On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:02:46AM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote: > Even with that, one CPU core won't saturate the memory bus; multiple > CPU cores (preferably on the same NUMA node as the memory) need to > share the work. It's probably OK to not saturate the memory bus; it'd be nice if other cores were allowed to get work done. If your workload is single-threaded, you're right, of course, but who has a single-threaded workload these days?!