Functions with No Access Property List Parameter
that May Generate Metadata Reads

Currently there are several operations in HDF5 that can issue metadata reads from the metadata cache, but that take no property list. It is therefore not possible set a collective requirement individually for those operations. The only solution with the HDF5 1.10.0 release is to set the collective requirement globally on H5Fopen or H5Fcreate for all metadata operations to be collective.

The following is a list of those functions in the HDF5 Library. This list is integral to the discussion in the H5Pset_all_coll_metadata_ops entry:

 

Functions with No Access Property List Parameter
that May Generate Metadata Reads

H5Awrite
H5Aread
H5Arename
H5Aiterate2
H5Adelete
H5Aexists

H5Dget_space_status
H5Dget_storage_size
H5Dset_extent
H5Ddebug
H5Dclose
H5Dget_get_create_plist
H5Dget_space   (when dataset is a virtual dataset)

H5Gget_create_plist
H5Gget_info
H5Gclose

H5Literate
H5Lvisit

H5Rcreate
H5Rdereference2   (when reference is an object reference)
H5Rget_region
H5Rget_obj_type2
H5Rget_name

H5Ocopy
H5Oopen_by_addr
H5Oincr_refcount
H5Odecr_refcount
H5Oget_info
H5Oset_comment
H5Ovisit

H5Fis_hdf5
H5Fflush
H5Fclose
H5Fget_file_image
H5Freopen
H5Fget_freespace
H5Fget_info2
H5Fget_free_sections
H5Fmount
H5Funmount

H5Iget_name

H5Tget_create_plist
H5Tclose

H5Zunregister 
And most deprecated functions

The HDF Group may address the above limitation in a future major release, but no decision has been made at this time. Such a change might, for example, include adding new versions of some or all the above functions with an extra property list parameter to allow an individual setting for the collective calling requirement.

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Last modified: 6 April 2016