Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262934AbTFGKVa (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 06:21:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262942AbTFGKVa (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 06:21:30 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:247 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262934AbTFGKV1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 06:21:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:34:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Margit Schubert-While cc: Subject: Re:[TRIV-PATCH] Better CONFIG_X86_GENERIC description (was: Re: Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030607103950.00af14e8@pop.t-online.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 26 Its okay. You want the biggest possible X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT for X86_GENERIC, and it is the one for MPENTIUM4 (128 bytes). Otherwise you will degrade performance on P4 when running generic kernel. Regards, -- Bartlomiej On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Margit Schubert-While wrote: > Hmm, as a side note, looking at arch/i386/Kconfig, the following > looks very suspect : > > config X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT > int > default "7" if MPENTIUM4 || X86_GENERIC > > Margit - 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/