> > > "index4" is the L3-unified cache. > > > > Crazy. What was wrong with using 'level' or 'depth'? > > It is all there: > > $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index?/level > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/level:1
The term "index" came from the Intel Software developer manual, volume 2, description of CPUID instruction which talks about the index into leaf and sub leaf. I think Ingo might have been making a small dig at Intel documentation :-) -Tony
