Re: Dave Jones: Fix cache size of Centrino CPU

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:45AM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
 > Just curious. Why do we want to know L1D/L1I cache size?

Entirely cosmetic reasons.
At boot time we print out..

Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K

 > If you do, then you might want to know the associativity and line size as well.

See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info
It does all this, and more. Entirely in userspace, where such cosmetics
belong IMO.

		Dave

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