Ok, I get it now -- cache is probably about the only object where this could 
occur, right?


On Apr 14, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On the subject of asymmetric trees, I see the description of 
> hwloc_type_get_depth() in hwloc.h:
> 
> /** \brief Returns the depth of objects of type \p type.
> *
> * ...snipped...
> *
> * If some objects of the given type exist in different levels, for instance
> * L1 and L2 caches, the function returns HWLOC_TYPE_DEPTH_MULTIPLE.
> 
> Am I reading the FAQ wrong?  I thought the figure on page 21 (US letter) 
> indicated that, for example, the depth of CORE objects would always be the 
> same, even though one of them doesn't have the same caches as its siblings.
> 
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