Yeah, when we got results we didn't expect we made sure that the experiment was setup correctly, and actually made sense. We use the timing instructions illustr

Yeah, when we got results we didn't expect we made sure that the experiment was setup correctly, and actually made sense. We use the timing instructions illustrated in this intel white paper, which does do serialization http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/training/ia-32-ia-64-benchmark-code-execution-paper.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/training/ia-.... More over we tried a few different programs, CCbench, custom home-brewed, and BenchIT, all giving the same results. There's a paper about Asymmetry: Thread and Memory Placement on NUMA Systems: Asymmetry Matters https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc15/atc15-paper-lepers.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc15/atc15-p...