Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:58:04 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features |
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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.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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