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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:39:13 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:	"J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why /proc/cpuinfo doesn't print L1,L2,L3 caches?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:39:39PM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
 
 > How can i know what hw-caches use the processors?
 > The current kernel doesn't know well what hw-caches uses.
 > 
 > The good proposal is by example (the data below are not real):
 > * In old AMD Athlon64:
 > 
 > cache L1        : 64 KiB I + 64 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
 > cache L2        : 512 KiB I+D-shared, exclusive, 128 associative way, ...
 > cache L3        : none
 > 
 > * In Intel Core Duo:
 > processor       : 0
 > cache L1        : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
 > cache L2        : 2048 KiB Cores-shared, inclusive, 128 associative way, ...
 > cache L3        : none
 > 
 > processor       : 1
 > cache L1        : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
 > cache L2        : 2048 KiB cores-shared, inclusive, 128 associative way, ...
 > cache L3        : none
 > 
 > * In Quad:
 > processor       : 0
 > cache L1        : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
 > cache L2        : 2048+2048 KiB pair-cores-shared, inclusive, 128
 > associative way, ...
 > cache L3        : none
 > ...
 > processor       : 3
 > cache L1        : 32 KiB I + 32 KiB D, 64 B line, direct way, ...
 > cache L2        : 2048+2048 KiB pair-cores-shared, inclusive, 128
 > associative way, ...
 > cache L3        : none

See x86info.  http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/

	Dave

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