Newbie question.
I know that dmidecode uses the num_node files under /sys/devices/pcie..., but
hwloc does not seem
to use the same mechanism to determine which PCI devices are on which numa
node? From which
file is it deriving the information?
Regards,
Liam
Hello Liam
dmidecode is usually reserved to root only because it uses SMBIOS or
whatever hardware/ACPI/... tables. Those tables are read by the Linux
kernel and exported to non-root users in sysfs:
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/:ae:0c.6/numa_node
1
However this file isn't that good because