Re: Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II

Jeffrey Siegal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general,gmane.linux.redhat.release.nahant.general
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On Aug 26, 2006, at 00:12 , Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> Cons are
> that your system de facto is NUMA and that you get all the problems
> associated with that: you only get this gain if both the kernel and  
> the
> applications are NUMA aware. The kernel mostly is, applications...
> mostly not.

What could or should the applications be doing?  I would think that  
allocating pages being accessed by a process on CPU N to memory  
attached to CPU N would be the job of the kernel, right?


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