<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 23:50, Gong Ding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdiso@ustc.edu">gdiso@ustc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I had also considered use max block size. But it is not efficient here.<br>Hope petsc support nonuniform block size one day.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Inodes do a sort of partial blocking. There has to a clear performance benefit to explicit variable blocking in order to justify the implementation and interface complexity. I have not yet seen a demonstration of this.</div>