Re: [CFT,PATCH] cpu detection for 2.6.5-rc1-mm2

From: Felipe Alfaro Solana
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 08:54:12 EST


On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 19:56, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> xHi all,
>
> 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 contains new slab code that is more memory efficient by
> setting (and thus reducing) the alignment of the objects based on the
> actual cpu cache line size. This means that the cpu identification must
> be done far earlier than before and that caused the boot problems with
> 2.6.5-mm1.
>
> Attached is a new proposal against 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 - could you give it a
> try? It's tested with Pentium 4, bochs (i.e. Intel Pentium) and Athlon
> XP cpus.

Works fine here where 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 failed miserably ;-)

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