[petsc-users] MatChop

[Stefano Zampini]

> On 21 May 2021, at 7:17 PM, Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et> wrote:
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>> On 21 May 2021, at 6:03 PM, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini at gmail.com <mailto:stefano.zampini at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Emmanuel
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>> thanks for reporting this.
>> I believe we have a regression in MatChop from https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/038df967165af8ac6c3de46a36f650566a7db07c <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/038df967165af8ac6c3de46a36f650566a7db07c> (cc'ing Pierre)
>> We call MatAssemblyBegin/End within the row loop. Also. I don't understand why we need to check for  r < rend herre https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/038df967165af8ac6c3de46a36f650566a7db07c/src/mat/utils/axpy.c#L513 <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/038df967165af8ac6c3de46a36f650566a7db07c/src/mat/utils/axpy.c#L513>. nor why we need to allocate newCols (can use cols)
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> That part is from the initial 8-year old implementation from Matt (https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/4325cce7191c5c61f4f090c59eaf6773fdee7b48#9d78409dea8190bffda8b68fee5aef233dc1c677 <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/4325cce7191c5c61f4f090c59eaf6773fdee7b48#9d78409dea8190bffda8b68fee5aef233dc1c677>).
> You need the check otherwise this error is raised: https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/mat/interface/matrix.c.html#line566 <https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/mat/interface/matrix.c.html#line566>.

I see, anyway you do not need the check if the loop range [rStart,rEnd). So now I don’t understand why the loop must be [rStart,rStart+maxRows], Matt?

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> Thanks,
> Pierre
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>> Pierre, can you take a look?
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>> Il giorno ven 21 mag 2021 alle ore 18:49 Emmanuel Ayala <juaneah at gmail.com <mailto:juaneah at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>> Hi everybody,
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>> I just updated petsc from version 13 to 15. Before the update everything works well, then my code give me an error:
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>> [9]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: Invalid argument
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: Setting off process row 53484 even though MatSetOption(,MAT_NO_OFF_PROC_ENTRIES,PETSC_TRUE) was set
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: See https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html <https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html> for trouble shooting.
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.15.0, Mar 30, 2021 
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: ./comp on a arch-linux-c-opt-O2-superlud_mumps_hyp named eayala by ayala Fri May 21 10:40:36 2021
>> [9]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-debugging=0 COPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native" CXXOPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native" FOPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native" --download-mpich --download-hypre --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-parmetis --download-metis --download-superlu_dist --download-cmake --download-fblaslapack=1 --with-cxx-dialect=C++11
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>> The error appears after a matrix assembly, the matrix was created with DMCreateMatrix and updated with MatSetValuesLocal.
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>> A Little work around I found the solution, avoid using MatChop on this matrix, but I still need to use MatChop. There is any reason to have this problem?
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>> Thanks in advance.
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>> Stefano
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