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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, 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 API <linux-api@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>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 11:26:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eee0bfp9.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJvTdKmC3dY3BZafPvh1M880kGAusViCAZNBQ3NoLvOQgWuuBA@mail.gmail.com>

Len,

On Thu, May 20 2021 at 17:49, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:41 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>   2) It has effects on power/thermal and therefore effects which reach
>>      outside of the core scope
>
> FWIW, this is true of *every* instruction in the CPU.
> Indeed, even when the CPU is executing *no* instructions at all,
> the C-state chosen by that CPU has power/thermal impacts on its peers.
>
> Granted, high performance instructions such as AVX-512 and TMUL
> are the most extreme case.

Right and we have to draw the line somewhere.

>>   3) Your approach of making it unconditionally available via the
>>      proposed #NM prevents the OS and subsequently the system admin /
>>      system designer to implement fine grained control over that
>>      resource.
>>
>>      And no, an opt-in approach by providing a non-mandatory
>>      preallocation prctl does not solve that problem.
>
> I'm perfectly fine with making the explicit allocation (aka opt-in) mandatory,
> and enforcing it.

Great!

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-21  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2021-05-17  9:45                       ` Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features 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 [this message]
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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

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