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by seastarer 4068 days ago
Do you have a link to this cluster-on-die mode?
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virtuallynathan 4068 days ago
This document from Intel covers CoD mode (Pg. 28) and optimal DIMM sizes (Pg. 37), etc. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B21tKtZ3UOQNdWtJZW9XekFCZ3M...

You should also disable C-States (e.g. lock to C0) - https://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/shak-jeder-summ... covers the performance impact of CPU states.

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seastarer 4068 days ago
Thanks. We "disable" C-states by polling -- the cpu never goes idle. This is partly because dpdk doesn't support interrupts, and partly because using interrupts is a major performance hit. We have plans to improve this, but nothing committed yet.
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