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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:09:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland
Message-ID:  <16263.1019.939450.708832@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031010134400.GE803@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
References:  <20031010103640.6F5A216A4BF@hub.freebsd.org> <20031010134400.GE803@saboteur.dek.spc.org>

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Bruce M Simpson writes:
 > I've been thinking we should definitely make the cache organization
 > info available via sysctl. I am thinking we should do this to make
 > the UMA_ALIGN_CACHE definition mean something...

If you do this,  it may make sense to use the same names as MacOSX.

Eg: 

g51% sysctl hw | grep cache
hw.cachelinesize: 128
hw.l1icachesize: 65536
hw.l1dcachesize: 32768
hw.l2cachesize: 524288


Drew



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