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Subject: Re: Presentation PDF link.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:01:37 04/25/02

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On April 25, 2002 at 13:29:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>
>As you said, it _must_ make a difference.  NUMA _always_ does...
>
>programming for NUMA machines requires additional analysis and planning to
>stay off the low-performance memory accesses whenever possible.

It requires nothing of the sort. Sure, you'll get better performance if you do.

-Tom



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