STYLE: LduInterfaceFieldPtrsList as alias instead of a class
STYLE: define patch lists typedefs when defining the base patch
- eg, polyPatchList typedef within polyPatch.H
INT: relocate GeometricField::Boundary -> GeometricBoundaryField
- was internal to GeometricField but moving it outside simplifies
forward declarations etc. Code adapted from openfoam.org
- gather/scatter types of operations can avoid AllToAll communication
and use simple MPI gather (or scatter) to establish the receive sizes.
New methods: finishedGathers() / finishedScatters()
- 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 patch remapping in faFieldDecomposer calls weights
internalField() which can trigger parallel communication on the
complete mesh for some processors only (ie, blocks).
Force a priori creation of weights instead.
- ensure that the complete mesh (reconstruction helper)
is serial when adding patches.
- when creating a finite-area mesh in parallel, need to determine
the equivalent ProcAddressing for the faMesh.
In the faceProcAddressing the collected and sorted order was being
scattered directly back to the individual processors instead of only
the sections relevant to each particular processor.
This caused the observed jumbled order for reconstructed fields.
- A bare-bones reconstructor for finiteArea meshes when processor
meshes are available (in parallel) but an equivalent serial faMesh
is needed for reconstruction or decomposition.
In these situations, a serial version of the faMesh is needed,
but preferably without reconstructing the entire volume mesh.
It uses the finiteVolume faceProcAddressing in addition to
the geometric information available from the underlying polyMesh.
The resulting equivalent faMesh can be used for basic operations,
but caution should be exercised before attempting large operations.
