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

From: Stephan von Krawczynski (skraw@ithnet.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 15:03:57 EST


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

Regards,
Stephan
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