[petsc-dev] Chebyshev hybrid option has no functional interface or man pages

Hong Zhang hzhang at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Mar 11 22:46:25 CDT 2014


Barry,
The hybrid Chebyshev was implemented for experimentation, but had not
been found useful, so the default is set as FALSE.
I can add a functional interface though.

Hong

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>   There should be a functional interface for turning this on and off with a manual page.
>
>    Barry
>
>   /*
>    Use hybrid Chebyshev.
>    Ref: "A hybrid Chebyshev Krylov-subspace algorithm for solving nonsymmetric systems of linear equations",
>          Howard Elman and Y. Saad and P. E. Saylor, SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 1986.
>    */
>   ierr = PetscOptionsBool("-ksp_chebyshev_hybrid","Use hybrid Chebyshev","",cheb->hybrid,&cheb->hybrid,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = PetscOptionsInt("-ksp_chebyshev_hybrid_chebysteps","Number of Chebyshev steps in hybrid Chebyshev","",cheb->chebysteps,&cheb->chebysteps,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = PetscOptionsInt("-ksp_chebyshev_hybrid_eststeps","Number of adaptive/est steps in hybrid Chebyshev","",cheb->eststeps,&cheb->eststeps,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = PetscOptionsBool("-ksp_chebyshev_hybrid_purification","Use purification in hybrid Chebyshev","",cheb->purification,&cheb->purification,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>
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