[petsc-dev] Why are the DMDALocalToLocal* not DM commands?

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 08:19:43 CDT 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> wrote:

> There was a massive purge where Barry renamed a bunch of the DA commands
> to either DMDA or moved them over to DM, causing much wailing and gnashing
> of teeth, but eventual grudging acceptance that he probably did the right
> thing :)
>
> I must be missing something, because I don't see why DMDALocalToLocal*
> shouldn't be DMLocalToLocal* to follow this new paradigm.
>
> This was triggered by this question on scicomp:
> http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/3260/using-same-memory-space-for-global-and-local-petsc-da-vectors
>

Yes, this should be DM. I think the discussion was about keeping it. I am
for moving it.

  Matt


> A
>
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