Cache Layout wrong on many Zen Arch CPUs AMD CPUs have L3 cache per 2, 3 or 4 cores. Currently, TOPOEXT seems to always map Cache ass if it was an 4-Core per CCX CPU, which is incorrect, and costs upwards 30% performance (more realistically 10%) in L3 Cache Layout aware applications. Example on a 4-CCX CPU (1950X /w 8 Cores and no SMT): EPYC-IBPB AMD In windows, coreinfo reports correctly: ****---- Unified Cache 1, Level 3, 8 MB, Assoc 16, LineSize 64 ----**** Unified Cache 6, Level 3, 8 MB, Assoc 16, LineSize 64 On a 3-CCX CPU (3960X /w 6 cores and no SMT): EPYC-IBPB AMD in windows, coreinfo reports incorrectly: ****-- Unified Cache 1, Level 3, 8 MB, Assoc 16, LineSize 64 ----** Unified Cache 6, Level 3, 8 MB, Assoc 16, LineSize 64 Validated against 3.0, 3.1, 4.1 and 4.2 versions of qemu-kvm. With newer Qemu there is a fix (that does behave correctly) in using the dies parameter: The problem is that the dies are exposed differently than how AMD does it natively, they are exposed to Windows as sockets, which means, you can't ever have a machine with more than two CCX (6 cores) as Windows only supports two sockets. (Should this be reported as a separate bug?)