NUMA systems don't have any benefits (well other than engineering
considerations like practicality of construction). From a software
perspective NUMA is simply a question of making the loss as little
as possible.
There are patches to do more NUMA aware scheduling which help a bit
as well as to do things like replicate the kernel code to each node.
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