Impact of Cache Locality
Feb 26, 2020Sung Park
Summary
This post contributes to the data infrastructure and analytics thread by detailing an in-depth hardware performance analysis. It specifically evaluates the impact of cache locality on Cloudflare's workloads by comparing AMD 2nd Gen EPYC processors with Intel Xeon processors. The post highlights how advancements in CPU architecture, particularly larger L3 caches, can significantly improve request processing throughput and reduce cache miss rates, leading to more efficient server performance.
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