Hi all, I have come across tests/hwloc_distances test and I believe that it would be great to convert this into the utility "hwloc-report-instances" published under utils/ directory. Please let me know what you think about it.
It would take the same input as hwloc-info (read topology from different formats instead of discovering the topology on the local machine), support both logical and physical indexes (-l and -p) switch. I have used stream memory bandwidth benchmark ( http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/) in the past to produce the similar output as tests/hwloc_distances. It was interesting to see that numactl and kernel scheduler are both using number of hopes instead of memory bandwidth. On some systems number of hops does not represent memory bandwidth. I have reported this in BZ 655041 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655041 In any case I believe that hwloc-report-instances would be useful utility. Please let me know your opinion. Thanks Jirka
