Re: [patch] hashtable sizes for icache and dcache

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:05:32 +0200 (MET_DST)


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >Please look at DaveM's hash patches for 2.2.x
>
> Where? BTW, if I remeber well also Chuck implemented dynamic hash sizing
> at boot for icache and dcache. I just wanted to get the last uptodate
> patch, and in the meantime I proposed the obvious patch for machines that
> should be fine for machines with more than 32mbytes of ram (I believe most
> 2.3.x testers runs with >32mbyte of ram).

All my test-boxes match out below or at 16MB, one of them is poor 4MB
thing... I wouldn't be terribly excited by that patch. If you REALLY need
to put it into the kernel, make it a config-option.

/David
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