hwloc-info.1in

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.TH HWLOC-INFO "1" "%HWLOC_DATE%" "%PACKAGE_VERSION%" "%PACKAGE_NAME%"
.SH NAME
hwloc-info \- Show some information about some objects or about a topology or about support features
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.\"    Synopsis Section
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.
.PP
.B hwloc-info
[ \fIoptions \fR]...
\fI<object>\fR...
.PP
.B hwloc-info
[ \fIoptions \fR]...
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.PP
Note that hwloc(7) provides a detailed explanation of the hwloc system
and of valid <object> formats;
it should be read before reading this man page.
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.\"    Options Section
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.SH OPTIONS
.
.TP
\fB\-\-objects\fR
Report information specific objects.
This is the default if some objects are given on the command-line.
.TP
\fB\-\-topology\fR
Report a summary of the topology instead of about some specific objects.
This is the default if no object is given on the command-line.
If \-v is also given, topology info attributes are also shown.
.TP
\fB\-\-support\fR
Report the features that are supported by hwloc on the topology.
The features are those available through the \fBhwloc_topology_get_support()\fR function.
This is useful for verifying which CPU or memory binding options are supported
by the current hwloc installation.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR <path>, \fB\-\-input\fR <path>
Read the topology from <path> instead of discovering the topology of the local machine.

If <path> is a file,
it may be a XML file exported by a previous hwloc program.
If <path> is "\-", the standard input may be used as a XML file.

On Linux, <path> may be a directory containing the topology files
gathered from another machine topology with hwloc-gather-topology.

On x86, <path> may be a directory containing a cpuid dump gathered
with hwloc-gather-cpuid.

When the archivemount program is available, <path> may also be a tarball
containing such Linux or x86 topology files.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR <specification>, \fB\-\-input\fR <specification>
Simulate a fake hierarchy (instead of discovering the topology on the
local machine). If <specification> is "node:2 pu:3", the topology will
contain two NUMA nodes with 3 processing units in each of them.
The <specification> string must end with a number of PUs.
.TP
\fB\-\-if\fR <format>, \fB\-\-input\-format\fR <format>
Enforce the input in the given format, among \fBxml\fR, \fBfsroot\fR,
\fBcpuid\fR and \fBsynthetic\fR.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-verbose\fR
Include additional detail.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR \fB\-\-quiet\fR \fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
Reduce the amount of details to show.
A single summary line per object is displayed.
.TP
\fB\-\-ancestors\fR
Display information about the object as well as
about all its ancestors up to the root of the topology.
This is identical to \fB\-\-ancestor all\fR
.TP
\fB\-\-ancestor\fR <type>
Only display the object ancestors that match the given type.

Some special values matching multiple types may also be given:
\fIkind=normal\fR (CPU objects, including caches),
\fIkind=cpu\fR (CPU objects, excluding caches),
\fIkind=cache\fR (all caches, including memory-side caches),
\fIkind=memory\fR (NUMA nodes or memory-side caches),
\fIkind=io\fR (IO objects),
\fIkind=all\fR (all objects).
The prefix \fIkind=\fR may be omitted if there is no ambiguity.

If multiple ancestors match, they are reported from the deepest
to the highest in the topology.
Adding \fB\-\-first\fR will only show the first one.
.TP
\fB\-\-children\fR
Display information about the object children.
.TP
\fB\-\-descendants\fR <type>
Display information about the object descendants that match the given type.

Some special values matching multiple types may also be given:
\fIkind=normal\fR (CPU objects, including caches),
\fIkind=cpu\fR (CPU objects, excluding caches),
\fIkind=cache\fR (all caches, including memory-side caches),
\fIkind=memory\fR (NUMA nodes or memory-side caches),
\fIkind=io\fR (IO objects),
\fIkind=all\fR (all objects).
The prefix \fIkind=\fR may be omitted if there is no ambiguity.

If multiple objects match, they are reported in a depth-first order
(first child, then its children, etc., then second child, etc.).
Adding \fB\-\-first\fR will only show the first one.
.TP
\fB\-\-local\-memory\fR
Display information about the NUMA nodes that are local to the given object.
.TP
\fB\-\-local\-memory\-flags\fR
Change the flags used to select local NUMA nodes.
Flags may be given as numeric values or as a comma-separated list of flag names
that are passed to \fIhwloc_get_local_numanode_objs()\fR.
Those names may be substrings of actual flag names as long as a single one matches.
The default is \fB3\fR (or \fBsmaller,larger\fR)
which means NUMA nodes are displayed
if their locality either contains or is contained
in the locality of the given object.

This option enables \fB\-\-local\-memory\fR.
.TP
\fB\-\-best\-memattr\fR <name>
Enable the listing local memory nodes with \fB\-\-local\-memory\fR,
but only display the local node that has the best value for the memory
attribute given by \fI<name>\fR (or as an index).
If the memory attribute values depend on the initiator, the object given
to hwloc-info is used as the initiator.
.TP
\fB\-\-first\fR
For each input object, only report the first matching output object
(first ancestor, first child, etc.).
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
When outputting object information, prefix each line with the index
of the considered object within the input.
For instance, if three cores were given in input, the output
lines will be prefixed with "0: ", "1: " or "2: ".
If \fB\-\-ancestor\fR is also used, the prefix will be "X.Y: "
where X is the index of the considered object within the input,
and Y is the parent index (0 for the object itself, increasing
towards the root of the topology).
.TP
\fB\-\-disallowed\fR
Include objects disallowed by administrative limitations.
.TP
\fB\-\-restrict\fR <cpuset>
Restrict the topology to the given cpuset.
This removes some PUs and their now-child-less parents.

Beware that restricting the PUs in a topology may change the
logical indexes of many objects, including NUMA nodes.
.TP
\fB\-\-restrict\fR nodeset=<nodeset>
Restrict the topology to the given nodeset
(unless \fB\-\-restrict\-flags\fR specifies something different).
This removes some NUMA nodes and their now-child-less parents.

Beware that restricting the NUMA nodes in a topology may change the
logical indexes of many objects, including PUs.
.TP
\fB\-\-restrict\fR binding
Restrict the topology to the current process binding.
This option requires the use of the actual current machine topology
(or any other topology with \fB\-\-thissystem\fR or with
HWLOC_THISSYSTEM set to 1 in the environment).

Beware that restricting the topology may change the
logical indexes of many objects, including PUs and NUMA nodes.
.TP
\fB\-\-restrict\-flags\fR <flags>
Enforce flags when restricting the topology.
Flags may be given as numeric values or as a comma-separated list of flag names
that are passed to \fIhwloc_topology_restrict()\fR.
Those names may be substrings of actual flag names as long as a single one matches,
for instance \fBbynodeset,memless\fR.
The default is \fB0\fR (or \fBnone\fR).
.TP
\fB\-\-filter\fR <type>:<kind>, \fB\-\-filter\fR <type>
Filter objects of type <type>, or of any type if <type> is "all".
"io", "cache" and "icache" are also supported.

<kind> specifies the filtering behavior.
If "none" or not specified, all objects of the given type are removed.
If "all", all objects are kept as usual.
If "structure", objects are kept when they bring structure to the topology.
If "important" (only applicable to I/O and Misc), only important objects are kept.
See hwloc_topology_set_type_filter() for more details.
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-icaches\fR
Do not show Instruction caches, only Data and Unified caches are considered.
This is identical to \fB-\-filter icache:none\fR.
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-io\fB
Do not show any I/O device or bridge.
This is identical to \fB\-\-filter io:none\fR.
By default, common devices (GPUs, NICs, block devices, ...) and
interesting bridges are shown.
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-bridges\fB
Do not show any I/O bridge except hostbridges.
This is identical to \fB\-\-filter bridge:none\fR.
By default, common devices (GPUs, NICs, block devices, ...) and
interesting bridges are shown.
.TP
\fB\-\-whole\-io\fB
Show all I/O devices and bridges.
This is identical to \fB\-\-filter io:all\fR.
By default, only common devices (GPUs, NICs, block devices, ...) and
interesting bridges are shown.
.TP
\fB\-\-thissystem\fR
Assume that the selected backend provides the topology for the
system on which we are running.
This is useful when using \fB\-\-restrict\fR binding and loading
a custom topology such as an XML file.
.TP
\fB\-\-pid\fR <pid>
Detect topology as seen by process <pid>, i.e. as if process <pid> did the
discovery itself.
Note that this can for instance change the set of allowed processors.
Also show this process current CPU binding by marking the corresponding
PUs (in Green in the graphical output, see the COLORS section below,
or by appending \fI(binding)\fR to the verbose text output).
If 0 is given as pid, the current binding for the lstopo process will be shown.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR \fB\-\-physical\fR
Use OS/physical indexes instead of logical indexes for input.
.TP
\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-logical\fR
Use logical indexes instead of physical/OS indexes for input (default).
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
Report version and exit.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR
Display help message and exit.
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.\" **************************
.\"    Description Section
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.
hwloc-info displays information about the specified object.
It is intended to be used with tools such as grep for filtering
certain attribute lines.
When no object is specified, or when \fB\-\-topology\fR is passed,
hwloc-info prints a summary of the topology.
When \fB\-\-support\fR is passed, hwloc-info lists the supported
features for the topology.
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.PP
Objects may be specified as location tuples, as explained in hwloc(7).
However hexadecimal bitmasks are not accepted since they may correspond
to multiple objects.
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.PP
.B NOTE:
It is highly recommended that you read the hwloc(7) overview page
before reading this man page.  Most of the concepts described in
hwloc(7) directly apply to the hwloc-calc utility.
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.\" **************************
.\"    Examples Section
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.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
To display information about each package:

    $ hwloc-info package:all
    Package L#0
     logical index = 0
    ...

To display information about the core whose physical index is 2:

    $ hwloc-info -p core:2
    Core L#1
     logical index = 1
     os index = 2
    ...

To list the NUMA nodes that are local a PU:

    $ hwloc-info --local-memory pu:25
    NUMANode L#6 = local memory #0 of PU L#25
     type = NUMANode
    ...
    NUMANode L#7 = local memory #1 of PU L#25
     type = NUMANode
    ...

To show the best-bandwidth node among NUMA nodes local to a PU:

    $ hwloc-info --local-memory --best-memattr bandwidth pu:25
    NUMANode L#7 = local memory #1 of PU L#25
     type = NUMANode
    ...

to find where a NUMA node is attached in the hierarchy of CPU cores:

    $ hwloc-info --ancestor kind=normal --first -s numa:1
    Package:0

To see info attributes of the topology:

    $ hwloc-info --topology --verbose
    depth 0:           1 Machine (type #0)
     depth 1:          1 Package (type #1)
      depth 2:         2 Core (type #2)
       depth 3:        4 PU (type #3)
    Special depth -3:  1 NUMANode (type #13)
    info Backend = Linux
    info LinuxCgroup = /user/622
    info Architecture = x86_64
    info hwlocVersion = 3.0.0a1-git

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.\"    See also section
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.ft R
hwloc(7), lstopo(1), hwloc-calc(1), hwloc-bind(1), hwloc-ps(1)
.sp