Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc-distrib: how to start at lower hiearchy level?

2010-07-07 Thread Jirka Hladky
On Monday, July 05, 2010 07:12:58 am Brice Goglin wrote: > Le 05/07/2010 02:41, Jirka Hladky a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using hwloc-distrib quite often to distribute jobs optimally on NUMA > > boxes. I use it to test linux kernel task - scheduler by comparing > > runtime of jobs bound to be

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc-distrib: how to start at lower hiearchy level?

2010-07-07 Thread Jirka Hladky
Hi Brice, > > The box has strange NUMA layout - I will need to check why it is so. > > Basically, there are 3 NUMA nodes - one includes 2 Sockets, other 2 have > > one Socket associated to each of it. > > Seems strange to me, likely a BIOS bug. Nehalem-EX should always have > one NUMA node per so

Re: [hwloc-devel] hwloc-distrib: how to start at lower hiearchy level?

2010-07-05 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 05/07/2010 02:41, Jirka Hladky a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm using hwloc-distrib quite often to distribute jobs optimally on NUMA > boxes. I use it to test linux kernel task - scheduler by comparing runtime of > jobs bound to best possible CPU configuration (keeping CPU cache in mind) > with >

[hwloc-devel] hwloc-distrib: how to start at lower hiearchy level?

2010-07-04 Thread Jirka Hladky
Hi all, I'm using hwloc-distrib quite often to distribute jobs optimally on NUMA boxes. I use it to test linux kernel task - scheduler by comparing runtime of jobs bound to best possible CPU configuration (keeping CPU cache in mind) with runs without CPU affinity set. I just run into strange