From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:09:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:09:48 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:42373 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:09:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:15:02 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Mathias Kretschmer Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x Message-ID: <20021120131502.GA1768@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Mathias Kretschmer , linux-kernel References: <3DDAE846.6080503@lemur.sytes.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DDAE846.6080503@lemur.sytes.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:41:26PM -0500, Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > I just patched my 2.4.20rc2 kernel. Now, it reports > 512K cache for my 2 Tualatin 1.26 GHz CPUs. > > 'time make -j4 bzImage' went down from 3:30 to 3:04. > Not too bad. That is quite an impressive gain. The patch I sent Marcelo which also fixes up a problem with some tualatins and adds P4 trace cache support is at.. ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.4/2.4.20/descriptors.diff As you have tualatins can you try with the above patch and make sure theres no regressions there ? Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs