SYNOPSIS
hwloc-diff [options] <input1.xml> <input2.xml>
hwloc-diff [options] <input1.xml> <input2.xml> <output.xml>
OPTIONS
- --refname <name>
- Use <name> as the identifier for the reference topology in the output XML difference. It is meant to tell which topology should be used when applying the resulting difference. hwloc-patch may use that name to automatically load the relevant reference topology XML. By default, <input1.xml> is used without its full path.
- --version
- Report version and exit.
DESCRIPTION
hwloc-diff computes the difference between two XML topologies and stores the result into <output.xml> if any, or dumps it to stdout otherwise.The output difference may later be applied to another topology with hwloc-patch.
hwloc-compress-dir may be used for computing the diffs between all XML files in a directory.
NOTE: If some application-specific userdata were been exported to the input XMLs, they will be ignored and discarded from the output because hwloc has no way to understand and compare them.
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-diff utility.
EXAMPLES
hwloc-diff's operation is best described through several examples.
Compute the difference between two XML topologies and output it to stdout:
$ hwloc-diff fourmi023.xml fourmi024.xml
Found 11 differences, exporting to stdout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
Output the difference to file diff.xml instead:
$ hwloc-diff fourmi023.xml fourmi024.xml diff.xml
Found 11 differences, exporting to diff.xml
When the difference is too complex to be represented:
$ hwloc-diff fourmi023.xml avakas-frontend1.xml
Found 1 differences, including 1 too complex ones.
Cannot export differences to stdout
Directly compute the difference between two topologies and apply it to another one:
$ hwloc-diff fourmi023.xml fourmi024.xml | hwloc-patch fourmi025.xml -
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful execution, hwloc-diff outputs the difference. The return value is 0.If the difference is too complex to be represented, an error is returned and the output is not generated.
hwloc-diff also returns nonzero if any kind of error occurs, such as (but not limited to) failure to parse the command line.