Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:39:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:39:57 -0500 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:2998 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:39:56 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Marc-Christian Petersen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: L2 Cache problem Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:47:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021216133016.64c75cac.paxl@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021216133016.64c75cac.paxl@videotron.ca> Organization: WOLK - Working Overloaded Linux Kernel Cc: Xavier LaRue MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200212161947.02431.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 22 On Monday 16 December 2002 19:30, Xavier LaRue wrote: Hi Xavier, > My linux kernel did'nt detect my L2 cache on any of my two cpu ( this is an > smp box ) here is the /proc/cpuinfo: Therse processor are perfect Steping > match SL3FJ( therse old katmai processor have 512k l2 cache ). > And I get nothing in my dmesg about l2 cache ( 'dmesg | grep L2' give > nothing ) I'm on an plain vanilla kernel ( 2.4.18 taken at kernel.org ) > with xfs-1.1 patch. At boot my bios say that my L2 of my two cpu are ok. This is fixed in 2.4.21-pre1. You have to upgrade or play with this patch: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@1.757.30.17?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w I am afraid this will not apply clean ontop of 2.4.18. ciao, Marc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/