Hi all, Red Hat would like to included hwloc in the upcoming version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. There is Bugzilla 648593 [RFE] Include Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) in RHEL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648593 to address this. I got following input from the devel: ================================================= There appears to be a significant drawback to using hwloc. The core # shown in hwloc-ls does NOT map 1:1 with the processor id in /proc/cpuinfo. For example, on intel-s3e36-02.lab hwloc shows the core ids in socket 0 as {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}. /proc/cpuinfo shows these as physically being {0,4,8,12,16,20,24,28}. On the cmd-line, hwloc-ls does indicate a difference between the hwloc core id and the physical id: [root@intel-s3e36-02 ~]# hwloc-ls Machine (64GB) NUMANode #0 (phys=0 16GB) + Socket #0 + L3 #0 (24MB) L2 #0 (256KB) + L1 #0 (32KB) + Core #0 + PU #0 (phys=0) L2 #1 (256KB) + L1 #1 (32KB) + Core #1 + PU #1 (phys=4) L2 #2 (256KB) + L1 #2 (32KB) + Core #2 + PU #2 (phys=8) L2 #3 (256KB) + L1 #3 (32KB) + Core #3 + PU #3 (phys=12) L2 #4 (256KB) + L1 #4 (32KB) + Core #4 + PU #4 (phys=16) L2 #5 (256KB) + L1 #5 (32KB) + Core #5 + PU #5 (phys=20) L2 #6 (256KB) + L1 #6 (32KB) + Core #6 + PU #6 (phys=24) L2 #7 (256KB) + L1 #7 (32KB) + Core #7 + PU #7 (phys=28) If you use the graphical interface, it is possible that customers/GSS/everyone screws up the reporting of CPU #s. Possible solution: Have hwloc-ls use '-p' by default. ================================================= I'm not sure if you are open to change the default from --logical to -- physical. Please let me know your opinion on it. If you don't think that it's a good idea perhaps you can give us arguments why you prefer logical indexing over physical indexing. Another point is that at the moment you cannot distinguish if the graphical output (.png, X, ...) was created with lstopo --physical or lstopo --logical. Could you please add the legend to the picture explaining which index was used? Example: =================================================== This picture is using logical indexing. Logical indexes are artificial (hwloc internal) indexes. They start from 0 and incremented by 1 for each object. This picture is using physical indexing. Indexes map 1:1 to indexes used by kernel as in /proc/cpuinfo or shown by top utility. ==================================================== Please let me know your opinion on this matter. Thanks a lot! Jirka
