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Subject: Re: The need to unmake move

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:42:03 08/26/03

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On August 26, 2003 at 03:00:52, Johan de Koning wrote:

>On August 25, 2003 at 18:04:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>A single cpu that will run crafty at 1M nps has a cache-cache and cache-memory
>>bandwidth of X bytes/second.  A single cpu that runs crafty at 2M nps has
>>exactly twice the cache-cache and cache-memory bandwidth and twice the clock
>>frequency.  A dual-cpu just needs two cpus, but the two cpus give twice the
>>cache-cache bandwidth, but _no_ improvement in cache-memory bandwidth.
>
>Nope, C2M bandwith is constant, regardless of n and f (hence constant :-).

Actually it isn't.  Some duals use interleaving.  Some don't.  All quads I
have here use 4-way interleaving to ramp up the bandwidth significantly.

All machines are _not_ created equal...


>
>Furtunataly C2M is not part of the equation. Unless n * f gets large AND all n
>processes make a habit of trashing their own cache or their fellow processors
>caches. But that just doesn't happen.
>
>>This was all about memory bandwidth with respect to copy/make.
>
>Nope, this was about memory having nothing to do with it.
>
>... Johan

And there we disagree.  Otherwise copy/make would be a big win for me too.

It wasn't...





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