[petsc-dev] patch for block size in VecLoad_HDF5

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Blaise Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
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> ex19 in src/vec/vec/examples/tutorials is still broken, since changing
> block size of a Vec is no longer supported.
> the mechanism in VecLoad_HDF5 was to rely on an undocumented flag
> (-vecload_block_size)
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> Shall we require that the block size be set _before_ calling VecLoad (in
> which case, I will push a patch to VecLoad_HDF5), or should the block size
> be obtained from the hdf5 files and set?


That is horrible. Require that the input vector have that blocksize and get
rid of that option. The user can just
as easily use that option to set the blocksize before entry.

   Matt


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