[petsc-dev] GASM

Dmitry Karpeev karpeev at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Mar 29 20:35:16 CDT 2012


Now it should work the way you intended.
Let me know if it doesn't, though.

Dmitry.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Mark F. Adams <mark.adams at columbia.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Dmitry Karpeev wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:28, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:
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>>> Back to the original problem: how shall we prevent a shared pc from
>>> being gutted by an unprotected PCReset() cascading from a KSPDestroy() on
>>> one of the containing ksps?  I can factor out
>>> KSPReset_Private()/PCReset_Private() as indicated before, unless there are
>>> objections.
>>>
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>>  What do you think of my suggestion of masking ksp->pc when KSPDestroy
>> calls KSPReset? Then KSPReset does not call PCReset if ksp->pc does not
>> exist.
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> I guess that works too, but I thought your suggestion applied to userland
> code right before calling KSPDestroy(&ksp)?
> I suppose that will fix Mark's problem.  Maybe that's the right approach:
> he got himself into this mess by reusing a pc
> in the inner ksp, he should know how to extricate himself :-)
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> BTW, this is not a matter of being lazy, I need an eigen estimate of the
> smoothers preconditioned operator.  In the past I created a new PC from the
> command line database (ugly), but this GASM smoother can not be
> reconstructed from the database (it uses the AMG aggregates).  I could do a
> deep copy of the smoother but that would require two setups of the GASM PC,
> which would be ugly.
>
> Mark
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> Dmitry.
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