linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86, sched: allow topolgies where NUMA nodes share an LLC

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 20:08:31 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86, sched: allow topolgies where NUMA nodes share an
 LLC

> What does? That does sound broken. How can a cache domain sanely span
> memory controllers?

Think "cluster on die" with cores on the socket split into two clusters, but still sharing LLC.

-Tony