Re: [Libmesh-devel] Unique Identifier for DofObjects

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Derek Gaston wrote:

> The bad part is that the Nodes _also_ get packed up and sent during redistribute()... which means that if we set the
> unique_id on the nodes _after_ redistribute() we'll have to go through a second phase of renegotiation to make sure
> those are consistent across all processors.  However, it's not until _after_ redistribute that the processor_id()
> gets set for nodes!  So we can't set the unique_id for nodes before redistribute...
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Am I way off base here?

We need to make sure that the packed_range stuff communicates
unique_id just to prevent repartitioning from breaking it in
ParallelMesh.  And once that works, won't redistribute() work fine
too?

Crossing fingers,
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Roy