Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:41:49 04/25/02
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On April 25, 2002 at 04:12:26, Dan Andersson wrote: >You are correct. I read that first order NUMA optimizations where unneccessary. >But a memory access might make the other CPU wait for a while. And the overhead >for running a SMP driver is anyones guess. How do you mean, "wait for a while"? As for the SMP driver, I assume the overhead will be zero. I imagine the driver is only to provide the (non-NUMA) OS with information about the memory, e.g., how much there is. -Tom
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