[hwloc-devel] Create success (hwloc r1.1a1r2440)

2010-09-16 Thread MPI Team
Creating nightly hwloc snapshot SVN tarball was a success. Snapshot: hwloc 1.1a1r2440 Start time: Thu Sep 16 21:01:02 EDT 2010 End time: Thu Sep 16 21:03:02 EDT 2010 Your friendly daemon, Cyrador

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:57:01 +0200, a écrit : > I'm just asking to rework the function interfaces a little bit to > have things already cleanly separated for anybody who would feel like > adding another OS support or parsing .dts files some day, I believe > that shouldn't be too muc

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Brice Goglin
(replying to Alexey's mail which got rejected from the list) Le 16/09/2010 15:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : > On 16/09/10 21:58, Brice Goglin wrote: > > Le 16/09/2010 13:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : > > > >> On 16/09/10 20:50, Brice Goglin wrote: > >> > >>> We'll likely apply

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 15:57:47 +1000, a écrit : > >>- where do I put IBM-specific code? > >> > >Is the device tree linux-specific ? If so, it can stay in linux file as > >long as it's not 30k lines :) We already have both sysfs and > >/proc/cpuinfo code there anyway. > > I

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 16/09/2010 13:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : > On 16/09/10 20:50, Brice Goglin wrote: >> >> We'll likely apply it, we just need to figure out where to put it if >> it's reusable for AIX. >> >> > > Good! And what is about messages coming twice in this maillist? Am I > the only person who

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 16/09/10 20:50, Brice Goglin wrote: We'll likely apply it, we just need to figure out where to put it if it's reusable for AIX. Good! And what is about messages coming twice in this maillist? Am I the only person who experiences that? :)

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 16/09/2010 11:00, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : > On 16/09/10 18:49, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> Do you perhaps happen to know where it might be on AIX? >> >> > > No idea, sorry. So what do we do regarding the patch? We'll likely apply it, we just need to figure out where to put it if it'

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 16/09/10 18:49, Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you perhaps happen to know where it might be on AIX? No idea, sorry. So what do we do regarding the patch?

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 15:57:47 +1000, a écrit : > >Is the device tree linux-specific ? If so, it can stay in linux file as > >long as it's not 30k lines :) We already have both sysfs and > >/proc/cpuinfo code there anyway. > > It is powerpc-specific. It is mapped from the syste

Re: [hwloc-devel] ***UNCHECKED*** [WARNING: A/V UNSCANNABLE]Re: hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 15:42:27 +1000, a écrit : > On 16/09/10 15:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 14:10:08 +1000, a écrit : > > > >>1. Old kernels (RHEL5.*) do expose some numa nodes via sysfs but there > >>is no information regarting cach

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 16/09/10 15:41, Brice Goglin wrote: Le 16/09/2010 06:10, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : 2. The HWLOC expects numa nodes to be numbered consecutively, like 1-2-3-4-5 However this is not necessary true for PowerPC with LPARs or on systems with numa hotswap (do they exist? don't know).

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
Please find the answers below. On 16/09/10 15:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 14:10:08 +1000, a écrit : 1. Old kernels (RHEL5.*) do expose some numa nodes via sysfs but there is no information regarting cache (L1/L2/L3) and CPU threads. RHEL6 does that.

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 16/09/2010 06:10, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit : > Hi! > > There are 2 problems with the current HWLOC code. The questions are at > the bottom. > > 1. Old kernels (RHEL5.*) do expose some numa nodes via sysfs but there > is no information regarting cache (L1/L2/L3) and CPU threads. RHEL6 > does

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexey Kardashevskiy, le Thu 16 Sep 2010 14:10:08 +1000, a écrit : > 1. Old kernels (RHEL5.*) do expose some numa nodes via sysfs but there > is no information regarting cache (L1/L2/L3) and CPU threads. RHEL6 does > that. The proposed patch parses PowerPC's /proc/device-tree and add > necessary

[hwloc-devel] hwloc powerpc rhel5 and power7 patch

2010-09-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
Hi! There are 2 problems with the current HWLOC code. The questions are at the bottom. 1. Old kernels (RHEL5.*) do expose some numa nodes via sysfs but there is no information regarting cache (L1/L2/L3) and CPU threads. RHEL6 does that. The proposed patch parses PowerPC's /proc/device-tree a