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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tossati <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>
Subject: Re: Dave Jones: Fix cache size of Centrino CPU
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:27:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001192722.GF25612@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AFD6@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:45AM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
 > Just curious. Why do we want to know L1D/L1I cache size?

Entirely cosmetic reasons.
At boot time we print out..

Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K

 > If you do, then you might want to know the associativity and line size as well.

See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info
It does all this, and more. Entirely in userspace, where such cosmetics
belong IMO.

		Dave

-- 
 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01 18:55 Dave Jones: Fix cache size of Centrino CPU Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 19:27 ` Dave Jones [this message]
     [not found] <200310011805.h91I5L88013845@hera.kernel.org>
2003-10-01 18:33 ` Dave Jones

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