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

From: Mathias Kretschmer (mathias@lemur.sytes.net)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 20:41:26 EST


> > 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.

I just patched my 2.4.20rc2 kernel. Now, it reports
512K cache for my 2 Tualatin 1.26 GHz CPUs.

'time make -j4 bzImage' went down from 3:30 to 3:04.
Not too bad.

Cheers,

Mathias

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