Chapter 7. POWER7 Enterprise Server performance considerations 305
The Power 780 has the following conceptual interconnection fabric design, as shown in
Figure 7-24.
Figure 7-24 The interconnection fabric design of Power 780
The hypervisor in POWER7 ensures that processors and memory resources are as close as
possible to each other to use both processor and memory affinity. However, you can improve
the affinity further during the setup of partitions by considering the eight cores and the
amount of memory when partitioning the system. A good example is to design an eight
processor partition even though there might be a need for a ninth processor ...
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