What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory

This is an article on how memory and software interact. The article is more of a book with its 100 pages so it is split into 9 pieces. It is Linux-focused so it gives a good alternative view on the crucial interaction of HW-SW.

A highly recommended read for anyone who wants to know more about low-level programming.

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)

Source: http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/