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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:54 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: 
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 09:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Also, do we really want to spread things out that aggressively?
> > How/why do we know that we don't want to share L2 caches, for example?
> > It sounds like a bad idea from a power standpoint, and possibly
> > performance too.
> 
> IIRC this current stuff is the result of Mike and Suresh running a few
> benchmarks.. Mike, Suresh, either one of you remember this? Otherwise
> I'll have to go trawl the archives.

Aside from the cache pollution I recall having been mentioned, on my
E5620, cross core is a tbench win over affine, cross thread is not.

-Mike