The issue was a little complicated due to the internal stack used in the
convertor. The main issue was that in the case where we run out of iov
space to save the raw description of the data while hanbdling a
repetition (loop), instead of saving the current position and bailing out
directly we reading of the next predefined type element. It worked in
most cases, except the one identified by the HDF5 test. However, the
biggest issue here was the drop in performance for all ensuing calls to
the convertor pack/unpack, as instead of handling contiguous loops as a
whole (and minimizing the number of memory copies) we copied data
description by data description.
Signed-off-by: George Bosilca <bosilca@icl.utk.edu>
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