[PATCH] Remove special L2 cache case for Knights Landing
H.J. Lu
hongjiu.lu@intel.com
Fri May 20 21:47:00 GMT 2016
L2 cache is shared by 2 cores on Knights Landing, which has 4 threads
per core:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing
So L2 cache is shared by 8 threads on Knights Landing as reported by
CPUID. We should remove special L2 cache case for Knights Landing.
I will check it in shortly.
H.J.
---
[BZ #18185]
* sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c (init_cacheinfo): Don't limit threads
sharing L2 cache to 2 for Knights Landing.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c
index 020d3fd..182426b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c
@@ -573,8 +573,6 @@ init_cacheinfo (void)
{
switch (model)
{
- case 0x57:
- /* Knights Landing has L2 cache shared by 2 cores. */
case 0x37:
case 0x4a:
case 0x4d:
--
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