Re: [PATCH] x86: eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options

Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-19T15:58:22Z

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:07 +0100
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> My other point was just this, but I don't care too much. But it is
> worded pretty negatively. The key here is that increasing the value
> too large tends to only cost a very small amount of size (and no
> increase in cacheline foot print, only RAM).

128 has a pretty significant impact on TPC-C benchmarks.....
it was the top issue until mainline fixed it to default to 64