An option minimum_patch_load is added for the CascadePartitioner and TreeLoadBalancer.
When boxes are provided as input to these load balancing classes, any boxes that have a size smaller than the minimum_patch_load value will be treated by the balancing algorithms as if their size is that provided value. This can be used to influence the balancers to tend to create less variance in the number of patches on each rank, though it will cause more variance in the total cell count on each rank.
An option
minimum_patch_loadis added for the CascadePartitioner and TreeLoadBalancer.When boxes are provided as input to these load balancing classes, any boxes that have a size smaller than the
minimum_patch_loadvalue will be treated by the balancing algorithms as if their size is that provided value. This can be used to influence the balancers to tend to create less variance in the number of patches on each rank, though it will cause more variance in the total cell count on each rank.