Hi, I'm just wondering if this ties into the issues I brought up in : https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/2018-October/023615.html ?

From my perspective, I think I would prefer the copy everything mechanism, but I'm not sure about the nature of the introduced dependencies and if I would have to make extra adjustments from my end.

Thanks for any clarification, - Boris On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

I am having a problem, and every solution I can think of would seem to do violence to encapsulation or to DMKSP/DMSNES.

I want to have GMG automatically work on the velocity part of Stokes. So I give

-fieldsplit_velocity_pc_type mg

in SNES ex62. This complains that the KSP has a DM but KSPSetComputeOperator() has not been called. It is fine on the global system because SNES called that in SNESSetupMatrices(). Thus in FieldSplit, I inserted

{ PetscErrorCode (*func)(KSP,Mat,Mat,void*); void *ctx;

ierr = DMKSPGetComputeOperators(pc->dm, &func, &ctx);CHKERRQ(ierr); ierr = DMKSPSetComputeOperators(dms[i], func, ctx);CHKERRQ(ierr); }

where we call KSPSetDM(). However, this does not work, because the subDM has a new DMSNES, which does not have the information about the problem.

Solution #1:

Copy the info from the old DMSNES to the subDMSNES. This inserts a dependence between KSP and SNES which we do not want.

Solution #2:

Have DMCreateSubDM() copy everything from the solvers. This also inserts dependencies, unless we have a "copy everything" mechanism, but is this what we want.

Solution #3:

Rethink DMKSP/DMSNES. Is this how we should store problem information. Dave already had another problem with the organization.

What should be done? I have never understood this construct very well. Right now, this is holding up doing some computations I need.

Thanks,

Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener

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