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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cache line size
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:39:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911023950.GF4743@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4504AF26.9040807@comcast.net>

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:34:46PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
 
 > Is there a way for the Linux Kernel to know the cache line size of the
 > CPU it's on, besides #define X86_CACHE_LINE_SZ 32 or whatnot?  I am
 > looking in /proc/cpuinfo trying to determine how to run caching
 > optimizations and interested in this information and its implications.
 > It may also be useful if I can get this information at run time in
 > application code.

You can use /dev/cpu/x/cpuid to read it directly from the CPU.
See the source of x86info for examples.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11  0:34 Cache line size John Richard Moser
2006-09-11  2:39 ` Dave Jones [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-11  4:58 Chuck Ebbert
2006-09-11  5:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-11 12:41 Chuck Ebbert

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