- reduces later surprises and simplifies effort for the caller
- more flexible globalIndex scatter with auto-sized return field.
- Avoid communication for scattering into zero-sized fields.
- the data front for isoAdvection can be particularly sparse and at
higher processor counts there is an advantage to avoiding all-to-all
communication for the PstreamBuffers exchange
Based on code changes from T.Aoyagi(RIST), A.Azami(RIST)
- use MPI_Bcast intrinsic instead of manual tree to reduce the overall
number of messages.
Old behaviour can be re-enabled with
`#define Foam_Pstream_scatter_nobroadcast`
- The idea of broadcast streams is to replace multiple master to
subProcs communications with a single MPI_Bcast.
if (Pstream::master())
{
OPBstream toAll(Pstream::masterNo());
toAll << data;
}
else
{
IPBstream fromMaster(Pstream::masterNo());
fromMaster >> data;
}
// vs.
if (Pstream::master())
{
for (const int proci : Pstream::subProcs())
{
OPstream os(Pstream::commsTypes::scheduled, proci);
os << data;
}
}
else
{
IPstream is(Pstream::commsTypes::scheduled, Pstream::masterNo());
is >> data;
}
Can simply use UPstream::broadcast() directly for contiguous data
with known lengths.
Based on ideas from T.Aoyagi(RIST), A.Azami(RIST)
- native MPI min/max/sum reductions for float/double
irrespective of WM_PRECISION_OPTION
- native MPI min/max/sum reductions for (u)int32_t/(u)int64_t types,
irrespective of WM_LABEL_SIZE
- replace rarely used vector2D sum reduction with FixedList as a
indicator of its intent and also generalizes to different lengths.
OLD:
vector2D values; values.x() = ...; values.y() = ...;
reduce(values, sumOp<vector2D>());
NEW:
FixedList<scalar,2> values; values[0] = ...; values[1] = ...;
reduce(values, sumOp<scalar>());
- allow returnReduce() to use native reductions. Previous code (with
linear/tree selector) would have bypassed them inadvertently.
ENH: added support for MPI broadcast (for a memory span)
ENH: select communication schedule as a static method
- UPstream::whichCommunication(comm) to select linear/tree
communication instead of ternary or
if (Pstream::nProcs() < Pstream::nProcsSimpleSum) ...
STYLE: align nProcsSimpleSum static value with etc/controlDict override
- refactor as an MPI-independent base class.
Add bufferIPC{send,recv} private methods for construct/destruct.
Eliminates code duplication from two constructor forms and reduces
additional constructor definitions in dummy library.
- add PstreamBuffers access methods, refactor common finish sends
code, tweak member packing
ENH: resize_nocopy for processorLduInterface buffers
- content is immediately overwritten
STYLE: cull unneeded includes in processorFa*
- handled by processorLduInterface
- this can be used to apply a uniform field level to remove from
a sampled field. For example,
fieldLevel
{
"p.*" 1e5; // Absolute -> gauge [Pa]
T 273.15; // [K] -> [C]
U #eval{ 10/sqrt(3) }; // Uniform mag(U)=10
}
After the fieldLevel has been removed, any fieldScale is applied.
For example
fieldScale
{
"p.*" 0.01; // [Pa] -> [mbar]
}
The fieldLevel for vector and tensor fields may still need some
further refinement.
The runTimeControl function object can activate further function objects using
triggers. Previously the trigger index could only advance; this change set
allows users to set smaller values to enable function object recycling, e.g.
Repeat for N cycles:
1. average the pressure at a point in space
2. when the average stabilises, run for a further 100 iterations
3. set a new patch inlet velocity
- back to (1)
- Removes old default behaviour that only permitted an increase in the
trigger level. This type of 'ratcheting' mechanism (if required) is
now the responsibility of the derived function object.
- notably affects writing continuous data in binary. If generating a
compound token (eg, List<label>), need to add in the size prefix
otherwise it cannot actually be parsed properly as a List.
BUG: bad fallthrough for compound reading (FixedList)
- the branch was likely never reached, but would have attempted to
read twice due to a bad fall-through condition.
GIT: relocate globalIndex (is independent of mesh)
STYLE: include label/scalar Fwd in contiguous.H
STYLE: unneed commSchedule include in GeometricField
- as a side-effect of changes to probes, the file pointers are not
automatically creating when reading the dictionary but delayed
until prepare(WRITE_ACTION) is called.
This nuance was missed in thermoCoupleProbes.
