From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262544AbTJAT1x (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:27:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262546AbTJAT1x (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:27:53 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:1952 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262544AbTJAT1v (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:27:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:27:22 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: "Nakajima, Jun" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tossati Subject: Re: Dave Jones: Fix cache size of Centrino CPU Message-ID: <20031001192722.GF25612@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Nakajima, Jun" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tossati References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AFD6@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AFD6@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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