Re: L2 Cache problem

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Monday 16 December 2002 19:30, Xavier LaRue wrote:

Hi Xavier,

> My linux kernel did'nt detect my L2 cache on any of my two cpu ( this is an
> smp box ) here is the /proc/cpuinfo: Therse processor are perfect Steping
> match SL3FJ( therse old katmai processor have 512k l2 cache ).
> And I get nothing in my dmesg about l2 cache ( 'dmesg | grep L2' give
> nothing ) I'm on an plain vanilla kernel ( 2.4.18 taken at kernel.org )
> with xfs-1.1 patch. At boot my bios say that my L2 of my two cpu are ok.
This is fixed in 2.4.21-pre1. You have to upgrade or play with this patch:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@1.757.30.17?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w

I am afraid this will not apply clean ontop of 2.4.18.

ciao, Marc