- update TimeState access methods
- use writeTime() instead of old method name outputTime()
- use deltaTValue() instead of deltaT().value()
to avoids pointless construct of intermediate
- functionality introduced by openfoam.org to support selective
caching of temporary fields. The purpose is two-fold: to enable
diagnostics and to allow more places to use unregistered fields by
default.
For example to cache the grad(k) field in
cacheTemporaryObjects
(
grad(k)
);
If the name of a field which in never constructed is added to the
cacheTemporaryObjects list a waning message is generated which
includes a useful list of ALL the temporary fields constructed
during the time step
Multiple regions are also supported by specifying individual region
names in a cacheTemporaryObjects dictionary.
cacheTemporaryObjects
{
porous
(
porosityBlockage:UNbr
);
}
functions
{
writePorousObjects
{
type writeObjects;
libs (utilityFunctionObjects);
region porous;
writeControl writeTime;
writeOption anyWrite;
objects (porosityBlockage:UNbr);
}
}
- allow reporting even when profiling is suspended
- consolidate reporting into profilingPstream itself
(avoids code scatter).
Example of possible advanced use for timing only one section of
code:
====
// Profile local operations
profilingPstream::enable();
... do something
// Don't profile elsewhere
profilingPstream::suspend();
====
- separate broadcast times from reduce/gather/scatter time
- separate wait times from all-to-all time
- support invocation counts, split off requests time/count
from others to avoid flooding the counts
- support 'detail' switch to increase the output information.
Format may change in the future
- similar to UPstream::parRun(), the setter returns the previous value.
The accessors are prefixed with 'comm':
Eg, commGlobal(), commWarn(), commWorld(), commSelf().
This distinguishes them from any existing variables (eg, worldComm)
and arguably more similar to MPI_COMM_WORLD etc...
If demand-driven communicators are added in the future, the function
call syntax can help encapsulate that.
Previously:
const label oldWarnComm = UPstream::warnComm;
const label oldWorldComm = UPstream::worldComm;
UPstream::warnComm = myComm;
UPstream::worldComm = myComm;
...
UPstream::warnComm = oldWarnComm;
UPstream::worldComm = oldWorldComm;
Now:
const label oldWarnComm = UPstream::commWarn(myComm);
const label oldWorldComm = UPstream::commWorld(myComm);
...
UPstream::commWarn(oldWarnComm);
UPstream::commWorld(oldWorldComm);
STYLE: check (warnComm >= 0) instead of (warnComm != -1)
- attempted reduction in bookkeeping (commit: 068ab8ccc7) meant that
the worldComm didn't have a group from which sub-communicators could
be spun off.
- do not force reset of PstreamBuffers positions
STYLE: UPstream::globalComm instead of '0'
- field blocking/exclusion added in commit d9ab5d54ef,
but was incorrectly doing a lookup for "blockField" for ensight
although "excludeFields" was documented (and expected).
Now corrected to use "excludeFields"
- similar to surface writing formats, also support optional
dictionary of reading options. The main beneficiary of this is the
ensight surface reader:
readOptions
{
ensight
{
masterOnly true;
}
}
This will restrict reading to the master rank. Surfaces and values
read will be broadcast to the other ranks, with the intention of
reducing load on the filesystem.
ENH: add writing of Dimensioned fields for areaWrite functionObject
- can be useful for examining finite-area source terms
- functionality similar to that provided by foamToEnsight, foamToVTK
which allows blocking out patches (eg, outer walls, inlet/outlet)
that are not particularly interesting to visualize
- since ensight format is always float and also always written
component-wise, perform the double -> float narrowing when
extracting the components. This reduces the amount of data
transferred between processors.
ENH: avoid vtk/ensight parallel communication of empty messages
- since ensight writes by element type (eg, tet, hex, polyhedral) the
individual written field sections will tend to be relatively sparse.
Skip zero-size messages, which should help reduce some of the
synchronization bottlenecks.
ENH: use 'data chunking' when writing ensight files in parallel
- since ensight fields are written on a per-element basis, the
corresponding segment can become rather sparsely distributed. With
'data chunking', we attempt to get as many send/recv messages in
before flushing the buffer for writing. This should make the
sequential send/recv less affected by the IO time.
ENH: allow use of an external buffer when writing ensight components
STYLE: remove last vestiges of autoPtr<ensightFile> for output routines
- replaced ad hoc handling of formatOptions with coordSetWriter and
surfaceWriter helpers.
Accompanying this change, it is now possible to specify "default"
settings to be inherited, format-specific settings and have a
similar layering with surface-specific overrides.
- snappyHexMesh now conforms to setFormats
Eg,
formatOptions
{
default
{
verbose true;
format binary;
}
vtk
{
precision 10;
}
}
surfaces
{
surf1
{
...
formatOptions
{
ensight
{
scale 1000;
}
}
}
}
- previously threw FatalError, which downgrades to a Warning only when
loading the functionObject. Now throw a FatalIOError so that missing
control files are treated as a critical error.
- ensightWrite, vtkWrite, fv::cellSetOption
ENH: additional topoSet "ignore" action
- this no-op can be used to skip an action step, instead of removing
the entire entry
- in various situations with mesh regions it is also useful to
filter out or remove the defaultRegion name (ie, "region0").
Can now do that conveniently from the polyMesh itself or as a static
function. Simply use this
const word& regionDir = polyMesh::regionName(regionName);
OR mesh.regionName()
instead of
const word& regionDir =
(
regionName != polyMesh::defaultRegion
? regionName
: word::null
);
Additionally, since the string '/' join operator filters out empty
strings, the following will work correctly:
(polyMesh::regionName(regionName)/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
(mesh.regionName()/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
- relocate templating to factory method 'New'.
Adds provisions for more general re-use.
- expose processor topology in globalMesh as topology()
- wrap proc->patch lookup as processorTopology::procPatchLookup method
(failsafe). May consider using Map<label> for its storage in the
future.
- uniq() : creates an IndirectList with duplicated entries
filtered out
- subset() : creates an IndirectList with positions that satisfy
a condition predicate.
- subset_if() : creates an IndirectList with values that satisfy a
given predicate.
An indirect subset will be cheaper than creating a subset copy
of the original data, and also allows modification.
STYLE: combine UIndirectList.H into UIndirectList.H (reduce file clutter)
- direct construct and reset method for creating a zero-sized (dummy)
subMesh. Has no exposed faces and no parallel synchronization
required.
- core mapping (interpolate) functionality with direct handling
of subsetting in fvMeshSubset (src/finiteVolume).
Does not use dynamicMesh topology changes
- two-step subsetting as fvMeshSubsetter (src/dynamicMesh).
Does use dynamicMesh topology changes.
This is apparently only needed by the subsetMesh application itself.
DEFEATURE: remove deprecated setLargeCellSubset() method
- was deprecated JUL-2018, now removed (see issue #951)
- bundles frequently used 'gather/scatter' patterns more consistently.
- combineAllGather -> combineGather + broadcast
- listCombineAllGather -> listCombineGather + broadcast
- mapCombineAllGather -> mapCombineGather + broadcast
- allGatherList -> gatherList + scatterList
- reduce -> gather + broadcast (ie, allreduce)
- The allGatherList currently wraps gatherList/scatterList, but may be
replaced with a different algorithm in the future.
STYLE: PstreamCombineReduceOps.H is mostly unneeded now
- also disables PointData if manifold cells are detected.
This is a partial workaround for volPointInterpolation problems
with handling manifold cells.
- the internal data are contiguous so can broadcast size and internals
directly without an intermediate stream.
ENH: split out broadcast time for profilingPstream information
STYLE: minor Pstream cleanup
- UPstream::commsType_ from protected to private, since it already has
inlined noexcept getters/setters that should be used.
- don't pass unused/unneed tag into low-level MPI reduction templates.
Document where tags are not needed
- had Pstream::broadcast instead of UPstream::broadcast in internals
- PstreamBuffers nProcs() and allProcs() methods to recover the rank
information consistent with the communicator used for construction
- allowClearRecv() methods for more control over buffer reuse
For example,
pBufs.allowClearRecv(false);
forAll(particles, particlei)
{
pBufs.clear();
fill...
read via IPstream(..., pBufs);
}
This preserves the receive buffers memory allocation between calls.
- finishedNeighbourSends() method as compact wrapper for
finishedSends() when send/recv ranks are identically
(eg, neighbours)
- hasSendData()/hasRecvData() methods for PstreamBuffers.
Can be useful for some situations to skip reading entirely.
For example,
pBufs.finishedNeighbourSends(neighProcs);
if (!returnReduce(pBufs.hasRecvData(), orOp<bool>()))
{
// Nothing to do
continue;
}
...
On an individual basis:
for (const int proci : pBufs.allProcs())
{
if (pBufs.hasRecvData(proci))
{
...
}
}
Also conceivable to do the following instead (nonBlocking only):
if (!returnReduce(pBufs.hasSendData(), orOp<bool>()))
{
// Nothing to do
pBufs.clear();
continue;
}
pBufs.finishedNeighbourSends(neighProcs);
...
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.
- 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.
