Re: scaling performance impact beyond 4 socket Intel CPU on Linux

From: Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:55:22 +0200 (CEST)
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Hello Dave,
are you referring to NUMA scaling issues (Intel QPI)? If yes, then it is based on 3 QPI links per socket. Various sockets have no direct connection/link, which increases latency.  

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Stefan Koehler

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> Dave Moore <dsmoorekz0s_at_gmail.com> hat am 18. April 2016 um 20:30 geschrieben:
>
> Is there an Intel CPU scaling issue (non-linear performance), when using more than 4 sockets Intel CPU with Linux?
> If 'yes', then what are the background technical reasons for the non-linear scaling beyond 4 sockets Intel CPU?
> Understand each socket/chip can have many cores, for example 8
> corresponding to 32 total cores.

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