Ok Brice,

thanks very much for your explanations. But I don't understand why a process inherits core bound of his threads according to your example:

>It worked because you never mixed it with single thread binding. If you bind process X to >coreA and then thread Y of process X to coreB, what you should now see with get_cpubind is >that process X is now bound to cores A+B, thread Y to B, and all other threads to A.




2011/9/12 Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Le 12/09/2011 14:17, Gabriele Fatigati a écrit :
> Mm, and why? In a hybrid code ( MPI + OpenMP), my idea is to bind a
> single MPI process in  one core, and his threads in other cores.
> Otherwise I have all threads that runs on a single core.
>

The usual way to do that is to first bind the entire process to all
cores available to all its thread and then bind each thread to a single
core.

For instance, if doing Open MPI + OpenMP with one process per socket
* you pass --bind-to-socket on the mpirun/mpiexec command-line
* when the MPI process starts, the OpenMP runtime calls something like
get_cpubind to find out how many cores were given to it
* it creates the exact same number of OpenMP threads and bind one of
them on each core

Brice

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