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dan-robertson
Why is the rtt measured here on canon lake so asymmetric? I would have expected symmetry along the leading diagonal.
jeffbee
And why is core 0 magical on that machine?
jcranmer
IIRC, core 0 is the one that tends to service processor interrupts, which may mean that the data is unusually noisy in a way that tends to underestimate the RTT latency time.
jeffbee
There’s a similar weird artifact at index 64.
innocenat
Core 64 is the hyper-threaded pair of core 0.
jeffbee
Not on that machine. That would only be true on a 128-thread system, but this one has 96 threads.
yvdriess
Speculation, but could it be because of a ring topology?
Cockbrand
This might be a nitpick, but it seems like already the intro sentence isn't factually accurate:

> Over the past 10-15 years, per-core throughput slowed down

I assume that the author meant that the acceleration of per-core throughput over time has slowed down, not the throughput itself.

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> Over the past 10-15 years, per-core throughput slowed down

throughput of what?