Re: [PATCH] arm64: Make L1_CACHE_SHIFT configurable
From: Jon Masters
Date: Mon Feb 19 2018 - 18:46:25 EST
On 02/12/2018 07:17 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 02/12/2018 04:10 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> On 02/12/2018 05:57 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> That is debatable, is there a good publicly available table of what the
>>> typical L1 cache line size is on ARMv8 platforms?
With a server hat on...
There are many ARMv8 server platforms that do 64b today, but future
designs are likely to head toward 128b (for a variety of reasons). Many
of the earlier designs were 64b because that's what certain other arches
were using in their server cores. I doubt Vulcan will remain a unique
and special case for very long. On the CCIX side of things, I've been
trying to push people to go with 128b lines in future designs too.
Jon.