Patent attributes
Described are techniques for processing read and write requests in a system having a NUMA (non-uniform memory access) configuration. Such techniques may include receiving, at a front end adapter of the system, a write request, to write first data to a first storage device, storing a first copy of the first data in first memory local to a first domain, copying, using a first inter-storage processor communication connection, the first data from the first memory to a third memory of a third domain thereby creating a second copy of the first data in the third memory; and determining, in accordance with a first heuristic and first criteria, whether to use the first copy of the first data stored in the first memory or the second copy of the first data stored in the third memory as a source when writing the first data to the first storage device.