On Aug 14 20:25, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Btw., can you please also check /proc/cpuinfo? > > Yes, I have both AMD and Intel machines I can test this with. > > > As discussed, Cygwin's emulation fell short on L3 cache info. I now > > added code to fetch L3 cache info as well as correct processor topology > > information on Intel CPUs. For AMD CPUs the topology and cache > > info was already fine. Linux does not show L3 cache info for AMD CPUs > > afaics, so I also didn't add that to Cygwin. > > I can't test this with a new enough kernel for AMD, but perhaps someone > is testing some new iron/OS combination and I can get that information > from them. For Intel since some time the L3 cache size is shown (older > kernels would show you the per-node L2 cache size IIRC).
Recent kernels as well. I just tested this with a 4.1.4 kernel, and the source code of the upstream master branch shows no changes in terms of the cache info on AMD CPUs. A bit surprising, considering that the L3 cache info is apparently available using the same CPUID leaf. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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