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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-11 14:17:59


Got it; I can replicate your behavior. Digging...

On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Li-Ta Lo wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:45 +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>>
>> Li-Ta Lo wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 13:29 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:40 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>>>>> Hmm. So I'm confused -- I thought you said in #9 that "There
>>>>>> should
>>>>>> be just 2 physical sockets on the mainboard". So PLPA is now
>>>>>> reporting 2 sockets, numbered correctly.
>>>>> I didn't say how plpa-info should report. I was giving you the
>>>>> output
>>>>> of the plpa-info and it was wrong w.r.t what you are trying to
>>>>> fix. It
>>>>> says there are 3 sockets which is still wrong.
>>>> Hah! I missed that; my bad.
>>>>
>>>>>> [ollie_at_exponential plpa-info]$ ./plpa-info --topo
>>>>>>> Kernel affinity support: yes
>>>>>>> Kernel topology support: yes
>>>>>>> Number of processor sockets: 3
>>>>>> I do have PLPA intentionally skipping reporting sockets that
>>>>>> have no
>>>>>> cores on them. Are you saying that plpa-info should report
>>>>>> sockets
>>>>>> with no cores? I chose not to do that because how would you know
>>>>>> what they are? Linux only reports the sockets that are in use
>>>>>> -- how
>>>>>> would you know what sockets are not in use? For example, what
>>>>>> if you
>>>>>> populate a motherboard with 4 sockets in sockets 0 and 1 --
>>>>>> how would
>>>>>> PLPA know that sockets 2 and 3 exist?
>>>>> The output still talks about socket without cores. It is right
>>>>> with
>>>>> socket 1 (not counting/reporting it) but it is wrong with
>>>>> socket 2.
>>>> Is the tarball attached to #9 still accurate? I was using that
>>>> when
>>>> testing the new stuff and I was getting 2 sockets displayed from
>>>> plpa-
>>>> info, and only showing 1 core on sockets 0 and 3.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. I turned of SMT yesterday when answering you bug report.
>>> How should I create the tarball again? Just tar czf ?
>> This was my howto:
>>
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/04/3126.php
>>
>
> Here it is.
>
> Ollie
>
> <cpu-topology.tar.tz>
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems