A follow up question, can the call to hwloc_get_non_io_ancestor_obj() return a numa object?
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 3:09 PM, Madhu, Kavitha Tiptur <kma...@anl.gov> wrote: > > Hi > This function was used to query depth of hardware objects of a certain type > to bind processes to objects at the depth or above in Hydra previously. As > you pointed out, the functionality makes no sense with NUMA/IO objects > possibly being at different depths or for objects. > >> On Mar 14, 2018, at 3:00 PM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I can fix the documentation to say that the function always suceeds and >> returns the virtual depth for NUMA/IO/Misc. >> >> I don't understand your third sentence. If by "actual depth", you mean >> the depth of a (normal) parent where NUMA are attached (for instance the >> depth of Package if NUMAs are attached to Packages), see >> hwloc_get_memory_parents_depth(). However, you may have NUMA/IO/Misc >> attached to parents at different depths, so it doesn't make much sense >> in the general case. >> >> What do you use this function for? I thought of removing it from 2.0 >> because it's hard to define a "usual" order for object types (for >> instance L3 can be above or below NUMA for different modern platforms). >> >> Brice >> >> >> >> Le 14/03/2018 à 20:24, Madhu, Kavitha Tiptur a écrit : >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> The function hwloc_get_type_or_above_depth() is supposed to return the >>> depth of objects of type “type" or above. It internally calls >>> hwloc_get_type_depth which returns virtual depths to NUMA, IO and misc >>> objects. In order to retrieve the actual depth of these objects, one needs >>> to call hwloc_get_obj_depth() with virtual depth. Can the documentation be >>> updated to cover this? Or are there plans of changing this behavior? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Kavitha >>> _______________________________________________ >>> hwloc-users mailing list >>> hwloc-users@lists.open-mpi.org >>> https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/hwloc-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hwloc-users mailing list >> hwloc-users@lists.open-mpi.org >> https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/hwloc-users > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-users mailing list > hwloc-users@lists.open-mpi.org > https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/hwloc-users _______________________________________________ hwloc-users mailing list hwloc-users@lists.open-mpi.org https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/hwloc-users
