Lawrence,
You analysis is correct; I don't know what I was thinking twenty+ years ago.
I think a fix could be to have an option that just creates a separate set
of post smoothers and gives them a a different suffix.
I'll try to do it on a branch and you can then follow the branch and make
sure what I do works for you. I will call the branch
barry/feature-mg-post-smooth
Barry
> On Feb 14, 2018, at 5:50 AM, Lawrence Mitchell
> <lawrence.mitch...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear petsc-dev,
>
> I'd like to try out doing SOR-like smoothing for a problem with MG
> where on the pre-smooth I run forwards, and on the post-smooth backwards.
>
> I can do this by setting up the PC and then spinning over the up and
> down smoothers separately. I wonder if it would be possible to extend
> the setup to allow it to be done from options.
>
> I had a look, but I got very lost in where/how the setup of the up
> smoother separate from the down smoother works. It seems to be
> triggered on whether you select a different number of smoothing steps
> up and down, but I don't necessarily want that.
>
> I think I just want to select a different options prefix in
> PCMGGetSmootherUp, but I can't obviously see how to ensure that's
> called appropriately.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lawrence
