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From: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: NUMA scheduler (was: 2.5 merge candidate list 1.5) 
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In message <737410000.1035849619@flay>, > : "Martin J. Bligh" writes:
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> Yup, 32Mb cache. Not sure if it's faster than local memory or not.

Yes, NUMA-Q cache can be faster than local memory, but it *only* caches
remote memory.  Some other architectures use the L3 cache to cache *all*
memory (local _and_ remote).  Reasoning:  why polute the valuable
cache with things that are already close at hand?

gerrit
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