On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Lange <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification, this does make sense. I have achieved the
> > local DoF ordering I want by only permuting the offsets in the created
> > section. However, I am now trying to extract the according halo exchange
> > information from the associated PetscSF object and, although the local
> > leafs have been renumbered according to my permutation, the roots they
> > are connected to have not been updated. Is there an easy way to update
> > the roots or re-initialise the PetscSF from the reordered section?
>
> You can SFBcast the new root numbers and create a new SF.
>
> Since this is a somewhat common operation that can be optimized by the
> SF implementation, it may make sense to provide PetscSFMoveRoots() or
> some such.
>

I already do this in DMPlexPermute(). We can abstract the code out.

   Matt

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