Good point. In theory, that's possible because we only look at cpusets (NUMA nodes have cpusets, I/O don't). So the name of the function still matches its behavior.
However it won't happen in practice with the current code because I/O are always attached to CPU objects. But it may change in the future with things like processing-in-memory etc. Instead of calling this function, you could do a while (!hwloc_obj_type_is_normal(obj->type)) obj = obj->parent; I'll update the doc too. Thanks. Brice Le 14/03/2018 à 22:16, Madhu, Kavitha Tiptur a écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ hwloc-users mailing list hwloc-users@lists.open-mpi.org https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/hwloc-users
