From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quieten cache information at boot
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:18:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192396714.6188.8.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071014201431.GA23002@lixom.net>
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 15:14 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > After 6 years the ppc64 kernel still thinks its important to tell me my
> > cache line size is 0x80 bytes. I think most people who care know that by
> > now. The rest probably cant even understand the hex output.
> >
> > Since we might have misconfigured firmware or cpus that have a linesize
> > that isnt 128 bytes, I still print it out for those cases. If people
> > would prefer to remove it completely, lets do it.
>
> Let's just remove it completely. I have yet to see a bug because of it,
> and we have 0x40 byte cache lines.
I did have issues because of incorrect cache line sizes recently... this
printk was actually useful for me :-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-14 19:33 [PATCH] Quieten cache information at boot Anton Blanchard
2007-10-14 20:14 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-14 21:03 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-10-14 21:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-10-14 21:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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