Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features

[Borislav Petkov]

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.

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    Boris.

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