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Optimizing Software Applications for NUMA: Part 5 (of 7)

May 23rd, 2011 · No Comments




By David Ott (Intel)
3.2. Data Placement Using Implicit Memory Allocation Policies

In the simple case, many operating systems transparently provide support for NUMA-friendly data placement. When a single-threaded application allocates memory, the processor will simply assign memory pages to the physical memory associated with the requesting thread’s node (CPU package), thus insuring that it is local to the thread and access performance is optimal.

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