Does gcc, icc, or Microsoft's C/C++ compiler support or know anything about NUMA?

Question

If I have a multi-processor board that has cache-coherent non-uniform memory access ( NUMA ), i.e. separate \"northbridges\" with separate RAM for each processor, does any compi

Answer 1

Linux kernel knows about NUMA and will try to give your process pages from memory local to the current CPU (source: U. Drepper, "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory".)