[petsc-dev] Lower memory DMDA

Peter Brune prbrune at gmail.com
Wed May 8 07:45:53 CDT 2013


The coordinate DM also is automatically created and has dim fields in its
vectors, making it far more heavyweight than a scalar problem.  It should
definitely be something that's lazily evaluated.

- Peter


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Well, the scatter operations are collective, so making creation lazy here
> > seems fine.
> > I have no problem forcing a setup of local-to-global since I do not think
> > many people
> > use it directly.
>
> It gets added to any Mat or Vec that gets created.  Any code that uses
> VecSetValuesLocal() or MatSetValuesStencil() would fail without it.
>
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