concurrency(?) in rpc:multicall()

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi,

The meaning is that the requests are all sent before even trying to
receive an answer. The sequentioal alternative is to send a request,
wait for the answer, send the next request, and so on.

regards,
Vlad


On 6/27/06, HP Wei <hp@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> According to the manual,
> "
>    It is semantically the same as iteratively making a series
>    of RPCs on all the nodes,
>    but the multicall is faster as all the requests
>    are sent at the same time...
> "
>
> I do NOT understand the last part:
> "
>    all the requests are sent at the same time
> "
>
> I trace the source code for rpc:multicall().
> It boils down to gen_server:send_nodes(),
> whose function head reads:
>    send_nodes([Node|Tail], ...)
>
> Apparently, multicall sends out the requests to the
> target processes 'one by one'  (not at the same time).
>
>
> Is there a typo in the manual for rpc:multicall() ???
>
> --HP
>
>