I am using MPICH on CH4/UCX netmod, the version is mpich-3.4.1.

I noticed that there is a configure parameter "--with-ch4-rank-bits" which can set the value of CH4_RANK_BITS, but seems CH4_RANK_BITS is not used in the code.

And I also find in the netmod/ucx/ucx_impl.h, _UCX_init_tag()/_UCX_recv_tag() use only 16 bits to set MPI rank in the ucp_tag, but this cannot differentiate correct ucp_tag when MPI ranks exceed 64K.

In Open MPI, 20 bits is used in pml/ucx module to set rank in ucp_tag, 20 bits for context, 24 bits for MPI tag, thus the maximum ranks in Open MPI can be 1M.

Is there any plan to support > 64K ranks in MPICH/CH4/UCX?

Thanks.

Min