From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:08:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021119120834.GA32004@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211182154.52081.gallir@uib.es>
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:54:52PM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> It's very cosmetic but very annoying for P3 > 1GHz, where Linux <= 2.4.20-preX
> only reports 32 KB of cache and it also seems to ignore the "cachesize"
> parameter. Perhaps it really uses 256KB, but not sure.
There was a bug related to that parameter, I'm sure if the fix
went into the same patch, or a separate one. I'll check later.
> I tested it in a Compaq Proliant 330ML-G2 (P3 1.4) and a kernel compilation is
> 100% faster if the patch is applied.
<raises eyebrows>. The SMP weighting used by various parts of the kernel
will be slightly off, but I'd be amazed if it made *that much*
difference.
> PS: Dave, see you in Mallorca in 20 days :-)
Indeed 8-)
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-19 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-17 15:55 PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x Ricardo Galli
2002-11-18 19:02 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-18 20:54 ` Ricardo Galli
2002-11-19 12:08 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-20 20:03 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-11-20 20:22 ` erich
2002-11-20 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-20 21:53 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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2002-11-20 1:41 Mathias Kretschmer
2002-11-20 13:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-20 14:24 ` Mathias Kretschmer
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