RMA WG 10 11 2018

Agenda

(Naveen) Several main changes: (1) removed strict qualifier for sig_addr, (2) add the API summary to the API description, (3) change from broadcast to a more useful case in example code.
(Jim) Suggestions for the example code: (1) switch the if-else conditions; (2) add synchronization operation afterwards (or some other ways).
(Naveen) Do we need to specify that target buffer and signal cannot overlap?
(Min) We may propose some top-level change to define the overlapping of buffers.
(Naveen) This should be handled separately.
(Manju & Naveen) Even in overlapping scenarios data and signal can still be sent in one package.
(Anshuman) This API has two symmetric objects which can be an argument for adding special statements.
(Jim) It is sufficient to fix this particular API now, but later similar problem for other APIs needs to be addressed too.
(Naveen) After this particular fix, will create another issue for not allowing source & target, and source & signal buffers overlapping when target PE is the same.

(Dave) Read the changes.
(Jim) nelem should < SIZE_MAX.
(Anshuman) Could use ssize_t.
(Jim) Could return a number larger than or equal to nelem.
(Jim) The next RMA WG meeting will be in the next week to wrap up the current issues.