From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: gallir@uib.es, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:41:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120214104.GA21030@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021120210357.70464ff2.skraw@ithnet.com>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:08:34 +0000
> Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Sorry for this possibly dumb comment/question:
> my Tualatins have 512KB cache on die. Are we all sure that it's used?
> /proc says indeed 32KB on 2.4.20-rc2
Odd. If you can send me the output of dmesg, /proc/cpuinfo
and x86info -a, I'll take a look.
(You can find x86info at
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/x86info/x86info-1.11.tar.gz)
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 21:36 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
2002-11-20 20:03 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-11-20 20:22 ` erich
2002-11-20 21:41 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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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