Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: NUMA scheduler (was: 2.5 merge candidate list 1.5) | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:12:52 -0800 |
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In message <737410000.1035849619@flay>, > : "Martin J. Bligh" writes: > > 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?
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