Menu Item | Description |
| installed. If Disabled, the system supports NUMA (asymmetric) memory |
| configurations. By default, Node Interleaving option is set to Disabled. |
Snoop Mode | Specifies the Snoop Mode options. Snoop Mode options available are Home |
| Snoop, Early Snoop, Cluster on Die. By default, the Snoop Mode option is set to |
| Early Snoop. The field is only available when Node Interleaving is Disabled. |
Processor Settings screen details
You can use the Processor Settings screen to view the processor settings and perform specific functions such as enabling virtualization technology, hardware prefetcher, and logical processor idling.
You can view the Processor Settings screen by clicking System Setup Main Menu → System BIOS → Processor Settings.
The Processor Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Example |
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Menu Item | Description |
Logical Processor | Enables or disables the logical processors and displays the number of logical |
| processors. If the Logical Processor option is set to Enabled, the BIOS displays all |
| the logical processors. If this option is set to Disabled, the BIOS only displays one |
| logical processor per core. By default, the Logical Processor option is set to |
| Enabled. |
Alternate RTID | Enables you to allocate more RTIDs to the remote socket, thereby increasing |
(Requestor | cache performance between the sockets or easing work in normal mode for |
Transaction ID) | NUMA. By default, the Alternate RTID (Requestor Transaction ID) Setting is set to |
Setting | Disabled. |
Virtualization | Enables or disables the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization. |
Technology | By default, the Virtualization Technology option is set to Enabled. |
Address | Defines the Address Translation Cache (ATC) for devices to cache the DMA |
Translation | transactions. This field provides an interface to a chipset's Address Translation and |
Service (ATS) | Protection Table to translate DMA addresses to host addresses. By default, the |
| option is set to Enabled. |
Adjacent Cache | Optimizes the system for applications that require high utilization of sequential |
Line Prefetch | memory access. By default, the Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch option is set to |
| Enabled. You can disable this option for applications that require high utilization of |
| random memory access. |
Hardware | Enables or disables the hardware prefetcher. By default, the Hardware Prefetcher |
Prefetcher | option is set to Enabled. |
DCU Streamer | Allows you to enable or disable the Data Cache Unit (DCU) streamer prefetcher. By |
Prefetcher | default, the DCU Streamer Prefetcher option is set to Enabled. |
DCU IP Prefetcher | Enables or disables the Data Cache Unit (DCU) IP prefetcher. By default, the DCU |
| IP Prefetcher option is set to Enabled. |
Execute Disable | Enables or disables the execute disable memory protection technology. By default, |
| the Execute Disable option is set to Enabled. |
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