+/**
+ * \brief Returns the number of parallel threads used to update the models.
+ * \return the number of threads (1 means no parallelism)
+ */
+int surf_get_nthreads(void) {
+ return surf_nthreads;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Sets the number of parallel threads used to update the models.
+ *
+ * A value of 1 means no parallelism.
+ *
+ * \param nb_threads the number of threads to use
+ */
+void surf_set_nthreads(int nthreads) {
+
+ if (nthreads<=0) {
+ nthreads = xbt_os_get_numcores();
+ XBT_INFO("Auto-setting surf/nthreads to %d",nthreads);
+ }
+
+#ifdef CONTEXT_THREADS
+ xbt_parmap_destroy(surf_parmap);
+ surf_parmap = NULL;
+#endif
+
+ if (nthreads > 1) {
+#ifdef CONTEXT_THREADS
+ surf_parmap = xbt_parmap_new(nthreads, XBT_PARMAP_DEFAULT);
+#else
+ THROWF(arg_error, 0, "Cannot activate parallel threads in Surf: your architecture does not support threads");
+#endif
+ }
+
+ surf_nthreads = nthreads;
+}