On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Dmitry Karpeev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karpeev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">karpeev@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I just pushed a couple of fixes to PCFIELDSPLIT in petsc-3.3 (<a href="http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/943dde820f7f" target="_blank">http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/943dde820f7f</a>, <div>
<a href="http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615" target="_blank">http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615</a>) In particular, the second changeset</div>
<div>modifies the way the splits' nullspaces are configured. In my view the old behavior was not quite correct.
<div>Here are the relevant comments: </div><div><a href="http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615#l1.9" target="_blank">http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615#l1.9</a></div>
<div>and </div>
<div><a href="http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615#l1.37" target="_blank">http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.3/rev/5a9ebf885615#l1.37</a></div><div><br></div><div>However, I don't have use cases where the old way of handling block nullspaces</div>
<div>leads to a failure. If there is justifiable legitimate usage for the old ways, the</div>
<div>changeset can be easily backed out.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) I fixed the Schur prefixes in dev, so do not merge this over it</div><div><br></div><div>2) It was my understanding that the Schur nullspace should be attached to A_11, but</div>
<div> if we want to find another way to do it, that is fine.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dmitry.</div></font></span></div></blockquote></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener<br>