Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/fpu: track AVX-512 usage of tasks

[Li, Aubrey]

On 2018/11/15 23:40, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/14/18 3:00 PM, Aubrey Li wrote:
>> AVX-512 component has 3 states, only Hi16_ZMM state causes notable
>> frequency drop. Add per task Hi16_ZMM state tracking to context switch.
> 
> Just curious, but is there any public documentation of this?  It seems
> really odd to me that something using the same AVX-512 instructions on
> some low-numbered registers would behave differently than the same
> instructions on some high-numbered registers.  I'm not saying this is
> wrong, but it's certainly counter-intuitive and I think that begs for
> some more explanation.

Yes, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures software developer's Manual mentioned
this in performance event CORE_POWER.LVL2_TURBO_LICENSE.

"Core cycles where the core was running with power delivery for license
level 2 (introduced in Skylake Server microarchitecture). This includes
high current AVX 512-bit instructions."

I translated license level 2 to frequency drop.

Thanks,
-Aubrey