[petsc-dev] DMDABoundaryType

[Barry Smith]

  Sounds good to me.

  Barry

On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> While updating petsc4py for the latest DMDA chages, and alto taking
> into account some new in NumPy C API related to neighborhood
> iterators,  I've got new idea. What about the API below?:
> 
> enum DMDABoundaryType:
>    DMDA_BOUNDARY_NONE = 0
>    DMDA_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED = 1
>    DMDA_BOUNDARY_MIRROR = 2
>    DMDA_BOUNDARY_PERIODIC = 4
> 
> PetscErrorCode DMDASetBoundaryType(DM dm, DMDABoundaryType bx,
> DMDABoundaryType by, DMDABoundaryType bz)
> 
> Changes for GHOSTED and PERIODIC should be easy
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132) ;-).
> 
> The new MIRROR boundary type could be implemented later.
> 
> 
> 
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