Each time a thread gets a new affinity assigned, it will not
only assign its mask, but also topology information including
which socket, core, thread and core-attributes (if available)
it is now assigned. This occurs for all non-disabled KMP_AFFINITY
values as well as OMP_PLACES/OMP_PROC_BIND.
The information regarding which socket, core, etc. can take on three
values:
- The actual ID of the unit (0 - (N-1)), given N units
- UNKNOWN_ID (-1) which indicates it does not know which ID
- MULTIPLE_ID (-2) which indicates the thread is spread across multiple of this unit (e.g., affinity mask is spread across multiple hardware threads)
This new information is stored in th_topology_ids[] array. An example
how to get the socket Id, one would read th_topology_ids[KMP_HW_SOCKET].
This could be expanded in the future to something more descriptive for
the "multiple" case, like a range of values. For now, the single
value suffices.
The information regarding the core attributes can take on two values:
- The actual core-type or core-eff
- KMP_HW_CORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN if the core type is unknown, and UNKNOWN_CORE_EFF (-1) if the core eff is unknown.
This new information is stored in th_topology_attrs. An example
how to get the core type, one would read
th_topology_attrs.core_type.