to learn how to control the knobs.
-What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X
-Date: August 2008
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1}
+Date: August 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
-Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com
-Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories.
- There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each
- directory. Reading from these files on a supported
- processor will return that cache disable index value
- for that processor and node. Writing to one of these
- files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled.
-
- Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index
- disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and
- Kernel Developer's Guide at
- http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3-28_5-28-09.pdf
- for formatting information and other details on the
- cache index disable.
-Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com
+Contact: discuss@x86-64.org
+Description: Disable L3 cache indices
+
+ These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each
+ cache_disable_{0,1} file corresponds to one disable slot which
+ can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files
+ on a processor with this functionality will return the currently
+ disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per
+ node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid
+ index to one of these files will cause the specificed cache
+ index to be disabled.
+
+ All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality.
+ For details, see BKDGs at
+ http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx