Use XBT_PARMAP_DEFAULT as default SIMIX parallel mode.

[simgrid.git] / src / simix / smx_context.c

diff --git a/src/simix/smx_context.c b/src/simix/smx_context.c
index 6da9bff..9273ab1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/simix/smx_context.c
+++ b/src/simix/smx_context.c
@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@
 #include "xbt/swag.h"
 #include "xbt/xbt_os_thread.h"
 #include "smx_private.h"
-#include "simix/context.h"
 #include "gras_config.h"
 
 XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_SUBCATEGORY(simix_context, simix,
-                                "Context switching mecanism");
+                                "Context switching mechanism");
 
 char* smx_context_factory_name = NULL; /* factory name specified by --cfg=contexts/factory:value */
 smx_ctx_factory_initializer_t smx_factory_initializer_to_use = NULL;
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ static xbt_os_thread_key_t smx_current_context_key = 0;
 static smx_context_t smx_current_context_serial;
 static int smx_parallel_contexts = 1;
 static int smx_parallel_threshold = 2;
-static e_xbt_parmap_mode_t smx_parallel_synchronization_mode = XBT_PARMAP_FUTEX;
+static e_xbt_parmap_mode_t smx_parallel_synchronization_mode = XBT_PARMAP_DEFAULT;
 
 /** 
  * This function is called by SIMIX_global_init() to initialize the context module.
@@ -139,14 +138,17 @@ XBT_INLINE int SIMIX_context_get_nthreads(void) {
  */
 XBT_INLINE void SIMIX_context_set_nthreads(int nb_threads) {
 
-  xbt_assert(nb_threads > 0, "Invalid number of parallel threads: %d", nb_threads);
-
+  if (nb_threads<=0) { 
+     nb_threads = xbt_os_get_numcores();
+     XBT_INFO("Auto-setting contexts/nthreads to %d",nb_threads);
+  }   
+       
   if (nb_threads > 1) {
 #ifndef CONTEXT_THREADS
     THROWF(arg_error, 0, "The thread factory cannot be run in parallel");
 #endif
   }
-
+ 
   smx_parallel_contexts = nb_threads;
 }