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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > you are a bit biased towards low-latency NUMA setups i guess (read: 
> > Opterons) :-) 
> 
> Well they are the vast majority of NUMA systems Linux runs on.

The opterons are some strange mix of SMP and NUMA system. The NUMA "nodes" 
are on the same motherboard and therefore there are only small latencies 
involved. NUMA only gives small benefits.