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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:29:15 +0000
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 08:23:04PM +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:

 > The original poster reported on 2.4.20-rc2 (which reports 0K), not 2.4.18. 
 > The output I provided was from .18 and that clearly says 'L1 I cache:12K'.
 > Here are some 'sniplets' of my 2.4.18 dmesg :
 > CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K

My bad. Yes, earlier kernels did confuse the two.
the 12K actually means the trace cache holds 12,000 uops
rather than you have 12KB of cache.

The only bug is the reporting unit.

 > Ok, since this is now fixed (with your patch), I really don't care about 
 > earlier kernels anyway (however some of my customer might have if it was 
 > an issue). Do you know if your patch is going into 2.4.20 release (it's a 
 > rather small and useful patch) ?

I've resubmitted it to Marcelo, but it still didn't show up..

		Dave

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