itaps-parallel A question about iMeshP interface functions

[Onkar Sahni]

>
> I had assumed that if one had a handle for an entity at all, that the
> local
> processor knew enough about that entity to answer such questions (e.g.
> that
> it is an interface or ghost entity.)  But I missed several discussions.
> Are
> we back to considering entity handles to be globally unique across all
> processors?

  If entity-handle is local (on local part/proc.) then one can ask such
questions (ghost entity etc.), but if entity is not local, i.e,
remote-handle or remote-copt then it is not valid to ask such questions.
How do we return reasonable error message/code in this case of
remote-handle. There are no globally unique entity handles.


> It seems to me that the iMeshP_getEntOwnerPart and
> iMeshP_getEntOwnerPartArr
> are inherently expensive, and those are the only two for which I see a
> requirement to return an error if the passed entity is not contained in
> the
> partition.  I'm looking at the draft spec Karen sent on July 24th.  Is
> there
> a more recent one?

  I do not see why these will be expensive, at least they are not in FMDB
implementation.

- Onkar