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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:08:34 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: Recognize Tualatin cache size in 2.4.x
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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.

 > I tested it in a Compaq Proliant 330ML-G2 (P3 1.4) and a kernel compilation is 
 > 100% faster if the patch is applied.

<raises eyebrows>. The SMP weighting used by various parts of the kernel
will be slightly off, but I'd be amazed if it made *that much*
difference.

 > PS: Dave, see you in Mallorca in 20 days :-)

Indeed 8-)

		Dave

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