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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:34:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: Missing MTRR ?
From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:17 AM, J.A. Magall?n <jamagallon@ono.com> wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I'm using 2.6.31.1 on a box like this:
> - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 ?@ 2.13GHz (dual core)
> - 4Gb RAM
>
> I find that MTRR setup is this:
> lorelei:/proc# cat mtrr
> reg00: base=0x0cff00000 ( 3327MB), size= ? ?1MB, count=1: uncachable
> reg01: base=0x0d0000000 ( 3328MB), size= ?256MB, count=1: uncachable
> reg02: base=0x0e0000000 ( 3584MB), size= ?512MB, count=1: uncachable
> reg03: base=0x0cfea6000 ( 3326MB), size= ? ?4KB, count=1: write-back
>
> I have no mtrr for my main memory, is this a problem for speed ?
>
> dmesg:
>
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> ?BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000008f000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 000000000008f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cee2a000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cee2a000 - 00000000ceeb1000 (ACPI NVS)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000ceeb1000 - 00000000cfe00000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfe00000 - 00000000cfe0d000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfe0d000 - 00000000cfe94000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfe94000 - 00000000cfee9000 (ACPI NVS)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee9000 - 00000000cfeec000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfeec000 - 00000000cfef1000 (ACPI data)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfef1000 - 00000000cfef2000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfef2000 - 00000000cfeff000 (ACPI data)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cfeff000 - 00000000cff00000 (usable)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000cff00000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> ?BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000 (usable)
> DMI 2.4 present.
> last_pfn = 0x12c000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
> MTRR default type: write-back
> MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
> ?00000-9FFFF write-back
> ?A0000-FFFFF uncachable
> MTRR variable ranges enabled:
> ?0 base 0CFF00000 mask FFFF00000 uncachable
> ?1 base 0D0000000 mask FF0000000 uncachable
> ?2 base 0E0000000 mask FE0000000 uncachable
> ?3 base 0CFEA6000 mask FFFFFF000 write-back
> ?4 disabled
> ?5 disabled
> ?6 disabled
> ?7 disabled

interesting, the default type is write-back.

YH
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