itaps-parallel More questions on iMeshP

[Saurabh Tendulkar]

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Saurabh Tendulkar wrote:
>> We have the following further questions about iMeshP.
>>
>> 1. iMeshP_destroyPartitionAll states that the partition is not
>> invalidated upon return. If this means that the partition is not freed,
>> when and how will it be freed? If not, what does the statement mean?
>>
> 
> There was some debate at one time as to whether or not this type of function
> should be passed a partition handle by copy (as it is now) or instead be
> passed a reference to a partition handle so that the implementation can
> nullify the variable storing the handle.  I assume that this comment refers
> to the passed variable containing the handle value, rather than the
> partition itself.

If I understand this correctly then, the statement should be disregarded because 
it doesn't make sense in the context of the handle being passed by value?


> 
>> 2. Several migration functions take in the destination part ids of
>> entities as they should. However, there is no function to get remote
>> part ids from a partition. How is the user supposed to know which part
>> id to migrate to, or are we missing something?
>>
> 
> iMeshP_getPartNBors(Arr)
> iMeshP_getEntOwnerPart(Arr)
> iMeshP_getCopyParts
> 

These are just returning the part wrt an entity (ownership/copy) or neighboring 
a part. Isn't there anything that returns them in a global sense (eg. return all 
part ids on process with given rank)?

Thanks,
saurabh