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Berk Geveci authored
Refactoring the way VTK goes between piece and structured extents. Before, extent translators were used when the pipeline moved from structured to unstructured data converting piece request to extent request. This caused many problems with filters that altered extents, mainly a lot of redundant IO due to repartitioning of different extents. This became extremely cumbersome to manage when running distributed. The new behavior pushes the extent translation all to way to the readers and only when readers are able to read a subset. This works much better. The only downside is that filters need to be able to handle data extents different than update extents. Most filters can do this but many imaging filters cannot. Those that are needed in parallel will have to be updated. As part of this work, I also removed MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES and added CAN_HANDLE_PIECE_REQUEST. MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES had reduced to being a boolean. 1 for serial sources, -1 for parallel ...
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