Temporarily serializes a DistributedMesh for output. More...

#include <mesh_serializer.h>

Public Member Functions
	MeshSerializer (MeshBase &mesh, bool need_serial=true, bool serial_only_needed_on_proc_0=false)

	~MeshSerializer ()

Private Attributes
MeshBase &	_mesh

bool	reparallelize

Detailed Description

Temporarily serializes a DistributedMesh for output.

Temporarily serialize a DistributedMesh for output; a distributed mesh is allgathered by the MeshSerializer constructor if need_serial is true, then remote elements are deleted again by the destructor.

Author: Roy Stogner

Date: 2011

Definition at line 42 of file mesh_serializer.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ MeshSerializer()

libMesh::MeshSerializer::MeshSerializer	(	MeshBase &	mesh,
		bool	need_serial = `true`,
		bool	serial_only_needed_on_proc_0 = `false`
	)

Definition at line 27 of file mesh_serializer.C.

References _mesh, libMesh::MeshBase::allgather(), libMesh::MeshBase::gather_to_zero(), libMesh::MeshBase::is_serial(), mesh, and reparallelize.

                                                                                                    :
   _mesh(mesh),
   reparallelize(false)
 {
   libmesh_parallel_only(mesh.comm());
   if (need_serial && !_mesh.is_serial() && !serial_only_needed_on_proc_0) {
     reparallelize = true;
     _mesh.allgather();
   }
   else if (need_serial && !_mesh.is_serial() && serial_only_needed_on_proc_0) {
     // Note: NOT reparallelizing on purpose.
     // Just waste a bit of space on processor 0 to speed things up
     _mesh.gather_to_zero();
   }
 }

◆ ~MeshSerializer()

libMesh::MeshSerializer::~MeshSerializer ( )

Definition at line 45 of file mesh_serializer.C.

References _mesh, libMesh::MeshBase::delete_remote_elements(), and reparallelize.

 {
   if (reparallelize)
     _mesh.delete_remote_elements();
 }

Member Data Documentation

◆ _mesh

MeshBase& libMesh::MeshSerializer::_mesh

private

Definition at line 50 of file mesh_serializer.h.

Referenced by MeshSerializer(), and ~MeshSerializer().

◆ reparallelize

bool libMesh::MeshSerializer::reparallelize

private

Definition at line 51 of file mesh_serializer.h.