Hi Nadia

I'm wondering what value there is in showing the full topology, or using it in 
any of our components, if the process is restricted to a specific set of cpus? 
Does it really help to know that there are other cpus out there that are 
unreachable?

On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:15 AM, nadia.der...@bull.net wrote:

>   
> 
> devel-boun...@open-mpi.org wrote on 02/09/2012 12:20:41 PM:
> 
> > De : Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> 
> > A : Open MPI Developers <de...@open-mpi.org> 
> > Date : 02/09/2012 12:20 PM 
> > Objet : Re: [OMPI devel] btl/openib: get_ib_dev_distance doesn't see
> > processes as bound if the job has been launched by srun 
> > Envoyé par : devel-boun...@open-mpi.org 
> > 
> > By default, hwloc only shows what's inside the current cpuset. There's
> > an option to show everything instead (topology flag). 
> 
> So may be using that flag inside opal_paffinity_base_get_processor_info() 
> would be a better fix than the one I'm proposing in my patch. 
> 
> I found a bunch of other places where things are managed as in 
> get_ib_dev_distance(). 
> 
> Just doing a grep in the sources, I could find: 
>   . init_maffinity() in btl/sm/btl_sm.c 
>   . vader_init_maffinity() in btl/vader/btl_vader.c 
>   . get_ib_dev_distance() in btl/wv/btl_wv_component.c 
> 
> So I think the flag Brice is talking about should definitely be the fix. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Nadia 
> 
> > 
> > Brice
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Le 09/02/2012 12:18, Jeff Squyres a écrit :
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:38 AM, nadia.derbey wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> If a job is launched using "srun --resv-ports --cpu_bind:..." and slurm
> > >> is configured with:
> > >>   TaskPlugin=task/affinity
> > >>   TaskPluginParam=Cpusets
> > >>
> > >> each rank of that job is in a cpuset that contains a single CPU.
> > >>
> > >> Now, if we use carto on top of this, the following happens in
> > >> get_ib_dev_distance() (in btl/openib/btl_openib_component.c):
> > >>   . opal_paffinity_base_get_processor_info() is called to get the
> > >>     number of logical processors (we get 1 due to the singleton cpuset)
> > >>   . we loop over that # of processors to check whether our process is
> > >>     bound to one of them. In our case the loop will be executed only
> > >>     once and we will never get the correct binding information.
> > >>   . if the process is bound actually get the distance to the device.
> > >>     in our case we won't execute that part of the code.
> > >>
> > >> The attached patch is a proposal to fix the issue.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Nadia
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