From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit@rabbit.online.bg>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amd k6-3 L3 cache
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:11:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605121145.E5277@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020605044616.GA3297@rabbit.online.bg>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:46:16PM -0500, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> Hi everyone. I have a question regarding hardware caches. When I compile the
> kernel on k6/2 cpu I get messages identifying L1 cache of 64k and L2 cache of
> 1024k which are the actual hardware amounts. But kernel on a k6/3+ cpu gives
L1/L2 cache is on CPU. L3 is on motherboard. The kernel only reports
(and cares about) L1/L2 (And then asides from informational purposes,
i.e. /proc/cpuinfo, it's only used for anything useful under SMP which isn't
an issue for K6-3)
The L3 is being used transparently, with no need for any support by
the kernel. (As long as it's been enabled by the BIOS)
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-05 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-05 4:46 amd k6-3 L3 cache Peter Rabbitson
2002-06-05 10:11 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-05 10:44 ` Rene Rebe
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