RE: [RFC PATCH 00/10] x86: Allocate AVX512 xstate ondemand

[David Laight]

From: Dave Hansen
> Sent: 03 December 2021 00:59
> 
> On 12/2/21 4:45 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> > 在2021年12月3日十二月 上午12:40，Dave Hansen写道：
> >> On 12/2/21 4:36 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> >>> Also we are going to have heterogeneous processors that
> >>> only some cores support AVX512, it can be helpful when
> >>> dealing with such processors.
> >> Really?  Which x86 vendor is doing that?

> > Clear lower two bits of MSR 0xAF on Alder Lake give me some suprise :-)
> 
> I honestly don't know what you're talking about.  Does poking that MSR
> allowing AVX512 instructions to be executed on cores where it was
> otherwise disabled?  That's entertaining, but it's far from "supported"
> or even support*able* in Linux.

I can also imagine chips being tested and tested and marked
differently depending on what works.

So a part with faulty AVX512 will be marked as BIG+little with AVX512 disabled.
A part with working AVX512 will have the 'little' cpu disabled.

A lot of this is actually setup by the BIOS code.
Cheating will cause grief.

	David

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