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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-abi@vger.kernel.org,
	"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
	Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Subject: Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:33:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJvTdK=VnG94ECcRVoUi8HrCbVEKc8X4_JmRTkqe+vTttf0Wsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210419191539.GH9093@zn.tnic>

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 3:15 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> All of a sudden you have *every* thread sporting a fat 8K buffer because
> the library decided to use a fat buffer feature for it.
>
> Nope, I don't want that to happen.

For this to happen, every thread would not only have to include/link-with
code that uses AMX, but that code would have to *run*.

I'm sure that the AI guys are super excited about matrix multiplication,
but I have a hard time imagining why grep(1) would find a use for it.

Indeed, if anyone expected AMX to be used by every task, we would have
never gone to the trouble of inventing the XFD hardware to support
the kernel's lazy 8KB buffer allocation.

cheers,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-19 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 23:12 Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-26 23:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-27  3:39   ` Len Brown
2021-03-27  9:14     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-27  9:58     ` Greg KH
2021-03-29 15:47       ` Len Brown
2021-03-29 16:38         ` Len Brown
2021-03-29 16:48           ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-29 18:14           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-29 18:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-29 22:38           ` Len Brown
2021-03-30  5:08             ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30  5:50               ` Noah Goldstein
2021-03-30 17:01               ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 17:05                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30 17:56                   ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 19:12                     ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-30 20:20                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30 20:42                         ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 22:01                           ` David Laight
2021-03-31 16:31                             ` Len Brown
2021-03-31 16:53                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-31 21:42                                 ` Robert O'Callahan
2021-03-31 22:11                                   ` Len Brown
2021-03-31 22:28                                 ` Len Brown
2021-03-31 22:45                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-09 20:52                                     ` Len Brown
2021-04-09 21:44                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-11 19:07                                         ` Len Brown
2021-04-12  7:59                                           ` David Laight
2021-04-12 12:19                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-12 17:14                                           ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-31 22:52                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-09 20:55                                     ` Len Brown
2021-03-28  0:53   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-29  7:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 15:06     ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-31  8:24 ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found] ` <87lf9nk2ku.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
2021-04-12 14:31   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-12 14:38     ` Florian Weimer
2021-04-12 15:08       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-12 15:10       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-12 15:21   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-12 23:46     ` Len Brown
2021-04-13  0:17       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-13  1:25         ` Len Brown
2021-04-13  3:43       ` Willy Tarreau
2021-04-13 19:51         ` Len Brown
2021-04-14  9:58           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-14 10:06             ` Willy Tarreau
2021-04-14 10:08               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-14 21:57             ` Len Brown
2021-04-15  4:43               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-15  5:29                 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-04-15  5:47                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-16 22:05                     ` Len Brown
2021-04-19 14:14                       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-19 18:18                         ` Len Brown
2021-04-19 19:15                           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-19 21:33                             ` Len Brown [this message]
2021-04-19 21:58                               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-23 19:35                                 ` Len Brown
2021-04-23 19:57                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-02 15:27                                     ` Len Brown
2021-05-03  5:18                                       ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-03 13:43                                         ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-03 13:47                                           ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-03 14:14                                             ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-07 18:44                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-07 18:50                                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-07 19:22                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-08  9:45                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18 20:39                                         ` Len Brown
2021-05-19 23:29                                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-20 19:16                                             ` Len Brown
2021-05-17  9:45                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17  9:56                                         ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-17 10:18                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 16:29                                           ` Len Brown
2021-05-17 13:49                                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2021-05-20 15:35                                         ` Len Brown
2021-05-20 20:54                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-20 21:13                                             ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-20 21:41                                               ` Len Brown
2021-05-20 22:53                                                 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21  9:41                                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 14:44                                                   ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-21 14:49                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-23 15:06                                                       ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-23 23:11                                                         ` Len Brown
2021-06-28 10:14                                                           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-28 12:49                                                             ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30 12:22                                                               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-30 12:41                                                                 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-06-30 13:55                                                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2021-06-30 15:20                                                                   ` Len Brown
2021-06-30 15:25                                                                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-05-21 16:14                                                     ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 16:19                                                       ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-21 16:26                                                         ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 16:28                                                         ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 16:31                                                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 19:10                                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 20:07                                                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 21:43                                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 22:07                                                             ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 22:46                                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 23:31                                                                 ` Len Brown
2021-05-22  7:16                                                                   ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-22 23:55                                                                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 23:06                                                               ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 23:08                                                                 ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 19:05                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-20 21:22                                             ` Len Brown
2021-05-20 21:41                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-20 21:49                                                 ` Len Brown
2021-05-21  9:26                                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-19 23:52                               ` Paul Eggert
2021-04-13 20:16       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-13 22:47         ` Len Brown
2021-04-13 22:58           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-14 21:48             ` Len Brown
2021-04-15 16:24               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-15 17:00                 ` Dave Hansen
2021-04-15 17:38                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-16 21:54                 ` Len Brown
2021-04-16 22:03                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-16 22:10                     ` Len Brown
2021-04-16 22:14                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-17  1:57                         ` Len Brown

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