itaps-parallel "All" convention
Onkar Sahni
osahni at scorec.rpi.edu
Mon Nov 3 15:38:23 CST 2008
I do not see any major problems from our side (Ting can you also confirm
this).
One other possibility is to use iMeshP_waitForRequests (I think 'All' can
be implicit) but anyway will be fine with me...
- Onkar
>
> In iMeshP, we have used the suffix "All" to indicate that a function must
> be
> called collectively; examples include iMeshP_syncPartitionAll and
> iMeshP_syncMeshAll.
>
> We break that convention in two or three functions (at least):
> - iMeshP_WaitAll is not collective.
> - iMeshP_load is collective
> - iMeshP_save would often be collective.
>
> So I propose the following changes:
> - change iMeshP_WaitAll to iMeshP_waitForAllRequests; change its siblings
> to iMeshP_waitForRequest, iMeshP_waitForAnyRequest, etc.
> - change iMeshP_load to iMeshP_loadAll.
> - change iMeshP_save to iMeshP_saveAll.
>
> Does anyone mind if I make these changes soon? I realize they will make
> our
> tutorial notes slightly incorrect, but since they are just name changes,
> they shouldn't set back our development and we could at least have the
> correct names in the exercises.
>
> Karen
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