From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756038AbZHNSNH (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755569AbZHNSNH (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:07 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:48844 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755314AbZHNSNG (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:06 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: x86 maintainers , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] X86: Fix x86_cache_size value In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:03:56 +0530." <1250246036.9062.5.camel@ht.satnam> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1250245149.9062.3.camel@ht.satnam> <1250246036.9062.5.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1250273356_9206P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:09:16 -0400 Message-ID: <25944.1250273356@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1250273356_9206P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:03:56 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput said: > Currently x86_cache_size is showing partial value: L1 or L2 or L3. > It should add all caches like L1 + L2 + L3 + Trace. *Why* should it? Adding the L1 cache probably makes little or no difference when the L2/L3 caches are usually so much larger (on my laptop, there's a whole whopping 32K of L1, but 4M of L2 and no L3). It *might* make sense to report L2+L3. It would depend on who uses that number, and for what. But adding the trace cache is just batshit crazy. --==_Exmh_1250273356_9206P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKhahMcC3lWbTT17ARApozAJ4lOn55F3z8JhHDUWGIZLs/JKHZeQCgxr8y xV8hnv/zoxfIS8OM199YLHM= =IJZz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1250273356_9206P--