Hi Could anybody explain me how to check how many L1/L2 cache my cpu have. I'm using CentOS 5.6 *cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep CPU * model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Diagram of a generic dual-core processor, with CPU-local level 1 caches, and a shared, on-die level 2 cache. *http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Dual_Core_Generic.svg* ######################### >From /proc/cpuinfo we see that CPU have 6MB L2 cache, but we see it doubled and it's not true because according Intel specification we know that this CPU have shared L2 cache. *grep 'cache size' /proc/cpuinfo * cache size : 6144 KB cache size : 6144 KB ################################### Here we can see that cpu have 6MiB L2 cache and 64KiB L1 cache *dmesg |grep 'CPU: L' * CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 6144K L2 - true L1 - not true because each CPU core have 64 KiB memory cache (Instruction and Data) ############################################ Into sys directory we can find some information about cache size but again not all information are true L2 - not true L1 - true *cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/size * 32K 32K 6144K 32K 32K 6144K ##################################### getconf show information only for one core. *getconf -a |grep CACHE * LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE 32768 LEVEL1_DCACHE_SIZE 32768 LEVEL2_CACHE_SIZE 6291456 L1 - 64KiB - not true L2 - 6MiB - true ############################ According the most powerful tool - x86info we can presume that we have: *x86info -c * Found 2 identical CPUs Extended Family: 0 Extended Model: 1 Family: 6 Model: 23 Stepping: 6 Type: 0 (Original OEM) CPU Model (x86info's best guess): Core 2 Duo P8600 Processor name string (BIOS programmed): Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Cache info L1 Instruction cache: 32KB, 8-way associative. 64 byte line size. L1 Data cache: 32KB, 8-way associative. 64 byte line size. L2 cache: 6MB, 24-way set associative, 64-byte line size. TLB info Instruction TLB: 4x 4MB page entries, or 8x 2MB pages entries, 4-way associative Instruction TLB: 4K pages, 4-way associative, 128 entries. Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way associative, 32 entries L1 Data TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set associative, 16 entries L1 Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set associative, 16 entries Data TLB: 4K pages, 4-way associative, 256 entries. 64 byte prefetching. Total processor threads: 2 This system has 1 dual-core processor running at an estimated 2.50GHz L1 - 128Kib - true L2 - 12 MiB - not true ########################## Output form dmidecode is useless. dmidecode -t processor L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005 L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006 L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided ################################## Is there any tool which can clearly indicate how many L1/L2 cache cpu have. If someone have any idea how to clearly designate L1/L2 cache don't hesitate share your knowledge .. ;) P.S. Sorry for my English ... Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110627/7278d050/attachment-0004.html>
