On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > Last feeling: The more I think about PCI support, the more I wonder > whether it will be used for anything but getting nice lstopo outputs. > Inline helpers are already great for many cases, people just need > locality info in most cases, so I wonder if people will actually use PCI > as hwloc objects except in lstopo. The same question comes for GPUs.
I can't speak for GPUs, but I think the PCI information will be useful to know what devices are close to what PUs / NUMA nodes. That information can be used to make decisions about binding, for example (i.e., you want to be "close" to the specific PCI resources that you'll be using). -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
