Draft: Reduce the number of activated comms

Possible improvement:

• Report whether cell_unskip_hydro_tasks() actually activated anything.
• Only activate the related MPI comms if we indeed did.

The logic is that if you recurse a few levels on the subtask, you may not have any two sub-cells that touch over the border and are active. You may as well not run the comm in that case. You probably want the task itself (i.e. the subpair) still as it will deal with the dependencies and will abort quickly anyway.

added enhancement label

requested review from @mivkov

assigned to @pdraper

Only a draft for now but was wondering whether I am missing something silly here or whether that would seem viable to you.

so do you only care here whether it's zero or non-zero, or do you actually need a count?

Yes, exactly. So, it could be a char and then do some |= operation on.

Narrator: This does not work. Code hangs.

closed