[petsc-dev] Domain error in SNESComputeJacobian()?

[Barry Smith]

> On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Dmitry Karpeyev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> We don't check for domainerror in SNESComputeJacobian(), but it may very well occur there. It would cost a reduction, of course, but the alternative is to set a Jacobian entry to Inf and wait for the nearest MatMult(), VecNorm() combination to propagate it.

  What is the harm in this, as soon as the user sets the inf they can skip the rest of the Jacobian setting values on that process.

> 
> MOOSE right now works around that by setting an Inf into the residual  -
>  a side effect.  

   Why is this any faster then doing the correct thing of setting the nan into the Jacobian? It will still have to wait until a reduction is done on the residual vector before PETSc can detect the nan and stop the ksp and then ones?


   I don't see how one could justify having one model for the form function() of setting a nan in the vector and a completely different model for the Jacobian of having a extra reduction always in the compute jacobin that checks for the domain error? I thought we set on doing the nan trick to handle dealing with this issue, now you want to go back to not using the nan trick? I don't know what you want?

  Barry


> 
> Dmitry.