Re:[TRIV-PATCH] Better CONFIG_X86_GENERIC description (was: Re: Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk)

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 05:34:28 EST

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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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