On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:07 PM Jed Brown 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
"Zhang, Junchao" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:08 PM Jed Brown 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>
>  wrote:
>> It is not supported at this time.  What does your use case look like?
>> Do roots have degree greater than 1?
>
> Yes. Imagine a vecscatter x[0]->y[0], x[1]->y[0], x[1]->y[1],x[2]->y[1]. I 
> build an SF for SCATTER_FORWARD. Now I wan to do SCATTER_REVERSE with 
> ADD_VALUES.
> To solve this problem without creating another SF and without breaking 
> current SF API, I propose to add PetscSFBcastAndOp(sf, unit, rootdata, 
> leafdata, op)

Is this pattern needed for some algorithm or application or is this
about implementing the full VecScatter interface (modulo ill-defined
operations) in terms of SF?  If the former, I'd like to understand it.
If the latter, I'm okay with you extending the interface as proposed.
It is the latter.

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