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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Athlon cache-line fix
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Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
> For Athlon CPU, CONFIG_X86_MK7,
> the X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT is set to 6, 128 Bytes

Eh? L1_CACHE_BYTES is defined as (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT) in
include/asm-i386/cache.h, which makes for a cache line size of 64 bytes
which is right. Perhaps you were assuming the cache line size was
2 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT ?

> config X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
> int
> - default "5" if MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCRUSOE || MCYRIXIII || MK6 || MPENTIUMIII || M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586
> + default "5" if MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCRUSOE || MCYRIXIII || MK6 || MK7|| MPENTIUMIII || M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586
> default "4" if MELAN || M486 || M386
> - default "6" if MK7
> default "7" if MPENTIUM4

Regardless of the above this patch can't be right: the PIII's cache line
size is 32 bytes and the P4's is 128 bytes. Interesting that it increases
performance (on at least one benchmark) though.

Andrew
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