[petsc-dev] MatAssembly, debug, and compile flags

[Pierre Jolivet]

Hello,
I have an application with a matrix with lots of nonzero entries (that 
are perfectly load balanced between processes and rows).
A end user is currently using a PETSc library compiled with the 
following flags (among others):
--CFLAGS=-O2 --COPTFLAGS=-O3 --CXXFLAGS="-O2 -std=c++11" 
--CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 --FFLAGS=-O2 --FOPTFLAGS=-O3
Notice the lack of --with-debugging=no
The matrix is assembled using MatMPIAIJSetPreallocationCSR and we end 
up with something like that in the -log_view:
MatAssemblyBegin       2 1.0 1.2520e+002602.1 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 
0.0e+00 8.0e+00  0  0  0  0  2   0  0  0  0  2     0
MatAssemblyEnd         2 1.0 4.5104e+01 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 8.2e+05 
3.2e+04 4.6e+01 40  0 14  4  9  40  0 14  4  9     0

For reference, here is what the matrix looks like (keep in mind it is 
well balanced)
   Mat Object:   640 MPI processes
     type: mpiaij
     rows=10682560, cols=10682560
     total: nonzeros=51691212800, allocated nonzeros=51691212800
     total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
       not using I-node (on process 0) routines

Are MatAssemblyBegin/MatAssemblyEnd highly sensitive to the 
--with-debugging option on x86 even though the corresponding code is 
compiled with -O2, i.e., should I tell the user to have its PETSc lib 
recompiled, or would you recommend me to use another routine for 
assembling such a matrix?

Thanks,
Pierre