On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> He seems to get an hwloc error any time he tries to bind to more than 1 PU. Is that expected on Solaris?
>
> Without lgrp support, unfortunately yes: the processor_bind solaris interface only permits to bind to one processor.
>
> With lgrp support, on should be able to bind oneself to sets of whole
> NUMA nodes. I don't know any interface which would provide a granularity
> between one processor and one NUMA node.
Ah. So -- for Open MPI on Solaris using hwloc, all we can do is bind to 1 PU at a time. I suppose we should release-note that...
(Sorry Siegmar! :-( )
And just so I understand -- we don't have lgrp support in hwloc, mainly because no one had the cycles/interest to implement it. Is that correct?
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