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Performance guidelines for multiprocessor systems

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Here the same two foreground threads as before were run though the cases as before—local, crossfire

and no crossfire. In addition, four background threads are left running on:

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Node 0 (Core 1)

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Node 1 (Core 1)

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Node 2 (Core 0)

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Node 3 (Core 0)

Each of these background threads read a local 64 MB array and the rate of memory demand of each of

these threads is varied from low to very high simultaneously. A low rate of memory demand implies

that each of the background threads is demanding a memory bandwidth of 0.5 GB/s. A very high rate

of memory demand implies that each of the background threads is demanding a memory bandwidth

of 4 GB/s as shown in Table 1 on page 16.

Even with the background threads, there are still some free cores left in the system. We call this a

highly subscribed condition.

This allows us to study the impact of the background load on the foreground threads.

As shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8 on page 28, under both low and very high loads and high

subscription, we still observe that the worst performance scenario occurs when write-only threads fire

at each other (crossfire).

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