Re: How can I optimize a process on a NUMA architecture(x86-64specifically)?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 06:59:06 EST


"David Schwartz" <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I don't think we've reached the point yet where treating x86-64 systems as
> NUMA machines makes very much sense.

Benchmarks disagree with you on that. In most cases local memory
policy seems to work better than BIOS interleaving. That's because
memory latency is usually more important than memory bandwidth.

-Andi

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