Re: Why /proc/cpuinfo doesn't print L1,L2,L3 caches?

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 21:42:46 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:39:39PM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:

> How can i know what hw-caches use the processors?
> The current kernel doesn't know well what hw-caches uses.
>
> The good proposal is by example (the data below are not real):
> * In old AMD Athlon64:
>
> cache L1 : 64 KiB I + 64 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
> cache L2 : 512 KiB I+D-shared, exclusive, 128 associative way, ...
> cache L3 : none
>
> * In Intel Core Duo:
> processor : 0
> cache L1 : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
> cache L2 : 2048 KiB Cores-shared, inclusive, 128 associative way, ...
> cache L3 : none
>
> processor : 1
> cache L1 : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
> cache L2 : 2048 KiB cores-shared, inclusive, 128 associative way, ...
> cache L3 : none
>
> * In Quad:
> processor : 0
> cache L1 : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
> cache L2 : 2048+2048 KiB pair-cores-shared, inclusive, 128
> associative way, ...
> cache L3 : none
> ...
> processor : 3
> cache L1 : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
> cache L2 : 2048+2048 KiB pair-cores-shared, inclusive, 128
> associative way, ...
> cache L3 : none

See x86info. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/

Dave

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