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User space tools which do automated task placement need information about AVX-512 usage of tasks, because AVX-512 usage could cause core turbo frequency drop and impact the running task on the sibling CPU. The XSAVE hardware structure has bits that indicate when valid state is present in registers unique to AVX-512 use. Use these bits to indicate when AVX-512 has been in use and add per-task AVX-512 state timestamp tracking to context switch. Well-written AVX-512 applications are expected to clear the AVX-512 state when not actively using AVX-512 registers, so the tracking mechanism is imprecise and can theoretically miss AVX-512 usage during context switch. But it has been measured to be precise enough to be useful under real-world workloads like tensorflow and linpack. If higher precision is required, suggest user space tools to use the PMU-based mechanisms in combination. Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: aubrey.li@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117183822.31333-1-aubrey.li@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.