Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:27:22 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Dave Jones: Fix cache size of Centrino CPU |
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:45AM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > Just curious. Why do we want to know L1D/L1I cache size?
Entirely cosmetic reasons. At boot time we print out..
Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K Sep 21 16:38:08 hardwired kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> If you do, then you might want to know the associativity and line size as well.
See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info It does all this, and more. Entirely in userspace, where such cosmetics belong IMO.
Dave
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