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Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) Documentation: v1.1.2

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hwloc.h File Reference

The hwloc API. More...

#include <hwloc/autogen/config.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <hwloc/rename.h>
#include <hwloc/bitmap.h>
#include <hwloc/cpuset.h>
#include <hwloc/helper.h>

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Data Structures

struct  hwloc_obj_memory_s
 Object memory. More...
struct  hwloc_obj_memory_s::hwloc_obj_memory_page_type_s
 Array of local memory page types, NULL if no local memory and page_types is 0. More...
struct  hwloc_obj
 Structure of a topology object. More...
union  hwloc_obj_attr_u
 Object type-specific Attributes. More...
struct  hwloc_obj_attr_u::hwloc_cache_attr_s
 Cache-specific Object Attributes. More...
struct  hwloc_obj_attr_u::hwloc_group_attr_s
 Group-specific Object Attributes. More...
struct  hwloc_obj_info_s
 Object info. More...
struct  hwloc_topology_discovery_support
 Flags describing actual discovery support for this topology. More...
struct  hwloc_topology_cpubind_support
 Flags describing actual PU binding support for this topology. More...
struct  hwloc_topology_membind_support
 Flags describing actual memory binding support for this topology. More...
struct  hwloc_topology_support
 Set of flags describing actual support for this topology. More...

Defines

#define HWLOC_API_VERSION   0x00010100
 Indicate at build time which hwloc API version is being used.

Typedefs

typedef struct hwloc_topology * hwloc_topology_t
 Topology context.
typedef hwloc_bitmap_t hwloc_cpuset_t
 A CPU set is a bitmap whose bits are set according to CPU physical OS indexes.
typedef hwloc_const_bitmap_t hwloc_const_cpuset_t
 A non-modifiable hwloc_cpuset_t.
typedef hwloc_bitmap_t hwloc_nodeset_t
 A node set is a bitmap whose bits are set according to NUMA memory node physical OS indexes.
typedef hwloc_const_bitmap_t hwloc_const_nodeset_t
 A non-modifiable hwloc_nodeset_t.
typedef struct hwloc_objhwloc_obj_t
 Convenience typedef; a pointer to a struct hwloc_obj.

Enumerations

enum  hwloc_obj_type_t {
  HWLOC_OBJ_SYSTEM, HWLOC_OBJ_MACHINE, HWLOC_OBJ_NODE, HWLOC_OBJ_SOCKET,
  HWLOC_OBJ_CACHE, HWLOC_OBJ_CORE, HWLOC_OBJ_PU, HWLOC_OBJ_GROUP,
  HWLOC_OBJ_MISC
}
 

Type of topology object.

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enum  hwloc_compare_types_e { HWLOC_TYPE_UNORDERED }
enum  hwloc_topology_flags_e { HWLOC_TOPOLOGY_FLAG_WHOLE_SYSTEM, HWLOC_TOPOLOGY_FLAG_IS_THISSYSTEM }
 

Flags to be set onto a topology context before load.

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enum  hwloc_get_type_depth_e { HWLOC_TYPE_DEPTH_UNKNOWN, HWLOC_TYPE_DEPTH_MULTIPLE }
enum  hwloc_cpubind_flags_t { HWLOC_CPUBIND_PROCESS, HWLOC_CPUBIND_THREAD, HWLOC_CPUBIND_STRICT, HWLOC_CPUBIND_NOMEMBIND }
 

Process/Thread binding flags.

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enum  hwloc_membind_policy_t {
  HWLOC_MEMBIND_DEFAULT, HWLOC_MEMBIND_FIRSTTOUCH, HWLOC_MEMBIND_BIND, HWLOC_MEMBIND_INTERLEAVE,
  HWLOC_MEMBIND_REPLICATE, HWLOC_MEMBIND_NEXTTOUCH, HWLOC_MEMBIND_MIXED
}
 

Memory binding policy.

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enum  hwloc_membind_flags_t {
  HWLOC_MEMBIND_PROCESS, HWLOC_MEMBIND_THREAD, HWLOC_MEMBIND_STRICT, HWLOC_MEMBIND_MIGRATE,
  HWLOC_MEMBIND_NOCPUBIND
}
 

Memory binding flags.

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Functions

unsigned hwloc_get_api_version (void)
 Indicate at runtime which hwloc API version was used at build time.
int hwloc_compare_types (hwloc_obj_type_t type1, hwloc_obj_type_t type2)
 Compare the depth of two object types.
int hwloc_topology_init (hwloc_topology_t *topologyp)
 Allocate a topology context.
int hwloc_topology_load (hwloc_topology_t topology)
 Build the actual topology.
void hwloc_topology_destroy (hwloc_topology_t topology)
 Terminate and free a topology context.
void hwloc_topology_check (hwloc_topology_t topology)
 Run internal checks on a topology structure.
int hwloc_topology_ignore_type (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_type_t type)
 Ignore an object type.
int hwloc_topology_ignore_type_keep_structure (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_type_t type)
 Ignore an object type if it does not bring any structure.
int hwloc_topology_ignore_all_keep_structure (hwloc_topology_t topology)
 Ignore all objects that do not bring any structure.
int hwloc_topology_set_flags (hwloc_topology_t topology, unsigned long flags)
 Set OR'ed flags to non-yet-loaded topology.
int hwloc_topology_set_fsroot (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology, const char *restrict fsroot_path)
 Change the file-system root path when building the topology from sysfs/procfs.
int hwloc_topology_set_pid (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology, hwloc_pid_t pid)
 Change which pid the topology is viewed from.
int hwloc_topology_set_synthetic (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology, const char *restrict description)
 Enable synthetic topology.
int hwloc_topology_set_xml (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology, const char *restrict xmlpath)
 Enable XML-file based topology.
int hwloc_topology_set_xmlbuffer (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology, const char *restrict buffer, int size)
 Enable XML based topology using a memory buffer instead of a file.
struct
hwloc_topology_support
hwloc_topology_get_support (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology)
 Retrieve the topology support.
void hwloc_topology_export_xml (hwloc_topology_t topology, const char *xmlpath)
 Export the topology into an XML file.
void hwloc_topology_export_xmlbuffer (hwloc_topology_t topology, char **xmlbuffer, int *buflen)
 Export the topology into a newly-allocated XML memory buffer.
hwloc_obj_t hwloc_topology_insert_misc_object_by_cpuset (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_const_cpuset_t cpuset, const char *name)
 Add a MISC object to the topology.
hwloc_obj_t hwloc_topology_insert_misc_object_by_parent (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_t parent, const char *name)
 Add a MISC object to the topology.
unsigned hwloc_topology_get_depth (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology)
 Get the depth of the hierachical tree of objects.
int hwloc_get_type_depth (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_type_t type)
 Returns the depth of objects of type type.
hwloc_obj_type_t hwloc_get_depth_type (hwloc_topology_t topology, unsigned depth)
 Returns the type of objects at depth depth.
unsigned hwloc_get_nbobjs_by_depth (hwloc_topology_t topology, unsigned depth)
 Returns the width of level at depth depth.
static inline int
 
hwloc_get_nbobjs_by_type (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_type_t type)
 Returns the width of level type type.
int hwloc_topology_is_thissystem (hwloc_topology_t restrict topology)
 Does the topology context come from this system?
hwloc_obj_t hwloc_get_obj_by_depth (hwloc_topology_t topology, unsigned depth, unsigned idx)
 Returns the topology object at index index from depth depth.
static inline
hwloc_obj_t
 
hwloc_get_obj_by_type (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_type_t type, unsigned idx)
 Returns the topology object at index index with type type.
const char * hwloc_obj_type_string (hwloc_obj_type_t type)
 Return a stringified topology object type.
hwloc_obj_type_t hwloc_obj_type_of_string (const char *string)
 Return an object type from the string.
int hwloc_obj_type_snprintf (char *restrict string, size_t size, hwloc_obj_t obj, int verbose)
 Stringify the type of a given topology object into a human-readable form.
int hwloc_obj_attr_snprintf (char *restrict string, size_t size, hwloc_obj_t obj, const char *restrict separator, int verbose)
 Stringify the attributes of a given topology object into a human-readable form.
int hwloc_obj_snprintf (char *restrict string, size_t size, hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_obj_t obj, const char *restrict indexprefix, int verbose)
 Stringify a given topology object into a human-readable form.
int hwloc_obj_cpuset_snprintf (char *restrict str, size_t size, size_t nobj, const hwloc_obj_t *restrict objs)
 Stringify the cpuset containing a set of objects.
static inline char
hwloc_obj_get_info_by_name (hwloc_obj_t obj, const char *name)
 Search the given key name in object infos and return the corresponding value.
int hwloc_set_cpubind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_const_cpuset_t set, int flags)
 Bind current process or thread on cpus given in bitmap set.
int hwloc_get_cpubind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_cpuset_t set, int flags)
 Get current process or thread binding.
int hwloc_set_proc_cpubind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_const_cpuset_t set, int flags)
 Bind a process pid on cpus given in bitmap set.
int hwloc_get_proc_cpubind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_cpuset_t set, int flags)
 Get the current binding of process pid.
int hwloc_set_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_const_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Set the default memory binding policy of the current process or thread to prefer the NUMA node(s) specified by nodeset.
int hwloc_set_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_const_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Set the default memory binding policy of the current process or thread to prefer the NUMA node(s) near the specified cpuset.
int hwloc_get_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the default memory binding policy and locality of the current process or thread.
int hwloc_get_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the default memory binding policy and locality of the current process or thread (the locality is returned in cpuset as CPUs near the locality's actual NUMA node(s)).
int hwloc_set_proc_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_const_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Set the default memory binding policy of the specified process to prefer the NUMA node(s) specified by nodeset.
int hwloc_set_proc_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_const_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Set the default memory binding policy of the specified process to prefer the NUMA node(s) near the specified cpuset.
int hwloc_get_proc_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the default memory binding policy and locality of the specified process.
int hwloc_get_proc_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, hwloc_pid_t pid, hwloc_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the default memory binding policy and locality of the specified process (the locality is returned in cpuset as CPUs near the locality's actual NUMA node(s)).
int hwloc_set_area_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, const void *addr, size_t len, hwloc_const_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Bind the already-allocated memory identified by (addr, len) to the NUMA node(s) in nodeset.
int hwloc_set_area_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, const void *addr, size_t len, hwloc_const_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Bind the already-allocated memory identified by (addr, len) to the NUMA node(s) near cpuset.
int hwloc_get_area_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, const void *addr, size_t len, hwloc_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the NUMA node(s) and binding policy of the memory identified by (addr, len ).
int hwloc_get_area_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, const void *addr, size_t len, hwloc_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t *policy, int flags)
 Query the CPUs near the NUMA node(s) and binding policy of the memory identified by (addr, len ).
void * hwloc_alloc (hwloc_topology_t topology, size_t len)
 Allocate some memory.
void * hwloc_alloc_membind_nodeset (hwloc_topology_t topology, size_t len, hwloc_const_nodeset_t nodeset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Allocate some memory on the given nodeset nodeset.
void * hwloc_alloc_membind (hwloc_topology_t topology, size_t len, hwloc_const_cpuset_t cpuset, hwloc_membind_policy_t policy, int flags)
 Allocate some memory on memory nodes near the given cpuset cpuset.
int hwloc_free (hwloc_topology_t topology, void *addr, size_t len)
 Free memory that was previously allocated by hwloc_alloc() or hwloc_alloc_membind().

Detailed Description

The hwloc API.

See hwloc/bitmap.h for bitmap specific macros. See hwloc/helper.h for high-level topology traversal helpers.