From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Margit Schubert-While <margit@margit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: L1_CACHE_SHIFT value for P4 ?
Date: 21 Nov 2002 14:10:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73y97nt6fp.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Margit Schubert-While's message of "21 Nov 2002 13:16:33 +0100"
Margit Schubert-While <margit@margit.com> writes:
E> What should be the value of L1_CACHE_SHIFT for a P4 ?
> L1_CACHE_BYTES is set to 1<<L1_CACHE_SHIFT
>
> In the .config , I notice that L1_CACHE_SHIFT is being set to 7 for the P4.
> Surely that can't be right or ?
The P4 has 128byte L2 cache lines (2^7). The L1 apparently has smaller lines.
For practical reasons the L1_CACHE_BYTES defines should not be smaller than
the L2 line size - otherwise slab's cache colouring would not be very
effective. In fact the symbol is a bit misnamed, it refers to all CPU caches.
So it needs to be 7.
-Andi
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2002-11-21 13:10 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-11-21 13:23 ` L1_CACHE_SHIFT value for P4 ? Dave Jones
2002-11-21 13:42 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-21 13:47 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-21 15:03 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-11-21 14:39 Margit Schubert-While
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2002-11-21 13:25 Margit Schubert-While
2002-11-21 13:30 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-21 12:13 Margit Schubert-While
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