Le 28/08/2011 12:14, Gabriele Fatigati a écrit : > Dear hwloc users, > > what happens if I use hwloc on a non-NUMA machine? I suppose memory > binding has no sense because there is not a memory locality concept. > And regards execution binding? are there some difference on a non-NUMA > machine?
Hello Gabriele, Execution binding remains exactly the same. Memory binding has no sense on non-NUMA machine but it's still available for application portability (it basically just does nothing). > Is there a hwloc routine to check this? get_nbobjs_by_type(topology, HWLOC_OBJ_NODE) tells how many NUMA node objects exist. If you get >1, the machine is NUMA. If the non-NUMA case, I think you can get 0 or 1 depending on whether the OS is NUMA-aware or not (not sure we should remove this possible difference). Brice
