Independently configuring down & up smoothers in PCMG

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>  Sorry I haven't responded to this fully.
>
>  I hate the idea of a hack that is just for this case and a special
> flag you got to set or pass in.
>
>  For the _1_, _2_ etc I did the following. If the string in the code has
> _%d_  (for example _1_) it first checks for an exact match in the list of
> set options. If it does not find an exact match it removes the _%d_ and
> tries
> again for an exact match. This seems to work pretty well and could be
> used in many places in the code, not just in the PCMG stuff.

I am not sure I like this. It does not fit with my idea of namespaces, but I
do like something very similar (maybe even identical, I can't tell yet). What
if we let an object have multiple prefixes, and we have an order for checking.
The way we could have

  -pc_mg_1_ksp_max_its 2 -pc_mg_1_up_ksp_max_its 3

The second would override the first for the up smoother. Is this identical to
what you were proposing?

  Matt

>  It would be nice to use some similar technique the case below.
> Possibilities
> 1) use _CAPS_ first exactly and then removing the _CAPS_
> 2) make the part with special charactors _<string>_,  first look with
> _string_
> then try without _string_ (the <> are just my example charactors, could use
> | or whatever.
>
>  What do people think about this?
>
>   Barry
>
> Note that currently we always use small letters in the option names. We
> could continue to
> have the options database have small letters and use _tolower(CAPS)_ as the
> first test.
> I'm inclinded to do 1).
>
> With multiple _XXX_ _4_ in an option we'll have to be careful to properly
> check all possibilities
> in some consistent order.
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Dave May wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>     Should there be a mechanism to independently configure the down
>> and up smoothers
>> for PCMG from the command line?
>>
>> From the looks of things, it seems that on a  given level, one is only
>> able to set the smoothing
>> sweeps to be different via
>>   -pc_mg_smoothup 3 -pc_mg_smoothdown 2
>>
>> Since both the down and up smoothers (KSP's) have the prefix set to be
>> "mg_levels_X",
>> it would seem that I cannot differentiate between the up ksp at level
>> X from the down ksp
>> at level X via any command line arguments.
>>
>> It would be pain to ALWAYS have to configure both the up and down
>> smoothers independently.
>> But to enable the down and up smoothers to be configured independently
>> (on those odd occasions
>> you want to do it) , could we do something like; set a flag via
>>   -pc_mg_smoothers_different
>> which would include in the smoothers prefix, the words "up" or "down"?
>> Then on the command line we could do something like
>>   -mg_levels_1_up_ksp_type XXX
>>   -mg_levels_1_down_ksp_type YYY
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Dave
>>
>
>



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