Re: [PATCH 3/7] Add XLR/XLS cache and TLB support

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 03/16/2011 04:57 AM, Jayachandran C wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-netlogic/cpu-feature-overrides.h 
> b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-netlogic/cpu-feature-overrides.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..7740401
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-netlogic/cpu-feature-overrides.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +#ifndef __ASM_MACH_NETLOGIC_CPU_FEATURE_OVERRIDES_H
> +#define __ASM_MACH_NETLOGIC_CPU_FEATURE_OVERRIDES_H
> +
> +/*
> + * Most of the properties are in cpu->options
> + */
> +#define cpu_has_netlogic_cache 1
> +
> +#endif /* __ASM_MACH_NETLOGIC_CPU_FEATURE_OVERRIDES_H */
Although this will probably work, you will likely get better performance 
if you supply static default values for as many overrides as possible.
David Daney