<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:41, Dmitry Karpeev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karpeev@mcs.anl.gov">karpeev@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Currently DMGetMatrix(DM dm, MatType mattype , Mat *J) is supposed to produce the system Jacobian, according to the docs.<div>SNES will use it, but, since DMGetMatrix returns a single matrix, it can't use a different preconditioning matrix.</div>
<div>Why not change this to DMGetMatrices(DM dm, MatType jtype, Mat *J, MatType ptype, Mat *P)?</div><div>I'm not exactly sure what the best way of handling MatType should be (same MatType for J and P, separate types, how dm->mattype </div>
<div>affects the result), but I think it can be sorted out, whereas the absence of P is a clear limitation.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Umm, this doesn't put in values, it just creates a matrix of the right size. You can make two if you want two different matrices.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are talking about DMDAFormJacobianLocal(), that does actually restrict what you can do, and you have to hack it a bit to use two different matrices (except by MFFD because the library specifically supports that).</div>
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