Messages in this thread | | | From | Len Brown <> | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:57:22 -0400 | Subject | Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features |
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 5:58 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 03:51:50PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > AMX does the type of matrix multiplication that AI algorithms use. In > > the unlikely event that you or one of the libraries you call are doing > > the same, then you will be very happy with AMX. Otherwise, you'll > > probably not use it. > > Which sounds to me like AMX is something which should not be enabled > automatically but explicitly requested. I don't see the majority of the > processes on the majority of the Linux machines out there doing AI with > AMX - at least not anytime soon. If it becomes ubiquitous later, we can > make it automatic then.
I'm pretty sure that the "it isn't my use case of interest, so it doesn't matter" line of reasoning has long been established as -EINVAL ;-)
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