Brice Goglin, le Tue 25 Sep 2012 07:41:48 +0200, a écrit : > Le 25/09/2012 01:42, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > >> 2) Plugin support > > One thing that doesn't seem implemented yet is to choose another OS core > > plugin, e.g. to use x86 detection on Linux instead of /proc or /sys > > detection. This will be the same kind of thing with likwid / servet > > -based OS core plugins. I have gotten the x86 detection code to get > > enabled with the attached code, which should be reproducable with other > > OSes which support CPU binding. How does it look like? > > > > Indeed, I forget about this idea since Antoine didn't look at it at all. > Most of your code looks good. I just noted 2 points: > * Why not keeping the linux-x86 component always statically build? We > could even keep it inside topology-linux.c if they share a lot.
How will it get detected by the component core? If we add it to the static component list, won't it be loaded by default? > * Your HWLOC_PLUGINS variable is not about loading plugins, it's about > enabling core components. If it's only about changing the core OS > component, a single value is enough (a single core OS component is > used). If it's also about forcing additional core components (pci, cuda, > for instance to change their order?), we'll likely have to check that > we're not instantiating the the same one multiple times. I guess I misunderstood when exactly which plugins are loaded, some documentation might be useful. Does hwloc just load all plugins it finds in its path? What makes it load the pci plugins, and not the linuxx86 plugin? Samuel
