If this gives access to the SRAT table or things like that, it may give
us a lot of locality info (IIRC, that's what Linux reads to get NUMA and
I/O locality information). But I hope I won't be the one writing the
ACPI table parser :)

Brice





On 04/05/2010 00:09, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Is this helpful?
>
>    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724379(VS.85).aspx
>
> You can use that to enumerate the ACPI firmware tables directly.  Supposedly, 
> you should be able to discover topology information.  Not very user friendly, 
> unfortunately.
>
>
> On May 3, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>
>   
>> He says:
>>
>> GlobalMemoryStatusEx
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366589(v=VS.85).aspx
>>
>> But that doesn't give numa node information.  :-\
>>
>> He's looking to see if he can find another function that gives numa info, 
>> but it may take a little time (the windows memory subsystem guy is not 
>> available today to ask).
>>
>> I guess there's 2 options:
>>
>> 1. Take the total amount of memory and divide by the number of numa nodes.  
>> This is *probably* accurate on most machines today, but there's probably 
>> some machines where it isn't (and/or won't be in the future).
>>
>> 2. Indicate visually that it's the amount of memory available -- not the 
>> total memory.  (do we document this somewhere, btw?  I admit to not having 
>> reading the windows docs...?)
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 3, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> (I'm asking my local Microsoft contact....)
>>>
>>> On May 3, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Jeff Squyres, le Mon 03 May 2010 15:57:37 -0500, a écrit :
>>>>         
>>>>> Running lstopo on w7 (64 bit):
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>> C:\Temp\hwloc>lstopo
>>>>> Note: GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx was never tested yet!
>>>>> -----
>>>>>           
>>>> Ooops, it seems I have forgotten to remove it. Now done.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Plus, the memory it reported was the currently free memory, not total 
>>>>> memory.
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes. I haven't found a win32 function that provides the total memory.
>>>>
>>>> Samuel
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