Re: [PATCH] x86: eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line sizeconfig options

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:07 +0100
Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My other point was just this, but I don't care too much. But it is
> worded pretty negatively. The key here is that increasing the value
> too large tends to only cost a very small amount of size (and no
> increase in cacheline foot print, only RAM). 

128 has a pretty significant impact on TPC-C benchmarks.....
it was the top issue until mainline fixed it to default to 64

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