starpu-max/include/starpu_task_util.h

/* StarPU --- Runtime system for heterogeneous multicore architectures.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2010-2012  Université de Bordeaux 1
 * Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
 *
 * StarPU is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
 * your option) any later version.
 *
 * StarPU is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 *
 * See the GNU Lesser General Public License in COPYING.LGPL for more details.
 */

#ifndef __STARPU_TASK_UTIL_H__
#define __STARPU_TASK_UTIL_H__

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <starpu.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

/* This creates (and submits) an empty task that unlocks a tag once all its
 * dependencies are fulfilled. */
void starpu_create_sync_task(starpu_tag_t sync_tag, unsigned ndeps, starpu_tag_t *deps,
				void (*callback)(void *), void *callback_arg);

/* Constants used by the starpu_insert_task helper to determine the different types of argument */
#define STARPU_VALUE		(1<<4)	/* Pointer to a constant value */
#define STARPU_CALLBACK		(1<<5)	/* Callback function */
#define STARPU_CALLBACK_WITH_ARG	(1<<6)	/* Callback function */
#define STARPU_CALLBACK_ARG	(1<<7)	/* Argument of the callback function (of type void *) */
#define STARPU_PRIORITY		(1<<8)	/* Priority associated to the task */
#define STARPU_EXECUTE_ON_NODE	(1<<9)	/* Used by MPI to define which task is going to execute the codelet */
#define STARPU_EXECUTE_ON_DATA	(1<<10)	/* Used by MPI to define which task is going to execute the codelet */
#define STARPU_DATA_ARRAY       (1<<11) /* Array of data handles */

/* Wrapper to create a task. */
int starpu_insert_task(struct starpu_codelet *cl, ...);

/* Retrieve the arguments of type STARPU_VALUE associated to a task
 * automatically created using starpu_insert_task. */
void starpu_codelet_unpack_args(void *cl_arg, ...);

/* Pack arguments of type STARPU_VALUE into a buffer which can be
 * given to a codelet and later unpacked with starpu_codelet_unpack_args */
void starpu_codelet_pack_args(char **arg_buffer, size_t *arg_buffer_size, ...);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* __STARPU_TASK_UTIL_H__ */