Re:[TRIV-PATCH] Better CONFIG_X86_GENERIC description (was: Re:

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:34:28 +0200 (MET DST)

Its okay. You want the biggest possible X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT for
X86_GENERIC, and it is the one for MPENTIUM4 (128 bytes).
Otherwise you will degrade performance on P4 when running generic kernel.

Regards,

--
Bartlomiej


On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Margit Schubert-While wrote:


> Hmm, as a side note, looking at arch/i386/Kconfig, the following
> looks very suspect :
>
> config X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
>          int
>          default "7" if MPENTIUM4 || X86_GENERIC
>
> Margit




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