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Re:Exploring How Cache Memory Works by kllrnohj on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:24PM (#40804760)
> The Cortex A9 had 32 byte cache lines for one prominent counterexample.

Ok, all arm-designed cores for the last 15 years then :)

Re:Exploring How Cache Memory Works by khrbtxyz on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:38AM (#40808285)
From a Raspberry Pi 5: L2 cache line is 128

  Vendor ID:              ARM
  Model name:             Cortex-A76

  $ lscpu -C
  NAME ONE-SIZE ALL-SIZE WAYS TYPE        LEVEL SETS PHY-LINE COHERENCY-SIZE
  L1d       64K     256K    4 Data            1  256                      64
  L1i       64K     256K    4 Instruction     1  256                      64
  L2       512K       2M    4 Unified         2 1024                     128
  L3         2M       2M   16 Unified         3 2048                      64