
Igalia, the free software consultancy perhaps best known for its work on the Raspberry Pi's GPU, has revealed that it is investigating NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) emulation for ARM64 devices. The investigations have so far yielded a potential and significant performance uplift for the Raspberry Pi 5, discussed on a Linux kernel list via a message from Tvrtko Ursulin.
The patch details were posted to the mailing list, and it appears to be around 100 lines in length. However, those 100 lines potentially have a big impact on the Raspberry Pi 5 and many other ARM64 devices.