<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 15:59, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>This makes no sense to me unless the two matrices being returned have different sparsity patterns, and we have no</div><div>good way for specifying that, or even a good rationale for doing it.</div></blockquote></div>
<br><div>Preconditioning with a STAR stencil is often pretty good.</div><div><br></div><div>Dmitry is suggesting specifying it by having two "slots" in which we can request a matrix.</div><div><br></div><div>DMSetMatrixPreallocateOnly(), DMSetMatrixType(), and perhaps a couple others would need two arguments so the two matrices can be addressed separately.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's not clear to me that two is always the right number of ways to distinguish matrices.</div>