[petsc-dev] Backend independent VecGetArray for GPUs

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 27 October 2014 15:20, Ashwin Srinath <ashwinsrnth at gmail.com> wrote:
> The corresponding "restore" function doesn't really restore anything. You
> could consider naming it Vec.updateGPUstatus or Vec.GPUGetLatest or
> something of that sort.
>

Well, by using "restore" I'm just following standard PETSc naming
conventions. You comment also apply to the C API call. Also, I'll not
use "GPU", later we will add similar support for OpenCL, and "GPU" is
definitely not appropriate for it.


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