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memory mirroring?

memory mirroring?

Posted Mar 18, 2012 0:56 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: memory mirroring? by davecb
Parent article: Toward better NUMA scheduling

> For one modern architecture there is a big hit after 32 sockets

32 sockets * 6 (true) cores/socket = 192 core system

at that sort of scale, I'll bet that locking overhead is at least as big a problem as the memory access times.

now, the 'commodity' NUMA keeps creeping up the scale, what is it now, 8 sockets * 6 cores = 48 core systems (*2 or more if you want to include hyperthread 'cores')?


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you're a bit low....

Posted Mar 30, 2012 21:55 UTC (Fri) by cbf123 (guest, #74020) [Link]

Current high-end xeons have 8 "real" cores.

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