Hi Samuel, I got a crash course on s390.
The main goal of the guys around emerging Fedora's s390 distribution is to have as many packages as possible available for s390 to avoid dependency problems. They are trying to port all x86_64 packages to s390. They do it even for packages which are not particuarly usefull on s390. And this seems to be the case with hwloc. They have an access to mainfraim with 18 CPUs and 128 GB of RAM. However, the mainframe is usually divided into the smaller partitions ( LPAR) on which virtual machines are running. In this particular case they have tested hwloc on the virtual machine running on partition with 2GB of RAM and 4 CPUs of which only 1 was online. This is certainly not a typical use-case for hwloc. Nevertheless, great news is that hwloc is running just fine on this box! :-) FYI, s390 does not support NUMA (to answer the question I have posted here:-) ) For completeness I have attached output of hwloc-gather-topology as well in case somebody would like to have a look. Thanks Jirka On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@inria.fr>wrote: > Jiri Hladky, le Mon 03 Jan 2011 18:14:16 +0100, a écrit : > > I would like to check out if hwloc supports IBM's s390 architecture. > > Hwloc's support on Linux is mostly linux-dependant. With the /sys stuff > being hardware-independant, it should in principle "just work" on s390, > provided the s390-specific part announces proper things in /sys. We > don't have our own s390, so we couldn't test. The Debian s390 testboxes > only announce 2 processors, so there's not much topology to discover > there, but it basically works, announcing the 2 processors :) I wonder > what would be discovered on bigger machines. In any case, if you have > any chance of running gather-topology on such beast, let us know :) > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel >
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