[hwloc-devel] Create success (hwloc r1.1a1r2145)

2010-05-25 Thread MPI Team
Creating nightly hwloc snapshot SVN tarball was a success. Snapshot: hwloc 1.1a1r2145 Start time: Tue May 25 21:01:02 EDT 2010 End time: Tue May 25 21:02:58 EDT 2010 Your friendly daemon, Cyrador

Re: [hwloc-devel] Cacheline sizes

2010-05-25 Thread Wheeler, Kyle Bruce
On May 25, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: > The attached patch implements a "linesize" cache attribute. You now get > things like > L3Cache #0 (8192KB line=64) >L2Cache #0 (256KB line=64) > L1Cache #0 (32KB line=64) Cool! >> Why is runtime icache information

Re: [hwloc-devel] Cacheline sizes

2010-05-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wheeler, Kyle Bruce, le Tue 25 May 2010 13:46:09 -0600, a écrit : > I agree that, inherently, cache line size has nothing to do with topology. > But on the other hand, it's particularly useful for parallel shared-memory > applications (to avoid false-sharing), The false-sharing part is where it

Re: [hwloc-devel] Cacheline sizes

2010-05-25 Thread Wheeler, Kyle Bruce
On May 25, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: > Numerous ideas like this were proposed and we're not sure where to stop. > If we start doing this, people will ask for the processor frequency, the > number of floating point units per core, the associativity of the cache, > the type of memory,

[hwloc-devel] Cacheline sizes

2010-05-25 Thread Wheeler, Kyle Bruce
Hello! I noticed that hwloc doesn't appear to have a way of reporting (minimum) cache line size... which is obviously useful and important for avoiding false-sharing issues. I've been hacking together a way to do it in what passes for a cross-platform method. My code is currently in qthreads

Re: [hwloc-devel] Trac

2010-05-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 25, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > On 25/05/2010 15:23, Jeff Squyres wrote: > > - 1.1 will be a "new feature" release. What features / branches do you > > guys want to bring into the trunk and then create a 1.1 branch with? > > I think we have trac tickets for everything we

Re: [hwloc-devel] Trac

2010-05-25 Thread Brice Goglin
On 25/05/2010 15:23, Jeff Squyres wrote: > - 1.1 will be a "new feature" release. What features / branches do you guys > want to bring into the trunk and then create a 1.1 branch with? I think we have trac tickets for everything we wanted in 1.1. Brice

[hwloc-devel] Trac

2010-05-25 Thread Jeff Squyres
I made a 1.0.1 milestone; new tickets will be in that milestone by default. I think we're all assuming the same thing, but let's put it in writing to make sure: - 1.0.1 will be a bug fix release, if necessary (I think OMPI, at least, would like some kind of resolution to #35 -- I'm working on