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One approach could be that the OS pins the process or threads to cores that support the features that were queried for. i.e: If a process asks "can I use SVE2"
by fwip 6y ago
One approach could be that the OS pins the process or threads to cores that support the features that were queried for.
i.e: If a process asks "can I use SVE2" and gets a yes, the OS doesn't move it to any core for which that isn't true.
- saagarjha 6y agoRight, but as I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23835764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23835764 (and last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481049) every process is going to ask this…
- fwip 6y agoAh, that's very a good point.