Re: Parallel copy

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 6:58 PM Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think, if possible, all these if-else checks in CopyFrom() can be
> > moved to a single function which can probably be named as
> > IdentifyCopyInsertMethod() and this function can be called in
> > IsParallelCopyAllowed(). This will ensure that in case of Parallel
> > Copy when the leader has performed all these checks, the worker won't
> > do it again. I also feel that it will make the code look a bit
> > cleaner.
> >
>
> Just rewriting above comment to make it a bit more clear:
>
> I think, if possible, all these if-else checks in CopyFrom() should be
> moved to a separate function which can probably be named as
> IdentifyCopyInsertMethod() and this function called from
> IsParallelCopyAllowed() and CopyFrom() functions. It will only be
> called from CopyFrom() when IsParallelCopy() returns false. This will
> ensure that in case of Parallel Copy if the leader has performed all
> these checks, the worker won't do it again. I also feel that having a
> separate function containing all these checks will make the code look
> a bit cleaner.
>

In the recent patch posted we have changed it to simplify the check
for parallel copy, it is not an exact match. I feel this comment is
not applicable on the latest patch

Regards,
Vignesh
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