On May 25, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: > The attached patch implements a "linesize" cache attribute. You now get > things like > L3Cache #0 (8192KB line=64) > L2Cache #0 (256KB line=64) > L1Cache #0 (32KB line=64)
Cool! >> Why is runtime icache information important? :) > > Some people manually optimizing their kernels want this kind of info as > well as TLB size for instance... I was being flip; I don't see why icache is more relevant to topology and the apparent purpose of hwloc than any other miscellaneous hardware detail (such as floating point unit count). -- Kyle Wheeler, PhD kbwh...@sandia.gov
