On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:54:52PM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> It's very cosmetic but very annoying for P3 > 1GHz, where Linux <= 2.4.20-preX
> only reports 32 KB of cache and it also seems to ignore the "cachesize"
> parameter. Perhaps it really uses 256KB, but not sure.
There was a bug related to that parameter, I'm sure if the fix
went into the same patch, or a separate one. I'll check later.
> I tested it in a Compaq Proliant 330ML-G2 (P3 1.4) and a kernel compilation is
> 100% faster if the patch is applied.
<raises eyebrows>. The SMP weighting used by various parts of the kernel
will be slightly off, but I'd be amazed if it made *that much*
difference.
> PS: Dave, see you in Mallorca in 20 days :-)
Indeed 8-)
Dave
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