This was a series of posts appeared on LWN, a while ago. A precious document from Ulrich Drepper which have been brought back recently to great attention to me from a post on HN. Thanks Ulrich, LWN and HN:
- Part 1 (Introduction)
- Part 2 (CPU caches)
- Part 3 (Virtual memory)
- Part 4 (NUMA systems)
- Part 5 (What programmers can do - cache optimization)
- Part 6 (What programmers can do - multi-threaded optimizations)
- Part 7 (Memory performance tools)
- Part 8 (Future technologies)
- Part 9 (Appendices and bibliography)