[petsc-dev] proposed minor PetscPartitioner changes

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 8 November 2017 at 05:51, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 1:33 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The only concern I have about PetscPartitioner is that the API depends
>> on DM (PetscPartitionerPartition_<TYPE> routines). Maybe
>> PetscPartitioner should eventually move to became more agnostic, and
>> that way it can be used to partition matrices and meshes.
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>    This is certainly a serious flaw if PetscPartitioner is intended as THE API to use for partitioning. If it is not intended as THE API for partitioning then that is also a problem, because why have multiple APIs for what is essentially one set of abstractions.
>

Note however that things looks easy to refactor. I'll try to team up
with Matt to improve things.


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