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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:13:08 +0100
From: "Guerreiro da Luz" <g.da.luz@gmail.com>
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Subject: decrease L2 cache size used by Linux?
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Am benchmarking dumb matrix multiplication in trying to perceive
performance drop in case when matrix cannot fit in L2 cache.  However,
on my machine L2 cache is large - 2MB, so 512x512 matrix of double
numbers is needed to fill the cache, and in that case multiplication
is taking rather long time.  So I'm wondering is there a way to
control (decrease) L2 cache size used by Linux?  Apologies if question
inappropriate for the list.

Thanks.