From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:59:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1270702774.8141.49.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1269506457.4513.141.camel@alexs-hp.sh.intel.com> <1269570902.9614.92.camel@alexs-hp.sh.intel.com> <1270114166.2078.107.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> <1270195589.2078.116.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> <4BBA8DF9.8010409@kernel.org> <1270542497.2078.123.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> <1270591841.2091.170.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1270607668.2078.259.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> <4BBCB7B7.4040901@cs.helsinki.fi> <4BBCB868.2000705@cs.helsinki.fi> <1270665484.8141.47.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1270688747.2078.383.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , netdev , Tejun Heo , alex.shi@intel.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Ma, Ling" , "Chen, Tim C" , Andrew Morton To: "Zhang, Yanmin" Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:65464 "EHLO mail-bw0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004Ab0DHE7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:59:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1270688747.2078.383.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le jeudi 08 avril 2010 =C3=A0 09:05 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin a =C3=A9crit : > > Do we have a user program to check actual L1 cache size of a machin= e ? > If there is no, it's easy to write it as kernel exports the cache sta= t by > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuXXX/cache/indexXXX/ Yes, this is what advertizes my L1 cache having 64bytes lines, but I would like to check that in practice, this is not 128bytes... =2E/index0/type:Data =2E/index0/level:1 =2E/index0/coherency_line_size:64 =2E/index0/physical_line_partition:1 =2E/index0/ways_of_associativity:8 =2E/index0/number_of_sets:64 =2E/index0/size:32K =2E/index0/shared_cpu_map:00000101 =2E/index0/shared_cpu_list:0,8 =2E/index1/type:Instruction =2E/index1/level:1 =2E/index1/coherency_line_size:64 =2E/index1/physical_line_partition:1 =2E/index1/ways_of_associativity:4 =2E/index1/number_of_sets:128 =2E/index1/size:32K =2E/index1/shared_cpu_map:00000101 =2E/index1/shared_cpu_list:0,8