numa.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_NUMA
#define INCLUDED_NUMA

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// node topology

/**
 * @return number of NUMA "nodes" (i.e. groups of CPUs with local memory).
 **/
LIB_API size_t numa_NumNodes();

/**
 * @param processor
 * @return node number (zero-based) to which <processor> belongs.
 **/
LIB_API size_t numa_NodeFromProcessor(size_t processor);

/**
 * @param node
 * @return bit-mask of all processors constituting <node>.
 **/
LIB_API uintptr_t numa_ProcessorMaskFromNode(size_t node);


//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// memory


/**
 * @param node
 * @return bytes of memory available for allocation on <node>.
 **/
LIB_API size_t numa_AvailableMemory(size_t node);

/**
 * @return the ratio between maximum and minimum times that one processor
 * from each node required to fill a globally allocated array.
 * in other words, this is the maximum slowdown for NUMA-oblivious
 * memory accesses. Microsoft guidelines require it to be <= 3.
 **/
LIB_API double numa_Factor();

/**
 * @return an indication of whether memory pages are node-interleaved.
 *
 * note: this requires ACPI access, which may not be available on
 * least-permission accounts. the default is to return false so as
 * not to cause callers to panic and trigger performance warnings.
 **/
LIB_API bool numa_IsMemoryInterleaved();

#endif  // #ifndef INCLUDED_NUMA