Pedro Teixeira is going to talk about processes and threads in systems with more than 64 logical processors as well as user-mode scheduling. Surprisingly for some people, NUMA is not an esoteric hardware architecture. Even high-end gaming rigs today are NUMA; Pedro is going to use a loaned machine by HP that has 256 processors with 1TB of physical memory. Processor Groups Adding support for more than 64 logical processors required a breaking app compat change, because CPU masks were represented in...