How to determine the L2 cache size on non-AMD CPUs (automatic page queue color tuning)?

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:46:26AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote:
> The more expensive intel processors also have L3 caches of 1-4MB.
> Since intels processors are built with inclusive caches (data in L2 
> cache is also present in L3) shouldn't the value used be that of the 
> largest cache be it L2 or L3?
> 
> How much effct on performance does a wrong cache size value have?

Gag. I posted something on this whole subject last *year*, and still
haven't gotten round to code.

BMS