I agree with Pierre and Stefano. Hong: your proposed solution would be fine, but MATOP_MATPRODUCT does not exist yet, so I cannot try it. I would like a solution along the lines of what Stefano suggests. It is not too much trouble if it goes to master instead of maint.
Thanks. Jose > El 22 abr 2020, a las 15:26, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zamp...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > >> >> MatProductCreateWithMat(A,Vmat,NULL,Wmat); >> MatProductSetType(Wmat,MATPRODUCT_AB); >> MatHasOperation(Wmat,MATOP_MATPRODUCT,&flg); //new support, it calls >> MatProductSetFromOptions(Wmat) > > Hong, this would go in the direction I was outlining here > https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/issues/608 > How about also adding something like > > MatProductIsImplemented(Wmat,&flg) > > That returns true if a specific implementation is available? This way > > This way, if we use both queries, we can assess the presence of the basic > fallbacks too, i.e. > > MatHasOperation(Wmat,MATOP_MATPRODUCT,&flg1) > MatProductIsImplemented(Wmat,&flg2) > > If flg1 is false, no support at all > If flg1 is true and flg2 is false -> Basic implementation (i.e, MatShell with > products inside) > If flg1 and flg2 are both true -> Specific implementation available. > >> if (V->vmm && flg) { >> MatProductSymbolic(Wmat); >> MatProductNumeric(Wmat); >> } else { >> MatDestroy(Wmat); >> ... >> } >> Hong >> >> >> From: Jose E. Roman <jro...@dsic.upv.es> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21 AM >> To: Pierre Jolivet <pierre.joli...@enseeiht.fr> >> Cc: Zhang, Hong <hzh...@mcs.anl.gov>; petsc-dev <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> >> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] MATOP_MAT_MULT >> >> >> >> > El 21 abr 2020, a las 17:53, Pierre Jolivet <pierre.joli...@enseeiht.fr> >> > escribió: >> > >> > >> > >> >> On 21 Apr 2020, at 5:22 PM, Zhang, Hong <hzh...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> >> >> Pierre, >> >> MatMatMult_xxx() is removed from MatOps table. >> > >> > Shouldn’t there be a deprecation notice somewhere? >> > There is nothing about MATOP_MAT_MULT in the 3.13 changelog >> > https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/313.html >> > For example, I see that in SLEPc, José is currently making these checks, >> > which are in practice useless as they always return >> > PETSC_FALSE?https://gitlab.com/slepc/slepc/-/blob/master/src/sys/classes/bv/impls/contiguous/contig.c#L191 >> > (Maybe José is aware of this and this is just for testing) >> >> No, I was not aware of this. Thanks for bringing this up. Now in 3.13 we are >> always doing the slow version (column by column), so yes I am interested in >> a solution for this. >> >> > >> >> MatMatMult() is replaced by >> >> MatProductCreate() >> >> MatProductSetType(,MATPRODUCT_AB) >> >> MatProductSetFromOptions() >> >> MatProductSymbolic() >> >> MatProductNumeric() >> >> >> >> Where/when do you need query a single matrix for its product operation? >> > >> > I didn’t want to bother at first with the new API, because I’m only >> > interested in C = A*B with C and B being dense. >> > Of course, I can update my code, but if I understand Stefano’s issue >> > correctly, and let’s say my A is of type SBAIJ, for which there is no >> > MatMatMult, the code will now error out in the MatProduct? >> > There is no fallback mechanism? Meaning I could in fact _not_ use the new >> > API and will just have to loop on all columns of B, even for AIJ matrices. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Pierre >> > >> >> Hong >> >> >> >> From: petsc-dev <petsc-dev-boun...@mcs.anl.gov> on behalf of Pierre >> >> Jolivet <pierre.joli...@enseeiht.fr> >> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:50 AM >> >> To: petsc-dev <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> >> >> Subject: [petsc-dev] MATOP_MAT_MULT >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Am I seeing this correctly? >> >> #include <petsc.h> >> >> >> >> int main(int argc,char **args) >> >> { >> >> Mat A; >> >> PetscBool hasMatMult; >> >> PetscErrorCode ierr; >> >> >> >> ierr = PetscInitialize(&argc,&args,NULL,NULL);if (ierr) return ierr; >> >> ierr = MatCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,&A);CHKERRQ(ierr); >> >> ierr = MatSetType(A,MATMPIAIJ);CHKERRQ(ierr); >> >> ierr = MatHasOperation(A,MATOP_MAT_MULT,&hasMatMult);CHKERRQ(ierr); >> >> printf("%s\n", PetscBools[hasMatMult]); >> >> ierr = PetscFinalize(); >> >> return ierr; >> >> } >> >> >> >> => FALSE >> >> >> >> I believe this is a regression (or at least an undocumented change) >> >> introduced here: https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/2524/ >> >> I also believe Stefano raised a similar point there: >> >> https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/issues/608 >> >> This is a performance killer in my case because I was previously using >> >> this check to know whether I could use MatMatMult or had to loop on all >> >> columns and call MatMult on all of them. >> >> There is also a bunch of (previously functioning but now) broken code, >> >> e.g., >> >> https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/mat/impls/transpose/transm.c.html#line105 >> >> or >> >> https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/mat/impls/nest/matnest.c.html#line2105 >> >> Is this being addressed/documented? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Pierre >> > >
