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

[Barry Smith]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>    MatCreateMPIAIJ(), MatCreateMPIBAIJ(), MatCreateMPISBAIJ()   actually create Seq version of the matrices when run on one process.
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>    Meanwhile MatMPIXXXSetPreallocation() always do preallocation for MPI case.
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>    Shouldn't MatCreateMPIXXX() be MatCreateXXX()?
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> I agree, and we already have MATAIJ so it matches a type.

   I have pushed this.


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>    Also should we add MatXXXSetPreallocation() that calls both MatSeqXXXSetPreallocation() and MatMPIXXXSetPreallocation()?
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> In fact, that exists: MatXAIJSetPreallocation(). I use it for DMComplex.
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>    Matt
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>    Barry
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