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authorjhendersonHDF <jhenderson@hdfgroup.org>2022-02-03 22:19:38 (GMT)
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Unify handling of collective metadata reads status (#1206) (#1417)
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@@ -217,6 +217,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.1 release
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Library
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+ - Unified handling of collective metadata reads to correctly fix old bugs
+
+ Due to MPI-related issues occurring in HDF5 from mismanagement of the
+ status of collective metadata reads, they were forced to be disabled
+ during chunked dataset raw data I/O in the HDF5 1.10.5 release. This
+ wouldn't generally have affected application performance because HDF5
+ already disables collective metadata reads during chunk lookup, since
+ it is generally unlikely that the same chunks will be read by all MPI
+ ranks in the I/O operation. However, this was only a partial solution
+ that wasn't granular enough.
+
+ This change now unifies the handling of the file-global flag and the
+ API context-level flag for collective metadata reads in order to
+ simplify querying of the true status of collective metadata reads. Thus,
+ collective metadata reads are once again enabled for chunked dataset
+ raw data I/O, but manually controlled at places where some processing
+ occurs on MPI rank 0 only and would cause issues when collective
+ metadata reads are enabled.
+
+ (JTH - 2021/11/16, HDFFV-10501/HDFFV-10562)
+
- Fixed an issue with collective metadata reads being permanently disabled
after a dataset chunk lookup operation. This would usually cause a
mismatched MPI_Bcast and MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE issue in the library for