On Jan 7, 2013, at 6:05 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@inria.fr> wrote:
> Hello, > > Brice Goglin, le Mon 31 Dec 2012 10:05:41 +0100, a écrit : >> + The HWLOC_COMPONENTS may now start with '^' to only define a list of >> components to exclude. > > I'm finding it not intuitive and not generic enough, I'm wondering how > that didn't affect Open-MPI, which as IUI uses this convention. > > It means that > > HWLOC_COMPONENTS=^cuda,opencl > > disables cuda *and* opencl, FWIW: that is the OMPI convention > while intuition would have told me that it > disables cuda but enables opencl. > > Also, one would for instance want to be able to do this: > > HWLOC_COMPONENTS=x86,^cuda,^opencl,nvml > > To be able to enable x86 before the default linux, but disable cuda and > opencl, but enable nvml, as well as all the other usual plugins (without > having to know the list, which is important for future extensions). > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel
