# MatPreallocateInitialize

Begins the block of code that will count the number of nonzeros per row in a matrix providing the data that one can use to correctly preallocate the matrix.

### Synopsis

    PetscErrorCode MatPreallocateInitialize(MPI_Comm comm, PetscInt nrows, PetscInt ncols, PetscInt *dnz, PetscInt *onz)

Collective on MPI_Comm

### Input Parameters

| comm | - the communicator that will share the eventually allocated matrix
| nrows | - the number of LOCAL rows in the matrix
| ncols | - the number of LOCAL columns in the matrix

### Output Parameters

| dnz | - the array that will be passed to the matrix preallocation routines
| ozn | - the other array passed to the matrix preallocation routines

### Notes

See the chapter in the users manual on performance for more details

Do not malloc or free dnz and onz, that is handled internally by these routines

Use MatPreallocateInitializeSymmetric() for symmetric matrices (MPISBAIJ matrices)

### See Also

MatPreallocateFinalize(), MatPreallocateSet(), MatPreallocateSymmetricSet(), MatPreallocateSetLocal(),
MatPreallocateInitializeSymmetric(), MatPreallocateSymmetricSetLocal()

Level:intermediate
Location:src/mat/../../include/petscmat.h
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