The article really only touches on the absolute basics. It would have left me hurting for more specifics. However, I've read Ulrich Drepper's epic paper on mode

The article really only touches on the absolute basics. It would have left me hurting for more specifics. However, I've read Ulrich Drepper's epic paper on modern memory architectures. (http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/ http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/) You should do yourself a favor and read it.