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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Three more patches:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">aff_disabled.patch: Some affinity fixes/cleanup:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Getting rid of proc_bind_disabled enum value.  The disabled affinity functionality is flagged instead solely by __kmp_affinity_type = affinity_disabled. This solves
 the problem if a Linux machine doesn't support affinity for whatever reason and affinity is disabled then it maps to proc-bind-var to proc_bind_false (valid value) instead of proc_bind_disabled (invalid value).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Adding KMP_AFFINITY_DISABLE() and KMP_AFFINITY_ENABLE(mask_size) to go along with KMP_AFFINITY_CAPABLE().  In the grand scheme of things, we want to get rid of as
 many explicit references to the mask size as we can to aid hwloc importing.  It’s also more readable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Unused affinity function __kmp_change_thread_affinity_mask() deleted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">d.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">The first changes in kmp_affinity.cpp concern an incorrect warning that is produced when you use OMP_PLACES=0:num_hardware_threads.  The warning states that you are
 trying to use the num_hardware_threads thread context when you really aren't.  For example, on fxe12lin19 (hyperthreaded), if you specify OMP_PLACES=0:24, it warns against using OS thread 24.  But only OS threads 0-23 are actually being used. This change prevents
 the warning from being emitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">atomic8.patch: Adding some 8-bit atomic operations for future use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">cleanup.patch: Cleanup of unsigned types to be consistent for all topology related variables (requested by Hal Finkel).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">Thanks!<br>
Terry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gisha","sans-serif"">--<br>
Terry L. Wilmarth<br>
terry.l.wilmarth@intel.com   217/403-4251<br>
Intel/SSG/DPD/TCAR/RAD/Threading Runtimes  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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