the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 5a0375a2f6b02c4f01facf6be40e59a6062edec0 Author: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Date: Sat Aug 8 20:29:27 2015 -0500
northbridge/amd/amdfam10: Add Family 15h cache partitioning support
Certain workloads may evict too many lines of other cores from the L3 cache if configured as one monolithic shared cache region.
Forcibly partition L3 cache to improve performance.
Change-Id: Ie4e28dd886aaa1c586b0919c5fe87ef1696f47e9 Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/12036 Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Felix Held felix-coreboot@felixheld.de Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke.me@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/12036 for details.
-gerrit