[petsc-dev] MatCreateMPIAIJ(), MatCreateMPIBAIJ(), MatCreateMPISBAIJ() wrongly named

[Barry Smith]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:31, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>   Cool.  Some suggestions for this routine:
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> 1) get rid of the maximum number of non-zeros per row arguments, they are stupid and just make this calling sequence too damn complicated looking.
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> Okay, I thought I would help people out who wanted to punt, but I don't mind removing it.

    I just want it removed from the XAIJ preallocation one, not the individual preallocation ones, leave that them in that one.
>  
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> 2) the manual page doesn't make clear these are nonzero BLOCKS per row, not nonzero entries per row.
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> fixing
>  
> 
>   Barry
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>   Input Arguments:
> +  A - matrix being preallocated
> .  bs - block size
> .  dnz - maximum number of nonzero entries per row of diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  dnnz - number of nonzeros per row of diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  onz - maximum number of nonzero entries per row of off-diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  onnz - number of nonzeros per row of off-diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  dnzu - maximum number of nonzero entries per row of upper-triangular part of diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  dnnzu - number of nonzeros per row of upper-triangular part of diagonal block of parallel matrix
> .  onzu - maximum number of nonzero entries per row of upper-triangular part of off-diagonal block of parallel matrix
> -  onnzu - number of nonzeros per row of upper-triangular part of off-diagonal block of parallel matrix
>