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7.2.4 MaxCore and TurboCore modes
TurboCore provides a higher frequency core and more cache per core, which are normally
extremely good things for performance. Also, to make use of these positive attributes, the
system’s active core placement needs to change from having eight cores per chip to having
four cores per chip. So, using TurboCore can also mean a change in the number of chips and
perhaps in the number of drawers. For a given partition, this in turn can mean an increase in
the probability of longer access latencies to memory and cache. But partition placement and
workload type can influence these probabilities. As a result, the positive benefits of
TurboCore’ ...