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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc2 strange L1 cache values
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:48:27PM +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:

 > >  > <6>CPU: L1 I cache: 0K, L1 D cache: 8K
 > Yep that works (I have two Xeon boxes with the same issue) :
 > But why does this P4 Trace cache report as L1 I cache on 2.4.18 ? 

Look again above, and you'll see .18 said it had 0K L1 (which is
correct, L1 != Trace cache).
 
 > Does this have any implications on the 2.4.18 performance (or the 
 > 2.4.20-rc2 performance without the descriptors.diff) ?

The SMP weighting should be done with L2 cache size, which
was correct on .18 too, so it should be ok.

		Dave

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