Re: PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 16:41:04 EST


On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:08:34 +0000
> Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Sorry for this possibly dumb comment/question:
> my Tualatins have 512KB cache on die. Are we all sure that it's used?
> /proc says indeed 32KB on 2.4.20-rc2

Odd. If you can send me the output of dmesg, /proc/cpuinfo
and x86info -a, I'll take a look.
(You can find x86info at
 http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/x86info/x86info-1.11.tar.gz)

                Dave

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