This week at LWN: Memory part 4: NUMA support

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 25, 2007 4:59 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Ulrich Drepper
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In Section 2 we saw that, on some machines, the cost of access to specific regions of physical memory differs depending on where the access originated. This type of hardware requires special care from the OS and the applications. We will start with a few details of NUMA hardware, then we will cover some of the support the Linux kernel provides for NUMA.

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