Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:08:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_page.h Message-ID: <199610072008.WAA14802@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199610071944.OAA02756@dyson.iquest.net> from John Dyson at "Oct 7, 96 02:44:22 pm"
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John Dyson wrote: > > > PQ_L2_SIZE is the size in pages... PQ_L2_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE = 256k. > IMO, It is kind-of bogus to "hard-code" the value, and I am thinking about > a good solution for that problem. The value is controllable from the > config file, but my naming conventions leave something to be desired, > so I haven't documented them (yet.) If you have any ideas, let me know!!! > Perhaps we could introduce a new word in the kernel config file. Something like cache <n> where <n> is the amount of L2 cache. The L1 cache is processor specific and thus can be obtained via the cpu directive. The rest can then be doen with macros. Btw: Isn't it possible to somehow get the amount of cache at boottime? -Guido
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