On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
>> Just so that I understand this better -- if a process is bound in a
>> cpuset, will tools like hwloc's lstopo only show the Linux
>> processors *in that cpuset*? I.e., does it not have any
>> visibility of the processors outside of its cpuset?
>
> I believe that was the intention - there's no real benefit to knowing
> about resources that you can't access or use (and will likely get an
> error if you do) to my mind.
The real question, however, is how are IO devices represented if you don't do
WHOLE_SUBSYSTEM? I.e., what about IO devices that are not local to the socket
of your cpuset, for example?
Take this sample image, for example:
http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/devel09-pci.png
What if my cpuset is only on Socket P#0? What exactly will be reported via
(WHOLE_SUBSYSTEM | HWLOC_TOPOLOGY_FLAG_WHOLE_IO)?
IO devices is something that we do have an interest in reporting so that we can
tell the "distance" to them, for example.
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