Re: [Libmesh-devel] MeshCommunication::redistribute()

[Kirk, B. (JSC-EG311) <ben...@na...>]

>> All that is needed is to have redistribute pack and unpack both the old and
>> current DOF information as well?
>> 
>> I won't be as busy as you next week - hell I might be able to work on this
>> rather than heckling you...  Not promising anything, but if you give me a
>> simple procedure and patches from HEAD to cause the error I can take a shot
>> at redistributing the DofIndices as well and see if that fixes it.
> 
> If you're going to give this a shot I think it would be great if the dof
> indices could be stored inside PackedNode and PackedElem directly.  This would
> help with some of the crazy ghosting stuff I am doing (where I arbitrarily
> pull  and push elements to and from processors).

Right - plan of attack would be to have a PackedDofObject which is just an
array of indices in an expected order along with pack/unpack methods, and
have the PackedNode/PackedElem call that directly.

-Ben