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/*! \defgroup Scheduling_Contexts Scheduling Contexts

\brief StarPU permits on one hand grouping workers in combined workers
in order to execute a parallel task and on the other hand grouping
tasks in bundles that will be executed by a single specified worker.
In contrast when we group workers in scheduling contexts we submit
starpu tasks to them and we schedule them with the policy assigned to
the context. Scheduling contexts can be created, deleted and modified
dynamically.

\fn unsigned starpu_sched_ctx_create(const char *policy_name, int *workerids_ctx, int nworkers_ctx, const char *sched_ctx_name)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
This function creates a scheduling context which uses the scheduling
policy \p policy_name and assigns the workers in \p workerids_ctx to
execute the tasks submitted to it.
The return value represents the identifier of the context that has
just been created. It will be further used to indicate the context the
tasks will be submitted to. The return value should be at most
STARPU_NMAX_SCHED_CTXS.

\fn void starpu_sched_ctx_delete(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Delete scheduling context \p sched_ctx_id and transfer remaining
workers to the inheritor scheduling context.

\fn void starpu_sched_ctx_add_workers(int *workerids_ctx, int nworkers_ctx, unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
This function adds dynamically the workers in \p workerids_ctx to the
context \p sched_ctx_id. The last argument cannot be greater than
STARPU_NMAX_SCHED_CTXS.

\fn void starpu_sched_ctx_remove_workers(int *workerids_ctx, int nworkers_ctx, unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
This function removes the workers in \p workerids_ctx from the context
\p sched_ctx_id. The last argument cannot be greater than
STARPU_NMAX_SCHED_CTXS.

\struct starpu_worker_collection
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
\brief A scheduling context manages a collection of workers that can
be memorized using different data structures. Thus, a generic
structure is available in order to simplify the choice of its type.
Only the list data structure is available but further data
structures(like tree) implementations are foreseen.
\var starpu_worker_collection::workerids
        The workerids managed by the collection
\var starpu_worker_collection::nworkers
        The number of workers in the collection
\var starpu_worker_collection::type
        The type of structure (currently STARPU_WORKER_LIST is the only one available)
\var starpu_worker_collection::has_next
        Checks if there is a next worker
\var starpu_worker_collection::get_next
        Gets the next worker
\var starpu_worker_collection::add
        Adds a worker to the collection
\var starpu_worker_collection::remove
        Removes a worker from the collection
\var starpu_worker_collection::init
        Initialize the collection
\var starpu_worker_collection::deinit
        Deinitialize the colection

\fn struct starpu_worker_collection* starpu_sched_ctx_create_worker_collection(unsigned sched_ctx_id, int type)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Create a worker collection of the type indicated by the last parameterx
for the context specified through the first parameter.

\fn void starpu_sched_ctx_delete_worker_collection(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Delete the worker collection of the specified scheduling context

\fn struct starpu_worker_collection* starpu_sched_ctx_get_worker_collection(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Return the worker collection managed by the indicated context

\fn void starpu_sched_ctx_set_context(unsigned *sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Set the scheduling context the subsequent tasks will be submitted to

\fn unsigned starpu_sched_ctx_get_context(void)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Return the scheduling context the tasks are currently submitted to

\fn unsigned starpu_sched_ctx_get_nworkers(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Return the number of workers managed by the specified contexts
(Usually needed to verify if it manages any workers or if it should be
blocked)

\fn unsigned starpu_sched_ctx_get_nshared_workers(unsigned sched_ctx_id, unsigned sched_ctx_id2)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
    Return the number of workers shared by two contexts.

\fn int starpu_sched_ctx_set_min_priority(unsigned sched_ctx_id, int min_prio)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Defines the minimum task priority level supported by the scheduling
policy of the given scheduler context. The default minimum priority
level is the same as the default priority level which is 0 by
convention. The application may access that value by calling the
starpu_sched_ctx_get_min_priority function. This function should only
be called from the initialization method of the scheduling policy, and
should not be used directly from the application.

\fn int starpu_sched_ctx_set_max_priority(unsigned sched_ctx_id, int max_prio)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Defines the maximum priority level supported by the scheduling policy
of the given scheduler context. The default maximum priority level is
1. The application may access that value by calling the
starpu_sched_ctx_get_max_priority function. This function should only
be called from the initialization method of the scheduling policy, and
should not be used directly from the application.

\fn int starpu_sched_ctx_get_min_priority(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Returns the current minimum priority level supported by the scheduling
policy of the given scheduler context.

\fn int starpu_sched_ctx_get_max_priority(unsigned sched_ctx_id)
\ingroup Scheduling_Contexts
Returns the current maximum priority level supported by the scheduling
policy of the given scheduler context.
*/